Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-15

There are p 500 rag pickers in Paris, who
gather up every night, according to statistics,
$4,000 baskets full of rags and thrown away
garments and boots
The oldest inhabitant at Duluth has been there
about eleven years, and is selling corner lots
bought at S1.15 per acre at that time, for $1,000,
and considers that pretty cheap.
An imperial order enacts that from Oct. list all
French official names and appellations in Asace
shall be replaced by their German equivalents.
Maires are hereafter to be called burgermeisters;
municipal councils, stradthrathe; cabinet du
marie, burgermeister courts, and hotel de vile,
sadthauSer
Several well informed journals affirm that the
Dutch government has, at the instance of the
German authorities, cautioned the landed pro-
prietorS on the Prussian border who have placed
their country seats ut the disposal of ex-
PEELED JeSuts that such an act is contrary to
international law and will be punished accord
ingly.
Alawyer upon a circuit in Ireland. who was
pleading the case of an infant plaintiff, took the
child up in bis arms, and presented it to the jury,
Suifused with tears. This had a great effect,
until the opposite lawyer asked the child, "What
makes you cry ''Iie pinched me, answered
the little innocent. The court was convulsed
with laughter
A London paper, speaking of the under
ground railroads of that city, says: "The inces-
SAINT hurry at the subterrauean stations, the
nerve-shasing slammmg of every carriage
cnItv Of diStinSTsb;mT ono troi1, rr, anohnr
mr. Of @etting cnbe'e1t ops,,c ',.'t 70 onastion
from the feyered and inarticnlete ofici9Is viii
the onnreSsive otnosnbera and Snine-cnnvnlSinor
wav OF nuttinr ON tbn brakes render tbe mn.
derground lines rs terrible as ibpv are rseCni !"
The EnnIi,h noners are fil!ed viii acconnts Of
the annual autumn maneuvers of The RritiSb
troops. regulars. volunteers and militia There
have been reviews and sham fghts on a grand
scale and all EnTlanJ has hacn ago,, ov o., tbo
movements oC the defenders IF tbe co1n+ry A
correspondent of the D,ilv News is lost in ad.
miration of the sunprb marebing Of tho regn
lars. and thinks that if the rcd coats once rot
fairly into condition and nnt their ,cl,S into II
they cnnl1 vail, % fro 'ue er i troo
in E1rone" Sncb bpIieG nnsi he source Of
great Satisfaction 10 Mi Of those who have onv
REGARD for rho safptv of +hnir riepis IN tho Rrif
ish army.
A letter from Janan saws the Government has
lust published three dertees which arc under
stood to be the Drernrsors of other innovations
SO imDatiently awaited Inv foreigners The frst
is that the library of the px.tycoon comnosed
of 100 900 volumes is omen to tho nuhlic with.
out distinction of race or notionalitv The
second REQUIRES the natives who have foreionerS
in service 10 nay tbe worps in Jananesp money
and not in Mexican dollars which wouId he n
loss TO the employed The third outborizcs tbe
pfiests-1 10 Select what food tbev nlpaspd for
their nourishment. . To marry. and 4 IN dress
themselves as they like
A correspondent Of the New York Herald
who lately called on Senator "Parson" Brown,
low, saws be found him at hone IN Knoxyiile
lying PROSTATE on lounge. while at his feet sal
his daughter. the ministerinr ANGEL of the bouse.