Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-18

The scenery and envirOus of Berlin are the
most hideous in the world. Its wide open
drains place it in triumpha rivalry with Co
lOgne.
Justin Mccarthy says the story of Stanleys
having received a rich Jewel as a present from
the queen is quite absurd. English sovereigns
don't do that sort Of thing.
Ruskin is suffering from qaalms of disgust
again because American ladies in Italy suck
lemons and scatter hair pins over the tomb of
POrtia.
Prof John Tyndall. who is to visit this coun-
try in October, viii remain here six months. He
will be the guest of Professor Henry, secretary
OF the Smithsonian institution, Washington. He
will lecture in all our large cities on physical
researches, though il is not unlikely that he will
find time during his stay to speak upon scienti-
ic education, to which he has given great deal
OF attention.
The India Medical Gazette reports some cases
of smallpox cured by the external application
ofcarbOc acid. The persons concerned were very
reluctant to submit to the treatment, but after
one or two cures with the acid and one or two
deaths without it the reluctance vanished, and
now the carbolic acid is reported to be in great
demand The acid was applied to the face and
hands, and next day the eruptiOnS were found
to have scabbed and dried up. The cures were
effected in a few days.
The Chinese government has given orders that
all the forms of the religion of Confucius shall
be rgidly enforced among the students recently
sent to this country, and that the four books of
the five kings, and the sacred edict of Emperor
Kanghi, shall form part Of their regular lessons.
This action has been taken because those stu
dents who preceded them became "contami-
mated, while in America with Christianity.
Messrs. Plon, the well-known publishers of the
Rue de la Garaucere, Paris, are beginning an
action against Louis Charles Napoleon Bona
parte, formerly Emperor Of the French, and now
residing in Chiselhurst, England, TO recover
533 1891 25c, for printing and delivering the
small edition of the Life tof Cesar. This case
will be tried here before the first chamber
Of the civil tribunal at the beginning of
the next term. BY delivering" the Life
of Caesar Plon means sending copies gratis
to functionares, reviewers and landlords
of country inns, who were the only persons who
could be induced to take them. The large edi-
ton cost the publisher 200,000l., for which he
laid seizure, with other creditors on the person
al effects OF the emperor and empress found in
the Charlottesville.
The women of the old town of Anjou are cele-
brated for their art in folding linen. The re-
nown is an odd one, but it has, nevertheless,
bestowed no mean celebrity on the ladies OF
Anglers. The art does not flourish now as it
used, and is, indeed nearly confined to the
grand old houSekcepers of the grand old cha
| teauX of the place. The linen presses of a mag
| niicent Gothic hospital still show, too, some
| chefs d@Ugre of the kind. The good sisters
| throw open the doors Of their immense cup
| boards with a natural feeling of pride, and
| the visitors the wonders of their deXterity. In
vast sheet, folded TOO in a trough, twenty-four
| sheep, formed of chemises, are drinking, guard
| ed by night dress IN the shape of a shepard,
and so on. Linen castles, wndmIIls, towers, and
abbesses are frequent tours de force of these dex
| ferrous linen folders
An Arkansas local soiloquizes thus: "Some
| of our exchanges are publishing as a curious
| item statement to the effect that a horse in
| Iowa pulled the plug out Of the bung-hole of
| barrel and slaked his thirst. We do not see
| anything extraordinary in the occur rence
| Now, if the horse had pulled the barrel out of
| the bung-hole and slaked his thirst with the
| plug,-or if the barrel had pulled the bung-hole
out of the plug and slaked its thirst with the
horse,-or if the plug had pulled the horse out Of
| the barrel and slaked its thirst with the bung-
| hole,-Or if the bung-hoe had pulled the thirst
out of the horse and slaked the plug with the
barrel if the barrel had pulled the horse
out of the bung-hole and plugged its thirst with
sake,-it might be worth while to make some
fuss over it,"