Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-25
miscellaneous Lions

Two enormous pieces of granite have lately
been gotten out near Manchester, Va, which
measure 25 feet square by six feet thick, and
weigh over 100 tons apiece.
The eXiled triaTs from Guatemala, who arrived
some time AGO in San Francisco are going TO a
convent in Milwaukee.
An American bark has Just cleared at PictOu
for Singapore with the first cargo of Nova SEQ
tia coal ever shipped TO the East Indies.
A Chicago lawyer has just recovered the loss
of his library under the decision of one of the
courts, to the effect that it is an imperative duty
for insurance companies to give notice of the
expiration of policies.
The following advertisement appears in Il
Canadian paper: "Wil the gentleman who stole
my melons last Saturday night be generous
enough to return me few of the seeds, as they
are choice variety"
A rash carpet-bagger addressing a colored
audience in South Carolina, the other day. re-
marked: "My friends and fellow citizens, my
skin is white, but my heart is as black as this
audience"
A New York paper says that the streets are
now in much cleaner condition than a few
weeks ago, and by holding a handkerchief TO
ones nose it is possible to pass through several
of the principal thoroughlares
A singular accident occurred on an emigrant
train, at Palmyra, n. Y, last week. A young
woman was sitting in seat to which the bell
cord of the train was tied, and when the train
started, the sudden tension tore away portion
VI lub seat WHICH SlIuCk utI Ou tilG H6dl, III
t1icting probably fatal injuries
One of the Mesdames Brigham Young has
been paying a visit to Chicago and they say
that the competitive attention shown her by
divorce lawyers who were anxious to get the
business of the family was something quite
overwhelming.
London has salared inspectors of gas, whose
duty it is, on request of a consumer, to test the
quality of gas supplied, the standard being
that it must possess an illuminating power not
less than that of sixteen spermacet candles. If
it is to fall below this tandard, fine OF 800 is
to be Immediately levied upon the company,
without power of appeal on their part. The
prices paid for gas varies in different parts of
England from seyenty-two cents to S1.0S per
1000 feet.
Herbert Spencer is thus photographed by a
gentleman who recently interviewed him: His
chin is as clean shayen as that of a Yorkshire
squire. He has thin whiskers, a bald head, and
a certain dandyism of perfect neatness in all
eXternals, as though he was a man who had
nothing to do but keep himself clean. His brow
is not very striking, and his features wear the air
Of digniied repose.
The French attache mlitaire at Berlin, COM
ing home from the man9uYreS the other day,
threw his burning cigar into one of the spitoons,
when terrific explosion took place, knocking
the colonel down and severely burning his face
1t appears that the servant, finding a bag of
powder in the apartments, mistook it for black
sand and filed all the crachoirs with it, so de-
lighted was she with the gloss of the mischiev-
GUS granules.
Paris has just lost another of her curiosities
by the death Of "Old Father Martin" the blind
beggar, who tor the last thirty years formed
daily prominent object upon the bridges and
boulevards of the city. There he stood with
sharp little knife in one hand and a small piece
of wood in the other, whiting away to the
amusement and establishment of Il group of
gazers. He did not verbally solicit aims but
had by his side wooden placard carved and
mounted by himself, on which he had engraved,
MARTIN, blind since birth, reads with his fin
gers, and writes with his knife Have pity upon
him." The work on which he was constantly
engaged was carving the letters of the alphabet
out Of wood, sometimes in ornamental Gothic,
sometimes in English, done with the utmost
delicacy, and often decorated by rich Towering
and arabesque ornamentation. Many were the
specimens bought of him, and the philanthropic
sous poured into his hat during he day. What
made his work the more remarkable was that
the old man had never seen letter or anything
else in all his life. He died at the age of sixty
seven years, leaving all his sayings-about 5000
to the janitress Of the house in which he had
lived for many years, and who had treated him
with great kindness.