Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-12
RsiscelIameons Hiems.

Queen ViCtOras horses are worth 100000:
Kaiser Williams 913,0OO; the Austrian emper-
| or's nearly 100000; King Leopold's se1S,O00;
and the sultan'S G100,0 600.
The steamer Java hat arrived at New York,
Saturday, brought $40 sacks of mail, the largest
lot ever brought by any one steamer to New
York. One hundred and thirty-three sacks
were sent on overland, six to San Francisco, the
rest for New Zealand.
1t has been discovered in Washington city
that the inscriptions butchers have been sell
inc their customers goats meat under the vari-
GUS titles of lamb, mutton and veal. Physicians
however, say it is heathiul diet,
The making OF the new dress for the enlisted
men OF the army is progressing with all possible
dispatch at the great clothing and equipment
arsenal at ScHuylkill, bnt it is not expected the
troops will ret INTO their new trappings before
next spring
Virginia has sent commissioners to England
to hunt up and overhaul certain ancient maps
in the British colonies office, a tradition exist
ing that therein NAV be found the original
boundary line giving Virginia five miles more
territory to the west than she now possesses
1t is rather odd but not at all marvellous to
read oil gentleman diving in Lngla I'd in 1872
who was Of the same Bacon family with Lord
Verulam. This was Sir Henry Hickman Bacon,
Bart, and the premier baIuuet of England. He
was related in blood 10 Friar Bacon, Sir Nicho
las Bacon, lord keeper in the time Of Elizabeth,
and the celebrated Sir Francis of the same
name. The family came in inst after the con-
quest
An ingenious mechanic OF Vienna has invented
a glass composition which can be made at any
time INTO curlcd or lrizAled yarn. These lrizzled
threads, we are told, surpaSs in ineness not only
the finest cotton, but even Il single cocoon thread
and they appear NJ the same Tune almost as soft
and elastic as silk lint, and beautiful TO The eve.
These smooth threads are now woven in textile
fabrics, which are made into cushions carpets,
table cloths, shawls, neckties, cuffs, collars and
various other articles, and they may be used
for weaving the figures in brocaded silk or vel
vet 1t also possesses q remarkable strength,
remains unchanged in light or warmth, and is
not altered by moisture or acids. 1t is stated
that with wheel Of the diameter of three wards
one operative is able to spin three thousand
yards OF glass yarn per minute, all of uniform
size and Of beautiful quality
A pleasant little Incident is related OF Miss
Clara Louise kellogg, (Which occurred while
visiting Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland
during her late tour. Her party encountered,
as other travellers do, a young Italian Swiss,
who earned a precarious existence by frantic
efforts to rouse an echo from the opposite cliffs
by means Of an awkward horn. After straipipr
every muscle he brought forth melancholy
loot, with no great effect upon the opposite
crags. Miss Kellogg watched for some time his
VAN endeayUls, and then, rising in the car
rage she gave one Of the charming mountain
j0dels, finishing Off with q specimen of those
lnimitable triis which require no patent TO
render them unapptoachable In an instant
came back four or five beautifully perfect ech
oes, with an impernently clear trill at the end,
The young Italian dUtf,d his hat and exclaimed :
AN, madam, could but make an echo like
that my fortune here would be made"