Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-08
Miscellaneous items.

A newspaper in Jacksonville, Illinois, has lost
thirty-fve cents III Three libel suits brought
against il,
Edward c. Billings and Randall Lee Gibson,
both Of the class Of 1858 at Yale, are tbe PTObse
BILE republican and deaoeut candidates, Ie-
Spectively, for governor IN the next Louisiana
election.
A couple OF Paris thieves lately stole q couple
Of brass mountain hoWiUeES uou she fort Of
Yinccnnes They were afterwards discovered
concealed behind BARRIERS shop iu a HeighbCr-
inc village
The entire amount OF capital iufeSted in me
nagerie property in the United States, Including
the animals and the apparatus and material
requisite fer their transportation and exhibition,
is estimated at over s., Goo 600.
The senior Bennett, of the New York Herald,
is seyentyive years old, but is still ahle to draw
his 1925, 900 income with as little fatigue most
men of his age can cut four cords of wood and
walk forty-fou miles to the polls in day.
A railway tunnel is now being constructed
under the river Mersey at Liverpool, to connect
that city with the opposite city of Birkenhead.
1t will be about three miles in length, about one
third of which will be Under the bed of the river,
and it will connect nearly all the railways of
England with the Birkenhead docks.
A gentleman from Baltimore had been APP
pointed to a third class clerkship at $1,000 sala-
ry, but failed 10 pass the examination. His
wife applied for it, and more successful than he,
received the appointment and performed the
duties required.
A storm on Lake Winnebago recently drove
vast mass of ice, twenty-five miles long, twelve
miles wide and three feet thick ashore with
such force that trees two feet thick were up
rooted, and large rocks carried rods from the
lake. The ice was piled up forty feet high in
many places
There is great excitement in the Lake Superior
region in consequence of gold discoveries at
Jacktish lake, about seventy-fiye miles north of
Thunder bay. The mine is thought by Capt.
True to be the highest on the continent, and he
said some OF the specimens of ore which he had
picked up would yield $4,000 to the ton. There
is much prospecting in consequence of these re-
ports.
Tea and coffee are threatened with a Brazilian
rival. GUarnana consists of seeds OF tree
known as the PaulnUS Sorbitil, which is very
abundant. The tree produces a fruit about the
size OF walnut, containing five or six seeds.
The seeds are roasted, mixed with water and
dried. Before being used they require grinding,
when they fall into a kind of powder. The ac-
tive principle is a kind Of akalod, identical
with that found in tea and coffee, but there is
twice as much of it i'll guarnana as there is in
tea.
An Ohio journalist read in another paper
statement to the effect that "Dliss Kellogg has
larger repertoire than any other living prima
DONNA and he considered it his duty as a
champion of truth to sit down and write an
article on the subject, in which he said: owe
do not, of course, know how Miss Kellogg was
dressed in other cities, but upon the occasion of
her last appearance here we are positively GER
tain that her repertoire did not seem to extend
out 50 far as either Nilsson or PATHS. 1t may
have been that her over-sl1 rts were cut too mar
row to permit of its being gathered into so large
a lump behind, or it may have been that it had
been crushed down accidentally; but the fact
remains that both of Miss Kellogg's rivals wore
repertoreS of a much more extravagant size
very much to their discredit, we think"