Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-29

The average OF is Ado pcfsous Weighed at the
Cincinnati exposition was only 1870 pounds:
A woman in Rutherfordton, N. c.; has been
fined Tor the heipous offence scaling the city
marshal "Uld Pewter Billions"
The equipage "a mode on the continent idSt
now consists of four or six milk white donkeys;
exactly matched in size, which are so scarce as
to lie almost worth their weight iu gold:' The
fashion was Started ty tile eS Empress bugenie,
who received her equipage from the iiCStuJ ci
Egypt not long before the war drove her from
France.
II is said that over 100 students are nov en-
plCyed at fedO, in cndfyinG aid simplifying tile
Japanese Characters with view of adapting
them to the representation Of sounds used in
foreign languages. A scheme TO supply the
japanese with a phonetic albhaheti capable Of
| representing every one of the 90 European con.
sonant and vowel sounds, as well as their native
sounds, will shortly be submitted.
Poor old Briggs labdred uiidef two grslt nat-
ura defects, the one being his inability to pros
nounce the letter V, and the other "pecuniary
| retentiycntsS, vulgarly known rs parsimony,
What queer pronunciation your uncle has,
observed some one 10 nephew Of his. '"Ah,
yes, replied the gracious youth. ut Is iuipgs-
sibe TO get V out of him."
r A boy about ten years old, named fait en-
tered the Detroit central police station with
anxious countenance, and to the interrogations
| of the sergeant he repiedi ooh, it's the old
| folks again, pounding and mauling each other
| and smashing up the dishes, Pye talked to 'em
| aud reasoned with EN-, but they keep right on.
| us getting dreary up there, and guess YOU
| letter bring EN- both in and give 'em three
| months each.'
Some of our readers who have lived fifty years
| may be glad to know what they have accom-
| plished in that time. According to a French
statistician the average man has at that age
slept 5000 days, worked 1880 days, walked
500 days, amused himself 900 days, spent 200
| in eating, and been sick 500 days. He has eaten
| II 900 pounds of bread, 5000 pounds of meat,
| 1900 pounds of vegetables, fish, ETC., and drank
| 1900 gallons Of liquids. There are is $50 days
in half a century, and from the above statement
| it would seem that a man slept just one-third
| of the time.
A Paris writer is authority for the following
| illustration of the rapidity with which Dumas
| the elder worked. The writer says that it was
at his country villa, Monte Cristo, that Alex.
| Dumas wrote the majority of his later novels,
| and one Of the best was composed under rather
| curious circumstances, He was asked one day
at dinner how much time he would require TO
| write novel of four hundred pages. Seventy
| two hours, answered Dumas. A wager was inn
| mediately proposed and accepted, viz: that at
| the end of seventy two hours he would not
have completed novel. Dumas called for pen
and papcr-iour hundred pages ere numbered
| out for him, and he began at the dinner table
| With the exception of a few hours repose he
wrote necessarily, and before the time had ex
| pred one OF his most interesting novels, "The
| ChevalieS - Mason Rouge" had received its
| finishing touch"
A curious theory relating to the history OF
ancient Israel is preached by Mr.. j. II. Barnett,
Hebrew scholar, who, writing TO the Jewish
| Chronicle, of London, contends that the prophet
| jeremiah migrated to Ireland with the remnant
| of the tribe of Judah, and that he was no other
than the celebrated Irish reformer and law giyeI
| Ollam Fola. Mr. Barnett also advances the idea
| That the prophet brought with him the Liza Fail
or stone of destiny, which was subsequently
conveyed by an Irish prince to Scotland for
| coronation purposes, whence it was centuries
| aftcrward removed to Westminster Abbey by
Edward Ill, since which time all the kings and
| queens OF England, down TO Victoria, have been
crowned upon it, Mr.. Barnett says that this
stone was originally kept in the sanctuary of the
| first temple Of Jerusalem, and was known as
Jacobs stone" and that it was the stone to
| which King David referred as "the stone which
| the builders rejected, but which was destined
| for peculiar hon0rs.