Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-18
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1IEM6.
Col Jones married handsome but not tact
turn woman, and now reads a celebrated line
from Keats, as follows:
"a thing of beauty is a jar forever"
Hibernian, observing over a store door in
New York, a sign, General Finding Store, /"
entered recently and inquired for lost UNI
brella
Mr.. l'ickens, our Minister to Russia, writes
that the trade of the Amoor River-gently fill
bustered by Russia from China-is something
like s3O000,000 year.
The difference between a suit of clothes and
a suit at law, is this-one provides you with
pockets, and the other emptes them.
The State of Arkansas has not a single tele
graph wire within her borders. a project is
on foot for establishing one between Memphis
and Little Rock.
Mr.. Sake in his poem on Love, draws a
model husband and model wife the former,
he says, mainly from imagination, the latter
from life.
The law of food is, thatma should eat what
is good for him, at such times and in such
quantities as nature requires.
AT Charlottesville, Indiana, on Saturday, 8th
inst, the citizens assembled and destroyed the
liquor in the eight grog-shops of the town,
amounting in all to about forty barrels.
Although men are accused of not knowing
their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know
their own strength
A wine dealer announces as a recommends
ton of his Madeira, that he uses no cock
reaches in its manufacture.
A woman in st. Louis called in three of her
neighbors to protect her against the violence
of her husband, who was on BENDER last
Sunday, and they beat him so severely that
he died
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says that since Senator Douglas
was deposed from the Committee on Terrific
ries, he has declined to meet with the Commit
tee at all
Two slaves of ex-President Folks widow,
have been convicted of conspiracy to make
instruction, an offence which is punishable
with death.
Albert Smith is entertaining London people
with an account of his late travels in China.
He sings Chinese song in the vernacular,
and is making any quantity Of shillings out Of
the cockneys.
An approaching morganatic marriage of one
OF the princes of the. Prussian royal family
with lady whose acquaintance his royal high
ness made at Ems, was the subject of CONVEX
sation among the higher circles at Berlin.
Marriages of the kind have been very general
among the members of the royal house.
The records of the weather at Montreal
show that the four days from January to II,
together form the coolest period for 30 years.
On the 18th, the mercury marked 80 degrees
below zero AT st. Martins, near Montreal,
on the 10th, the spirit thermometer marked
1876 degrees below zero.
Tho nronor ort;olo To ,,,+ nv, el;,,,,rr,. ill
walks is saw-dust. When this is carried into
the house on your boots or shoes, it becomes
dry and is easily swept back into the street,
without inJuring the carpets in any manner
An OK fatted at the Brdgewater State Aims
house, which weighed 200 pounds, was
brought to the Fall River market on Friday.
Captain Goodspeed has still another animal,
which will exceed this in weight when ready
for slaughter.
Andrew Colson, of Hartford, Ct, lad of
l3 years, killed young wild cat of large size,
on Wolfe Hill, Southampton, Mass, Jan. 3D.
This one makes nine of these creatures that
have been killed about that particular hill with
in three years.
woman in Cincinnati recently made an
application for divorce on the ground that her
husband was in the habit of kissing her sister,
young lady, "on the sly"
On Thursday morning some of the en-
ployees of the Hartford Water Works were
thawing out hydrant at the corner of Front
and Temple streets, Ny pouring in fluid and
touching it off" with bit of lighted paper,
when the hydrant exploded" blowing up the
three men, singing off the whiskers of two of
them, and knocking the third down.
Huntington, the Wall street, forger, occupies
himself in Sing Sing prison, by collecting
library, reading up the classics, writing criti-
ques on the poets, and other kinds Of "hard
labor" He has acute rheumatism, and his
mind is weighed down by a consciousness of
his social degradation, says a writer in the
Tribune.
A statute of st. Peter, modelled after one at
Rome, was raised last week to one of the
inches i'll front of the Roman Catholic Church
of st. Peter, at Philadelphia, in presence of a
large number of persons. The figure is seven
feet high, and made of Acadia freestone.
statue of st. Paul, of similar size, will soon be
raised to contiguous niche.
A number of woodchoppers are employed
near Baldwinsville, N. Y, getting out cord
wood, and among the number is a Belgian
woman, who handles an axe as well as most of
the men. She falls trees and cuts up a cord of
wood each day regularly, besides nursing a
bouncing boy who is old enough to run alone
The Literary Gazette tells story of Du-
mas Taking up by chance the last number
of his periodical, the Monte Christie, l saw
three lines in one of his letters from Russia,
where he now is, and, astounded, went no
further. 81 was asked to allow myself to be
presented to the Emperor Alexander on his re-
turn from Archangel. IrefuSed"
A motion to quash the indictment for libel
against the Editor of The Patterson a. j.
Register for publishing jackass cut with the
name of a member of the Board of Excise, has
been denied. The Guardian in abiding to
the affair, remarks that it cannot tell which
party was injured by the libel, the jackass or
the Excseman.
The Chicago Press says that young lady,
now sewing girl in that city, has received
letter from an uncle in New York, stating that
herself and two uncles in New York had fallen
equal heirs to the comfortable sum of ae27 ,0O0.-
600, or about Sl35,0O00O0, by the recent death
of an uncle at Calcutta, India, where he had
accumulated this immense fortune is mercan-
tile pursuits. very doubtful story.
a correspondent of the Ohio Cultivator, re-
commenting cold water as a remedy for scalds,
says that to test its efficiency he thrust his arm
up to the elbow several times into a kettle of
scalding water, and into a tub of ice water al
ternatey, without injury or inconvenience,
not even making his arm look red. We would
not advise anybody to repeat the experiment.
A Washington letter in the New York Jour
nal Of Commerce says :-"Senator Douglas
will not be led, as know from some of his par
ticular friends to make an open war against
the President at this session. There are not
wanting men among his friends who would
urge him to this course Therefore the SIM