Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Provincetown bav has recently been visited with
of the finest schools Of mackerel known Seven
took high fifteen hundred large and fat mackerc
| in one night
Levi Horton of Lenox, lay down in the road, the
18Th ult while intoxicated, and died His body with
two bottles by its side, was found the next day.
a man killed a few days since, by falling from the
top of Clay Monument at Lexington, Ky.
Foote expressed the opinion that a certain mser
would take the beam out Of his eye if he knew he
could sell the timber The Louisville Journal thinks the
Democracy will have to resort to such expedent
/ procure material for their Charleston platform
"A person who is weak enough to make boasts that he
never looks into shopwndows, loses instances of
taste and ingenuity than he perhaps aware Of All art
is not absorbed by auction pictures Parian stauettes
and engravings.
Ezekiel Miller, of South Hadley Falls, formerly a min
ster then lawyer, and of late farmer has eloped with
his hired girl taking his two children with him.
Mr.. Cist of Cincinnati who always attends to the fig
ures, that the population Porkopolis 25OOO and
that the of 1860 will show that doubled between
1850 and 1860, as it did in the previous decade.
An incoTigible wag who had lent a minister a horse
which away and threw his clerical rider thought he
should have credit for his aid in spreading the Cos
pei"
Washington Irving is Is years old and Paulding ST.
Hale old fellows in literature.
The act to prohibit slavery in Vermont, lkcned by
some one to IAN act to prevent the boring of hree-cor
nered holes with common auger"
Dressed chickens selling Toledo last week. at
q to cents pound. At Syracuse they have been
purchased, in quantities at 4 cents
English papers report the death of a woman in
London, nnety-twO years of age, who born in the
room in which she died, and slept out of it for
night in her long lifetime.
The large collection of antiquities from Ninevah
to this country by Henry Steyens Of London
purchased by friends of the New York Historical Society,
and bp in ie
ond only to that of the British Museum
\ man named Sherman Sutton, has hcen arrested in
Philadelphia for having in his possession $500 in bogus
halves and quarters, which admirably executed
Boston policeman was applied to by Irish woman
for piece of halter with which had been hung to
cure her husband of kings evil He gave her piece of
old rope and in few weeks she returned to thank him,
her husband having been wholly cured by wearing it
about his neck
blowing match for boys under eighteen years of age
came off in Bucks Co. Pa last week. under the supcrn-
tcndence of committee of the Bucks County Agricul
cultural Society There but four competitors all
of whom did their work WELL and were awarded premi-
ums.
At a meeting of the Chicago Historical Society last
Tuesday evening Colonel Graham stated the result OF
long and carefully conducted series of observations his
discovery of a lunar tidal upon Lake Michigan.
The coordinate of altitude in calm weather. and when
the moon is in conjunction with in opposition the
sun, averages about two and a half inches
An extraordinary vein of coal has been struck near
Parkcrsburg Va 1t surpasses the coal is very
light and be gncd easily as piece of dry white
pine wood 1t is extremely gaseous, and emits very
strong odor when burning, piece large as a small
marble, placed in the bowl of clay pipe air tight and
then inserted in hot fire, gave gas enough at the end
of the stem, to burn with bright light five minutes
The remains of mastodon of enormous proportions
have been found in the bed of pond recently drained
of Clarksvile, Ohio The bones of the leg below
the knee measure six feet and half in length, one
of them weighs ftysX pounds One of the bones above
the knee ten feet long, and weighs about hundred
pounds The ribs range from twelve to sixteen feet in
length and tooth from the lower jaw weighs fourteen
pounds.
few days since couple of young at Rock Island
out sailing the Mississippi and accidentally lost
brass key to which attached a small iron ring The
key opened vault, and the young were in ribula
ton at the loss. At last they hit upon novel expeden
to recover it, They procured powerful magnet attach
ed to string and threw it into the river where they had
lost the key. In about ten minutes the magnet was
brought to the surface with the key attached.