Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-06
REisceILaneous Iren,s.

| A pair of horses that has for some time been
| the pride of Jackson, Mich, has been purchased
| for the use of the emperor of Japan. Horse men
| considered them the finest pair of horses in the
west.
A cheerful giger put the following note in a
pair of pantalOons sent to the Michigan sufferers:
There, take 'em; last pair Eve got; don't get
burned ont again"
One of the best temperance sermons ever de-
livered is this Sentence eff il is small sacri-
tice for you to give up drinking wine, do it for
the sake oil others; il it is great sacrifice, do it
for your own sake"
Aside from its grotesqueness, there is some
thing like pathos in the realistic answer of the
ragged boy whom DR.. Guthrie met in the street.
and asked: when your father and mother for
sake you who will take you upP "The police"
said the boy
Madame Fua, an Italian lady of well known
revolutionary sentiments, has been appointed TO
the proesSorship of bellies lettres in the uniyer-
slty of Rome. She has also been appointed
chief inspector of converts and all other schools
for females.
John Halme of Philadelphia, who received in
trust, nineteen years ago, $1,000 belonging to
nephew and neice, filed his account in court last
week, showing that he has not only supported
and educated his wards out OF the fund.- but is
ready to pay over the handsome sum of S72, Dol
He uiade no charge for his services.
vi 526 steamboat accidents on the United
States waters during the last four years, 151
N''NfNN
lisions, ~ by wreck and 100 by sinking The
total number of lives known to have been lost
was l455, and the property destroyed was val
ued at S1S, 3T3,S50.
Forty years ago a blooming young girl of
sixteen married an old man of sixty for his
money, expecting that he would soon die and
leave her wealthy young widow. Last week
the lady died at the respectable age of ffty-sX,
leaving a husband aged one hundred, and four
children to mourn her loss.
TIa~o a,.n f1,,y p
living IN Indiana. The venerable patriarch of
the family, John lngle, ST., resides at Ingle's
Station a few miles from Evansville His ace
is between eighty and ninety. His son John In
gle, jr., is president of the Evansville aud Craw-
IordsYllle railroad, who has a son named John
lnge, and that son has a little son named John
lngle. Thus the name is likely to be preserved
chess tournament is soon to be held in
LeipSc, Germany, which will be attended by
several of the greatest living players. Rlmor
assigns the chief contest to Prof. Andersen and
Mr.. Louis Paulsen, formerly of DUBUQUE, La.
The question of who is now the chief player of
Europe is no nearer settled than to say that the
honor belongs either to Andersen, Kolisch
PaulSen, Steinitz, or Zukertorf, all of whom are
Germans or Poles.
While the members of the Indiana republican
convention were assembled at the Bates house.
in indianapolis, visitor remarked to the bar
keeper that he must be making good thing
out OF the convention, to which the barkeeper
replied, cursing The republicans that his re-
ceipts had been only S2j, adding that if it had
been a democratic convention he would have
taken in $780,
visitor to the supreme court of the United
States says: Facing the door as you enter, on a
raised platform, in silken robes, sit the nine
judgeS-supposed TO be the most digniied tr-
bunal in Amerca-and | have no doubt it is
notwithstanding have seen one of the judges
eat an apple with great gusto while seated on
the bench, and another partake of molasses
candy, and after the repast lick every one of his
ten fingers with great satisfaction.
AT the late banquet given in New York to
Gen Sickles by the officers of his old corps, one
of the most striking scenes of the evening was
the speech of Gen. Owen of the second corps,
who said that he, as well as many others, had
criticised and condemned the advanced position
taken by Gen. Sickles and the third corps at
Gettysburg, but that on revisting and eXamn-
ing the battlefield since the war, he had been
convinced that the attitude Of the third corps,
assumed in defiance Of the ordinary rules, was
the only one which could have saved the day.
Gen. De Peyster followed in a graphic and tell
ing speech, stating that he was of the same
opinion.