Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-02

A spring looking exceedingly clear and tempt
| ing, but strongly impregnatcd with arsenic, was
recently discovered in Nevada A number of
persons were poisoned before its dangerous
| character was known.
A lady at Long Branch excites a great deal of
amusement by taking her daily bath in the
| ocean arrlyed in waterproof bathing suit
Ind rubber shoes, an oil skin cap, India rub
Der gloves and wire mask over her face
| A new dodge in starching, which does not
this warm weather. The process consists in
passing starched articles through Il bath OF
| chloride of zinc, producing such change III
the hber and starch that no subsequent stitfcn-
ing is neeessa y fof several washings.
| Two Michigan brothers, farmers, well to-do
and generally Harmonious, had little falling
out the Other day, aud one of them threatened
TO do some injury to the other To guard against
any fatal result, the Threatened one thought best
to apply TO district official for protectl0n Ae
tUfdhglS the two rode into town together, put
up their tCatfi, drank each others health, and
then together visited d justice Of, the peace.
That official listened to the complaint, Issued
warrant for threats, the accused pleaded Euiltyl
and the accuser became his surety in the sum OF
$500 for his good behavior one gear.
| AT the capttife Of Detroit By the British in
| 1879, the records of the town wefe carried of.
Most of them were got back agait, but, for
| suTiie reason, three valuable books Of county
records, belonging in the Office Of the register or
deeds; were not recovered. They have been
| since, and now are among the county records
of ESSEX county; at Sandwich, Canada. Nee
gotiati0ns we're ehtnthd into some time since by
the authorities at Washington with the British
government for the restoration of these public
documents, which have been successful.
Miss Taggart of indianapolis, who was in
Paris during the war, pursuing her musical
studies, HID tlidnte to study some other
things She says that db6iit sin weeks after the
first siege had commenced the lady of the house
at Which she was boarding. with SOME thirty
dthefs, remarked to her tenants" that they
soon would have 10 eat horse and other animal
flesh, as the supply of beef was rapidly desreds=
ing. They all begged her not to tell them whef
they began to cat it, as they feared they would
not be able to overcome their repugnance at the
idea of such food. The lardlady gratihed their
wish, and it was not until a week or ten days
had passed that they knew that they had been
living on "new meat" Miss Taggart found It
not only palatabIe, but pleasant. Mule meat
was very nice, tasting like fresh, juicy beef;
hose ilesh was good, but not SO tender; cats
were really excellent, and when served up with
rabbit could not be distinguished from it. For
dog meat, however, Miss Taggart acquired a
distaSte she could not overcome. Her fellow
boarders said it was because her first piece was
not a tender one, as they had developed quite a
Partially for it,
late article in the Philadelphia Ledger
upon names says "Crispin Is seldom found
among as, except as surname. The patron of
the shoemakers is st. Crispin, and the familiar
designation of member of the craft is 'Crispin.
1t may interest Others besides the cordwainers
to know how this happens. Crispnus and
Crispinanus were companions of st. Quentin,
who preached TO the Franks in the third CEN
fury. They supported themselves by making
Shoes and thus the connection between st. Girls
pin and the shOemakers is evident. In the French
language crepin is shoemakers last, crepine
a fringe, and creper to crisp. A shoemaker's
glish are called his kit, an evident liberty with
the saints name. Crepiduie means shoe-shaped.
The connection between a last and fringe, shoe
and curlcd hair is at first difficult to see. All
this solved by concluding that Crspin and Girls
panus were first bestowed upon children with
curly heads! Let a word or Il name once re-
ceve fair start in the world, and it will bor-
row meanings which set etymology at defiance"