Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-16
miscellaneous Items.

nervous young lady in Peoria church be-
came scasick on Sunday last from the effect
produced by the continuous swaying of fans all
around her and had to be taken from the build
ing.
Several holes were burned through the siding
of the house of J. T. Owens near Fulton, N. -,
the other day, by the concentration of the rays
of the sun by some new milk cans that lay on
bench near by, each can acting as cOncaVe
mirror.
Tying line ION the end of which is a fish
hook to a large rocket, hitching the hook to a
mans hat, and then getting him to IRE off the
rocket is the latest form Of practical joking in
| Troy 1t works TO the intense astonishment of
the victim and the intense amusement of the
iokers
Mrs Yeverton is reported to be in Africa with
the intention of going to join DIR. Livingstone.
If this be So the distinguished travellers repug-
nance to civilized life will probably be speedily
| overcome. and we shall hear of his precipitate
return TO England.
Commander David Richie, of the revenue
cutter MocaSsin, made one Jump from the rank
of common seaman TO that OF a commander.
He it was who swan ashore three miles from
off Beaufort, South Carolina, with the American
FLAG in his teeth, 10 prevent the capture of the
coiors by the coniederates. His capture of the
Cuban privateer adds new laures to his fame.
The new postal cards will be five inches by
three in size. They will doubtless be very pop
ular. Postmaster General CreSwell daily re-
ceives hundreds of letters from business men
calling on him TO get them ready as soon as
possible, The Boston public library will use
10000 OF them year.
The Omaha Bee is incredulous as to what
Stanley may say of DR. Livingstone from the
fact that the now famous Herald reporter was a
resident of Omaha some five years ago, and was
AT that time cOnsummate fabricatOr OF sensa-
tons, writing up travel and adventure to Order
new way of treating a borse's broken leg is
N NIT IA
plaster When the plaster hardens it will keep
the limb as immOvable as if made of iron. Thus
treated, a broken LEG, it is asserted, will knit
together in brief time and become as good as
ever.
A Scotch diver at work on sunken ship was
recently compelled TO suspend operations on
account of the fierce attacks of the lob
sters and crabs that had taken possession of the
vessel.
Kate Hanly, an eighteen-year old girl of Tenn
eschal, Cal, who had been an idiot all her
life, after deep sleep of seventy-two hours, a
week or two since, awoke as bright and inteli-
gent as others OF her age, TO the great joy of her
friends
New York gentleman has couple ofblooded
mares between whom a strong atfectiOn former
ly existed. Recently, however, while being
driven together, one OF them made an awkward
step and cut the other on the ankle. On being
embarrassed the injured animal attacked the
other with great fury, and now their owner
hardly dares let them come within sight of each
other,
A Californian, being asked if he could "go''
Greeey, replied that the situation reminded him
of an incident that occurred in the mines. A
party of miners took up claim and elected one
of their party cook, who was TO serve in that
capacity until some one tonnd fault with his
cooking. In that event the Pathfinder was TO
take his place and do the cooking himself.
George B was the first to fill the position,
and everything went on smoothly for a week or
two, when George became tired and resolved to
have some one find fault if pos sihle, So one
morning he mixed up his dough for breakfast,
putting in equal parts of flour and salt, All sat
down to breakfast, and Bill J. was the first
to break biscuit, He tasted it, smelled it and
tasted it again. and said: "Hell! I'll de id if
this amt the satiest biscuit | ever got hold Of
but, said he, suddenly remembering the con.
tract, "it is good| Now, the democrats are in
the same fix Greeley is the salteSt pill they
ever got hold of, but then he is good,