Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-20
miscellaneous I,ems.

1t must be cheerful to be an editor of Polish
newspaper. We are told that Mr. Marka, editor
OF the Polish Catholic, has more than 100 libel
and press cases 10 meet.
St. Louis has Grand Central hotel on the
European plan, where 5000 persons feed daily
at an average cost of twenty-five cents meal.
Among the objects of interest recently depOs-
tied in the museum of natural history in Cen
trail park, are the fossil remains of man found
in 1874 near Charleston, S. C.-the first ever dis
covered.
Walnut stumps have now become an article of
merchandise, .and many of them are very valu-
able. The curly grain Of the roots is used for
Yeneering, and some stumps are worth $3.50,
after being properly worked into shape.
No doubt exists in the minds of experienced
turfmen that Longiellow is completely broken
down, and will never appear in public again.
Uncle Harper is completely overcome, and
walks about with sOrrowful looks, and shed
tears Tuesday night.
1t is now said the leyee system of the lower
Mississippi is failure; that the embankments
tend only to raise the bottom of the river, and
that the government might 90 on building them
eternally to a constantly rising river until the
highest natural bluffs became low lands.
Mr.. Forsyth, the tender hearted commissioner
who sentenced kOoka rebels in India to be
blown from the canuon's mouth without a
qualm, and was removed by the government
therefor, completely broke down in tears in re-
plying to a toast at banquet given in his honor
at Umballa.
One of our NEST scientific gentlemen agricu-
turiss, says the Wilmington (Del.) Republican,
recently visited Florida. He there was offered
tract of land for $50. He purchased it. 1t was
woodland. He grated orange trees upon the
growing wood, and it will now, it is alleged, yield
him $1,000 year from his crop of oranges.
good investment.
In Iowa women hold office as notares public,
four are county superiutendents of public schools
and one is state librarian Though not allowed
to vote, the Iowa women can be voted for, and be
legally competitors with the other sex for any
elective office. This is a step in advance of
Illinois, where women can hold appontive but
not elective offices.
The owner of the trOtting mares, Goldsmith
Maid" and Lucy, has had constructed palace
car for their transportation to California. 1t
contains four stalls tbickly padded with straw,
and covered with enamel cloth; water-tanks
capable OF holding 100 gallons of water; marble
wash-bows and closets for the use of attendants
and is altogether such an Establishments won Id
delight the heart OF Bergh.
Among the inventions shown in the interna-
toual exhibition in London is an ordinary sew
ing machine from France, the peculiarly of
which is that it is driven by a clockwork ar
rangement, which is wound up in the usual
way Fixed on the apparatus, which is in-
closed in case beneath the machine itself, is
set of vanes which can be adjusted at any angle,
so that the machine is regulated by the greater
or lesser resistance which they offer to the air.
They form, in fact, the governor of the ma
chine They are represented to be expensive.
At the first battle of Manassas Vrginian
named Crockett GraysOn was shot in the head,
the bullet entering the temple, passing through
the inner ear, and lodging in the bone back of
the ear, where it remained until recently when
a physician extracted it. Upon boring into the
bone with tre6ne the bali was found so firmly
imbedded that it had TO be clipped out with
chisel. The lead removed weighed half an
ounce. Mr.. GraySon went through the opera
ton without taking chlorolorm, exhibiting great
GOODNESS and iOrtitude. Once during the opera
ton he called halt, and after eecting mouth
full of tobacco juice, coolly laid his head on the
table, and informed the doctor that he could
now go ahead" He was doing well at last ac-
counts"
The Paducah News tells this story, for the
truth of which it vouches: ga professional gen
tleman well known in this city had not seen his
son for long period oftime, owing to the fact
that the latter retired to bed ere the former re-
turned home, and in the morning the father
always left before the son got out of bed. One
morning the lady OF the house managed 10 get
the father and son together at the breakfast
table, and BY way of joke remarked: Son, let
me introduce you to your father How do
YOU do, fatherY said the hopeful; Il don't re-
member ever having met you before, but have
heard ma speak of you.'
An underground river has been discovered
near Altoona, Illinois, BY man who had sunk
a well to the depth Of sixteen feet, when the
bottom suddenly fell out, precipitating him
into the water below, whose strong current
would have carried him away had he not
grasped the windlaSS rope. So deep and swift
was the current that fence boards thrown down
the well would instantly disappear. The same
experience was repeated in two other wells, one
quarter mile distant, the water in each rum
ming in the same direction with apparently the
same velocity.
wholesale liquor firm in Paterson, n. j.,
were surprised the other morning at the alb
sence OF revenue stamp just affixed to a barrel
of whisky by the assistant assessor, and as they
could not sell the liquor without the stamp and
the stamp could not be duplicated, they were in
an awkward fix. Suddenly they remembered
that Dutchman bad been seen sitting on the
barrel Immediately after the stamp was pasted
on, and on finding that gentleman and looking
under the tail Of his coat the mystery was
solved. After some trouble the stamp was
transferred from the innocent German to the
barrel, and the excitement subsidized