Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-23
Miscellaneous Etema.

y uc1IO Was rescued awe III C0dflOtteSNllle,
Va. after lying at the bottom of well, covered
with about fifty feet of earth and stones for nine
hours. He was but slightly injured.
Prince Henry, son of the crown prince of the
German empire, has recently been apprenticed
TO Berlin bookbinder. His father learned the
trade of type-setter, and his grandfather, the
presentlEmperor, that of a glazier
1t is stated that the fee marked upon Sir
ROUNDED Palmers brief for the Geneva aTbitra-
tion Is thirty thousand guineas. His fee for pre-
pairing the English case was two Thousand
guineas.
The house of commons, in England gives en-
ployment to over one hundred shorthand news
paper reporters. Here most of the London
Journalists first commence their arduous proles.
sion.
An Auburn On. " man received letter the
other day that had been mailed to him from that
city by his wife, while he was travelling in France
about two years ago. The mssive had thus lol-
lowed him from place TO place, until the postage
amounted TO about 50.
Robert SiXbury, of the town of Leary N. Y,
has lust passed his one hundred and eighth
birthday. The Watertown Times says he has
camped out more nights in the North woods
and killed more deer, than any other man in the
state, and that to-day his sight is as clear and
ms ann as sure as any man of half his aye.
A pennsylvania barber cartiessly let drop of
his hair dye fall upon the lip Of the young man
whose muStache he was reiuvenatine The re-
suit was the lip swelled to enormous propOr-
hons, the young man went into commissions,
and Tor time his life was in great danger.
firm of ST. Louis lumber dealers is having
built at Dubuque regular Clyde-built iron
steamer for navigation of the Mississippi She
IS all iron, 145 feet long by rs wide and Al deep,
with water-tight compartments. Two other
similar steamers are under contract.
A kentucky paper gives an account of $4,000
hog pen built by fancy farmer in Scott county
1t states that it is painted and grained furnished
with hot and cold water, heated with steam and
lighted with gas. The troughs are mahogany,
inlaid with ivory
A subscription has been started for statue
OF Seth Boyden Of Newark, the inventor of
many useful machines in the leather and iron
| industries, and the maker of the first patent
leather that was ever made in this country. A
statue is also proposed in New York to the in-
| ventor of the cast iron plough
MI Lincoln's undplomatic brevity and direct
| ness are well illustrated in the following char
acterstic note, found in an old desk of the late
| General Peter Sweat. The note is dated April
| l, 1862: In looking over the west Tor an addi-
tiOnal major general, U. S. A, can think of no
man better suited for the appointment than
| yourself, and If yon will accept the appoint
ment will be most happy to send your name
to the senate, and will Immediately order YOU to
duty in General Halleck's department Please
inform me at your earliest convenience whether
you will or will not accept of commission"
In Pearl street, New York, there is mill which
cups, bread-pans wash-bowls, &c., which are
said to be superior to wood or metal The ma
per, after being puped, is pressed to shape
dried, enameed, and subjected to a heat that
would destroy some vessels Of the kind. The
material is light and easily handled and does
not rust, shrink, leak, or easily break
Two politicians of Suffolk county, n. Y, re-
| Gently got into controversy, and as no amount
| of persuasion seemed to cool the ire of one of
the parties, he challenged his opponent to fight
a duel. The latter having the right to choice of
weapons, INSISTED on rotten eggs. Ii was useless
| for the challenger to plead the ridiculous posi-.
ton in which they would be placed. His an
| tagonlst insisted. They met, limited number
of eggs were used on both sides, and they sep
arated, neither being dangerously wounded.
| The u tab Observer notes the announcement
| OF new invention in the following manner ::
| The Syracuse journal says that an eccentric
| inventor III that city claims to have discovered
a way by which water wheels can be run with
| out water. For water he substitutes small iron
balls, which run into the buckets of the wheels,
and being discharged below into receptacle
provided for the purpose, are carried up by an
elevator, propelled by the wheel, to do service
so long as the turning of the wheel is desired
Send him down on the morning train, Mr.. Jour.
naI' Inc WmtesOoro street cars run directly in
front of the asylum. Fare five cents Several
other perpetual notion inventors are up
| there
Judge Stallo of Ohio, one of the getters-up oil
the Cincinnati movement has written a letter
saying that he will not vote for Judge Davis, nc
matter by whom he is nominated He clinches
his declination by remarking that "the only rea
son l could think of for desiring TO promote
Judge Davis to the presidency would be the eX.
pedlencY of removing him from the bench .
Judge Stallo cannot support Horace Greeley, for
| reasons, he SAYS, similar to those which compel
him to repudiate the labor reform. candidate
| The Pittsburg Gazette says: owe are not
| sure, but stlllw thing, that we see signs which
| induce us to believe that the New York Tribune
| is now on the tum-table, and will before long be
| steamlng merriy along over the back track If
| TINS be not the case, what does it mean by at
| lacking Boston clergyman who spoke dispar
| agngly OF Judas? 1t says: AS for Judas,
what does the Rev. Mr.. Fulton know about him,
| except that be made a great mistake, and that
he most bitterly repented?'"
few days since, as an eatward hound train
on the Rondout and OswegO IN, " railroad
stopped at Shokan, the collector of the town of
olive was on hand with posse of men and a
chain to prevent the train from proceeding any
further. The chain was passed around the back
end of the rear car, but before it tould be fasten
ed to anything substantial the engineer of the
locomotive was made aware of how matters
stood, and be threw the throttle wide open and
started the train with a jump. The effect or
the collectors posse, who had hold of the loose
end OF the chain, was the same as that on the
Indians who attempted to capture train on The
Pacific road with a lariat
General Walker, acting commissioner of tbC
census bureau, was before the appropriation
committee of the house few days ago, anC
asked for an appropriation of 81 900 to remuner
ate the inventor of the tallying machine at pres
ent in that office, and by which it is said urea
deal OF talying work can be done. The commit
tee, alter hearing the generals remarks, con
cluded to refer the matter to the committee OF
patents