Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-17
miscellaneous Irem..


The Aspinwall hotel at Panama burned down
two years ago, and already trees thirty feet high
| are growing upon the ruins.
The leaves of the coffee plant are coming into
use as well as the berries, and in some coffee
countries, as for instance Java, are preferred by
| the natives.
Florence Rowe, twelve years of age, living in
| Chaplin, Franklin county, Iowa, saw large
| eagle attempting TO carry off a goose from her
| fathers barnyard, wren she seized the eagle by
the wing and drag it and its prey to the house.
The goose thief measured seven feet from tip to
| tip.
The sharpest so far this month is the Troy
| girl who makes her unSuSpectng father the
| daily bearer Of sweet missives TO a clerk in his
| office who has been forbidden to visit his en-
ployer's house. She pins the letter in the old
mans cloak, and when he reaches the office and
throws off the garment, clerk gets it and re
spends by the same carrier.
I The costly and limited supply Of quinine have
rendered extremely desirable the discovery of
some febrifuge of equal virtue, and capable OF a
| cheaper and more abundant production. The
French think that in the dried and powdered
leaf of the laurel they have found this. 1t has
| been tested with the best results, and is being
extensively employed iu France.
A man, while drunk, put up at hotel in
Hamilton, Canada The next morning he said
he missed his gold chronometer, which he in
sisted he placed under his pillow in the bed; but
nothing could be found there but cigar
stump. Subsequently the remains of the watch
were found in the CRATE, much injured by fire.
The oblviouS gentleman had evidently put his
cigar under the pillow and thrown his watch
into the fire.
A large aud costly monument has just been
reared over the grave of that grand old Pennsyl-
vanian, Thaddeus Stevens. 1t stands in a lone,
unpretending corner of Shreiner's private ceme-
terry at Lancaster Pa, and the reason for its To-
cation is given in the following inscription: 81
repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from
any natural preference for solitude; but, finding
other cemeteries limited as to race by charter
rules, l have chosen this that might illustrate
in my death the principles which | advocated
through long life-equality OF man before his
creator"
A young fellow in Kentucky goes to prison
for ten years for aiding and abetting an illegal
marriage. He and two others imposed upon
simple girl by pretending to marry her to one Of
their number, the second acting as minister in
pronouncing the ceremony, while the third wit
messed it. One of the others fled and the re-
~maining one was acquitted.
Mckinney, the New Haven brakeman killed
at Hartford, Friday, took the place of the New
Haven brakeman who was smashed so badly
while coupling cars at Hartford and very near
the same spot about two weeks ago. The wife
of the deceased went TO Hartford after receiving
the sad news that he was dead, she refusing to
believe that she had met with so great a loss
She wandered about Hartford most of Friday
night ana was sent nome on the cars next day
almost beside herself with grief. The body of
her husband was sent home the same afternoon
That the interior of the human eve has been
photographed is well known; though the expert
ment is a somewhat cruel one for a living sub
ject, still there are victims who endure it. An
instance of this kind is given by Dr. VOgel, that
of very handsome young lady (whose brother
is physician), who patiently takes extract of
belladonna until the pupil has become suff1-
GENTLY enlarged; the interior of the eye is then
illuminated with magnesium light and then
photographed In a similar manner has the
ear been photographed-tha is to say, the
tvmpanum only. A tube is inserted, in which
is mirror, inclined at certain angle. The
mirror throws the light into the interior of the
ear; and is also provided with central hole,
through which the illuminated tympanum can
be inspected. A system of lenses projects an
image on the sensitive plate, and the picture is
made in the ordinary manner.