Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

Paul Knoewka, so well known in this country
by his silhouettes of GA MidsummerNight'
Dream" and Faust" died May 10, at Berlin,
of disease of the lungs, after severe suffering for
months
The Rev. t. A. Sampson, colored, was re-
Gently preaching in the open air at Pine Bluff,
Ark, when he was struck dead by lightning.
While he was being carried to his grave his
coffin was again struck by lightning and SILVER
ed to atoms.
President White, of Cornell university, in a
letter to William L. Stone, editor of the College
Review, says that Mr.. Sbley, of Rochester,
has Just added to his former gift of building
$4,000 for the equipment of the department of
civil mechanical engineering in models, appara-
tus, machinery, &C.; and that another gift,
from source not yet announced, of $4,000
has just been made.
Several years ago a Virginia planter gave one
of his slaves, likely boy, his freedom. After
the war the planter removed to Oregon, and re-
Gently he has received from the negro, as token
of remembrance and gratitude, the right to
manufacture and sell in the Pacific states a
patent window-fastener invented by him.
Paris housewife has published a book en-
titled "The Beleaguered Cook" in which she
treats the art of living during siege, and gives
advice how to properly prepare such dishes as
were dictated by necessity during the late siege
of Paris.
A wedding literally in high life is shortly to
be solemnized in London. The union referred
to is that of Miss Swami, well known as the
"Nova Scotia giantess," with one Mr.. Martin
Van Buren, Bates, young American gentleman
of about the young lady'S own age and height,
the former of which is twenty-four years, and
the latter some three or four inches less than
eight feet. Mr.. Bates is Virginian on show in
London, and is said to be really q magnificent
specimen of a human colossus.
A machine has recently been perfected in Lon
don, with which a writer, using a pen in the
usual manner, can at the same time produce
duplicate so small as to be invisible to the naked
eye, yet so distinct that microscope will reveal
every line and dot. A most useful application
of the apparatus will be for the prevention of
forgery, as private marks can be made, on notes
and securities, legible under microscopic power,
but which no imitator could see or even suspect
the presence of.
The veterinary surgeons of New York city are
fairly puzzled at the horse disease that has re-
Gently appeared in that city, by which the street
railway companies and the keepers of large liv-
cry stables have suffered severely. The Third
avenue horse railroad company, having 5000
horses in constant use, has lost already over 200
animals, and the Second avenue line has more
than 100 on the sick list. The other lines have
also suffered much, and the large livery and
boarding stables contain large number of sick
animals, The veterinary surgeons are COM
pletely "non-plussed," although post mortems
| have been held on some of the dead animals and
| analysis have been made of the contents of the
stomach and intestines.
| That the language of Wales is not equal to
| the requirements of modern American democra-
cy is shown by these few lines in the Welsh pa
| per at Scranton: "Cyfarfu Cynadledd Ddem-
ocrataidd Dalaeth am 10 or gloch heddyw, &C
| woddi, penodo crysbwyallawd gohiriwyd byd 2
| y prydnawn, nan y gwnaed, y penodladau can
| lynoi; Am auditor general, Cad. VIM.
McCandlass of Philadelphia; am surveyor gen.
eral. Captain j. M. Coke Sir Lawrence.
VIM. A. Wallace Coffee pot Walace) aeIholwyd
you Gadeirydd Cysbyllawd Canolbarthol Dali
aeah."
The wonderful ice cave in DEBORAH, Winnie
| sheik county, Iowa, is a vertical fssure in the
face of the cliff of Trenton limestone that forms
| part of the bank of the upper Iowa river. 1t
is about one hundred feet in all its windings, is
| from two to eight feet in width, and varies still
more in height. In the winter the cave is free
| from ice, but on the approach of hot weather
the ice begins to accumulate, and solid, hard
| and dry cakes encrust the sides and bottom of
the cave. When the weather is hottest the cave
is most abundantly stored with ice.
| A Wisconsin blacksmith has q ready hand to
assist the suffering. few mornings ago, very
early, gentleman dressed in striped uniform,
with the dew still hanging in beads from his
| uncovered hair and beard, stepped into the ac-
commodating blacksmith's shop, and presenting
a pair of brawny wrists, desired to have hand
cuffs filed off from them, which the kind-hearted
blacksmith proceeded to do. The gentleman in
striped uniform then stepped off down the street,
and disappeared around the first corner.