Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-22
A recent number oftbe London On,

A recent number of the London Quar-
terly Review contains an article upon the
philosophy Of chimneys. The writer SAYS,
among other things, that it was an old notion
that chimneys ought not to be crooked where
as slight bend towards the top is benehcinl,
for this prevents sudden descent of wind or
rain. Nor is the form OF the chimney mater
ial; 1t may be tapering or Of equal IRE py-
ramdal or square, it is only necessary that
II be so constructed as to offer no considerable
resistance to the ascending current, for other
wise the hot air will be delayed in ascending,
and get cool high chimney always makes
the best draught.
San Francisco is burdened with a
debt she cannot pay, and her treasury is emp
ty. New Orleans has disposed of the use of
her public wharves for three years. so as to
raise money sufficient to pay the salaries of
her school teachers. Philadelphia has not a
dollar in her treasury. Chicago is in sorry
financial condition, her treasury is entirely
empty, and those in the employ of the city go
begging for the wages due them.
An Irishman stole nice large turkey
from the door way of Kelley's meat shop. on
East Merrimack Street, Saturday night. Be-
ing overtaken and brought back, he was very
penitent, and begged to be let off . aisy,' adj
ding by way of Precipitation, that " sure he
voted the 'Mericsn ticket Kelley was
aisy'' with HIM; but didn't like such illus.
trations of /" Americans ruling America. -
Lo,oeH Courier.
The Hartford Courant, in speaking of
the Wilbr0ham Academy, says: Gone of the
strongest evidences Sc see that thereis a man
OF nerve at the head, is the fact, that if pu-
nil hoe baov, I;e,,,
turn to the school, the nam is printed in full.
residence and all, with the slur attached. A
young lady from New York city, for instance,
is marked eGpelled"
DR.. j. B. Davis, of South Carolina.
has recently sold fifteen three quarters breed
Cashmere Kids, seven months old, and one
pure breed, two years old, Cashmere buck, to
gentleman in Tennessee, for $4,000; the
ewes at $500 each, and the buck at $1,000.
There were exported to foreign coun-
tries, from New York, last week, IL sol bales
OF cotton, valued at S40l,l 66,332 bbls.
-four, valued at $522,25O; 47l,9l5 bushels
wheat, valued az S977,7ll and 66,2l6 bush
corn, valued at $65,33
A little blind negro boy, the property
of Gen. Chas.' Bethune, of Columbus Ga.
is exciting sensation by his extraordinary
musical genius and skill on the piano. His
master exhibits him throughout the State
Mr. Thackeray receives $1,000 for his
lectures on the Four Georges, in New York.
and the Mercantile Library, under whose au
spices they have been delivered, will clear
nearly twice that sum.
Major Hammond, late Collector at
San Francisco, is reported to be delaulter to
n NJ r
ton, d. G., and the late Captain Folsom, are
his sureties.
VIM. A. Beecher, broker in New
York, has been held in $4,000 for examina-
nation ON charge of having defrauded Thos.
w. Wood of Brooklyn, of $1,000, by repre-
senting that he was wealthy.
The way they rush business at the
Cleveland, Ohio, Post. office is caution to
laggards the other day they distributed the
morning mail from Columbus in six hours.
A despatch from Montgomery, Ala
announces the reelection of MIR. Fiizpatrick
to the United States Senate, on the first bal
lot. The vote stood--Fitzpatrlck 20, Luke
Pryor 10.
The New York liquor dealers, find
ing that their efforts to control the politics Of
the state do not pay, have dissolved their as
ISOLATION.
Ont OF twelve persons killed on the
New York railroads last year, eleven were ON
the platform of the cars when the casualties
happened.
A large company is being formed at
New Haven, Ct, of substantial ctizens-mer.
chants, farmers, and mechanics who propose
10 emigrate TO Kanzas in body next Fprlng
There has been more house building
in Portland this year than during any former
one in the history of the city.
Brigham Young, the Sultan of Utah.
preached lately from this text :-"From this
time forth, do not fret thy gizzard !"
A traveller in Canada West estimates
the surplus Of wheat in that Province at To-.
100000 bushels.
An lrishman complained to his physi-
clan that no stuffed him SO with drugs, that
he was sick after he got well.