Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-22
HIisceIIaneous Ilems.

philosopher, who married a vulgar but
| amiable girl, used to call his wife brown sugar,
| because, be said, she was sweet but unretned
Ihey tell big stories of the number of buffaloes
| out in western Kansas just now, making their
way south, tie animals being 50 plentiful in
some quarters that railroad trains can not be
run with safety.
A man will die for want of airin five minutes,
Tor want OF sleep in ten days, for want OF water
in week, for want of food at varying inter.
walls, depending on constitution habits Of life,
and the circumstances of the occasion.
writer in the American Artizan suggests
hollow iron walls filled with water as the most
effectual fire proof shield. The water would
turn TO steam and carry off the heat, and thus
the iron could not be heated beyond 212 de-
grees.
Travel on the watery highways of Venice is
scarcely safer than in the streets of dryer cities
Plratical gondoas have recently appeared in the
canals Of the city, which bear down on TO
manclng moonsruck yoyagers, board their
craft, plsgiarize their valuables, and disappear
at forty strokes to the minute.
Canada speaks thus of the wife Of the gov-
ernor general OF the Dominion at would make
some Of our fine ladies stare to see Lady Duffer.
~ promenading the streets, doing her shopping
She dresses plainly and senslbly, wears thick
soled boots, and does not fear a walk from one
end Of the city to the other, or to face the mud.
diest crossing"
This comes Of sleeping with a pistol under
ones pillow. An Ohio man the other night dis.
charged revolver while in hissleep, the ball en-
terng the right thigh and passing dagonaly
through the thigh, lodging near the knee. When
he awOke he was sitting up in bed, with the re-
VOlVer IN ms lelt hand, and the ball IN his right
leg.
Champagne dealers are threatening Il heavy
advance in the price Of their aerated slops The
osensible reason is, "a failure Of the vintage in
france" But what that has to do with New
pr L. a
rom whence our champagne supplies are main.
~ drawn, is one Of those mysterious things that
none but financial cider dealer can deter.
niue.
woman correspondent of the Missouri Re
puOlcan has made the astounding discovery
that the chicago fire occurred on the sixth ami
yersary OF Gen. Sheridan's raid of devastation
through the Shenandoah valley and that tbe
Boston IRE was the eighth anniversary of the
burning Of Rome and Atlanta, Ga. She regards
these remarkable condolences as proofs thai the
north IS destined TO series Of the direst calam-
south.
Mrs. Chas. Wallace, the wife of merchant AT
Richmond Va, has become editor of the Old
Dominion Magazine, which processes the iDten.
ton, il properly sustained, oil giving employ.
ment to old gentlemen lind old ladies who are
now starving because they have no employment
Tor their pens, which could alone yield them a
support, and Of opening way of Independence
to the gifted youth of our land, who Otherwise
must become "hewers of wood andidrawers of
water"
The fire ordinance OF Chicago provides that
where frame buildings within the fire limits are
damaged by fire 80 per cent of their value they
shall not be rebuilt. A curious case has arisen
because Of this. A row Of frame structures
witllu the Gre limits was recently burned, and
lue insurers refused 10 pay more than the actual
uamagei which happened to exceed 80 per
nucn as the building could rot be repaired, and
inc courts have decided in their favor. thereby
putting a premium upon incendiarism practiced
upoh frame structure within the Ii re limits.
Chlea2o u Wiling 10 he built Of stone aud brick
If the insurance companies will paw for il. and
this Will do much tc make the Gre ordinance
popular.
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