Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-17
miscellaneous Etcns.

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miscellaneous Items.
/ Poetry and poverty are no longer inseparable
/ companions: BRYANT, Lougiellow, Holmes, SAKE
/ ana Lowell are all rich men.
! Senator Wilson's temperance principles are
outraeed by the sign in front OF Broadway
I hassroom; Try our Natick Cobblers.
Houses for working women, which are now
] opened in all the large cities of Germany, are
/ called in thai country New York houses.
4 western exchange says MiShawaka girls
| take comfort in the fact that Naomi, daughter
! OF Enoch, "waS $50 years old when she mar
| ricd."
4 brute named Besancon, of LasalIeyiIle, find,
ordered of u blacksmith, few days ago, an
iron collar and chain, with which TO restrict
the liberty OF a six-year old boy.
The Rutherford IN. C.l Vmdicator says a re-
markahle stone, in the shape of perfectly
cut balloon, a ear attached, containing a man
with a signal flag, was recently found in that
county.
prince John" Van Buren, visited England
during his fathers presidential term, and danced
with the same queen who now, after a lapse of
thirty-twO years, entertainS the child of another
president
The term commonly used by us in calling a
dog has induced the Japanese to think that
come here" is the English name for those ami
mails.
An Alabama paper notes Il cheering indica-
ton of the progress of culture in the follow
ing words: A party of sensible Greenvie
gentlemen have signed pledge not to use to-
bacco in any shape or manner during church
service.
An enterprising Englishman has purchased an
extensive wooded farm in the neighborhood
of Lynchburg, Va, and is actively engaged
in cutting down oak and manufacturing slaves,
which he intends to ship direct from Norfolk
to the Bristol channel on brewery account.
A poor little Sunday-school scholar in WiScon-
sin was deluded into learning $3.50 verses in the
bible in four weeks by the promise of a book.
They gave him "HitchcOck'S analysis of the
Bible" He snapped it for a three bladed knife
and peck Of hickory nuts
A freehold plot OF land in the bankers quar-
ter of the old city of London-Lombard
street-contaning an area of 1880 square feet
with some modern banking premises attached,
was recently sold for the sum of $50 900 $780,
600 gold.l This averages, exclusive of the bank
premises, over G32 (S16O gold per square foot.
The latest novelty in divorce jurisprudence
comes from London, where woman met the
petition of her lord with the plea that she had
been led into evil solely through tho plots of
| an agent employed by her husband to watch her
movements Her defense met the approval of
! Lord Penzance, who decided that the husband
was responsible for tue acts Of his agents.
man one hundred years old went to have a
pair of shoes made. The shopkeeper suggested
that he might not live to wear them out, when
the old man retorted that he commenced this one
nuHuTeu years great zeal stfOnS er tnan ne ulu
the last one.
Clerical gentleman (who objects to smoke,
and means 10 make an example INLAY l in
quire your name, STRIP COMMERCIAL
be sure you may. I'm Davis from Bradford, in
the stuff trade. What line might yours 2"
Clerical gentleman with irony The spiritual,
Sir" Commercial (nOt noticing the irony Ills
it, though? What an awful price you've got
gin up to, the last fOrtnightP The clerical
gentleman discovered he had a friend in another
car.
The New York Evening Post says: Mr.. Geo.
W. Blunt has caused to be photographed the
dirt heap which the police commissioners and
the board OF health allowed 10 accumulate at
the west end OF Washington market, on North
river, il was the growth OF fifteen years, and
was almost as formidable in proportions as
Monte TeStacio in Rome. A few days ago, MIR.
| Blunt tells us the authorities began to remove
the pie, but this photograph preserves its form
| and shape as monument to corruption.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the re-
sultS OF aeeeting persons for the East India SER
| wee ny competitive examination. The civil
| servants are not nearly so good as under the old
| system. The examination is test OF any
| general capacity, but only of a capacity to mass
| the examination under q process Of "cram-
ming, Only the rich can afford to enter for it,
ana the poor boys, with brains only, are pract
cally excluded. There are certain professional
gentlemen who, for good pay, take bows and
Cram" them, and guarantee their passage of
the test questions. Competition, in short in
stead OF opening up chances to rise in life year
| ly makes it more dlftcult for any but the rich
to attempt the public service.
According to the English Western Daily
Mercury, considerable light has lately been
thrown upon the damnatoTy clauses in the
Aihahasian creed by discovery recently made
in Venice. There has been discovered in ~
Marks library in that city copy Of this creed
wnicn Is believed 70 le the oldest in existence,
ana me daIAnaIoTy clauses are nowhere to be
discovered in this version. A correspondent of
one Of the leading English HonoonioTmist Jour
Eals says he believes the creed to have been
written by an Arian who, being imprisoned for
MS opinions, produced it as a satire on Tripi-
tartan doctrine, and owed his liberty to the cir
Gunistanpe, since the authorities took the sauib
for recantation, and released him accordingly.
SAmong the most remarkable inventions in
photography is that claimed by one johnson an
Engllshman, who is said to be a man of extra.
ordinary mecAanical genius II is panoramic
camera, Whlch, ny ingenious mechanism, sweeps
the whole landscape and takes it on a plain sur
face, embracing on one negative one third of A
circle, Inc eXacttnaG u its operation is as
| singular as the beauty of its results The pan
toscope begins at one end OF the view desired.
ana goes round the horizon as one sweeps the
telescope, the plate moving with a correspond.
ing motion through the arc, which might be A
circle If it were desirable The scenery of this
country, with its wide extended views of lake.
aud prairie, and mountain, would De admirably
represented by thS instrument,
DIR. Louis A. Sayre, the wen known surgeon of
New York, and professor in Bellevue medical
college, has been created by TIL king of Sweden
"knight Of tho royal order OF Wasa." The
patent sent from Stockholm says that the honor
is conferred in recognition of meritorious AZ.
iainments, and as mark of royal grace and es-
teem." The insignia VI the order, elegantly
wrought 10 gold with settings, accompanied the
letters patent, When DR., Sayre was in Sweden
last year, the king invited him to take up his
residence in the palace during his stay, and
while there he performed, at the request of the
King and the surgeons of the royal household
an operation on the kings nephew, which
proved successful, Dr. Sayre is believed to he
the only American entitled TO wear the Insignia
Of knighthood Of the order ofWasa,