Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-30
Miscellaneous Items.

Mrs A. L. Stewart, in answer to a friend who
asked her why she dressed so plainly, replied,
81 can afford to do So" One of the advantages
of being rich, You see.
A meeting of Chicago people was recently
called to break up the "Erriug Woman's Home"
because it injured property in the neighbor-
hood. They had no objection, of course, to the
salvation Of erring women, but they insisted
that the poor creatures should 90 little farther
off to be saved.
A drove of three hundred buffalo, one day
last week, while fleeing from an approaching
train on the Kansas Pacific road ran wildly
through the village of Fossil Greek. The in
habitants brought out their guns and pistols
and made it red hot for them.
OF DIR. Wormey, the Ohio chemist in the
celebrated Butfenbarger case, western paper
says: "Ihe doctor is spare figure, with mus
Giles all hardened into tendens, and an eye with
no more speculation than Hamlet's ghosts. He
walks with his legs and arms and his whole
body, and seems eternally afraid he won't get
there till the refreshments are all gone. He can
walk the legs off Weston, and feel all the time
as if he was lettering. He rises at four p. NJ,
and works aSsiduously till midnight. He held
Tor some time the profesSOrship, and was a
teacher, author, practicing physician, and
leader of a band besides-and he did all these
things thoroughly and we'll"
Medalons of the finest French needlework
are sold for ornamenting linen and Valen-
ciennes lace garments. This applique, or trans
marking handkerchief, the initials of the name
being sewed in one corner of the broad hem
now seen on all pocket handkerchies. The
letters are large Roman capitals, and each one
costs 30 cents. Exqusitely wrought letters of
point lace-the finest round pOint-are also
shown for making fans of satin or silk, or for
inserting in the corner of a linen cambria
handkerchief bordered with point lace. These
are leaning italic capitals, with vine entwined
around them.
John Camden Hotten, a London publisher,
reprinted Brete Harte's Condensed Novels"
and thereby has got himself into a scrape 1t
VIII DC rccolleeted that one of the best things
~ the Dook is burlesque on George Augustus
Sala's fearful and wonderful style, and it is
very neatly done. What does George Augustus
do but sue Hotten for Islander, libel and defa-
nation of characterr' And the publisber
will probably have to pay up roundly for it.
Good enough for a man who will steal nm
American authors work and say not even
"thank you'll"
Among recent deaths in Germany there is an
nounced that Of a man whose character and
career supplies curious commentary on the
principles OF hereditary genius"-the eldest
son of Wilhelm Won Humboldt. He had in
common with his father and uncle both name
and wealth, but besides this absolutely nothing.
He was all his life long-and long life of sew
enty-6ve years it was-what is called in Ger
many "sonderling," which in his case meant
rather more than queer fish," Among the
various feats whereby he lald claim to distinc-
ton among his contemporaries must be reckoned
his spending his last twenty years or SO exclu-
sively in bed, although endowed with the most
vigorous health, and not being even able 10 i'm
pair it by this longdrawn-out freak. As to the
rest OF his career all that can be said of this small
scion OF great house is that he was proprietor
OF the estate Of Ottmachu in Silcsia, very fine
and large property, which had been given to his
father as a reward for his services to the Prus-
slall state. Also that his death took place in
Berlin, and that he was buried at Regel, the
scpulchre of his great namesake.
The great sale of mill property in Lawrence oc-
ours to-day at two O'clock "