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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
ODD BIRDS AND BEASTS.
Clever Pets of Society Trained BY
Fashionable New York Women.

The educated pet is in keen demand
among New York society women at
present, says the Philadelphia Press.
For this reason the French poodle still
holds his own. and the latest enter
prise of the various Minis Florisettes,
etc, is that of going gravely about the
drawing room and offering not only u
paw, but bark of welcome to every
guest.
Mrs. John G. Moor, for example
owns a butterfly -eared Mexican toy
dog, who yisibly gives way to genuine
large tears and sounds easily inter-
preted as sobs when his mistress is
obliged to leave him at home. This
demonstration has been witnessed too
often to be doubted, and has made him
famous and coveted in society.
Another undetermined dog is owned
by Mrs. Thorne. His taste is for mu-
sic, and he only likes the best. He
can sit on the piano stool and strike
out tune with one paw, and the tune
is "Old Dog Tray" When there is mu-
sic in the house he remains in silent
ecstacy under the piano, and for yo-
calization he has an especial prefer
ence.
Latterly birds have flown into many
soft nests in stately houses Of Gotham,
| and two of the most notable specimens
are Miss Greta Pomeroys white cocka-
too and Mrs. Jonathan Thorne's laura
bird. The white cockatoo owns yellow
topknot, bad temper and an exclusive
attachment to his mistress, who can
carry him about on her wrist. The
laura Is gay red, green and yellow
fellow of the parrot family, and not
only talks and sings, but is, like Poe's
raven, thing of superstitious interest
to his owners. Early on the morning
of any birthday in the family the bird
is heard to sing a strange, wild tune.
That tune is never sung on any other
occasions, and the family who have
been at pains to listen, discover chat
a birthday never arrives that the Pc
culiar tune is not sung over once or
twice.
Miss May Bird, a remarkable horse
woman, has naturally chosen horse
as her pet, and Lady Bird is as good
as human being for intelligence
while in the NeWcomb family a mon
key reaps all the honors and affection
that usually fall to the share of dog
This monkey, Frisky, is a gentle, sad
faced, long-tailed scrap of eccentrieity,
devoted to catching flies for fun. and
making pins travel. He can carry
colony of pins all over the house,
sticking them in an orderly manner.
first in one room, then marshaling
them into another, from chair to chair
and sofa to sofa in the most comical
manner.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
Miss Julia Dent
Grants Romantic
Love Affair.
COUNT OF TURIN HEART BROKEN.
For Her He Would Have
Renounced the Throne
ofbItaly.

According to the Berlin Lokal An
zeiger, Miss Julia Dent Grant, grand
daughter of Gen. U. S. Grant, who is
soon to marry Prince Cantacuzene OF
Russia, had a most romantic love affair
last year. Had she not been too gem
.erous to allow the Count of Turin to
sacrifice his chance of succession to
the throne of Italy for love of her, she
might have entered the royal family.
The story told by the LokaI Anzeiger
runs as follows:
There are surely not many plebeian
girls who can boast of having received
ofrers of marriage from two full -hedged
princes. Miss Julia Grant, the grand
daughter Of the world-renowned Gen.
ana PRESIDENT Ulysses S. Grant, has not
only been honored by many suitors of
lofty station, but has been placed in a
position where she was asked to choose
between two princes.
NO less Q parsonage than the Count
or Turin, nephew of the king of Italy.
sued for her hand, and a wedding would
surely have followed had not King
Humbert insisted that the prince should
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
MECHANICAL HOTTER"

Iowa Genius Constructed Shrek
Which He Wanted Government to Buy
"All sorts of freak devices have been
submitted to the government since the,
beginning Of the waS," said an officer
lately on department duty at Wash
ingtor. but the queerest of the lot was
undoubtedly the mechanical hootery
You never heard of it. of course, bur
you would if you had been within half
mile of the war office about a month
ago. The hooter is the invention of an
Iowa gentleman and consists of a.
wooden tube about the size of 4-inch
section of bologna sausage. Stretched
across the aperture is a piece of per-
forated rawhide, and when blown into
1t em!ts a strange and blood -chilling.
howl-something absolutely indescrib--
able in worGs-a sort of cross between
the shrek of buzz saw when it
strikes nail and the lower register of
an adult steam calliope. 1t is the sort
Of noise / imagine a hippopotamus
might make during an attack of mem
branous Group.
But the scheme of the inventor was
really not so bad. He pointed out in.
his letter that the yell played a very
prominent part in all military opera
tons The demoralizing effect of the
rebel yelP was freely admitted by all
northern generals during the civil war
and History has repeated itself in the,
recent campaigns. 1t was the yell of
the rough riders as they went up San
Juan hill that scared the Spaniards
out of their trenches, and the Kansas
yell has spread more terror among the
Filipinos than all the Calling guns put
together From these facts he argued
very logically that mechanical boot
er. augmenting magnifying and sup
plementing the natural voice, would
greatly increase the efficiency of our
troops. A company on a charge, sud-,
denly hooting in chorus, would strike
dismay into the hearts of the bravest
foe. An American soldier humping and
hootiEg over rice field would cause
any Filipino alive to Immediately lose
interest in the sacred cause Of free
dom and scoot for the far end Of the
archipelago. AT least such was the
claim of tie inventor, and after hear
ing the machine tried, l am inclined to
agree with him. A clerk was Instructed
to return the sample and say that in
the opinion of the department 1t would
be cruel and inhuman weapon, and a.
violation OF the rules Of civilized war
fare as laid down in the conference of
The Plague. You may think this Is a
fairy tale, by the way but it isn't It's
cold fact"-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
SENSATIONS OF BLIND.
Now Said They Are Not Acute in Their
Other Senses.

1t has been widely believed that, to
make up for their lack of one sense, the
blind possess one or more of the others
in abnormal acuteness, being generally
quick of hearing and delicate of touch. A
long series of experiments by Prof. H.
Griesbach of Basic, whose results are
published in recent numbers of Phuger s
Archiv, do not support this belief. We
quote an abstract of Prof. Griesbach's
conclusions from The Lancet. Says this
paper:
ut may be promised that the observa-
tions We're made on those who were other
wise healthy In the differentiation OF
tactile impressions no remarkable differ
ences We're. observed between the seeing
and the blind, or if small differences did
exist they were in favor of the seeing In
those born blind the tactile sharpness was
somewhat less than in the seeing, and In
some cases the sensorium generally was
equally defective. The blind in particular
feel less acutely with the tip Of the index
nnger than do those who see, and in many
cases the tactile acuteness of the two
index finger tips differs In the blind
especially in the region of the hand, a
stronger impression Is required to pro-
duce a tactile impression than in those
possessed of sight. In the capability of
localizing impressions of sound no diff
ference exists between the blind and the
seeing. In both great individual varia-
lions occur. AS rule, both in the seeing
and the blind the use of the organ Of
both sides gives better results than the
use of one alone. No difference in the
acuteness Of hearing exists between the
blind and those who see. No relation was
observed between the acuteness of hear
ing and the power of localizing sounds in
either the seeing or the blind No differ
ence was observed in the two classes in
regard to the acuteness of smell. In the
execution. of manual labor the blind be-
come fatigued sooner than do those of
equal age who see. The blind are more
fatigued with manual than with mental
work, which is not the case with the
seeing of the same age. II any difference
exists in regard to exhaustion after mem
tai labor it is In favor of those OF the
same age who see-Literary Digest.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
ooLFlNo GLOVES.

Golfers gloves are a real comfort to
the girl who is making pane for her
self on the links. Bareheaded she prob
ably is, but not barehanded. TO keep
the palms Of your hands from being
unduly hardened or blistered by the
pressure of your driver, use golfing
gloves, which allow freedom to your
muscles, but yet protect the tender skin
of the palm of your hand. The golf
glove has palm of soft channels skin.
1t buttons up the back OF the hand Cn-
stead of underneath) and has open
spaces cut out over the knuckles, so as
to permit the greatest possible freedom
to these muscles in grasping the golf
club. Some girls wear bicycle gloves
on the links, but the genuine article is
better for golfing use. The gloves last
q long while.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
WORSE THAN BULLETS.
Little Ants Forced Soldier to Risk His
Life.

Aittle' ANTS FOrced o0idier TO RiSN HtG
Only the other day the Kansas vol
unteers got under a fire so heavy that.
after spreading out in line of skirmish-
ers, the order was given to lie down.
One unfor tunate soldier Topped square
ly into an ant hill. Thousands of the
little pests swarmed angrily over him,
biting with the peculiar penetration Of
Filipino ants. In a second the soldier
jumped up, swearing and almost
screaming with the pain.
Lie down, my man." shouted his
captain.
"All right, sir" and down Topped the
unhappy soldier. lie could stand it
only for a few seconds, when he leaped
once more to his feet
Lie down. tell you," insisted the
captain.
"Blankety blank, captain, l can'tr'
protested the poor fellow.
Just then a sheet of Mauser bullets
few past him, at all heights, from his
shins to his head. 1t was marvellous
that the standing soldier was not hit in
dozen places. But he changed his
mind swiftly about the possibility OF
lying down. Down he went, regardless
of ants, shouting to his commander
Yes, can captain BY the holy
smoke, yes | can, sir!"
And he remained down until the or
der came to rise.-Leslies Weekly.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
DRESS REFORM CONGRESS

A dress reform congress is said to be
an anticipated feature of the Paris
exposition next year. The costumes OF
some countries are nearly alike for men
and women, and in some other coun-
tries the wearing of trousers and skirts
is reversed in sex. The Turks dress
so much alike that II is often Impossible
TO tell whether the person ahead is a
man or a woman. In Arabia, the girls
wear trousers and the men long robes.
The costumes of the Jewish dancing
girls are said to be attractive and SEN
sible. The Tunisian women viii be on
view in their native garb, which in
cludes long, tight trousers. The Per-
sian women wear their hair short, and
dress much like their masculine rela-
tives.-New York Mail and Express.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
LEAVE The SERVICE,
lSerg,t. Gerber andPriv>
Chamberlain Want
to Be Citizens.
APPLY FOR THEIR DISCHARGES.
Both Have Good Records
in the Recrui ting
Service.
APPLY FOR THEIR DISCHARGES.
Both Have Good Records

Recruiting Sergeant Paul Gerber, in
charge of the local recruiting station,
and Private James E. Chamberlain are
10 make application for their discharges
from the service in order to again enter
the peaceful pursuits of life. Sergt. Paul
Gerber has lately been left considerable
money by the death of his grandfather
at Weathersfield, VT, and wishes to
take up farm work in that place with
his father
Private Chamberlain relinquished a
lucrative position in the wholesale gro
Gerry firm of Daniels, Cornell & Co. in
order to appease his war fever. He was
assigned to the recruiting service, but
what he has seen of military life has
removed the glamor and tinseI for him
and he is satisfied to quit the service
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
THE NEW WATCH POCKET
1t viii Be Placed in the Sleeve of the
Fashionable Frock.

Watches owned by women have been
subjects of derision and scorn to men
ever since the first woman owned The
first watch, but they are about to at
tain some standing in the community
as reliable timekeepers and put to blush
all the accusations which have former
ly been made against them. OF course,
says an exchange, every one knows
that If a womans watch did not keep
time 1t was only because it was exposed
to violent changes of temperature
Sometimes it was worn pinned on the
outside of coat when the thermometer
was registering zero, sometimes inside
the gown and next the warm body,
sometimes on the marble slab of a bu-
reau, smetimes under a feather bolster
whence it generally slid to the floor,
when it may be said to have become
one of the dark watches of the night.
These sudden transitions were said
not to be good for the intricate internal
mechanism of the timekeepers, and
they proved the truth of this saying by
sulking for a day or two, and then
making such haste to overtake Father
Time that their bewildered owners
hardly knew whether they were still in
yesterday or were skedaddling through
day after tomorrow at terrific rate.
However, all this is about to be
changed now, and by the much-abused
modesto too, for at last she's found a
place where a watch pocket may be
placed without disturbing the set of the
eeliest of gowns. All this time, you
know, these minute" eceentricities
have been caused by the want of a
place to put a watch pocket in the
fashionable frock, but all the new
gowns that come from Paris this fall,
and all the smart ones that issue from
our best shops it is said-heed that sit
is said'-will have a tiny pocket in
serted in the sleeve of the left arm,
half way between the elbow and the
wrist on the inside seam. The watch
will be secure there and easy to get at.
Buttons are to be sewed on to close the
flap of the pocket and viii continue
along the sleeve as a trimming
So the numberless men who are
wearing the watches of the feminine
members of their household, and those
who have left those useful articles at
the jewelers. for repairs quite too long,
will be required to render them up to
their proper owners. The woman's
watch of the future is going to keep
excellent time, just see if it doesn't,
just as the watch pocket of the future
is going to be feature of every wo-
mans every frock.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20

got into the fighting, and was ordered,
perore. the sun rose, to get into heavy
marching order, and they tramped
across country. About o'clock in the
lporning they got a very heavy cross
flre at Yauco, which they returned with
Vigor. Heavy skirmishing followed till
the Spaniards were routed, with but
the loss of three men wounded on the
part of the Sixth, and 26 men killed
and 5S wounded on the Spanish side
The three men wounded in the Sixth
We're two privates from Private Ger
ber's company, and the captain of Com
pany A.
After driving the Spaniards from
Hauco. the boys went into the trenches
at that place, and for as hours stayed
there with nothing to eat or drink UNI
/ I'll they were ordered back to Guanica.
Two days later they started on the long
march across the island, starting from
Guanica and proceeding to Yauco, TO
Adjuntus, thence to Utuado. At this
last place they remained, for the news
of the peace negotiations prevented
them from. carrying out the plans Of
Gen. Miles.s About that time news of
being ordered home was received, and
the boys Went to ASecibo, seaport
town. They. later, were ordered to Bar
celineta, where they did garrison duty,
and thence to San Juan, where they
embarked on transports for home.
After arriving in Boston, they para
ded in the streets, and went on fur
Tough for 80 days. On Jan. % they re-
ceived their discharges, and three days
later, Jan. 25, Private Gerber came to
this city and passed the examination
at the recruiting office, then conducted
by Lieut.. Royden, and was assigned to
recruiting service, being sworn in the
9th. He remained at the local recruit
ing office for five weeks, and was as
signed to the Providence office March
3. He was later put in charge of the
new Fall River office, but was soon
compelled to go back to Providence,
May "a, where he was advanced to the
position of recruiting sergeant. He was
then assigned to open an Office in
Taunton and upon the removal of Pri-
vate c. w. Lansing from the local Of
flee, he was put in charge, May 81.
Since he has been in Worcester the
local office has made wonderful strides
in the number of recruits that have
been passed for the service, and it was
entirely due to the work that he put
into the office, and his individual ef5
forts to bring the office on par with
the others under Capt. Gresham. The
local office was not considered very
desirable station till Sergt. Gerber was
put in charge. Since then the office has
beaten out all the others, and is now
considered the best station that Capt.
Gresham has.
Who will take the vacant positions at
the local recruiting stations, is a mat
ter of conjecture. but it is likely that
Sergt. Joseph Burden of Providence
will be sent here. Private Charles L.
Glitting, who is at present in Provi-
dence, might be sent here but before
he does, he will be advanced to the
position of recruiting sergeant.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
A MATTER OF DOUBT.

II wonder" said the girl in the pink
shirt waist, 'how the poet meant to have
his readers pronounce the'word either in
this line, And his heart throbbed at mem
tion of either.
Cant you tell by LOOKING at the word
that is made to rhyme with 1t in the next
liner" suggested the girl with the double-
decked hat
mo, that doesn't throw any light on Il.
The word at the end of the next line Is
neither. ,"--Chicago Tribune.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
TROUBLE AT MOUNT SINAI
Nurses Indignant Because Doctor
Matches Their Uniform With His
Shirt.

Shirt.
There are sadness and righteous in-
dignation among the nurses of Mount
Sinai hospital, and it has all come.
about through the perfdy Of some one.
say the young women. presumably a.
graduate nurse. The Mount Siuai girls
have always been Unfortunately proud
of their pretty uniform, the one, by
the way, which took the prize at the
worlds fair for it's neatness and be-.
comingness. The fabric of the gown Isl
pretty blue broken plaid ginghams
made in Scotland expressly for Mount
Sinai. And one of the strictest, though
unWritten laws of the institution, is
that no one shall have this bingham but
the Mount Sinai nurses.
One sunny morning last week, what
was the horror Of the nurses to observe.
one of the young doctors of the hospi-
tai entering the ward arrayed in a.
Shirt of the same Identical material.
To all inquiries and reproaches he
blandly replied that his brother had
been travelling in Scotland and had
picked up the bingham there, but of
the truth of this statement the young
women hold the gravest doubts.--New
York Tribune
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
NEMESIS ON a BOAT.
How Pride Went Before the Destruc-
ton OF Hat.

isn't it queer" said the bright girl
at the shore resort, that people, even
the kindest and most humane people
will laugh at accidents to others?
never see anyone fall In winter time
that I don't have to rush around the
nearest corner to conceal the fact that
am in paroxysms of mirth. don't
even walt to see whether or not the I'M
fortunate one is injured for life. just
laugh and laugh until the tears come
to my eyes and my sides ache, yet it
isn't essentially a ridiculous thing to
see persons break their bones.
However, felt perfectly justified in
laughing at something that witnessed
on a boat the other day. There was
man aboard, a dark man with the hau-
teur popularity supposed to belong to
Castilian blood. who trod the decks as
though he were a first cousin of the
captain, and who looked down In I'M
utterable disdain on the meek and
humble excursionists who were his fell
low voyagers. He carried a notebook,
In which, apparently, he jotted down
his impressions of tho scenery, and so
put him down as q foreigner on 10
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
MOTHER OF SENATORS.

While Virginia and Ohio are disput-
ing over the title mother of presid-
ents' New York should claim that of
mother of senator's so many Of those
who now wear the toga first saw the
light of day in the Empire state. Be-
sides her own senators, some of those
who claim New York as their birth
place are Cushman K. Davis of Minne-
sofa, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, who Is a native OF
Henderson; Mason of Illinois, who made
himself so conspicuous when the affairs
that led to the recent war were under
discussion, came from Cattaraugus
county; John II. Gear Of Iowa was orig
inally from Ithaca; Teller of Colorado
the free silver knight, was born in All,
legany county, and the parents OF the
multi-millionaire Clark of Montana
were living in Oswego county at the
time of his birth.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20

Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind girl, whose requirements have
attracted the attention of all students
of educational methods, is spending the
summer at Wrentham, Mass, as the
guest of Mrs. j. E. Chamberlain. She
keeps up her study of Greek and Ara
bic, and writes her exercises on a type.
writing machine especially designed for
these languages, with interchangeable
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20

Frlend-How are you getting on?
.Seedy author-Good. I've got the mate
rial on hand for splendid comedy, be-
sides.
You are Fortunate
Yes; all 1 need now is the material for
q new pair OF trousers Boston Traveller,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-01
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

SAN FRANCISCAN the end d Ell
twentieth round Al Neil got the ts,lna
over George Greene.
OMAHA, Neb-The Union Pacific l'nr,
ing IN the Omaha Bridge and Ierunl
ccmpany's tracks to keep the ILLINOIS W.
trail road out
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.-Ias ss'
hoard of equalization has decided uli-.
mously to assess the franchises 9, sr
and steam railroads under Jus p'''-'
laws.
NEW YORK.-Memoria Day was y,
nalized by the final destruction o. ol y
the most historic points on the Panala
on the Hudson, known as Inc lnan
Head.
WASHINGToN.-Bids were 10 nav .
opened by the navy department, lOI 80
for battleships, monitors ana a u, !.
cruisers now authorized by law, w !
bids were received within the prN' ~
by congress. 49,
NEW YORK.-The Herald says ,nE I,
cruiser Brooklyn on TUESDAY al p,,,-
81 ucb a hidden obstruction on .ne "a s. IN
IL New York harbor She VIII ~ INV =
dock, when the extent of her injuries "
be ascertained.
WASHINGTON. Secretary uas NJ
commenting on the presidents r 1,a.., N 4,
service order, said; The pres,NS'. ~,
not made change in the clsn ia ''
rules mat was NOT urged by the a'~
the department concerned ,..,
NEW YoRK.-A special 10 lns ri.
from Washington says; In 49,,
81 the arrival of the cruiser NssnA
Valparaiso within two OF lniee M NJ
structions are being prepared a. e,o
department to be sent 10 oa i'saar III
rich, her commanding othcer, uI, III.
he will act upon his arrival az 'p