Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-02
Book On TmhreIIns.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

Books on all sorts of queer subjects being the
order OF the day, it is not ont of order TO devote
one to umbrellas. The English commissioners
of patents have just printed a volume of
Arrangements of Specifications relating TO
Umbrellas, ParaSOls and Walking Sticks" COW
ering period of eighty-siX years, from 1880 to
to 1866, and containing great amount of curl
GUS formation-iniOrmaton, too, that is vau
able well as odd, for it is altogether official
One Of the London literary journals revives a
good old story in connection with this book, as
follows:
Towards the close of his nineteen years of
splendid watchfulneSs in London, when bailiffs
necessarily watched the doors OF Gore house
aud a certain dwelling in modest terrace little
lower down the road, Alfred, Count O'Orsay,
gave utterance TO memorable sentiment. In
Teplay to a prudent friend, who vainly tried to
disuade him from ordering new carriage which
he did not need and could not pay tor the last
of the handles declared that as long as he lived
whatever he used should he the best of its kind
When he couldno longer drive the best carriage
he would carry the best umbrella in town. The
prudent friend was set aside with smile; and
in another year the beau had retired 10 his ma
tive land, and entered on the last stage of his
career. True to his word, when he could not
keep a perfect carriage, he made himself the
owner of faIltlesS "gingham;" and he went
to his artistic grave at Chambourcy leaning on
the dantiest umbrella that could be found in
Paris. The paraplui that alternately aided the
tOt1prlnp shaded finn Of
tGe fading c6nut was the newest Snecuen If y,
contr;rance bose oi1ns9 u
with that of human ciyiIi7ation '''0
Umbrellas have pedigree of venerable an
tiquity. Their effigies may be found on sacred
sculptures in the ruins of palaces and temples
The adornment Of antinne vases and tGn -, *
tions of sunerstitious taitbs In the fffb ;noar-
nation of Vlshnu, when the god went down into
hell, he bore in his hand the same implement
In Iil,e manner on old hoe raiief r, 80 ~ ~
onysins descrndinlr ~ tho inrernaI rd baiJ
;nT enecirnnn IF tho sa lioiG-
vanco d ro, +i, u4ilouS @ II
boa - siGla ,Ii,ii h., -, 'i 1iO iI-lt ~
as.o 80 n -; = q uio q, III IL
manv ,,nhroIos ;s 70 Inc s,,tl ~ ~ ,Ie iou vi
Tio,,b ~ DS - ~ Pr sUil,tGe'
marnscrints ranrassnts an il SaU in''f lelap
iii 5P nc gu AnjooaAou Iop Oh
modo IN rbs ard an ulioIglia,
hold ovar bit hoad nv he bnJ- Mich ID
rn ~ ~ ~ ii oTGS 81 t"nt' te gen
al uoU Vi a,io III E'alaiiu may Oe sald
eirbtoon+b con+,rr,- ~ '''ii0i tu'n INT
IL Ta'oe H. 'I,4,., .;,,,, A.. ...
,d,oT 1os i0 ~ 20 NM tnr ndJoIlty Oh
tbensnIvnS fror, t%a Ur me- i lieu 10 sclGen
The Tttle aynbrnIIaos Ill uin anu r "lnn Nun
"sopatbinr ans1I,ern;io 70 +%o 81 VI ie" iiii,
coDony aud boo,od ~, to " littIe
40 , ~ b ~ 'd. md'I NJ
nretv IaTIe ooInnosSo ~ w T, e,iI III
Coryat in H. 3sCrnJi,ics rdi"riod 90 la
snrest cnntr,nc" of tbo co,ce,I as ane "o-
CoiitiI " ene III ltallauS'
tho Iost oi,rt. VI ,iat'i uAPenued uurlLg
rho nmbreii !: h tho az. ttat
coilectio Of nly,ot - en"' tnIo
toileetlVu vi apIIuS lheuls Vi SpeGlhcaIlons con-
Fn%1ish a,onts Vi a"o anu Hllc-Lwo
ronteJ ii 0ctoIo 'rG zoe aIl ~. VI WHICH was
1sSi Snp,o o9 e.. da'U' au .ie t 81 III guy,
Sticks NOT nJ NJ a'e ioi maIhlnS
+he,,, .afar T,,i, ~ ; i uipPel9 anu many VI
sn ~. " improvements, OF proposals
ny vi que vi more OIL the SUB
Iroiin Pas vi ~; me nechahlsm OF tue UNI
pIela, sucn as lids, ups, handles, terules,