Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-27
miscellaneous Ilcms.

miscellaneous Items.
As safeguard against fire Chicago prohibits
| fireworks on the Fourth.
Daniel Boone's sister Hannah is living in
Caldwell county, North Carolina. She is eighty
| five years old.
The japanese government has engaged Henry
NJ. Smlth, graduate of the school of mines of
Columbia College, New York, TO open a coal
mine and erect a blast furnace in Japan.
Two Japanese men-of-war will shortly leave
Yokohama on a tour round the world They
will pay about months visit to Hong Kong,
ana then proceed TO Europe, through the Suez
canal, and return by America and Hawaii.
A small boy arose at a Sunday-school concert
and began quite glibly: "a certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell-and
fell'-Here his memory began to fail him "And
and fell by the roadside, and the thorns
sprang up and choked him."
A Kansas paper says there is now no longer
any doubt OF the existence ofgOld IN Greenwood
county in that state. Jumps have been found
at different points on the Verdigrs, the largest
OF which was valued by jeweer at S21.
so popular are American travellers in Austria,
that it is said that the primary school books in
the schools contain spelling exercises and pars-
ing exercises as follows: "The Americans are a
generous people" "The Americans are rich and
liberal" "All Americans are rich" etc.
The officers of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati
and Lafayette railroad, in consequence of some
local misunderstanding, have cut off telegraphic
communication with a town on their route
closed the station, rem )ved the agent, and or
dered that under no circumstances shall train
stop there. The town is lett out in the cold, and
will probably be glad to make any concessions
to stop that quarrel.
Minnesota wood chopper hewed down tall
tree the other day, and, upon splitting up the
trunk with an axe and wedge, found, Undecided
in the wood, at the point where the trunk
diverged into branches, a leather bride of an
tque pattern, with bit and buckles attached,
and all in Il remarkable state of preservation Ii
has been fully thirty feet from the ground, and
its presence there can only be accounted for by
the suppoSltiOn that some passing horseman
had used the crotch of a saping as a rest for his
bride, and, led from the place in pursuit of his
straying horse, had been unable to hnd ii again,
and abandoned the bride to be carried up and
entOmbed by the slow growth OF the tree. 1t is
believed that the tree must have been lfty years
in hiding its treasure.
The correspondent OF the Cleveland Leader,
writing of the first day of the jubilee, says
But one fatal accident served to mar the har.
mOny Of the opening piece, and that was entire
ly unavoidable. 1t appears a workman who
had been engaged in setting up the great organ
the day previous, had left his shoes in the great
sixteen foot pipe known as the Bourbon dou.
bic mouth Thinking he had time to get his
shoes before the performance begun, he
descended the pipe, but while inside the signal
came, the air was turned on, and like a stone
from catapult, his body was shot up through
the roof, followed by his shoes, and both were
picked up on Bunker Hill later in the day. The
trifting impeachment Of a human body in the
pipes does not affect the beautiful clear tone of
the organ in the least
Prof. Agassz found on the coast Of Patago
mia, about mile from the shore bluff and $50
feet above the sea level, salt pool, in which
were living marine animals, identical with those
now common along the shore of the ocean. This
pool, with its living contents, he regards as con-
Ylnclng evidence Of a very recent upheaval of
the coast, and Il valuable confirmation of Oar
wins assertion TO that effect, published more
than thirty years ago. Although Prof. Agassiz
says the earlier observer attributes TO il phe-
nOmena and connects with it facts which, in his
opinion, had different origin and another sig
nificance.
letter from Hermitage, No., gives an ac-
count of remarkable case of poisoning which
occurred in the town of Wheatland last Wed
hesday, resulting in the death of three men, 1t
appears that young man named Moore APP
piled to the county physician for prescription
for some medicine to cure ague, and, as he OBJ
jected to taking quinine, the doctor prescribed
compound supposed to consist of Peruvian |
bark, dogweed and whiskey. Young Moore
took dose of this and started for his home
which he was barely able to reach, and soon at |
terward died. Drs. Redfed and Barnes, who |
had been summoned by Mrs. Moore to attend |
her son, to relieve the mothers fears that the |
young man had been poisoned, each swallowed |
some OF the physic and soon afterward started |
for their homes. They had gone only short |
distance when DIR. Barnes was taken violently |
i'll, and was compelled to dismount from his /
horse. He was just able to drag himself home,
and died during the night DIR. Redheld begin /
ming to feel i'll, hurried home, aud fell inSensi-
Die at the door. He was carried inside, and died /
within fifteen minutes. 1t is not yet known
whether the physician or the druggist made
the mistake.
G. Monod n French yyriter in HE hool, an,;.lod
Germans and French" makes the following |
remarks: The regard of the Germans for women |
is the most remarkable trait of this war for it |
is national virtue and one of the sources of the
strength OF the German race. Grimes may have
been committed; but during a seven months /
experience in war, did not hear of a single one
that was vouched for by trustworthy witnesses
On the contrary, have seen women treated
with the greatest respect, exciting the astonish-
ment of the French soldiers. 1--WE would not |
have acted so" they frequently told me. The
children were the especial favorites of the Ger
mans. When there was no, food in the house.
and the mother would complain that she could |
not give the children any thing TO cat, the SOL
diers found food for the whole family. They |
played with the children, took walks with them, |
and learned French, and often the fact that there
were children in the house made friends of foes
They spoke of their own children at home,
counted "un, deur, trotr" by their fingers, say
ing tall, "cOne ca, CONNIE ca ct CONNIE ca"
showing the height with their hands. The au-
thor makes distinction between the different
army corps more from hearsay, however. Ac-
cording to him the rudest were the Mecklin-
burgers, Pomeranians Poles, Silesians, Eastern
Russians and Bavarians; the pOliteSt were the
Bradenburgers, Saxons, Hanoverians, RhenIsh-
Prussians and Scheswigers
In Colnar, IN AlSace, man has Just died as
double millionaire who owed his wealth to his
nat ABOUT the year 1926, a poor jOumeyman
turner, by the name of Muhle bareioot and his
knapSack on his back DaSsed through tb. vii
lage IN which Messrs. We'll Il B0utron had a
machine factory. He asked Mr.. We'll for work
but not being prepossessed in his favor by rea-
son OF his dilapidated appearance, Mr.. Well sent
him away. Sadly yielding to his fate the Jour
neyman went on his way All at once the pro-
prietor called him back "Stop, man; what kind
of hat have you onP at is a wooden hat.
sir" "A wooden hat2 Let me look at the
thing. Where did you buy it?" "a made it
myself, sir" "And where did you make it?V
"On the turning lathe, SIR" "On the turning
latheF But your hat is oval, aud in turning
things grow round" "That is true" the iour-
neyman said; "but nevertheless made the nat
as told you; changed the centre and turned
us thought It best. have far to travel and
need nat TO keep of the rain, and not having
money to buy me one, made me one myself"
Muhle, by instinct as it were, had discovered
the eccentric method of turning which was TO
attain such importance in modern mechanics
As an expert, Mr.. We'll saw at once the imnort
ance OF this invention He kept the man with
the wooden hat, and soon discovered not only
that he was an Intelligent workman, but that he
had an inventive genius, only needing an op-
portunity and some little education for his de-
Yelopment' soon Muhle became partner, and
afterwards, changing his name TO Moulin. pro-
prlelor, made large fortune by his skill and
business tact.
EVERY MINISTER IN WoRoEsTER.-Dr. Broad
bent Of New York respectfully invites to call Mt the