Worcester daily spy., 1872-08-19

joaquin Miller has presented Grace Green
wood with pair of earrings made of rattle
snakes rattles, mounted with gold.
little girl who slipped from the rocks near
Terrapin tower at Niagara on Sunday was res
cued by her father, who jumped in after her.
Madame Rudersdortf, the London soprano,
has gone to Niagara Falls. She is to give two
concerts at Oswego N. Y, on the 22d and 2Sd.
One hotel at Long Branch is patronized ex-
clusively by brunettes Ii is called Delmonico's,
aud none but the elite of the colored race are ad
mitted.
A St. Louis child's life was endangered re-
Gently by swallowing some of the glittering
glass buds which formed part of the trimming
of its mothers bonnet.
Jenny Lind, Clara Louise Kellogg, Nilsson,
Lucca, Patti and Parepa, all on the same even
ng in London, witnessed rietjen's performance
in Cherubinis "DeuX Journees."
The official returns show that the United
| States purchase upward Of $2T 900 600 of mer-
| chandise annually in Paris. Dry goods of all
| kinds constitute little more than half of the
| aggregate.
| The cash value Of a Chinaman's pig-tail has
been Judicialy established in Portland, Oregon
| where thirty Caucasians, who had by force shorn
Celestial heathen of his queue, were recently
| fined 800 apiece, or 5000 in all.
Two gentlemen, after vainly attempting 10
| stop hight between two men in an English
railway car, pulled the cord, stopped the train
ana called upon the guards, who separated the
| prosecuted the men who made the disturbance
| but also the two gentlemen for needlesSy stop
| ping the train. They were however discharged
On Thursday morning little girl named El-
| len Emmet, residing with her parents at Eliza
beth, N. j., while picking up coal just for fun"
was run over by locomotive on the Central
| railroad, and had her right arm, just below the
shoulder literally severed. The engine passed
along, and the child jumped up, seized
ner severed arm, and ran with it to where her
father was employed, near by. She then fell
PROSTATE, and doctor was sent for He has
hopes of saving her life. Her parents were in
circumstances beyond the necessity of her gath.
erng bits of coal,
Ferdinand Freiligrath, the German poet, is
making translation Of Bret Harte's dialect
poems INTO the language of INLAND and Hene
The undertaking may seem hardly feasible, and
one may wonder at first how the talk of Truthful
James and the California slang of Dow's Flat
can ind any possible expression in German.
But Freiligrath has happy art of reproducing
III his own language the eccentricities of anoth-
er, and of course he puts Bret Harte's dialect
INTO dialect of German which may be called
ITS counterpart. Anyhow, the effect is surpris-
ln@ly 9oOdi one can have scarcely any idea be-
iOrehand OF the success with which this singular
transformation has accomplished Among the
earliest copies OF Bret Harte which found their
way across the ocean, one came into the hands
OF Freiligraths daughter, married lady, living
here in London, To her Bret Harte was pre-
ylousy unknown, but the poems impressed her
at once and made her enthusiastic about him.
She sent copy instantly to her father in Ger
many; he too was filled with admiration, and
the result is the bold attempt to put them into
German, which venture to think will prove TO
be complete succeSs.-London Letter from
Justin Mccarthy.