Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-12
nI,sceIInncousHie,ns.

A minister at Niles, Michigan, with an eye to
the unique, had himself photographed in his
pulpit the other day, having previously decor
ated it with proiusion of flowers and sumptu-
Gus furniture.
gentleman inquired of a carpenters boy,
"My lad, when will this job you have ON hand
be donep 81 can't tell, sir" replied the honest
boy, artIessIy. "Its days job, and it will de
pend upon how soon the boss has another or
der"
Among the vessels wrecked during the recent
terrible hurricane at Zanzibar, was one having
straugesounding Turkish name, which proves
to have been the same vessel that, under the
name of the Shenandoah, plundered aud burned
so many of our peaceful merchantmen during
the war.
In 1850 Mrs Franklin Bennett lowered a pail
of butter into her well at Union City, Michigan,
and the string breaking, it remained there until
the well was cleaned out last week. when 1t
came out fresh and sweet, twenty-five years
old
hen in Baltimore has succeeded in laying an
egg marked G. Greeley being an agriculturiSt,
he claims this as an indsputable sign that all
the hens in the country want him for president.
But rs Grant also begins with G, clearer inti
nation of the views of the hens must be had
before the philosophers sanguine claims can be
conceded.
AT the request of the English board of trade, a
London actuary has been figuring out the
amount Of direct damages which ought to be
Washington. Against the depredations of
eleven cruisers the sum claimed by the United
States amounts 10 s17,163,91O, but the British
accountant has cut it down to sS,039,6S5. he
assumes that the greater part of further claim
of S7,0S0, AIS, on account of the pursuit OF GER
tain confederate cruisers, is almost entirely in
admissible.
Mount Vesuvius, it is said, has been so much
distorted from the internal commissions from
which il has lately suffered, that it would hard
IL IL
Its familiar outlines have been changed, and
new g0rgeS, precipices and protuberanceS appear
all over its surface.
THE IDEA OF THE SPINNING-JENNY.-Sud
denly he-James argreaves-dropped upon his
knees, and rolled on the stone floor at full
length. He lay with his face toward the floor,
and made lines and circles with the end of q
burnt stick. He rose and went to the fire to
burn his stick. Then he sat upon chair and
placed his head between his hands, elbows on
his knees, and gazed intently on the floor. Then
he sprang to his feet, and replied to some feeble
question of his wife, who had not risen since
the day she gave birth to a little stranger, by
loud assurance that he had it; and taking her in
his sturdy arms in the blankets, the baby in her
arms, he lifted her out and held her over the
black drawings on the floor. These he ex-
planned, and she Joined a small, hopeful, happy
laugh with his heightened assurance that she
should never again toll at the spinning-wheel-
that he should never again "play," and have
his loom standing for want of welt.
"0ur fortune is made when that is made, he
said, speaking of his drawings on the floor.
"What will you call il" asked his WIFE
"Call it? What an we call it after thysen,
Jenny? They called thee Spinning Jenny afore
| had thee, because thou beat every lass in
Stanehill moor at the wheel. What if we call it
Spinning Jenny?'"
The spinning-ienny could spin twelve threads,
instead Of one as by hand-spinning
The populace broke the machine to pieces,
and poor Hargreave's heart at the same time
Richard Arkwright, a common barber, caught
the idea of HargreayeS, improved upon it, real
lied fortune of half million sterling, and be-
came Sir Richard Arkwright, whose son, in
1913, died the richest commoner in England.
Several house lots on Oak avenue are offered for
sale by Mr.. BuTough. See advertisement.
Among the finest products of the looms of India |