Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-15
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In the list of Cambridge wranglers the name
of Dickens, Trinity hail. occupies the twenty
ninth place. The gentleman in question is Mi.
Henry Fielding Dickens, son of the late Mr..
Charles Dickens
Charles Kingsley is the latest of the English
correspondents for American journals. paper
with the characteristic title of Ont West, TO be
published at Colorado Springs, the center of an
other colonization enterprise, announces Mr.
Kingsley as regularly engaged for IFS service.
London was first lighted With gas on the 2Sth
of January, 1907, by a German named Winsor
Sir Walter Scott observes in his diary, in 1906 :
'rbere is a mailman in London who is trying
to light the city with smoke
The New York Commercial Advertiser says ::
"S.okes' Jury will assemble next week and try the
members of the grand Jury for a williul attempt
upon the life of Stokes. John Graham is the
prosecuting attorney, and it is said he has dis
covered a law by which the whole Doodle Of
them can be convicted and sentenced to impris-
onment for life.
Mr.. Seward is talked of as culogst at the
dedication OF tine Lincoln monument at Spring.
field, Ill. The statue is now ready to be set up,
and the funds are being collected. Ofthe $780,
600 needed, J. Y. Scammon guarantees $4,000
from Chicago, and the rest is already in the
hands of eastern committees.
At a gathering in Australia, not long since,
four persons met, three of whom were shepherds
on a sheep farm. One of these had taken de-
gree at Oxford, another at Cambridge, the third
at German university. The fourth was their
employer, squatter, rich in aocks and herds,
butiscarcely able to read and write, much less
TO keep his own accounts.
The qualified Juror has been found at White
River Bottom, Indiana. He wanted to know
who was president and what made them turn
Jackson out; asked what newspaper was, and
told fellow juror that the judge did not look
| like such wicked fellow after all.
The national fish commissioners have issued
tWeD-
ty to be used in tracking fish on the lakes, so as
| TO furnish more accurate evidence Of their hab'
| its. Each number represents a well known
point on the coast and is attached TO fish caught
| there, which are again released Ii these are
| ever caught again, the taker is requested TO
| frank the tag to Washington with a statement
| of the facts.
Queen Charlotte's necklace, of well matched
| amethysts, the most perfect in existence, was
| valued, when worn by her, at two thousand
pounds; at present it would not command as
| many shillings, so great has been the importa'
ton of late years OF German ametbySls and to-
| PAGES, which are dag in endless abundance in
the Siebengeberge on the Rhine.
Mount Vernon has a woman well calculated
to look after her rights Miss Amelia r. Pur
Wis, awakened on Saturday night, saw two mer
crawling into her room. One crept under the
| bed and the other began TO inspect the room
| Slipping out of bed she seized bottle of bay
| rum and broke it over the head Of the latter
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| Tben nointing = fin tTss,n'nnt at tbe man rpfe,
the had She ordered him to ssscrobble omt , IL
did so nj once Iosin@ however his disrnisa 81
thar he was recoonized rs 4 + Wilson a ais
caTded lover of Miss Pnrvis The afF3ir was
concIuded vesterdav whom Miss PHrSis moot
mo Wilson in tbe Street cowhidcd him sonn1Iy
and made him beo her 3ardon
An Fnglisb ,vriter Of a bnnfred vears oco +1,rs
speaks Of tne stains Of the notat3. sTSis root
Increases prodiaionsiv. and is vFrv nro1 er 10,
feedinG and fatteninG cattIe Thpy are hoiied
in wafer and reonire bnt little bo,Iin% tbonT6
thew NAV have been Kent two mont6s in the
store Garlic eat them raw bnf for the table
thew are wholesome boiled. | earnestly recon-.
mend the culture of This pIant TO bnsbandmen
as il is NOT only excellent food for cattle, bnt
GOOD for man in wears of scarcity. After a If-
Tie use the taste becomes at least as agreeable rs
| tIrnins and narticnIarly If the notatoes are
| boiIed with bacon and salt norl "
| In A civil suit in the Albany circuif court on
Tuesday ON the nlainfiff taking the stand il
was stated that he was a person empIoycd at
Troy to remove small nox cases TO the nest bouse
One of the Jurors. who had been looking yery
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