Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-21
miscellaneous Etcn,s

Miscellaneous Items.
man out west was offered plate of maca-
ronsoup, but declined it, declaring that they
couldn't play off any billed pipe-stems on
him."
A Rochester On. " man propnunds the
conundrum, Can man be an alderman and be
honcstP To the credit OF his CITY he answers
it, though not without some msgivings, in the
affirmative.
In speaking of "Intellectual Vagrancv," the
Churchman says: "a deadly mental dyspepsia
has had its foundations laid in many of our
American girls, between the ages of seven and
oul teen by the gorging of washy Sunday school
books"
Citizens of Maryland are moving to secure
shorter route from Baltimore to the ocean, by
cutting ship-canal from the Choptank river to
LeweS, Del. The subject will soon be pressed
upon the attention of congress.
A Cleveland inventor has Just brought out an
autcmaton side door car, to afford Il means Of
escape TO passengers in case of accidents which
throw the car from the track and overtum it.
The arrangement is such that when the car
VeerS over and becomes supported only bv the
wheels Of Que side the opposite side of the car
opens promptly, thus allowing the passengers
chance to escape.
1t is said that the proDretors of the Russell
house, in Detroit, were offered five hundred dol
lars for the bedstead ON which Alexis slumbered,
and the chambermaid was brbed in almost I'M
have the sheets. She said she would cut then
up into handkerchlefS and sell them to tue bon
ton.
The St. Paul people are grumbliug at the high
rates of railroad freight on coal and four They
are more difficult TO please than our Worcester
people, for the present rates are less than cent
and a half a ion per mile while the railroad
men assure them that no railway can trans
port even the lowest classes of freight at less
than that rate without actual loss, except on
trains exclusively given TO such freights and run
at a low rate of speed.
The boys of Belaire o., and Bepwood, w.
Va, have been improving the ice-bridge over
the ONO by meeting on il daily TO fight d
pitched battle, with such missiles as they could
command, even including pistols. Last Satur-
day, about $50 on a side fought for two hours,
and one boy died, the next morning, from his
injuries.
1t is reported that the advantages of Mont
Gems tunnel are considerably lessened by the
action OF the directors on the French portion of
the road from Paris to Turin. The French com
pany reduces the speed of the trains below thar
Of mail coach, i'll order 10 lessen the profits OF
the road, according TO which the payments in
purchase OF the old Victor Emanuel line OF rail-
road are to be calculated.
is related that before the beginning of the
war, number Ut southern politicians called
one day on the editor of the New York Herald
which always had fair southern constituency
to induce him to espouse in his journal their
side Of the controversy. They went so far as to
threaten, in case he did not do it, the entire
withdrawal of southern patronage from his
paper, with au air as if they should thereby
ruin it. Gentlemen" said Mr.. Bennett, "the
ehambermaids of this city pay the Herald
more money than the whole SOUTH"
The Union Paci6c railroad has made a strike
in Colorado, in getting away from the Kansas
Pacific control, the Denver Pacific road, winch
connects Cheyenne with Denver. and so coming
into fine bparf of iplpro1p a
of the Kansas Pacific for all the business of the
territory. The result of this change will be to
reduce prices Of freight and travel to the terri
tory, and put stop TO the proposed new cutoff
line from Pine Bluff on the Union Pacific TO
| Denver.
A traveller was once making pedestrian tour
| Of the Alps, when suddenly, in narrow path,
| he came face to face with a large brown bear
| He drew revolver and was about to fire. when,
| to his amazement, the bear cried out, "Don't
| fre!" 1t turned out that the pretended bear
| was man employed by some guides, who sent
| him out dressed in bear skin when they had
| tmd traveller TO escort. AT precOnceried spot
| the bear would rush upon them; and when put
| to flight by the eXertonS Of the guides the rag-
clcr never failed to reward THEN courage and de-
| votion by handsome present, of which the
| bear received liberal share.
Gail II milton IN her cut-and-thrust style has
| this to say about inhospitable churches
| One soul is worth as much as another soul.
| would not have peW-owner's salvation risked
| by the loss of his seat any more than, nor in
deed, as much as the soul of the stranger But
| if the souls of all are to be saved by grace and
| If public worship Is so important Il means of
grace as we assert, then, if we cannot go ont
into the highways and hedges, and compel them
to come in, we can at least treat them, after
they are in, as if we are glad they had come. If
we are not glad they have come, let us frankly
confess that churcli-gOing is a matter of social
etiquette, and not Il means of grace.
The Allgemene Zeitung gives some interest
ing particulars as to the dispersion OF the Jews
over the world. They are now most numerous
in the northern part of Africa and in that strip
Of Europe extending from the Lower Danube to
the Baltic. In the latter region there are about
100000 Jews, most of whom are Of the middle
class among the Siayonic nationalities, while in
the whole OF Western Europe there are not 10O,-
900 Of them In consequence OF European mi
grdtlons, descendants OF these Jews have settled
in America and Australia, where they are al
ready multiplying in the large commercial
towns in the same manner as in Europe.
The New York correspondent OF the Boston
journal tells the following story: A well known
| doctor of divinity was riding the other day in
a street car in company with friend. He is
| positive man and resents an insult quite We
| hemently. Earnestly engaged in conversation
| he handed the conductor ticket as he came to
| collect the fare. The conductor did not move
on. As he remained studying the Ticket the
| doctors attention was attracted toward the Of
| fetal, who seemed to be highly interested in the
| car ticket. He read it, smiled, shook his head
| and finally said to the doctor: This may be ali
very we'll, but the ticket is not good on this line /"
"What's the reason its not good, | should like
| to knowP said the testy doctor "lL's one of
YOUR own tickets; bought it this morning." Il
| guess not, said the conductor. The alteration
drew the attention of the passengers. "Ths is
very good advice, but it will not pass you over
| this hne;" and the conductor read: ''Tbou
shalt not take the name OF the Lord thy God in
vain." An explosion followed, amid which the
doctor paid his fare and left the car. He has
concluded to keep his religious cards in one
pocket and his car tickets in another.