Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-24

The future empress Of China is to spend $780,
| 600 on her bridal rousseau.
A new sensation is to Sc afforded in London
by The appearance of Davee Carson Sahib Ka
| Pucka TumaSha,' who is to give portraituIes
OF the numerous aspects of the hndoo char
| acter,
The St. Paul Press says In Minnesota there
are but TWO republican journals in the English
language which sympathise with the liberal
movement the MankatO Union and the Austin
Register. Both OF them are published by eX-
pOStmaSferS who were removed by Grant.
The following extract from graveStone in
Minnesota conveys an equirocal compliment to
the bereayed Brown Maria Brown, wife of
Timothy Brown, aged eighty years. She lived
with her said husband fifty YEARS. and died in
the confident hope OF a better life "
At 4 confectionery and small ware store in
Carleton, New Brunswick, soda water "with
choice syrupS" is sold, and on Saturday a thirsty
youth went into the place and called for some
He got it and did not like the flavor as it made
him sick. He declared it was "too fat" and
tue divinity in charge examined the syrup to
satisfy herself that it was all right. Imagine
her surprise and regret when she found she
had sold a considerable quantity of hair oil for
FIVE cents.
In the course of excavations at Capua, a
prize has recently been found which was won at
the gymnastics sports at Athens inltbe year 3S2 B.
Z. lheISkeleton that lay in the tomb beside it is
probably that OF the winner. Unlike our costly
cups, it is simply an amphora OF clay, with a
painting on each side. On the front is written
the name OF the chief magistrate of Athens for
the year, and the words "a prize from Athens
The late duchess of Bedford had for thirty
years OF her married life, risen at six o'clock,
summer and winter. lit her own fire, made some
tea lor the duke and herself, and then, as she
wrote his own letters of business, she copied
them, and then came down to large party of
guests at ten o'clock to dispense breakfast
without S1glOU word pf hn
cation, SO that one might have been d visitor in
the house without finding out that the duke and
duchess had transacted the necessary business
OF the day before, perhaps, you had risen.
Inc projected Bay Verte canal, to connect the
bay OF Fundy with the gulf of St. Lawrence,
involves serious difficulties. Looking only at
the narrow neck OF land, it is easy to say that
canal ought to be made there, but there are pc
culiar obstacles The tides in the bay of Fun
dy rise aud fall seventy feet, and to regulate the
rush oil such body Of water at the mouth of a
manageable canal is problem which puzzles en-
glncers. Some think that the only practical
way IS to leave the canal open and see how the
tide will work without locks or hoodgates If
TINS should be done, and the canal is not cut
through rock, the Immense volume of water
rushing through would soon open large per-
inahent channel, affecting the tides both in the
bay and the gulf
The Post says: 81. A. Palmer, ESQ.,, gentle
man widely known as the excellent boston cor
respondent OF the Alta California newspaper,
mas recently received a singular letter IRON the
golden city written by a noted Chinese mer-
chant, A fup, OF the firm of Hop Kee & Co.,
enclosing long qucne of Chinese hair. and in
curing what two hundred pounds of the article
month could bring in Boston. It is supposed
to be adapted TO chignons and similar false
adornmenIs Of the female head, and, properly
baked, should serve as well, if not better, than
the ialse hair WHICH is so marketable inst now
in all large cities. 1t is black, straight, coarse
aud we should say durable"