Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-29
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A verdant and inquiring young man on Fri
day visited New Haven osee the elephant
and left his money for safe-keeping with new
made female friend When he went for the
money he found the excepting" was good, but
had serious doubts of the SAFE He thinks
the passage "Put not your trust in princes"
should be altered by the substitution of 'wench-
es' instead of princes"
The engine which plunged into the chasm
on the Great Western Road, last Friday night,
was the "Elk, (which was the one that first
arrived at the scene of the Desjardines dsas-
ter, while the "Oxford," the engine that broke
through the Desjardines bridge, was the first
to arrive at the scene of the present disaster.
Sidney Smith says to public speakers that
if they would walk twelve miles before speak
ing, they would never break down. In Eng
and ten mile walks, are a part Of RtaG a eddea
cational means for physical development.
Plato says walk in the open air will almost
cure guilty conscience.
A bill for the incorporation of the Transit
lantlc Telegraph Company has been introduced
in Parliament by the Hon. Mr. Dorion. II
provides for line FROM Quebec via Labrador,
with capital of 81 100000 which may be in
creased to $5,000,000. The work is to be
commenced within one year, and completed to
Labrador within three years
AS the razor-strop man, Smith, was walking
on Chapel street, New Haven, with his basket
on his arm, he observed two young men watch
ing him, and overheard one of them say to the
other-"There goes id fool" Smith i'm
mediately turned upon him and replied-"And
there's few more left, of the same sort!'
There are now many men in San Francisco
whose families are in a state of restitution.
who few years ago were worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Speculation in real es-
tate ruined them. One family that were in
tensely aristocratic during the inflated days,
now keep boarders and take in washing.
The Legislature of Louisiana, in default of
any action by the Federal Government, is
about making appropriations for clearing out
the distinctions at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi. Why don't they wait for the great
meeting of dentists at New Orleans
The Paris Charivari represents an Italian
peasant stretched at full length upon his belly,
and huge Austrian soldier sitting with all his
weight upon him, deaf to the cries of his vic
tim, Underneath is written, "The situation of
Italy"
A trotting match has been closed for $40, 900
side between Nicholas l, owned by Mr.. Hun
ter, of New York, and Tar River, owned by
Mr.. Hare, of Virginia, to take place on the
OOuiSSI I've A'J lHC DDriUg
meeting.
From table prepared by the Detroit Adver-
tser, it appears that, with the exception of the
seasons of 1912 and 1913 there has not been
so early an opening of lake navigation in
twenty-one years as the present season.
J. Franklin Clarke, a lad in Philadelphia,
while playing with flask of powder, on Fri
day poured some of the powder upon stove
the explosion of which severely lacerated his
hands, besides breaking many of the window
glass in the room.
Tho yield of maple sugar in Michigan has
been so extraordinary this season that farmers
are selling it for from six to eight cents pei
pound.
The horse Rising Sun, formerly owned in
Gardiner, Maine, but recently sold to George
Bacon, Esq, of Boston, died on Monday, in
Gardiner, of disease of the stomach. He was
$50 animal raised in Maine, and valued al
, about $5000
Rev. j. W. Kelley, of the South Carolina
Conference, states that in one church in that
State the colored members met one-third Of
the expenses of the parish, giving from one
thousand to one thousand five hundred an
nuaIly.