Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-03
GLEANINGs BY THE WAY

AN ola lady OF mnety-seven, at a Christmas
party near Wheeling, Va, waItzed down a
young man of twenty-five. The phrase of
go 1t While you're young, for when you get
Old you can't, is thus proved to be false, as
well as inelegant.
There is fellow in ST. Louis so extremely
fond of sausages, that he bit off the tail of a
pet spaniel belonging to Mrs. Rathbun.
The city of Brooklyn has Just concluded a
very favorable contract for a supply of gas for
the next five years. The supply is to be fur
nlshed to the corporation for two dollars per
thousand feet. Brooklyn is much more favor
ed In this respect than most cities.
A man who avoids matrimony on account of
the cares of welded life, may be compared to
one who would amputate his legs to save his
toes from corns.
1t was expected that there would be collect
ed at the cattle market at Holloway, England
on the Monday before Christmas, upwards of
seven thousand head of cattle, thirty thousand
sheep, about two thousand calves, and seven
thousand or eight thousand pigs
II romantic father, whose name was Rose,
named his daughter "Wild," so that she grew
up under the appellation of "Wild Rose But
the romance of the name was sadly spoiled in
few years, for she married man by the name
of "Bull."
The Sons of Malta in Fall River distributed
one thousand loaves of bread to the poor of
that city New Years day
New York is certainly great city. They
have now DOG Boarding House" The
keeper will, for one dollar per week, board
dogs, and train them for 81 so.
Sir Walter Scott, and Daniel O'ConneIl. at
late period of their lives, ascribed their sue
cess in the world principally to their wives.
Were the truth known, theirs is the history of
thousands
Bets to large amount have already been
made in New York that Douglas will be elect
ed President in 1860. His friends are willing,
III some cases, to give odds.
A lady, expressing wish-in the presence
OF her son, a boy of five years-that she had
something to read that she had never read be-
fore, the boy exclaimed, "take your Bible,
motkerp
VIM. Joyce, who was discharged on the in
dictment for numbering police officer Hodsdon,
is now in Salem Jail, awaiting trial ON charge
of burglary at Lynn.
"Mr Smith, is your customer B. man to
be trusted 2" 81 know of no one more So He
is to be trusted torever-he never pays"
fir tree, completely petrifed and entire, is
said to have been discovered near Olympia,
W. t., one hundred feet below the surface of
the ground.
Prentice says of an editor who said he
"smelt raj" that if he did, and the rat smelt
him, the poor rat had the worst of it.
The Amazon River falls but foot in fifty
miles; the Rhine one foot in qnarter of a
mile; the Loire a foot in one and half mile.
John Neal says the eagle "has CONTEMPT
hrdc h.
more contemptuous still-he boots at every
thing
The days of high rents in San Francisco are
SAID to have passed away. From $50 to SIS
month is about the figure paid for houses cost
ing, say, $1,000
The anxiety man feels for want of finds,
is called "capital" punishment.
Lord Macauley has announced that he will
confine himself in future to his closet as a his
torlan, and take no further part in public life.
When is clock on the stairs dangerous
When it runs down.
In London, during a recent week, seven
persons died who had reached the age of nine
ty years, or past that limit, of whom the most
advanced was man aged ninety nine years.
Ladies bonnets, nowadays, are bare faced
false-hoods.
During the past five years there have been
constructed in California four thousand four
hundred and five miles of artificial canals for
gold washing, at a cost of $12,00O,O0O.
What is the difference between an attempted
homicide and hog-butchery One is an as
sault with intent to kill, and the other is kill
with intent to salt.
Over four hundred persons were arrested in
Baltimore, Christmas night, for being drunk
and disorderly
Most kinds of roots and banks are used for
medicines, except cube root and the bark of a
dog.
The mother who saw baby pretties than
her own, has been sent to lunatic asylum.