Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-25
Neutrality-suspicious.

Potatoes are one cigar and drink of whiskey
per 5uSl.e iu Davenport.
ASTRONOMERS, which a Philadelphia paper
places after the name Of the late Mrs. Somer-
vile, is the worst vet.
A deaf and dumb couple were recently mar.
ried in London, the officiating clergyman read
ing The service aloud for the benefit of the con.
| gregaiion, and using the deaf and dumb alpha
bet for the silently happy couple.
They are driving piles by ounpowder at Balti-
more. A small cannon is placed muZze down
ward over the pile, and ram having piston
, fitting the bore of the gun is propelled by a
small charge of powder against the pile head
The firing is done very rapidly and good results
ale obtained.
LA Belle Savage" of the Spectator, it ap
gears, was only a myth, after all, says the
Record. Messrs Cassell, Peter and Cabin, 10
raking over til If title deeds, have discovered
that the name of the inn upon which their
premises Stand was formerly The "Bell on the
HOOP or "Sdva@e's Inn" and eventually be
came contracted 10 BEL SaYage's Inn" or
shorter still, "Bell Savage"
Stokes second tial is one of the iolliest events
of the season. he other day an undertaken
was called as juror, whereupun all hIee of the
counsel for defence jumped to their feet and OBJ
ccied that the gentleman had pecuniary in
Ierest in the conviction of the prisoner At this
sally The spectators laughed, counsel laughed,
the jurors laughed, Stokes laughed, everybody
laughed except the judge, who manfully MAN.
tanned his usual gravity.
A correspondent OF the New York Tribune has
been Sitting Wendell Phillips lecture on "The
Lust AttS," and he doesn't believe the whole
| oi it. Nj. Phillips SAYS we can no longer pro-
| duce sword blades Of such marvellous keenness
that goSSamer scarf, 50 hight that it will float
| IN air, may be cleft in twain with blow of one
| them, as used TO be do with the Damascus
| blades; but this gentleman atfirms that it Is
| a common feat with some travelling iuggers To
rnSS a n 10 ai ~ Il out in
| L GLOW with swords of modern manufacture
Medical science has lately made iri9htful
discovery. One of the most eminent professors OF
| Paris has submitted TO The academy an inven.
| ion OF his own to kill animals by blowing ait
| inio their eyes. A few seconds only are REQUIRED
tor The operation, which, besides, causes little
| suffering. Experiments, it is affirmed, have
| peen made at Atort Which have succeeded per.
| iectly. One remarkable feature in this new
| method of killing is that it leaves no trace be
hind i, and is as applicable TO human beings as
10 animals.
| A recent number of the Bombay Gazette says
"rhe centre of the East African slave trade is
| neither in Africa nor Zanzibar, but in Bombay
| whence The money is furnished which carries on
the revolving traffic" II this is true, the British
| government can easily exercise the power need
| ed to crush the trade, and the special Guaifica
lions Of Sir Bartle Frere for that service will be
most useful. He is intimately acquainted will
| Indian affairs, and will doubtless exert h:mse
TO the utmost to remove this blot from the civil
lzation OF the are.
The Des MONIES Republican says of the frs
locomotive in Iowa; "The ancient and honora
Die locomotive, John A. Dix, of the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific railroad, has just CONF
| ont OF :be shops under new name, Number II
| and when you see it, boys, take off YOUR hats
| The Dix is a remarkable machine. 1t was the
first locomotive that came into the state, was
brought over on the ice in the winter of $3.50
| to take position on the track of the old NJ anC
NJ. road, Just commenced. 1t has been in al
most constant use ever since, and with the ex
| ception Of a new boiler and smoke stack, i.
about the same machine she was eighteen years
| ago, when placed in service. Nose Hobbs ran
| tue Dix eight years steady. 1t is estimated tina
the Dix has run in her time about million
miles, equal TO more than forty times round the
globe, and she seems good enough to repeat the
| same distance"