Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-01
miscellaneous HENS


| A married couple named Newell lately cele-
brated the sixty-sixth anniversary of their mar
| riaee and on that occasion saw their twelve
| children together for the first time.
| We have another melancholy proof of the
| growth of sickly sentiment in the popular mind.
A proprietor of barrel organs, who lets them on
hire to the grinders" states that organs play
ing lively tunes do not pay so well as formerly
In sending orders to Europe, he now demands
barrels packed with tunes IN the minor keys
only.
The cranberry marshes of Wauchora county,
Wis, which, five years ago, could be bought for
merely nominal price, are now valued in some
instances as high as SIS per acre. 1t costs from
SO to $40 an acre to bring the land into bear
ing condition, and then, by judcious cultiva-
ton, each acre can be made to yield from $50 TO
800 bushels, the market rates being about $3.50
per bushel.
''Never put anything on paper if you can
avoid il" is very old and excellent piece of
advice, and it is gratifying to find that such
distinguished diplomatist as Prince GortScha-
koff adds the weight OF his experience to its
value. According to the Berlin National Ga
zette the Russian prince has expressed to an
Industrious parsonage" his profound satislac-
ton that the recent interviewsiof the emperorS
and their ministers resulted in no written docu-
ment.
Some one recently wrote a letter to the Lon
don Times begging for aid for the widow of Sir
John franklin, who said the writer, was about
to be turned out of the house lent her by the
crown to starve and die. Whereupon Lady
Franklin replies that she is in possession of an
income for life secured upon entailed property
amply sufficient for all her wants, besides her
pension as an admiral's widow, and that she
would be very much obliged if people would
only let her alone.
Clerical gentleman (who objects to smoke and
means to make an example INLAY inquire
your name, sir" Commercial Traveler-"To
be sure you may. I'm Davis, from Bradford,
in the stuff trade What line might yours be?"
Clerical gentleman with irony)-"The spiritual
sir" Commercial mot noticing the irony )-"Is
it though? What an awful price you've got
gin up to, the last tortuightP The clerical
gentleman discovered he had friend in another
car.
At Pontrew-y-nydd, in Wales, Mr. Nathaniel
RoSser recently got into an alteration with Mr..
Morgan Evans concerning the correct olthogra-
ply of Llyynuggtfwwdvaur, a WEIGH village,
Evans maintaining that the fourteenth letter
was Cd while ROsser stoutly averred that it
was 'v." They fought worldly for a long time,
each unable to convince the other of error; at
last Rosser became so greatly eXasperated by
his opponents obstinacy and stupidity that he
procured some hot lime and rubbed it into Mr.
Evans eyes, for which unfair mode of ar
gumentation he now lies in jail awaiting the
issue of his applying lime to a mans ewes for
spelling Llyynnggfwwdvaur Llyynnggffwwd-
daur.
The postmaster general of England in his an
nual report, quotes, among Others the following
complimentary letter from an American gentle
man, which goes far to prove the perfection to
which the postal system has been brought in
England: Having recently arrived in England
and not knowing the present whereabouts of
sister, addressed letter to her late residence
thus Upper Norwood, or elsewhere l le-
ceived reply, in ordinary course of mail, say
ing it had been delivered to her on the top of
stage coach in Wales. l venture to say no other
country can show the parallel, or would take
the trouble at any price"
A Jersey paper tells a very interesting story
| of little boy in that state. He was climbing
an apple tree, and when upon the topmost limb
he slipped and fell to the ground. He was
picked up and carried to the house in an nsens
Bile condition. After watching by his bedside
through many weary hours his mother per-
ceived signs OF returning consciousness. Lean
ing over him she asked if there was ANYTHING
she could do for him, now that he began TO feel
better? Should she bath his forehead, or change
his pillow, or fan him? Was there anything he
wanted2 Opening his eyes languidly. and look
ing at her, the little sufferer said eyes, / want
a pair Of pants with pocket behind" He got
| them.
The Patric, French newspaper, processes to be
| able to guarantee the perfect authenticity
| of the announcement (Which it makesJ that the
| government of Prussia has inalyresolyed upon
| the construction of a monster canal to connect
| the Baltic with the North sea. The cost of it
| will doubtless, it says, he betrayed out of the
| French indemnity, A preliminary estimate and
plans are already in existence, and, in order to
| study the matter with sufficient mnutenesS be-
fore beginning operations, commission of
engineers and superior officers has been appoint
ed to proceed to the spot, and they are expected
/ IN hlel about the 10th inst. According to the
| Patrie, Russia regards the proposed canal with
| no very friendly or favorable eyes, suSpectng in
| it a means of substituting Prussian for Russian
! influence in the north of Europe