Worcester daily spy., 1872-12-28
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Cincinnati couples can 20 to the Rv Mr.. Yo
cum for matrimony, and TO lawyer Severance
for divorce.
The Indauians think one dog enough for anv
man, A new law, to go into effect in Indiana IN
January, charges one dollar Tor the hrst Jog,
and i've dollars for every additional cur.
Emperor William has semitic German church
in fifusville, Pa, a captured ffencn caunoh'
Weighing 2000 POUNDS. out of which bell ioi
the church is TO be cast.
pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter and iour
feet deco was the chief feature OF California
dinner recently. The endowment of the guests
was marred somewhat by child falling into the
pie and drowning before their eyes.
Queen VIctoria's signature is beautifully
formed with each letter clearly cnt. In marked
contrast are the signatures OF the three Napole-
ons The first wrote mere scrawl, no letters
formed, no words completely written out; the
second wrote g far, large, handsome hand;
while the third Naooleon writes neat, running,
easv, and very egible hand.
Rev. DR.. Eliot, lecturing in St. Louis on
"Halfremembered, ,haIrforeotten poets and poet
ry." said 1t is an actual fact that last sum-
mer a Harvard graduate called upon distin-
guished literary man in Boston With request
for letters of introduction to eminent men in
England, and particularly desired one 10 Mr..
Alexander Pope, of Iwickennam, OF whom be
had heard great deal.
A London correspondent, writing of distin-
guished Enelshmau lately deceased saws that
his handwriting was so obscure that commu
nication from lin to London paper was once
published with the signature "E Lanten." The
next day the editor explained at the request of
the writer that the signature should have been
printed ct. Brown" and 1t was only on the
third trial that the author succeeded in making
it understood that his Dame was j. Bowring.
The midness of the season has been such in
England that correspondent writes: Near
Keston Common (Kentl, acres of primroSes and
-, 4. Nn
cred with violets, the furse is in full bloom, and
last week nest of young thrushes was taken
out of holly tree near HOLLYWOOD Park"
A New York paper commendS one OF Gov.
DX's appointments because. the new adintant
general will be able at glance to distinguish
between the muzze and the breech OF a gun,
which is more than can be said oil all the Officers
in our state militia. He is the best shot in the
state at Grant and vagarious game birds on
windy days al long range, and, we do not doubt,
holds all potering trap pigeon shooters IN snch
orthodox detestaiion as the hard-shell Baptist
of the southwest is said 10 entertain for The un-
submerged believer.
Ia opening his Fors ClaVigera for December,
Mr.. Ruskm writes My friends, shall not call
you so any more after this CHRISTMAS; first, be
cause things have chanced 10 me of late which
have made me 100 sulky 10 be friends with any.
body; secondly, because in the Two years during
which have been writing, not one of you has
ocul IlehulN auS"el iasliN pCSduSSb S'Nh II
you ,cere my friends, it would be waste print to
call you so once a mouth. Nor shall sign N.Y.
self faithfully yours" any more, being very far
IRON faithfully nv own, aud having found most
other people anything but faithfully mine. Nor
shall / sign my name, for l never like the look
OF it, bene apprehend, only short for CROUCH
skim" in tn, sense OF ''pig skin" (and, indeed,
the planet under which was born, Saturn, has
supreme power over pias); nor can fiud his
forlcal mention of any other form of the name,
except one made no reference 10 when it oc-
cured, as that of the leading devil OF toLr, red
skin, ue-skin-and | forget tue skins of the
other two-who performed in a religious play
of the fourteenth century, which was nearly as
comic as the religious earnest Of our own cen
fury. So that the letters will begin, hencefor
ward, without address, and end without sigma
turc. You will probably know whom they come
from, and don't in the least cale whom they
go to.