Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-01
Neutrality-suspicious.

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aud II 1881 female persons, making total OF
| 1866, 521, who live in 1892, 72S houses.
Bishop Strossmayer is reported as being at
Rome to make bis personal declaration of full
submission to the resolutions of the Vatican
council. He has been received by the pope. He
is the last of the anti-iniallibilist bishops.
The author of Ginx's Baby says no other peo.
pie in the world have such talent for the orna-
mental expression of nothing as the Americans
have.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was arrested in
wheeling West Virginia, for not fulfilling lee
ture engagement, and at once took advantage of
the law by which a married woman cannot be
sued. She thought if there was one advantage
in woman being nobody she would make the
most of it.
According to a San Francisco paper that city
reioices in Female Gambling Palace" mag
nifcenty furnished and decorated, which is
principally supported by respectable married Ia
dies, who, according TO the same authority,
may be seen there drunk every evening"
There are but two or three Unitarian churches
in Pennsylvania. One of these is in Northuni-
berland, town of about 1900 inhabitants, near
the centre of the state. 1t was founded in the
last century, by the famous Priesty, who sought
a refuge there from persecution in England on
account of his religious opinions.
John Ruskin heartily disapproves of the pro-
posed subscription, in England, for the rebuild
ing of Warwick castle, and writes: 81 am an
Old anu tuOiOuphblGu lOiN anu, as SUctl, say:
If noble family cannot rebuild their own
castle, in Gods name letthem live in the nearest
ditch till they can"
Bazel Harrison, the original of Coopers IA
nous "Bee Hunter" is still living at Harrson's
corners, not far from Kalamazoo, on farm
which he has owned for lortyiour years. He is
101 years old, and is hale and hearty He was
the first judge of probate OF Kalamazoo county.
1t is now asserted in Vienna that the down
fall of Count Won Beust, late chancellor of the
empire, was brought about by his loose mode Of
life. TO such an extent did he offend in This
particular that the Archduchess Sophia. tile
mother of the emperor, told her son that unless
Beust was removed she would leave the aol-
burg.
A Baltimore lady, who had been greatly an
noyed by misclievous urchns who rang her
door bell and then made off, made bad mis-
take one afternoon recently. She Law in wait
for him; and soon came step on The porch and
a vigorous jerk on the bell She cried out. 81
see you, you little rascal, caught the unresist-
ing figure by the coat collar and shook him Wig
orously. When her strength was nearly OK
hausted, and boarse with excitement, she dis
covered TO her horror that it was the diminutiye
minister OF her church, very red in the face, and
very short for breath An explanation FOL
lowed.
During the recent illness Of his royal highness
the prince OF Wales, a well known London
| physician ordered his servant to 90 every nipht
| to the gate at the Marlboro house and yoit
until the midnight bulletin was posted On one
occasion the servant lost his temper at having to
| wait in the cold, aud said he wished the prince
| was dead. The words were scarcely out of his
mouth before he was set upon by the mob, and
| was so matrcated that on his return to his mas
ter's house he had scarcely a stitch OF clothing
| left upon bis back
The oldest pieces Of wrought-iron now known
are probably the sickle blade found by Belzoni
under the base of a sphynx in Karnak. the
| Olade found by Col. Vyse embedded in the ma
| sorry Of the great pyramid, and the portion of
| eross-cut saw exhumed at Nimrod by Mr.
Layard, all OF which are now in the British Mu.
| scum. wrought bar of Damascus steel was
| presented by King Porus to Alexander the
| Great and the razor steel OF China for many
| centuries has surpassed all European steel in
temper and durability of edge. The Hindoos
| appear to baye made wrought-iron directly from
| the ore, from time mmemOra
| Several of the most intelligent and expc.
| rienced officers of the royal engineers of Inc
| English army have been commissioned to 30 ia
| Ephesus TO examine the excavations now in
| progress there, under the direction of MIR
| Wood, in the name OF the administrators of the
British museum. The inteutioD is to uncover
and to bring into modern daylight the celebrat.
ed temple of Diana, of which certain portion
has already been unearhed. The sultan has
given special permission for the continuation
! of these explorations. The engineers are the
| same who were employed in uncovering the
s,Syue Of king MausoluS, at Haicarnassus
Cyrene. "
ahi, "I h "aui9's relates story which will prob
thay, !, hes with greater surprise in England
ho ,orst aS ogeh IN Paris 1t states that during
Wal@s snDpo ~ 9 vi Vhe illness of the prince Of
posed to an insurance ONCE TO efiect n noIic V
upon the life of the prince and t ~ potey
was arranged The premium amouuted " TO over
$4,000, but the amount payable in a e., ~ 80,
would have reached millions. "Whc' a a.. enell,
adds the Gaulois, "perhaps all the English Ho
done the same. That would explain nv
anxiety for news respecting the princes cor.