Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-10

/ HAssCeianeOus Items.
Among the works of art purchased by Cath
| crime H. to ornament the palace-of Taurda saws
| the Nordische Presse, has been found the only
| piece of sculpture ever executed by Raphael
| namely, marble group representing a child
asleep on dolphin. The plaster copies and
| engravings of it are well known, but the origin
/ al, the existence OF which at Paris can be traced
| down to the year 1910, has long since disap-
| peared.
The European monarchs are generally fond of
| horses, and good ones too. Queen Victoria's
horses are valued at $50, 900, King Williams at
| $4,000, Francis Joseph's III $4,000, Victor
| EmanuePs at $4,000, Gar Alexander's at 3d.
| 600, Leopold of Belgium at S90000 and the
| sultan's at 100000.
| A bottle has been picked up near Dunbar,
Scotland, containing paper, on which the fol-
1 lowing is written: "The ship Carrondelet, mid
| die of the German ocean, Aug. 2, 1S72.-This
| ship is sinking ia I. If ever this get to shore,
| whoever finds it will please TO let it be known
this sunk with twentyone hands on board. She
| is going now. Herr Inglan, native of Ham
| burg"
Dr. Cuyler writes of Mrs. Gladstone that she
| is not only lady OF most genial and attractive
manners, but is thoroughly devoted to labOrs of
love among tine poor. Her pet institution of
charity is a hospital for convalescents near
Woodford, which she visits every week, and she
often goes to see the poorest sufferers in the old
city end of London, sometimes leaving fresh
flowers as well as material aid.
The sale of explosive cigars has RECOMMENDED
in the streets of Paris in spite of all the precau
tions taken by the police to prevent these dan
oerOus articles from being offered to the public.
The cigars in question appear genuine TO the
purchaser, but contain minute Squib or crack
er, which when the cigar has been consumed to
certain extent, eXplOdes, the cigar itself flying
to some distance from the mouth of the smoker
These cigars are capable of severely wounding
those who smoke them.
The death is announced at the madhouse, Sal
petriere, of Mile. Boisgontier, an actress ofParis
who, at one moment, lived in great splendor
She possessed silver bath, which she regarded
as Il sort of fetish, and believed that it secured
her good fortune so long as she kept it. One
day, howeYer,she sent it to the mint to be coined,
and invested the proceeds in Immobiere shares
From that day she began to descend until she
fell into the greatest misery, and finished her
days in an hospital.
A letter from London says: "The lad who
was once prince imperial of France has grown
into long, lank fellow, with swarthy COM
pleXion, a long, narrow, unpreposSessing face
He parts his hair in the middle. There are some
elements Of strength about his face, and shou Id
not wonder at his trying some day to claim
throne. lie grows more and more like his
mother, but has not the slightest resemblance to
his reputed father, Louis Napoleon.
The Ottawa, Canada, Citizen, says that as two
men were rowing a skiff over the bank of saw
dust and other refuse accumulated from the
mills on the river, an explosion occurred in the
fermenting material below, which swamped the
boat and came near drowning the men.
A Geographic message of twenty words can
now be sent from London to Queensland, in
Australia, for fifty dollars gold, and it will be
forwarded to Port Darwin by cable, and thence
to its destination by horse express and tele-
graph The whole distance which such mes
sage will travel will be some IA 900 miles and it
will reach its destination in about thirty hours
Going from London to the Lands End on land
wires, it will enter the sea and reappear at AL
exandria, pass over Egypt, reenter the sea at
SueE, and again appear at Port Darwin.
distinguished engineer, who is connected
with some of the most honorable families in
Italy, has just been arrested at Florence,
charge with attempting to murder on whole
sale SCALE 1t appears he was involved in inan-
cial troubles, and, with view TO extricate him
self by means of the property of his friends,
which he expected to inherit, the wretched man
tried to poison, by morphine, no fewer than
eighteen individuals among whom were his
father, brother, wife and his own children. The
Gaulois says he is plainly mad, as it is not pos
sble to believe any man endowed with reason
would try TO accomplish such crime.
The Salut Public, of Lyons, states that ma
tional subscription is shortly to be opened in
that city, and all over France, under the patron
age of the Socete DIES Science Industrielles' with
the object of proving to the world that Barthe-
lemy Tuimonnier, born at Arbresle (Rhone) in
1923, is the real inventor of the mechanical sew
ing machine; also, in order to collect the funds
necessary for the publication of his biography,
together with complete history Of the imple
ment; and, finally, to erect statue to his mem
DRY in one of the public squares of Lyons.
Sir Stafford Northcote told a rather good story
of the ballot when at Powderham in Devonshire
a couple OF weeks ago, which has been touched
up and reproduced as follows; candidate in
his election canvass was told that a particular
publican was for the ballot, 1t was no use his
going there, he went, and the following con-
versation ensued: care You a supporter of the
ballotp mo" said the candidate "Then,"
replied the publican, 81 will vote for you" The
candidate expressed his surprise, as he had
heard he was in favor of the ballot. $50 was"
replied the voter; "but | will tell you what
happened the other day. There was a club
election, and out of twenty members of the
committee fifteen promised to vote for me-
When the ballot took place, seven did so. did
not so mind that, but the thing was that the
whole fifteen came to me, one by one, and said,
1t was great pity you were not elected voted
for you"
Everybody eats oysters, of course, except the
unfortunate few who do not like them; but
mussels are much less commonly eaten, in this
country at least and not one oyster eater in ten
knows the flavor of the Mytil,iS eCle,lis as the
scientists call the shell fish. For all such a rare
pleasure is yet to come. King Louis XVIII had
an especial liking for these bivalves, ate them
once week, and took the trouble to instruct
Talleyrand in the art of cooking them Mus
sells are found as natives all over the world, their
fayorite hauntS being estuaries, in which the
freSh and salt waters are mixed to their rather
epicurean taste. But cultivation has done much
for the improvement of their flavor, particularly
IN France, where a great deal of attention has
been paid to the matter. Stakes are placed near
the mouth Of an estuary, so that the ebbing and
flowing of the tide shall alternately submerge
and expose the greater part of their length. On
these the young musses fasten themselves, and
here they are allowed to stay for about twelve
months. At the expiration of this time they
are removed and thrown on wicker shelves, so
placed that they will again be alternately sub
merged and exposed. Here they remain for
like length of time, after which they are thrown
on other wicker shelves, placed entirely above
the water. After years residence here they
are deemed ready for use, and are taken directly
to the market.