Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-04
miscellaneous rtems.

Wnat Is tnat from winch, II you take the
whole, some will remain? The word whole
some.
Father Thomas Burke says that when he sees
an Irishman reeling drunk in the street he feels
as priest that he could die for him, but as an
lrishman he feels as if he could wiring the fell
lows neck off.
The Panama Star tells a curious story about
secret treasure in the republic of Colombia.
1t says the Bourbon family, in Holland, are ne.
gOtiating with view to selling, for 81 300, 900
in American gold and one-thrd of the SubSe-
quent proceeds, the secret of the whereabouts of
an immense deposit of platinum. The balance,
after they get what they want, is to be used to
pay off the debt of the republic and construct
a railroad from Bogota to Magdalena. The sum
required for this purpose would be about $22,-
900.
Thisis Victor Emanues picture as drawn by
a correspondent who saw him the other day
His majesty was looking even more repulsvely
ugly than usual, his head nearly disappearing
between his shoulders in consequence of his in-
creasing bulk, and his complexion, always
dark, having become nearly black His neck
is now so short from obesity that his enormous
mustaches rest on each shoulder, and perpetu-
al scowl clouds his face. The accommodation
is written there in capital letters, and he seems,
and probably is, the most miserable, as he GER
tainly is one of the worst OF men.
A contract has been made by Hooper's Eng
fish telegraph works with Messrs. G. Mitchell &
Co., ShlpbullderS, Newcastle-on-Iync, for the
construction of steamer specially designed for
the laying of submarine telegraph cables. This
will be the first cable steamer specially built,
and it is contemplated that considerable saving
will be effected ia the cost Of laying future sub
marine cables by its use. The vessel will be
capable of taking 5000 to 1900 miles of cable in
one length, and will be employed in the sub
mergence Of the English Great Western tele.
graph Company's cable, now in progress of man
uiacture by Hooper's telegraph works, and of
which about 1000 miles have passed the tests of
Sir William Thompson and Professor Fleming
Jenkin, the engineers of the company.
Hood became acquainted with the late duke of
Devonshire in 1881. At the dukes request, he
sent list Of book titles for what is called a
''bnd door" iu the library at Chatsworth, and
nothing can surpass the wit and humor of some
of these productions. Here's a number of them
"Dante's Inferno, or Description of Van De-
mons Land" aye Devil on Two Styx (black
letter." Lambs Recollections of Suet;" Lamb
on the Deathlof Wolre;" plurality of Liviugs,
with Regard TO the Common Gait" "On Trial by
Jury, with Remarkable Packing Cases" "Boyle
on Steam" "Blain on Equestrian Burglary, or
the Breaking-in of Horses;" "John Knocks on
Deaths Doors" "Peel on Belts System :" "John-
sons Coutradlctionary; "LiGe of Jack Ketch,
with Cuts of his own Executions" "Cursory Re.
marks on Swearing;" "Recolleciions of Banns-
ter, by Lord Stair" Cooks Specimens of the
Sandwich Tongue" BARROW on the Common
Veal; "SobiesM on the Right of the Poles TO
Stick Up for Themselves"