The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-23
TOWN TALES.

Just as we have become halfway ia
nrfliar with the Philippine nomencla-
ture that was sprung upon us while we
We're yet wrestling with multitude of
Spanish names, this scrap in South At
RIGA compels us to learn another lot of
names which were never before heard
or seen in this section of the world.
Elihu Thompson, the famous electri-
cfan Of the General Electric Company,
is one of the directors in the new Stand
ard Shoe Machinery Company, orga-
nized at Trenton lately with $1,000, 900
capital. 1t is a consolidation of pa
tent rights apd manufacturing concerns
and absorbed by the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company
Diamonds have been becoming dearer
since the TransVaal war cloud first APP
peared, and another per cent was add
ed to the price last Saturday by the
De Beers syndicate in London. AS the
| case stands today, jewels in the pos
! session of the people are worth good
deal more than they cost a year or two
| ago. The man who has just proposed
with success will wish, when he goes
to buy a ring, that his courtship had
been advanced so far last spring.
| There is a philosophical gentleman of
| leisure about town who is going cheer
fully through life with the set purpose
Of eventually shuff1ing off this mortal
| coil by drawing a razor across his
| wirdpipe.
He carries a small pocket dictionary
from which the word work" has been
carefully erased. The world, he will tell
you, owes him living and ne is bound
to get it. For the last five years he
hasn't done tap of any kind of labor
| to use his own expressive language,
| and what is more to the point, he never
| intends to do any. He has well-to-do
people in Boston, and they remit him
weekly enough to pay his room rent
and meal ticket. Incidentals such as
drink, he manages to pick up in ways
known to the diplomatic TOUGHER.
Yes" he said yesterday, m en-
joying life immensely. I am too strong
for such violent activity as work, and
far too independent to permit of a boss
ordering me around as though l was a
galley slave. When my folks are no
longer able to support me, l will do as
Lord Castlereagh did, give the razor
swift drag across my throat"
And with this cheerful prospect in
view, he put his hands in his pockets
and began whistling, Il guess I'll have
to telegraph my baby
There is a cat on Penn avenue in
whom there is a nature that is akin to
what is termed the milk of human
kindness. For some time past it has
been noticed that the cat was disin-
clined to eat in the house. When q !
piece of meat would be thrown to it, |
the cat would make for the door and |
whine to get out.
The other day the housewife, curious |
to learn the reason for this, followed |
the cat. The feline, with the meat |
firmly set in its teeth, went under the
piazza, and dividing the meat in two
gave half of it 10 a half starved, thin
tramp cat The woman was struck by |
this evidence of charity. in what is
popularity supposed to be the most
heartless and selfish of animals and it
touched her. She had the cat brought /
in the house. and set a large bowl of /
milk near the stove. The house cat T
sat calmly on its rear legs and con-
tentedly watched the tramp devour the
milk, There was a look on it's face
that seemed to say with Sir Philip Sid
ney, THY need is greater than mine"
Day after day the cat has been thus
sharing its crust with its less fortu-
nate brother. The woman says she
would not sell the cat for a good round /
sum.
Talk about St. Martin of Tours
sharing his cloak with the poor man.
she said last night, here is a parallel
case where one would least expect to
find it,
The immense shipments of American
abroad these days must keep
the Worcester manufacturers busy;
and, indeed, manufacturers everywhere
are hustling to keep UP with orders,
American machinery leads the world,
large shipments being made daily to
all quarters of the globe One of the
largest manufacturing concerns in Chi
cago, which makes a speciality of gas
oline engines, has just shipped three
engines to Bombay, where they will be
utilized in large milling plant intthe
interior of India. Three other engines
have been forwarded to Germany. and
last week an order was received from
a Russian firm. The works are now
up an order for fifteen engines
of various power to be shipped to New
Zealand.
r. F. Patterson, United States con
sui general in Calcutta, has written to
the state department stating that ow-
ing to the development of railways in
India it would be well for the manufac-
turers of rails, bridges cars and en-
gines here who have already secured .
large contracts, to send representatives
to Calcutta. Further contracts are
soon to be given out by the Bengal Cen
trail and other railways.
Fifteen hundred tons of rails to, be !