Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-15
FACTS AND FANCIES,

Orders have been received at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, to discharge five hundred workmen to-day
Jan. 18th.
n New Bedford merchant estimates Il loss of
million dollars by whaling operations this year,
owing to the small take and the decline in prices
A distinguished writer says that nothing is best
achieved by indirecton." The workings of cork
screw would seem to be Tefutaton of that theory.
Widow Sally Sherburne, who died few days
since at Wrentham, aged 80, left ten children, whose
united ages are Sis years. She also left As grand
children, and 35 greatgrandchildren.
Queen Victoria has not abandoned skating al
though mother of respectable family. She is
sensible woman
Fifty thousand gallons of wine were made in the
State of Connecticut last year
writer says lit is not the drinking, but getting
sober, that is so terrible in a drunkards life"
The Tuesday morning train down from Palmer, on
the New London road froze up on the way, and
only got through at night
The prisoners in Taunton Jail almost escaped late
~ With jackknile and Il small saw they had cut
INTO the bars, but the keeper soon detected and
stopped their efforts.
John IL Eastburn, Esq, has given the use of q
iree bed at the Massachusetts Hospital for the year
1859, for any unfortunate printer who may be prop
erly recommended as entitled to its benefits
"A boy was lately asked by his teacher, '.Who first
bit the applet" to which he replied, 81 don't know
but guess it Sal, for she eats green apples
like thundern
The good people of Naples, Me-, found their Their
mometer down to A. degrees below on Tuesday
morning, and very naturally concluded that winter
had given them the ''cod shoulder in earnest
frantic correspondent says that the ladies are
beginning to give up society, because they encounter
nothing but spoiled boys and premature old men
Charles Lever, the distinguished novelist, has been
appointed her Majesty's Vice Consul at spezzia,
a Mr. Gum, at Cincinnati, has obtained a verdict
of $4,000 damages against DIR. Beach. for maIprac-
tice in unskillu setting and subsequent bungling
amputation of his leg.
NJ Guizot is at present occupied in correcting the
proof sheets Of new volume of his memoirs This
volume brings them down to the revolution of 1890
and the establishment of the monarchy of July
| young daughter of Leyerett Tillotson of Mon
terey aged 10 years. died last week of consumption
induced by the shuck of a pumpkin seed which she
| accidentally swallowed few months since il lode.
ing in her windpipe and finally getting into her
lungs
DR.. Franklin said that he could always tell where
the good people lived because they always scattered
ashes ON the sidewalks when the streets were slip
perry Poor Richard never said wiser thing
A census of the population of Rome has Just beer
completed, from which it appears that the total o.
the inhabitants is 1S0357, "a figure at which this ste
reotypcd city has remained forthe last $50 years.
man came very near dying in California by put
ting on pair of clean stockings and drinking glass
of cold waer--which was an experiment he hadno
tried for many years before.