Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-11

penis, ine-wheels-with cannon and
neld music, near and far, to correspondence
is now (evening of oath June, 1907 shining
to man and to gods. Pinnacles, turrets, tabla-
lures tipped with various fires and emblems,
all Is there-symbolic painting, 900 yards of
1t, glowing with inner light, and legible to the
very owls Arms now piled useless Peace,
with her appurtenances Mars resting Ton
that canvass) on trophies of laurel honorably
won; and there is an inscription, done in
lamplets, every letter taller than a man,
"Sic fuLtG manebh." Thus supported it will
stand. 1t may be read almost at Wittenburg
l should think, flaming as plea written on the
sky from the steeple tops there. The cannons
fire without ceasing the field music bursts
over all the scene; the catharine wheels fly
kissing; the Bucenteur and the silk Brigan-
tines glide about like living fambeaus King
August tired to the bone, retired about mid
night. Friedrich Wilhelm stood till the finale
Saxon Crown Prince and he Gin window
of the highest house in Promnitz" our young
Fritz and the Margraf of Anspach, they also ,
In nelghboring window, stood till the finale
two in the morning, when the very sun was
not far from rising.
THE GRAND FEAST OF RADEwITZ.
Is not the ultimate closing day perhaps still
notabler-a day of universal eating? Debau
chez King August had a such of genuine hui
NOR i'll him. poor devil, and had the best of
stomachs Eighty oxen, fat as Christmas,
were slain and roasted, that all the world
might have one good dinner. The soldiers,
divided into proper sections, had cut trenches,
raised flat mounds, laid planks, and so. by
trenchlng and planking, had made at once ia
Bile and seat-wood well secured in turf AT
the end OF every table rose high trglyph,
two strong wooden posts with Intel on the
Intel stood Spitted the ox's head, ox's hide
hanging beneath it as drapery and on the two
sides OF the two posts hung free the four roast
ed quarters of said OK, from which the com.
mon man joytully helped himself Three
measures of beer he had, and two of wine,
which, unless the measures were miraculousy
small, we may take to be abundance. Thus
they in two long rows, 10000 of them by the
tale, dine joytully sub do? Royal dinner is
not yet done, when new miracle appears on
the held-the largest cake ever baked by the
sons of Adam. Drawn into the headquarter
on wooden frame, by team of eight horses
tent containing it guarded by cadets now the
tent is struck otf-saw ever mortals the like?
1t is fourteen ellis long by six broad, and
at the center, half an ell thick. Baked
by Neutrality-suspicious. otherwise could pee
or roller act on such cake? There
are 5000 eggs in it; sc bushels of sound flour;
one tun of milk one tun of yeast one tun
OF butter; crackers, gingerbread, nuts, for
INLET or trimming run all round.-The prince
OF cakes A carpenter with gigantic knife,
handle OF it resting on his shoulder, enters the
cake by lncison, cuts it up by plan, by sue
cessive signals given by the head of the board
of works. There is cut and come again for
all Carpenter advances, by main trench and
side trenches, steadily to word of command.
Royal dinner done, the colonel and officers of
every regiment, preceded by their bands of
M bif,nr fI,a To
tlcular respects to the majesty of Prussia.
Majesty of Prussia drank a glass of wine to
each party, who all responded by glasses of
wine, and threw the glasses aloft with shouts;
sixty pieces OF artillery, speaking the while,
and the bands OF music breathing their sweet
est till it was done, and his Majesty still on his
feet! Many cubic yards of cake are still left,
and the very corporals can do no more. Let
the army scramble!
THE OF TIE i. 1s.-:.-I,t
30 II is all ended. And August the Stro,o'.,
what shall we say of August HistoS4,
must admit that he attains the making ~ =
IN several things. Maximum of pla num
strength; can break horse shoes, W Syslcal
efowrs, viii fneef ses.d l!iun,h No iaiurf @of
sumptuosity really a polite creature; no
man of his means SO regardless of expense.
Maximum Of bastards three hundred and fifty
four of them; probably no mortal ever exceed
ed that quantity. Lastly he has baked the
biggest hammock on record cake with 5000
eggs in it and a tun of butter. These things
history must concede to him. Poor devil he
was full of good humor too, and had the best
of stomachs His amputated great toe does
not mend; out upon it, the world itself is all
so amputaled, and don't like mending Au-
gust the strong dilapidated at fifty three. is fast
verging toward less expensive country, and
in three years hence will be lodged gratis, and
need DO cook or turnkey OF either sex.