Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-04

American watches, with dials suited to the
Arabic division Of the hours of the day. are ex-
ported to Syria.
The head cook at one of the Saratoga hotels
gets $500 for four months. Under him are
thirty Frenchmen as assistants or cooks in the
meat and game department, and twenty five
women as vegetable cooks.
Two of the persons killed by the boiler explo-
sion at Youngstown, O., last week, were in a
house quarter of mile from the scene of the
explosion. piece of the boiler fifteen feet
long, having been carried that distance pene-
trated the walls and killed a mother and child
in bed.
Hitherto the husk of rice, known as rice chaff.
has been considered refuse in the south. IL
has lately, however, been discovered TO be quite
valuable in protecting glassware and other deli
cate articles when packed for shipment, and a
large demand has sprung up for it,
What dogs are these, Jasperw inquired a
gentleman of lad who was dragging a couple
OF Waspish looking terriers along Princes street,
Edinburg. 81 dnna ken, sir" replied the urchin
They came with the Dumfries coach, and they
ate the direction, and, dinna ken whaur to
gang"
A huge rattesnake, which had got king
fisher by the leg, was discovered in Indiana the
other day, while large number of other birds
OF all kinds had assembled in answer to the cry
o. the captive, and were attacking the snake
from all quarters, to prevent him from swallow
ing the bird.
In 1861 Il man named Westbrook was in Jail
at Pamela, Miss, awaiting his trial for murder,
when the Union forces entered the place and lib
Grated him, with other prisoners Within a few
weeks he has been rearrested in Arkansas for the
same offense, and he is now in his old quarters
awaiting trial for the murder committed by him
eleven years ago.
The Lexington (Kentucky) Observer and Re-
Hector tells this: "a queer incident happened
IN the court house the other day. One of the
little English sparrows was heard making a
great noise in tree, and on investigation it was
found that he was caught in the web of a huge
spider, who was attacking him. while the birds
mate was flying around trying to beat back the
insect. The bird was released"
Inc following words are attributed to NJ.
THEIRS in his conversation with the commission
ers of propagation: ri desired to introduce in
France the English constitution. This is no
longer to be thought of. We have been forced
United States and what we have best to do is
to remain and arrange ourselves there" An
other anecdote gives M. Theirs remark more
tersely: "We were in England, we are now in
America-in the new world; and as we are we'll
Off there, let us stop there"
An item, to the effect that Manton Marble,
editor of the World, is hopeless invalid, has
been going the rounds of the press for some
time. Saturdays World rectifies the erroneous
impression which 1t conveys by stating that he
is now in the White mountains rapidly conval-
escing, and expects to return shortly with re.
established health and Yigor, and resume his
ordinary duties upon that paper.
There is Story of an unfortunate lecturer
who once found himself compelled, in a provin.
clal town, to address an audience composed of
single individual. The lecturer, thus sorely
tried, did his manifest best to entertain his one
listener. But before he had got half way
through his discourse, the listener abruptly in.
terruoted him, and told him he considered him
failure as lecturer. Thereupon, the latter,
reused to certain mild resentment, put it to
the conscience of his critic whether, even sup
posing the discourse to be failure as a lecture,
an assemblage of one must not be considered a
still greater failure as an audience.
The stability and continuity of the judicial
system of Great Britain has recently been strik-
lngly illustrated by an application in the Eng
gltsh court of chancery, to enforce decree made
by Lord Chancellor Hyde, on November 22d,
1862. The decree was made in a suit brought
by Sir George Saville, afterwards known as the
Marquis OF Halifax, who is so eXtravagantly
praised by Macaulay in his history, as a con.
summate politician and "prince of trimmers"
The suit had reference to the right to work
mines and pits of coal and iron stone in the
manner of Rockerdyne, in the county of Salop.
The original decree and injunction are drawn
up in antquated language, but when trans
lated into modern spelling read almost the same
as the DEGREES now ordered by the courts of
chahcery.
Some idea Of the rapidity with which the wine
interest of California has grown may be gath
cred from a knowledge of the fact that there is a
single vineyard in Souoma county which has
500 acres of bearing vines. 1t belongs to the
Buena Vista vineculturist society, and produces
both white and red wines. Its yield last year
amounted to 100000 gallons, and this year it is
much larger. The same company own a tract
of 5000 acres, upon which they grow the willows
from which the champagne baskets are made,
the wood from which casks are manufactured,
and the straw for packing. They also have on
the premises cooper's shop, distillery, and
immense cellars for ripening the wines. From
forty to one hundred men are employed, accord
ing to the season. In the cellars there is now a
large quantity of wine, and this years vintage
will more than fill them.