Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-22
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ant as any or all other of the numberless attrac.
tons is the infinite variety of life, with the end
less changes Of dress, style, action and EXPIRES
sion that continuously surge in a ceaseless round
through the long halls, clustering from time
to time with the old expressions of delight or
wonder about the chief objects of interest, for
statuary, paintings, beautiful and curious fruits
of industry and ingenuity are exposed in great
proGnsion.
Of course it would be tiresome to particular
ize, yet several are very noteworthy. A mina-
ture steam engine, wrought of solid silver, at
tracts the attention of all, particularly the juve-
niles, though the children of larger growth
are, with reason, also greatly interested in it.
1t is constructed of 400 pieces Of gold and sill
yer, and is worth $500. 1t is on a track of sill
yer, and is all within the compass of foot.
The feminine element, especially the younger
portion, go into ecstacies of delight over "dear
little dol" which, with her outfit including
bridal tr8usseau lof many elegant dresses and
| other surroundings pertaining to that state, is
valued at three thousand dollars. A two thou
sand dollar horse-sure to be worth ten before
the year is QUITS TO be disposed of by lottery,
in which way the greater number of elegant
and expensive articles are to be disposed of by
these wicked Idevotees of homeopat, followers
of the blind goddess, as it is facetiously said,
even when pursuing the ends of benevolence
1t is extremely difficult TO escape purse free the
arts and wiles of the sprightly, Jealous attend
ants, and sometimes, when you Aatter yourself
sn an escape, you are finally caught. For in
stance, a lady was urging a gentleman to pur-
chase the very last share in handsome chro-
mo, and after a great deal of badinage, he
laughingly declined on the ground that "he
would be sure to draw it." The young lady
was turning away, but after moment her face
suddenly frightened as her wit came to her
rescue and she replied, 81 will warrant you will
not" which somehow served as an inducement
to invest. Gilmore's band discourses each eve
ming choice selections from the most eminent
and popular composers. The fair continues
another week.
fair has been instituted in New York in
support of a similar institution there, at which
the managers have been so wise and fortunate
as to secure Mile. Nilsson as saleswoman.
She beguiles the infatuated men of Gotham into
purchasing two or three rose buds, by first
stealing away their senses with 4 rayshing
glance, and then in insnuating. irresistible
tones asks the victim whether he will ma like un
boquet Of passion flower, only fife toller. The
golden era of woman's rights when similar
simiibus curartier" shall be the rule, is prob
ably their consolation.
And now the second stage in the progress of
the work upon the Coliseum has been inaugu-
rated Thursday the attempt was made to raise
one of the huge semi-circles of interviewer
planks designed as the ribs to support the oval
covering of the building. Nearly thousand
people were present, watching with great inter-
est and eagerness the several steps of the under
taking, which will be in reality a great mechan-
ical triumph.
II is of course easy in observing the proceed
ings to comprehend the why's, ways and where.
fOres, but almost as difficult to describe accu-
rately and intelligibly the object and modus
operandi as to understand Caesars description
of that most ingenuously constructed bridge
over the Rhine, which he has spun out with
such eXcruciating refinement of detail in the
fourth book of his commentaries, inAicting
without doubt more torture and misery upon
the boys of one generation in modern times
than upon the tough old Germans, whom he
pursued with fire and sword. That bridge, in
spite of the usually mild and merciful charac-
Ter of his construction, deserves infinitely more
the title Of "Pous Asinorum," which has al
ways been wrongfully bestowed, l hold, upon
the forty-seventh proposition of Euclid But
this is depression.
The trusses are twenty-five in number; each
has a span of $50 feet, and the greatest altitude
of the arch is 1870. They are made OF rhe heavi-
est planks, boiled and fastened together so as
to form a continuous solid piece, in order to
support the roof, which is upheld in this way
alone. Each truss is nearly three feet in width
and twenty in depth, "a lattice work of planks
connecting the upper and lower portions, which
are almost solid,l contains about fifty thou
sand feet of lumber and weighs fifty tons.
One hundred and fifty men and ten horses are
engaged in the work, while SO 900 feet of rope is
in constant use. AS yet it is only half way
up, and the tug Of war is to come.
The design in using these trusses is TO
leave the vast cayernous space within the build
ing entirely free from obstruction of exery kind,
so that the lungs of the 10000 choristers will
set in motion with less difficulty the 80 ,614 $685.
27S,132.5, more or less, cubic feet of air under
the enclosure, and send the vast volumes OF
music free and unreshained to the remotest
corner. think of that herculean task, jubilee
singer)
Mrs. John Wood, known and very kindly re-
membered by the theatre goers of the last gen
Grafton, appears next week at the Boston
theatre in "La Belle Savage" She is well and
widely known, and during the six nights alot-
ted to her visit, will have large and enthusiastic
audiences
Mr.. w Emerson gives, tits difficult to find the
exact word, conversation upon literature next
Monday afternoon at four o'clock, in Mechanics
hail. on Bedford street, the second of series, to
be followed by four more upon successive Mon
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