Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-17
Miscellaneous Items.

A bouquet of dahlias cut from turnips, beets
and carrots was shown at the St. Louis eXposi-
ton the other day.
There is difficulty in finding jury when an
Indian comes before an Omaha court One of
the panel being asked if he had anyIpreiudice.
replied: "No, only I've been chased by 'em,
been in several battles with 'em, and would hang
every devil of 'em at sight,"
Coopers Leather Stocking Tales" are ex-
ceedingly popular in Russia. Four or five rival
TRANSACTIONS ofthem have been published in that
sold we'll
An entire English household-man, wife, chill
dren, and seryants-haye caught the foot and
mouth disease by drinking the milk of a sick
COW. This shows the unpleasant possibilities
Of the Texas cattle disease that is now making
such havoc in the west.
81 remember" says Lord Biden, "Mr. Justice
Gould trying a case at York, and when he had
proceeded for about two hours, he observed,
Here are only eleven jury4nen in the box, where
IS the twelfth please you, my lord said one
OF the eleven, She has gone away about some
other business, bat he has left his verdict with
meP"
The British snob is now seeking immortality
for his prosaic cognomen by chiseling it deep
upon the Druidical pillars of Stonehenge. The
English Journals justly regard this species oil
vandalism more sacrilegious than any to which
the monuments could be subjected.
A Swiss paper says: GA lady of Bourg, (Ain,)
Madame T, lately bequeathed TO the
parish church sum Of 5000 francs, on condition
that forty masses should be said every year;
twenty for the repose of her own soul, and
twenty for that of her husbands. The ecclesi-
astics, considering that the price of masses has
risen like all other commodities, that it will
still augment, and consequently that the work
imposed by the legacy will one day be greater
than the advantages derived from it, have re-
fused TO accept the money"
Archbishop Bayley, in the course of dinner
speech delivered at the archiepiscopal residence
in Baltimore on Sunday, lsaidlhe never did believe
in opposing liberty of conscience and was an
advocate Of its fullest exercise and that he sup
posed his appointment was in a large degree due
to the TACT that he was opposed to the material
istic spirit of the age and to intemperance in the
nse OF intoxicating liquors. Archbishop Nc
Closkey, who was present. received the remarks
about the liberty of conscience in rigid silence.
A Scotch builder was at work not long ago on
high chimney. When he decided TO descend,
he found that his rope had fallen to the ground
and was hundred feet below him. Friends did
what they could to help him, but could not get
a rope near him, and he was in a fair way TO die
of his superiority when brilliant idea struck
him. He took off stocking that his wife had
knitted for him, unravelled it, and lowered the
slender yarn to the ground; then he drew up a
string, and then rope, and in a few minutes he
was rejoicing to be on a level with his fellow
men.
The late President Juarez of Mexico left
three interesting documents. The first is called
advice to my Sons" 1t contains a complete
autobiography, and is filed with very interest
ing details. The second consists of minute
account of all sums OF money received by Ju.
arez from the time of his elevation to the presi-
| dency to the time of his death. The third docu
ment is a kind of alphabetical table of the
names of persons with whom he had become
acquainted during his political career, and his
opinion of them.
In England the baggage trucks at railway
stations have rubber tires upon their wheels
and are run over the platform without the
slightest noise. In the dining halls the chairs
are shod with rubber, and no execrable scratch
ing sound puts nervous people into agony
whenever one is used. Engineers are forbidden
TO blow whistles within the stations, and
when trains leave there are no other signals
than few notes on a toy whistle by the con-
ductor.
The Russian journals of the province of the
Don report curious phenomenon which has
occurred in the Lake Monastinsky, about -four
miles from Sturotcherkask. The bed suddenly
sank in, and has profoundly changed the con
formation of the northeastern bank to the eX-
tent oil more than mile, the change being &C
companied by loud subterTanean noise. The
sheet of water was, according to tradition, for
merry extremely deep, with an abundant spring
in the middle. All at once this last disappeared
the water ran off, and the bottom was even
cultivated. However, water afterward came
back, and continued to appear in it for a certain
time every year. Further alterations are eX.
pected when the winter comes