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

A boy named Ames at Fairburg, N. Y, while
passing near his fathers hot beds, recently, fell
into the glass, and long, sharp piece of it
pierced his heart and killed him instantly.
In the time of the first Napoleon, when draft
was made for soldiers, one man had substitute
put in his place. After time, another draft
was made and the same man was called again,
but he said: 81 am free / sent substitute
into the army and he was killed, so am as a
dead man." The case was carried to the courts
of France, and it was there decided that the
man was free.
1t is said of Adjutant General Townsend that
he is the embodiment of order, and that his
office in Washington reflects the man exactly.
All his furniture, even down to pens and PEN
wipers, is at right-dress always. President
Grant is reported TO have said the other day:
"When Townsend dies think they will indorse
him in red ink War Department, A. G. o.
wrap him up in red tape, and stick him away in
pigeonhoe."
A curious mode of bringing to the surface a
drowned corps ewas successfully tried in q New
Jersey creek by two Canadians last week. A num-
Der of bottles were filled with quick-lime, tightly
corked and thrown into the creek, and in about
an hour one of the bottles burst with great
noise, soon after which the body rose. The
Canadians could not explain the theory further
than by saying that, when a bottle floats di-
rectly over the corpse, it will explode, and the
body will rise.
A West Point letter of the 25th says: The
greatest sensation of the season, and it is
great novelty, is the arrival of the new colored
cadet, Henry Alonzo Napier, from Tennessee
He is native of Nashville, and rumor says he
has the blood of the ancient and honorable
English family of Napier in his veins He is
about eighteen years OF age, five and half feet
in stature, and has full, handsomey-shaped
figure. He is darker than Cadet Smith, and is
known by the southern term as a "mestizo."
He is dignifed, complaisant, ready spoken, and
quite charming as conversationalist He is
cns1 60 ho aafi and n mi
not at all likely to suffer being trampled on I'M
justly.
After Susan B. Anthony lectured at Ripon,
Wis, she wanted some recreation and amuse-
ment, so she took walk on Sunday around the
graveyard there. While she was enjoying the
literature of tombstone, she heard lot of
little boys saying, "That's her" and she
thought "such is fame" Congratulating her
self that even the children Of the land knew
her. she was accosted by an urchin, who said
"Say, amt you the old woman that walks up
the wire on the circus tent tomorrow
Ducks are said to do good service in extermi
mating the potato bug. A gentleman of Piqua,
Ohio, put pair of Muscovys into his potato
patch, which was literally swarming with the
bugs. The ducks ate the bugs with such avidi-
ty that the latter were soon extermnated, and
the patch has not since been troubled with
them. The ducks did not appear to suffer any
i'll effects from eating the bugs, and were not
very slow in taking i'm all they could dis
cover.
A young man named Murchison, living in
Meade county, KY, recently had a large piece
of skin torn from his hip by saw-mill accident
Knowing the difficulty with which such wounds
are generally healed, the doctor took the skin of
young rat and migrated it by way of expert
ment. 1t succeeded beyond his most sanguine
expectations, and in ten days the cure was COM |
plete. The surface of the wound is covered |
with fine growth of hair, and the rat skin |
seems TO answer every purpose. The only in |
convenience to which Mr.. Murchison is sub |
jected is from cats. On several occasions, when |
sitting down reading he has been put to no lit. |
tie alarm and inconvenience by having the |
house cat spring suddenly on him and fasten |
her teeth in that portion of his pantaloons |
which Immediately covers the transplanted rat |
skin. The terriers also, sniff suspiciously at /
his heels when he walks the streets.
The production of sheet iron plates coated |
with copper and brass is a new branch of in
dustry in England, which has excited considera-
bic attention among manufacturers. 1t is |
claimed for this product that the plates present
great advantages to the makers CT finished
goods, compared with timed or galvanized
plates, as they can be annealed as much as re-
4uired during the process of stamping without
injury to the copper or brass coating; and that
they also are superior to sheet copper or sheet
brass, because articles manufactured from them
are not so readily bent or dented as when they
are made of brass or copper, and they can be
FURNISHED, planished, or spun, and so brought
up to any required degree of finish. On this
account the material is specially adapted to the
manufacture of lamps, candlesticks, and all
kinds of goods hitherto made by stamping from
sheet brass or sheet copper, and at greatly re-
duced cost.
A CARD.-I have suffered untold agonies with
scrofulous headache and pain in my side. l have
spent hundreds of dollars in the past six months,
trying nearly every noted physician in the city, but
without obtaining relief The Vacuum treatment
mas entirely cured me in less than three weeks