The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-11 00:00:00

back of its head. It now became infuriated, and
made a third spring at the man, who, his ammuni-
tion being spent, rushed towards his party, and
snatching a loaded gun from one of them, shot the
brute through the heart, and the exciting scene was over.
Two of the wounded men expired on their way to the
Mitford Hospital, &third haseince d. e remain-
ing two are not expected,tosury 'lmmense
size of the tigee created ttgokte t it was
brought to town. Nawab AI oo bunny presented
the -daring ehikaree with a shawl4frrecognition of his
brittery.
RAILWAY SERVANTS.

rg•

i; Znehester 6uarclicen says that in addition to a
memorial already presented to the Royal Commission on
Railway Aocidents from 10,000 railway servants, the follow-
ing, which has received many thousands of signatures of men
gip tb. var lons Edgilahrlities, as well as those on the Novill
British and Oaledonian lines in Scotland, will be enomitted in '
a few days by Mr. F. W. Evans, secretary to the Railway
Servants' Society, to the Commissioners, who are expected
to resume their sittings almost Immediately:
We, the undersigned.- bring-railway serratitrent---
played in various capacities, and subject to more or
less danger in the performance of our duties, respect-
fully beg to urge on the attention of the Royal Cim-
mission the necessity which exists of .placing on r,
way companies a legal responsibility for the loss
occasioned to their servants and their families by the
numerous accidents constantly occurring from causes
which are preventable. By the return of accidents
to railway servants published by the Board of Trade
it is shown that 765 railway servants were killed and
3,618 were injured in the year 1875, and we venture to,
assert that of this number a very large proportion
was so killed or injured from causes within the
power of the companies -to prevent. Yet the suffer-
ers have no legal claim for compensation, nor are
the railway servants held responsible by the law
for or con Spelled to remove the causfs of such acci-
dents.' We feel ccnvinced that until a 'due responsi-
bility for the safety of their servants to be placed on
the railway bompaniei by nialting`them gable ,for the
Loss-occasioned to their servant* by preieintlble
' cc-
dents there will be little diminution in the ntilitter of -
railway servants yearly killed or injured. We there-
fore beg that the Royal. Coimission• will recommend
to Parliament such an alteration in the law relating to
the liability of employers for injuries to their servants
as will make railway companies justly responsible to
their servants:

I -the

MORE WOOLWICH INFANTS.—An announce.
ment is made that the recruiting height for our in-
fantry is to be reduced to five feet four inches and a
helf. And eet thete are people who say that as a
military power, Great Britain is not what she watt !
Judy,
THE SEAL AND WHALE FISHERIES, The
value of those fidteriee tO hr.. mt.
Dandel now been :tio 44, ,
i
taioed. Twelve vessele prosec t both fishinee;
57,776 seals were caught, yielding 25 tune of oil.
Skins and oil brought £37,332 168,1 Sixty-four whabse
were got, produciee 826 tuns of fasted 45 tons of bone.
The oil brought £28,840 and the bdne £36,000.'
THE POTATO OttOP.—DuA4 the past month
potato growers have beeifefusy securing -their crops,
the earlier varieties going at once to market. The
wet weather has mete a sad change in the sound-
ness aspecielly of late varieties, which have developed 1
moieeir Oes disease according to the nature of the soil.
We haveheard of instances in which so rapid was the I
progress of disease that potatoes, apparently sound ,
when lifted, have been half rotten ere they reached '
he maiket. It it onlynurprising-- einitrtmder 'then'
circumstances, prices have kept up,..eus. well kas lthely:
have. Those who care to keep their potatesewill, letter
on, realize a higher price than - Itait'been `knoWn for
..
ritil- years; and yet they ma.3enet..e/cLleettee.tiu&Ti *btu"' -
aids- of „placing_ on. _,,e7- -1-1,--tn—e crop- s ileac ground, thus relieve themselves
eeibilitv '-- - -
4 further riek-'44.pexpense. -`.;The :-.laboil.difficulty
8,81335 to be increasing. We know of cases where 225.
tdt 235. an acre has been paid for picking and putting
bit° carts, and still hands could not be got in sufficient
nUmbers. %Peer. is a foytune iiketeee fete thixman. who
cin invent' a Practical machint that will take the
potatoes put of tke ground, issapeento them fromAtegoo.
AO place' themln the Cart. Wei 'do pet despair ,of
seeing such a machine; - The, Petite OtoPiengt euitatile e
for soils in which clay predominatee. On light isandir I
add limestone soils there is Anuch less risk of disease,
and we know of land too weak to grow wheoare . f.,
4ich the potateee have been sold in the ground' at
£34 an acre—quiteas much as the fee simple of the
freehold —7ll+e FUN.. .
~‘I
This SOCiAL GRADIENT:'LOWER LEVEL.—
Mistress e r`.l.l.wiah you would mans gel Actfeltris few
prayertinore punctually of an evening, ociole. • ook
(who "knows her place ") : "Well, 'm, it a my-
fault, 'm. Its, of course, for the parlour-maid to move
first. "—Fun, 1- 7 it-. kb '
AN EEQUIMAUX.— On Fridni Vaptitin Adlais,/
of the Arctic, who has made many contributions to
Arctic discoveries, arrived In --Dundee from Davis 1
Straits erith 93 tons 'of ell. .He .brines-Wlth'hiilV3o
Elqiiimitux named Alsuaka,chief.ote ;considerable tribe.
He is young, active,' and intelligent. For years he
had regulaly visited whaling shim and had,requeslfd 1
, to be taken to England. This,. yea fhe was speetailit i
soAcitous, and Captain Adams
.geetified his curiosity.
He scanned with much interest .the crowd which,
sembled to Witness the arrival of 'the eltipit,nd seemed
greatly astonished on seeing a relletypeeerainfin motion.
•The Evening . Stana'ard, in renuerking ;upon the .
arrivaleit the Esquimau', sayel—'-'.
Alanka -.lii at the present, the only' sion of Mayas* in jil,.
Queen's nminions. When his race is spoksitef, it =nail les ,
understood that the term is Used always subject Wpb,„erXeßlP.'..,
tiont of the ethnologists' ' SOme Of thidelneln.P6l3 r.e
Esquirnani—or rather the Eskiino-,-tisi it is 'tile niod re
fashion to spell the word—are identical with the North-
American Indians, and others that they are +lda. to the;
Mongolians. If this queer, diVardsh set of people have the
copper complexion and high cheek-bones of the ;Redman, mu-
do Sadly their. eyes' are the ..stimpird-shaped 'eyes knt %AIM
Chi amen: The visits of saialles_ Of, the prime/al forest,
gen ally in connection with circus companies,. are not novel
to ngland ; noeLis a 814i/re eiith %veil-greased pigtail end long
blu tunic unfamiliar as a live advertisementoutside the tee
sho tiP;l4s "4,411 Lucille io.he.osafounded With either
these specimens of humanity, especially as some of them
give the 'wild war-whoop 'of their dear native “per-aree"
with a curious suggestiveness of .a Highland slogan., and
others Chatter pigeon English with a racy Connemara brogue.),
We prefer to look upon Alanka as a novelty apart; and sti
the article is imported by a respectable old Dundee whalet,'
Cap in Adams, of the Arctic, it may be accepted as genuine
and arrauted. and lionised while society is cordial towards-
Arc c explorers and Arctic productions. 'the only other
Esqt4iiaaux En
whom terry-airborne gliehmen of this genera.'
tlon have had an opportunity of seeing was „Toe, the sledge
driver of the ill-fated Polaris Expedition, who subsequentt,
wention a cruise in the Pandora with Captain Allen Young.
It is to be- hoped Alanka will Lack up more useful habits of
civilisation than an irresistible tendency to-borrow "screws
of hkey" wet or dry, and a refined method of carrying a
folded unOrella as a walking stick7-when it rained.,, e. lee
la- l-
THE AVERAGE PRICES OF. . _yRITISII,Ne,Catif,!+.O6.,
The following are the average
yriteps of Xeeitiesh., (tome
for the week ending Nov. 4, as reced fieni the in.
spectieTs and officer e . oft) ISCilip,:7;Whts • 44, ..04.ikr
barley, 39i. 4d. ; oats, 255. 6d. per imperial quarter.
Corresponding week last year ;—herit's '47'8.1'6M 1
..barley, 388. 3d ; oittflAihti%
.ci,?. o
N*w MEmßit: -- t is rumoured that an
earlyi opportunity will be afforded gallant Captain
Newels, who so successfully comfnaided -;thii .Aiet.Lii
Expeoition, of obtaining admission to the.elletiee ale.
UumTons. When the election conies "oh, .he will,
doub leer, be found at the head efethete- _
Z
Ceienten ;PROMS: ..OF HArtantisittl illiatiltvge
peculiar process of hatching eggs, an American con-
temporary tells me is ;adopted, in China., , The eg3;
are placed in Wes be largo beekette, tette° tlieeelp CI
ordinary banal:thickly Heed' with bay, kW-careful y •
closed fr,-m tie air by a tightfitting cover of twisted
straws. In three days' time theeggs are taken out and
replaced in different order, those at the surface being.
put in the lowest tier. 'this- is repeated every third'
day for a fortnight, when the eggs are removed from
the basket and placed on a shelf in anether room;
being, carefully, igivered, pith bran. -lie'.:a Ay tsi #2:
the chioken`chipsi thieehen, and makes its appearance
In thef world. The success of the Method is attributed
to me fact thapt7 ;the :ssuirael -been of :the-egos Aaeing.,
retained by the basket,.. wnich is formed. o,f,materiale .
rot conducting caloric; -is stiffißent to stie4s6it et-animals'
life and foster its development. _ ; . e,
THE BAD EtALINA'ORONYN..—(4.W4,9II
.40 was
gone, I happened to look at the balta:cionth;'arid Isaw
at once that it was a very had one." "My good
woman," interrupted the Scotch judge, "yon must not
say A very bad half-a-crown; the better the imitation
the vecree the forgery. A half-iPprown mustte either
good or bad;'" As ru,„- lorasfiiKtrulyk_eoleeervkif?,
acqniesolid 'lth'e' witness, "ii halrgcrdwii'muTitTe eiTher
a good half-a-crown, or it must be a bad half-a-crown,
and this was a very bad half-secrown." '• But I tell
you there can be no degree of teadness-e-if it is bad it
is bed.' • -"Quito true, your loedship, audit is very.
bacii." Thq dispute lasted', a' quarter of in hour; but,
the mitosis were numerous, and the judge had to give in.
.... .
LETTING WELL ALONE.—" Oh, Mary, the
wall's got broke, and we can't get no water and oh,
bain't it 'prime! feyther says as p'raps we shan't 'aye
to wash for a fortnight."—Fan.
' YE' .
"P.UGA:r- GL128."-- Mr. j. F. Baternanyrites
to The; 'times from South Lopham I—``Your American
Correspondent, in his very interesting letter 'published
in The limes of Wednesday, wishee to know the or
of the :word ' pinginglT ~.?., -4 seyerals...• aryarse_W4.lE.,e4BB
l3altirtiore, where the Vella 'Of rowdies vino origmat -
this euphonious .name abounded and was told it was
derived from' a short spike faetezied in the toe Of -their
boots with which they kicked their opponents in a
dense crowd, or, as they elegantly expreseed it,
'plugged them ugly:"
BALZAO) THE FRENCH NOVELIST.—BaIzac/s
.
correspondence (says the Graphic), from the age of
twenty' till within two months of his death, has
been published in Park. Most of the letters are
to his, sister, and the last' epistle --- to Theophii
Gautier was dictated to -Madame de Balzac, tl
novelist having only strength to sign his name,
and add the words, "I can neither read ' 'nor *rite."
Belzacli hours for works were generally from one
o'clock. in the morning till eight • he would
then have a short sleep, go out driving or visit-
ing, dine early, and go to bed at six or seven
o'clock in the evening. At other times he would
work from midnight till noon, or, fronr eeven in tho
evening till seven next morning. Illalzac never read
over his manuscripts till in proof, and -tile proof AIWA,
always I had enormous rnargins, ,which were loon
covered with close writing, a Short story; being thio
eiteinded te a lengthy novel. These additions mid
corrections cost him a large part of kis /Poo*.
, THE. SORT OF HIISBANDIVANTED.—Here is the
sort of husband for which a San FranCieeq girl adv
_ages t..," A man with, good looks Oomdi!legitylf Ora
.generous to n fieelt and easy to Manage, who keeps his
earriege and will give his wife another, who has a goed.
time hiinself;:and will let hie wife ge ter th4-niatilnee attcl‘
opera Without getting Jealous or looking cross, who
will give her an open credit and ask no foolish:Ties-
firms about what she does wLh her pin-money. A'
-. lawyer or leading merchant would do; a stockbroker
'having a seat in the big board would be 'preferred. ' I ,
would not be unreasonable; in case of failure I would
'be willing to travel for a time in Europe, and as a '
matter of reasonable and prudent business precaution,
I Would hate my husband put a first-class residence
and all the Valuable silver-ware, furniture and diamonds
In My own name, where they would be safe from the
iinportunate demand of avaeleions ereditors."
. 'A FitZINHMAIS'S IDEA I—A, Frenchman pro.
,-posee to, reach the I'forth Pole by Means of a 'balloons.
All other methods of travelline In the Arctic regions
having failed, recourse, he says, must be had to
-kerostatioe. By this Means alone can the hitherto
lesurmountable difficulties experienced in attempting
le fr/Wrthie the mountains of ide vritlf bar the way to
3ne deiieed °llea be Overvome.. apt*. Nara!, he
niaintat, might hti4e reached the ole in a very few
'Wenn( h he been provided tettnAeroetetic &pattern:et,
'Whether it would have been prudent et him on reach- ,
''-'the Pole to have effected' a'. deecent li Vitiother
'
clietitioni for some difficulty_of.neerious nature might
hate arieen as- 40164 eittin i4ll6*,';;liKeTtilitlitraC
all events have passed over it and taken observations
'fihiett,4oUld hardly fail to have been of greet inteteet
and,villie. Mr. Stott under the eireueeetances /should
consider ;whether' • ineteed eif. attempting to Bell his
'ipAapion4 invention to Prince Bismarek, it might not
'be ivoitlehie wibile to prpve, its utility bye& voyage to
the'Pole n-the fitettinetance.--Pcill Mali Gazette. -
' '144.463it 4' OUR OwN."—Thep, is such a
•tuiitornity in American towns,- „people, manners,
:Customs, bnd "notions" generallywthnt..!.
_4:Uncle
:eniiiht faily. be called "Uncle Senee.e-,Fletel
.0,1F±1:18 AND THE CRITICISED.— We know
further that the bent of critics is the one who makes
fewest rnietakee. We laugh at *he familiar instances
of, oter ancestors' blipdneas; but we oilreelves are surely,.
'not 'infallible. .4Wo plume ourselves' on detecting the
errors of So many able men; -butthe. very boat ehoulli
Make in modest. Will not the twentbtfrcehturielluet
mrp4 ot our grandchildren send
:IA- the eineteentle? 4,
. noble= of,seur ino,aern idols ,to-iVea diAlaeaps, and .drt,g,
cht winki of genius from' the tiiglect in' Which' We Co"
undeservt:dly left them No was.; fatiftait is said, is
eecure till he has lived threughu century., His ehildrgn
are awcd by his reputation; hiegrarillehildren Ede pre-
j'adioed by a reaction; only a-third-generation pro-
nounces with tolerable imuartiality. on .ene- so far
removed from the edaily cenfiict of-.opipipp.win a.itpuf
tnry el. so, we cititiee What-trinaninitireartrtione..lFi
ean Measure the force of Us blows. Weean see, with-
out refereece to our personal likes or disliked, how far
he has moulded the thoughts (it his race and become
,a
source of apititual power. That is a question of fact's,
as much as any historical question, and criticism which,
:takes it. prjoperly into account may claim to be in some
.sense spieritifie. To anticipate the verdict of posterity
It 'the' great task of the true critic, which is' accom-
l2thhed by about one men in a generation, —Cornhile
Magetsine.

.Sl-61,Y.A.QtAls) holm, thitn±hase_wtha
Mound, and thus rpil

e4le

MRS. GADIP ON THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—
" Sairey," says Mrs. Harris to me, "'ow comes it as,
these Diskivery ships, which was to have brought the
N rth P de to the Britis'i Museum, has been and gone
atoi come hack without ii?"—" Mrs. 'Arnie," says I, I
"I SU ppozfe the-i've been and coined back from regions
Obly lino no to tteirselves.”— Punch.
RI:col-LDS OF LONGIVITY.—The returns red I
cently issued for 1874 show that 69 of the 526,63 Z
persona whose deaths were registered in England iD
that year were stated to be 100 years old, or upwards. .
These centenarians comprised 16 men and 53 women;
end the ollest were six widows, described as being 104
bears old. Of the 53 women ail but' eight are regis-
tered as ,xing w;(l,,ws. Among the whole 69 there is
only one rixo is styled as a gentleman; one of the men
is described as a p3nsionor, one woman as an annuitant,
and another woman (100 years old) as a "ward in
Chancery." One of the men is described as a farmer,
one as a yeoman, ana eight of the women as widows
of farmers (six of them in Wales), and one as the
widow of a gamekeeper. Two of the men are regis-
tered.= ..agrienlrnrei Islumvers, and six of the women.
(three of them in Wales) as widows of azricultnral
labourers or of gardeners. Two of dab .wonien were
seryants t one of the men was a sailoiti,_ ad one of the
women widow of a goaatggardsman. But the majority
-of-these--aged-pe,,,ow, arertleseribed as having been
occupied in ordinary tr.apiteispr as being the widows of
persons so occle-d thirlitetheirlives. Of the whole 69
the deaths of as many as 19 were registered in Wales,
91: the metropolis, and only 4 in the northsvestern
d ision of Engimyl....t -Au( yr d I
i THE PHILAD#LPHIA .F4.lT.FigßiTioN.—Arrange,
meats have (says a TinieS telegram) been matured for
continuing after November 10 the' PhiladelphinExhi- -
biiionin, the insitl,-Iniiiistilal building, by a company,
;cliartered tirideriltheilirwii of Pennsylvania, including
the chief managers: of .the present exhibition. A
milseum is also to be opened in' the Memorial Bailding .1
ItiownAe-the Penipylvania Xuseuni. The chief part
ofl the British Art Edhcationul Collection from South
-,Klnisirigtchbnowat Philadelphia has been presented by
' Ilah Duke of Richmond partly to the Pennsylvania
hlti"eum sud. ipFth, to the .new Educational Museum
it. Washington. The British Ordnance Survey maps
:will also be presented; while arrangements are being
made for tha loan'ta thoTawAsylvania Museum of the
British Eakt,lndislak,d4playrnow in the exhibition for
-
THE Le* '' OtiOnittlClTig; RETURNED! The
Times, in a leader, re ' i*:— '
An Armistice haring: be. signed, and hostilities between
,the Turks and the insurgent Provinces being, as we may
assume, suspended the state, of affairs is outwardly similar
to that which obtained'in, tire:early part of the present year,
Ills apparently even more favourable; it there was then but
a fitful and purposeless warfare in Herzegovina, them is now
an actual cessation of -fikining everywhere. It would seem
as it aemercnut fortune. had.bncel more given the direction od
events into the hands of Ministers and Ambassa4ors, with
the caution to be wilier this time., Now may be done what
might have been done a year ago, or jar months ago. The
lost, ctierffartigtegur;s7rp thing rate in human affairs Ac-
,aVonti. the past_ may cease, for the
erumbits,kbee•heins toknght, by events, they have been
"ro ed.lA',ciAticism, and it is is their power that all shall end
1
Wei V.' is lilOL wltlithe t iitiCrity of our countrymen that
:the cinuico .arb fit / ' lir' illeaee, and of such a peace as
. mai sestina be' welt.
,brifiirthiirione in dispute, and, by
ip?ewxt or intrigue, make a
- new. ageresston, MOESClAlcirit to offence against the public
law ot-Xurope,{ siitiAjr. rtgb,t to, bear in mind that this
haPY issue has imitalo4-been xecnred ; it has only a strong
i probability fifits.Mqypi. 'rid be remembered also that
pea 'Will tint ~efin- to . 'aii if from the heavens, with
olive branch 'Mid ":vioveir,To *nits blessing to an apathetic
or cbrolift werlit..!, teace-bas still to be won by judgment,
by A skilful use of opportunities, by the courage which
does not stzink from originality, and by the firmness which
`Miltatee'll inftWislitakidiqtriationt of detail.
-.L piiii ilitilett o's-Itifion .A. LOTS FEAST-
-ling" soup and Pot an FASV; two soles (with but a
~,--thought), Since Pi uante Calf's heart an My.
y, Filly a leaf' ' Atiddrenddlets, To mate
mice, Aosii.T.Xlmljainist an.pate de fol. Tongue
durer Brain sauce, Gfeen Mg&Tert, sweet sauce;
lee, Pairs, Love apples,Tceis : none. Wine:
MU Ma go._ Chateau heltoiliNißean jolly, Port
einlitiag- ta.U.ll)--illikeroso;'..Liqueur—Catelter• )
: sitßCt Champs Elysiegi.
,'13111174111 'OP STREETS. —SoMe
ad
4t4PC . irre„ ' ' ' a47e.been me in Rome
IY, liitiortier t f?' jeWthe better watering of
i*eets of large cities. •ThAtie country we have the
_ . . . .

~.17%°t

10ale ta,

yery
recoil
si
.clay x
, 011 th
L^Cipal

ring car'" a-tafik On wheels, which on a summer's
equires to visit eacifletkitlit .professes to water
times a day, with the remit chiefly of amusing
e littleyeegeel nechins on the route. In the prin.
l treete*Pitiirl ldng PiPisioniiheelseloined by indigo.
tubing, are dragge A ergigeptliktalong—one end
to a plug iel,ttke,etege% and the other in the
' I,liinde.-r-eileri•iiir-ihYleaute purpose. The
...dbalitheiieliliOatitlitititun in a few minutes
(await trieikuisf hStitti.lellri litome a mixture of .
'eiVlgalcitlitt eititli'thbAliater has been found to ,
alai's streets-iitastAir seretal daye, as the moisture
lot then evaporate readily. While being remark- - -
_ obeep-7,elmqet eeoethleweippossesses Some. vain- I
able gletifeeicitilirtiesetkiteittirt from that, it it only
laid t e dust of our -streeter, it would be a boon to all
ow I geltdateielli T 0 H LILT , ti_ 0(A . .
) N •SMOKING RA1L7,41.. TediVELLEltt3.—The -
Liver 00l papers report a'Crise Of Borne interest to now
molt' gLreAlvey4tetrieVelei 4triikki ,Ciime before Mr.
1
Collie , itidge otthe cow* deturt.-. Mr. ' Knowles
Cooper, spice and seed merchant, ' Liverpool, sued the
Ches 4 Lines,Cpmmitt,eeeteerecoyer 4s. expenses said. .
to hate'telen 'indurre'd It4ttigi alleged breach of con- ,
tract. (n the 14theteptember the plaintiff and his
i
wife hiheetO in tit -4erserroad station on the de- -
fends telliiiii.- 'TA took' two first-clase tickets at the .
Central' Statittittli , fliti," 5.15 train. ' They looked for •-.
te
ee.ds in the- *in,' if eqUldnot find any except in the -
sinokieg compaitment vbat- in this they declined to ,
travel; aetKtgok scab to Mersey-road, incurring in ex-
penseatif- ;M Souyht`tisibejienovered. It was said fort.' ,
the di/ des.llpet the' 'pliiiiitiff Was offered a seat in a
Bcoonctdlailli4irtagkbut the 4uestion narrowed itself .
into this—whether, there 'being seats in the smoking.'
compartMent, the dilfekteleectri had not fulfilled their
part of the contract i6,.tiftorillog the plaintiff facilititsv -.
I (reeding on his thUrneY,' -Mr. Cooper, solicitor,
o 1 ;3
NT appeared for the plaintiff that he was not ,
c lied to travel in tliatirdtrifing compartment; that,
having taken first-class tickets, seats in a first-class
carriage should have been provided. His Honour said ,
it Was the first time the point had been raised, and he
would Consider his judgment. -.o 42., ~ ,
IV; Glass' 1:c0 'lllll ,Esiflti 'WHICH REQUIBS '
LO6ICI G AFTEIt.-.-ColutaiiiitioOld'itud Temple-Bar.— '
Punch 4 c.)/ 7: . it
' POtirLT4Y Poop. --Fowli . are exceedingly
.gregarions - and, When allowed toroam about, feed on •
rawly vegetables or weeds that it rarely falls to their
lotto obtain. Especially is this the cruse with strong ,
half growni .chickens, ;as these ,are most voracious,
. azia ,gepril_ never._te thee of feeding In well-kept .
gardens chickens are. moil esirable visitants, but
„ititt4 ,-
,
in gr.einds that arenbtet - thin a garden sense, but
arc sini ply cropped in:sefritigway, they do little harm,
and doubtless inuohlgtiocid;i.-Ase, soon as let free in the t
morning they set out in search of insects, and, if ob. ,
served,t it will be seen that. they pick up myriads of
these, isspecleily,speallAngs,,,caterpillars, and other .
deetructiv ingi.": ",TFrlii,-rettain for - this benefit it
is -Well 11; allow -tlieta' 'the pick of a piece of
cebbage,lopeOY reingtt lcind of the brassica family. -
as they are ravenonslY fond of certain kinds of '
green food. , However, their taste amongst the
many plants fonnd In a' gadeti is a-rather limited one,
' and the greater the range given the less mischief done.
Grass is to ,them Andisperntable, the eagerness with '
which they devour it shows this to be the case, and. '
-
.where Plenty is provided they less affect garden pro-
duce. All refttste triremings of oabbage, broccoli, and -
-green stuff shotdd he thvewn to them away from the
crops, and they willeaWnething of the leaves but ,
bare stems. Small potatoes and parings boiled up,
then drained dry, and Distilled with toppings, make .
capital lfOoddh b4tain degieeday, and if a little gilt ,
gets mixed'. With "it' the fowls are none the worse.
, Where there are poultry kept but little refuse food of
iinV;;;li need be wasted.—Gardener's Chronicle.
li p , _ .
84., , i ,NtitIOUS- FOll .3:Mali°. —Smith (frivolous
' Joker). 1 "The ' Murphies ' 'come up rather badly, eh,
BrownT Brown (serfdititaidener): "Oh middling."
Smith. "1 find the crop will be-teir per cent. under
the average this' Oat tri-Aliown. "How do you .
come at that? They are not got up yet." Smith
(prodding B. witb_*Upeterellet. "By trying 'em,— ~.
br the 'Ten-lcater-ve 'Trocess, my Boy I Twig ?" 11 :
[Brown taii,to t4f.); ifi 'andt& 'ta something.—Punch,,
-
AM Prinet-Sipf.,4NG PHINAMAN DROWNED.-
-An inquest has been lelil= at the "Spotted Dog"
'Tavern.. Poplar, respecting the death of a Chinamans i
named Voo linagoiged 82/ 'ebbs° body was discovered
on Monday it:tithe 89nthlyest, India Dock. The evi- .
donee :14 to idenititiwali giveti by John Thompson, the
chiefofficer of -a ismer: steamer named the Gordon. '
Castle; trading between Shanghai and London, on
hoard which vessel the deceased was employed as .
a -
fireman. Richard White, shipkeeper of the vessel
Braemar Castle, which is also engaged in the tea trade,
stated that deceased about thres,o'clock on Sunday ,
afternoon, - the , sth.. iiVit, , Crne on board, and joined , -
down below anuMblisr of his -ecraiitrymen, it being the
custom fpithene. trireiefitldgethr.- -Witness, who saw
no more of bins, Wateasleed/ehether he ppuld form any
Idea as te how deceased got in the w,ater, and he replied
that thelChinamen took suchitdee of opium that ho
was of opinion ;that the decaalled,. after indulging in the
uhe of that drug, Atil]; shY't.ndeateciuring to pass from ,-
. the 1 vase te2 therVinetiiiete,-rifiCh lay- alongside, to
ir .
'
,•,
reach his oiOria4tessel; become. ickly-and fallen over-
board. ohn McPherson, the shipkeeper- of the Van,
mixer, rd that .40110010 MM-it qu Sunday night,
hearing doton board_haskir_ig,.snd suspecting some
w ng, he called theChinampaairend used lights
;fed ropie, but nothing Was tO 'ofe'ireen. Charles .'
IK9tght deputed to findtree/1)1f,t447Pf-the deceased int '
'Oa fratest between, Ow ',.-Kanfieuverdend Braemar' Castle.
and, therS befug nelartheriemidenti the jury recorded -
ii'lVtrr d let of w!,Folivid....UrgWAßd%'
DEAN ',or -111111! 001 P , 011.1V/10. II .41r5.—1n
i ,
attnourti ethe deitifft'af 140.4Vbarles L Hemang. the
Atheireeit 4a7;0 I—"Mr.' Hieniatii wag a eon of Mrs.
Hemans, . the WellknoWn ' poetess. ,He left England '' ,
in early life,Latiff,:afteirefidirig in various parts of the . '.,.
Continent, finally.elttleellii-eßaly, and latterly is
Rome. Atiliiiitere that ins elkiet studies were made
in history rind' artlite6legy.: e His learning was also. f
extensiveen koth ancient and modern literature, He. ,
held the hondrarylioatielot lieeretitry and librarian to .
the SAlish A4eli'.46legiChil SOH* in Rome hi the
hite4still 0-which he -worked - from its beginning
Anti tut will..be J.:mg wenaainheeed, Ike visitors to Rome
_ant 241180. reeideatte tjwit, aim*. papist kind and I
friendly instructor,,, Hist stores, 91- 'knowledge were. ,
always open to Ab9gt ,*lloi,.- 4934100 h them.. He loved
to give I ortk , the:tufgslusggrii_ste ~had so laboriously
acquired, aneitheliterary spipt that inspired his ob-
servations oretheekitee and obit* 4 interest in Rome
made his; expoatiene doubly ,valuable. Indeed, to
scholars and stratify* ed.,Xtaliau;.eccleidestical history
and arct 23010zy 'ilia. works, are pnepli invaluable. His
/iikere...recent, emie ''..A History of, ,Medireval Chrig-
hott and Saered Art in Italy;" and "Historic and
Monumental Rome" contain the results of his most
mature-studies. .After a prima illness at Spezia last ~
summer he removed to the bath's of Lucca, where
of
fe
his
di. on, Thursday;the 26.,,h idt:, inthe
presence
ii, bfilast hourapoothed by the friendly attentions
~,,,„, i
o if bountryaneu staying there. His personal Rut-
ratter4ites kind,and amiable; his manner and bearing :_e 0,
modest and unassuming. Hia loss will be felt by a
large circle of friends, who will long remember him
with affection and esteem," • .

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