Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-21

dry goods merchant in New York has made
hit in advertising by giving free promenade
concerts every evening, from to Q O'Clock. His
store is thronged day and night.
A lady at Southampton, l.. l., has just COM
pleted the knitting of a stocking which her
mother commenced before her marriage, sixty
years ago.
An Iowa City man no owns extensive timber
tracts in the state, has, among his chopper an
American woman who cuts and franks up"
more wood in day than any other workman
in the timber.
The colony known as the Economy society, at
Economy, Pa, now numbers but about eighty
persons, nearly all Of whom are old people,
Their wealth is estimated at about SIS 900 ,000
A clever thief was captured in Columbus,
Georgia, recently. On being carried 10 the sta
ton house the officers went through him and
found the stolen money on his person. 1t was
laid on bench while he put on his Clothes
He stole the money again while several officers
were around, and destroyed it-how, no one
knows.
The name Of Vallejo, Cal, has been spelled in
l26 different ways in letters received there within
the past four months. One of the most remark
able was invented by some Italian, who after
much mental labor, produced "VellaggiOhOl."
A letter from Paris was received addressed to
"Nalase- Nalase, territoire Vagenstein, Ameri-
que" but it was forwarded to Walla Walla,
Washington territory.
While digging a foundation for lime kiln
resident of Pulaski county, Virginia, discovered
under the roots of large tree, at least eight
feet beneath the surface OF the ground, a layer
of ashes and a large number of the smoothest
and incest bricks he ever saw, perfect i'll shape,
and apparently composed of clay, which CON
tanned no grit whatever. Many Indian arrow
heads were also found.
The original, or at least an early and unfl-
miliar, form of a well worn maxim is furnished
by Hon. =. q. Squire, descendant Of one of
lFyf.Faa tt~al ltH N.t.ai,.
after the English civil WAL Letters from CrOm-
well to this ancestor were found among the
family papers, filed away with the device of
sword crossing pen upon them, and the legend,
Ten to one the feather beats tine iron"
A new article OF commerce which the New
YORK custom house returns show has been i'm
ported IN large quantities, the past year, is
plantan juice, and is produced in Jamaica
and San Domingo. Only lately has the virtue
OF this substance been known Ii is of a rum
my nature, capable of being turned into an ar
ucie as beautiful and useful as the best paper
mache, and at a much less cost 1t is pronounced
beautiful and durable material TO. book covers
while the cheapness of its production will make
it very popular.
The Rock Island, Ill, Argus Claims that "the
largest yield OF corn per acre ever recorded in
Scott county was produced by l.. w. Clemens
of Pleasant Valley township. This wear liz
sworn statement to the Scott county agricultural
society is, that the yield was 15l bushels and 3
pecks Of shelled corn? His onion crop was at
the rate Of $50 bushels per acre, which was a
good yield for the past year,-but so bushels less
per acre than he raised on previous season
several years ago. His carrot crop averaged
1000 bushels per acre, and the potato crop at $50
bushels.
There is ship now sailing from Holland,
built in 1868, when the prince of Orange was
fighting Philip II. Of SPAIN then at the zenith
OF his power She was sailing to the Indies
when the Hollanders organized themselves into
tine "Beggars of the Sea-" and as priyateersmen
earned reputation which astonished the world.
This Dutch ship is called the Commissaries des
koniug Won der Heine. She passed the Cape of
Good Hope, October, 1864. from Batavia for
| Holland, then 294 years odd