Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-12


suit has been instituted at jacksonville
ILL.,, for the recovery of diamond worth $780,
600, the heir loom of family for the past CEN
fury.
Out in Iowa kisses are sold affairs by the
fair. A man pays a certain sum to the general
fund, aud selects the certain girl or woman he
desires TO kiss
Charles Fenno Hoffman, poet and novelist
of the last generation, is still living, an inmate
of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania, where he
has been for twenty years. He was the first edi-
tor of the Literary World, afterwards edited by
the brothers Duyckinck.
OF the S55 deaths in eighteen cities and towns
of Massachusetts for the week ending Aug. 8,
SO were caused by cholera infantum, SO by con-
sumption, 90 by dysentery and diarrhoea, 10 by
typhoid fever, and by scarlet fever.
Some of the judges in St. Louis have found it
necessary to inform the lawyers that they cannot
serve two bars at once. The recent appearance
of some of them during court proceedings has
led to this dictum. cd .-- -
The heather Chinee has a new and excellent
recommendation. Koopmanschap, the well
known importer of Chinese, went to Tuscaloo-
sa, Ala, lately, so see how the $50 Celestials
working on railroad there, were getting on
without any pay. He found them living on
crawfish and blackberries and quite contented
Binghamton rcjoices in yacht club, and in
commenting on this fact the Elmira Advertiser
remarks: "The idea of having yacht club in
BinghamtOn is about like having boat race on
the desert of Sahara or a base ball match in the
Mediterranean" To which the Republican re-
spends: "The editor of the ADV ertiser appears
to be ignorant of the fact that there is a mill
pond here thirty feet wide, and the Chenango
canal, where horse can draw yacht at the
rate Of three miles an hour. The yacht club
will be successful"
AT a certain hotel in Ohio they seat man at
dinner in front of mirror, like the concave
side of Il cylinder, which makes his reflection
hot IF HIM liant .inxt fsado
GUS chap. When he isn't watching, the waiter
fops it round, for the thing works on pivots, so
that the convex side is turned out, and the
diner, upon again looking up, is startled to see
himself swelled out to the extreme of corpu-
lency, like a champion fat man. Of course he
doesn't dare to eat any more. He feels that if
he did he would burst, and the soul of the
landlord is made glad by the economic device.
If one may credit the Richmond, Va, Wing,
there is now in that city curiously-shaped
bamboo root. Holding il in one position, you
see clearly defined in outline and recognizable
at a glance, bulls head and three cows heads
Reversing it, Sleeps head appears to view,
exact and faithful to nature as if carved by
some skilled hand. The heads of two African
antelopes, boar's head, grey hounds, bull
dogs, a squirrel sitting on stump, tobacco
worm, complete this strange tumble Of repre-
sensations of animal life.
Miss Putnam, the daughter of George p.
Putnam, the publisher, defended her thesis fol
doctor of medicine at the Paris university re-
Gently. The amphitheater of the medical school
was crammed chock full; at least 800 doctors
or medical students were present. The exam
liners were Professor Gubler and Drs. Laugier,
Blachez and Duplay. All of them complimented
her in the most flattering terms upon the talent
with which she had treated the subject of her
thesis. The audience likewise repeatedly APP
plauded her. The mark awarded Miss Putnam
was the very highest which can be given.
1t is said that at the university of Heidelberg,
in Germany, there is not a language, ancient or
modern, without its competent professor to
teach it to all corners. Japanese student, I'M
able to speak work of German, found there on
his arrival a teacher able to converse with him
and give him lessons through the medium of
his own language. Yale college could not be
substituted for Heidelberg in the first part of
this statement, but it is as true Of it as Of the
German university that a japanese student ar
irving there would find a professor able to talk
with him in his own language.
young and newly fedged justice of the
peace out in Illinois was recently called upon,
for the first time, to marry couple. He nerv-
ously looked through "Every man his own
lawyer" and "Haines' township laws" but
failed to find the desired form. The crowd grew
impatient, and he told the couple to hold up
their right hands. This done, he pronounced
the following charge: "YOu and each of you do
solemnly swear that in the cause now upon
hearing you will tell the truth, the whole truth,
anu uOIuluS Dul lue lIuluJ duu tudI gOu Will
love, honor, cherish and obey each other during
the term Of your natural lives, so help you
God" Both answered solemnly, 81 will, and
the justice charged them dollar each, and pro-
nounced them man and wife.
The Chicago Tribune has an able corps of in
teligent compositors, assisted by an intellectual
proof-reader. 1t apologies for the following:
"Gray's Eulogy" for "Gray's Elegy;" Gator
ney General A. Herman" for Attorney General
Akerman;" "fortitude of cats" for "fortitude of
Cato" "tropic performances of the commune"
for tragic performances Of the commune;" "a
handsome testament" for Handsome treat
ment;;" "all except Hangerson" for "all except
hangers on" "the yeritablee Miss Cowell,' for
"the versatile Miss Cowell;" "setter pup" for
''Ietter press;D "gray frogs" for "gray fogs;"
"mental labor" for "mena labor" The "apol
ogy' is accompanied by the following adj
dendum by the proof-reader: "Four lines from
the beginning of the second paragraph of the
above article will be found the expression how
the humor or the pathos has been taken OUT
etc. When it came from the compositor it read
how the humor on the parks has been,' etc;
but the much-abused proOf-reader managed to
capture that one at any rate"