The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-24 00:00:00

Our Foam Corrtsponbtat.

ilVe deem It light to state that we do not at all times
dentay ourselves with our correspondent's oplulounl

The news from France is on the whole reassuring,
and gives ground for hops that having well sustained
the shock of war, if she have not recovered from it, she
may pass through her political troubles without further
bloodshed. Whether she will retails and develops her
Republican form of government, whether she will
t1h0..0 a Legitimist sovereign in the person of the
Count de Chambord, or an Orleanist prince to rule
over her, are all matters of speculation, which only the
CollC.lteti quidnunc would frohss to be able to foretell;
but is would 'e a mercy to Europe if the long die-
tack,' country would determine " runlet. which king,"
or un hr what form of Government, she will devote
herself to the La.'s of developing her ro nurces, and of lit.
proving her p.sltion lu the code of natione. It may be
preltysefely eeetrted that France will not settle down
quietly enat;er her defeat teed banish MI thoughts of re-
venge. Also! that would be contrary to human nature., and
...lithely contrary to French human nature. Her rents.
I.4cottos may upper ever so far off, but it cannot be
wholly toe; to eishe. I fancy we can see some proof of
this in the 'Ps trpointment of the Parisians at the
poet/ins tuent of the rethw witch was to have t.dren
place en Sunday at the Longehatups racecourse. It
might have been thoneat that the Patinists would
have been quite sickened of soldiers and their doings,
and would have regarded a nil jar), review at a spec-
tacle that woultl have painfully r, minded them of the
terrible suffering,' that Paris had undergone at the
hands not only of German troops, but from "tots
of her own household." S range, indeed, that In her
preeent painful circumstances Park should be die.
appointed at the postponement of a review; but
so it is, and to yloire still everts its baneful
Influence. 10 is pleasant, on the other hand, to
read of the gradual revival of trade and the
growth of confidence in Paris. flee ',cued and
frightened (and not withtut good cause) citizens are
returning, and Englieh and American visitors have
arrived and are arriving to spend money freely ; hotels,
cafe* restaurants, and shop', are beginning once again
to do a thriving busk ; and Palu is becomb g her-
eelf again. All this, I repeat, is very pleasant to read
of, but sshiening and auggative items of news are
tninl..i wi'b cheering ; fr tiamp!e,
" BusineFe coatinres to Mir tame in the indits'rial
quart. rs. It is etated that the French manufacturers

will bo able to tura cut 500,000 dike a year." There is
in this latter alstence a t:at fa. a sad homily. I
should have been Fetter pleare to have read that
France ha .t tiecided to deerease her army ene.half, or
oue-fourtb, and a'so to di-msntle her men-ofwar and
naval. armaiosnts. Ii 'he wou'd do tide, she would
the sooner mover herself, and Europe generally
would stand a ls tter chance of a lastiog pece and
incres•ltos 'Moaner:Cy.

As the remarkable Tiehboroe case pmgrerses, pub,
lic interest in it 11, no n, a:3 ar d this
is evielenessl alike by the crow& in atal about the
Court of Common Fleas, by the throngs tf people
staring at the Ticht;orne portrai,l in the chop windows,
by the case aLfarding an ahnost universal topic of con-
versation. and by the betting on the case. Blear.-
while tl'-ere ia intense anxiety manifested to see the
sh.la•r in court or as he mters or leayss it.
The seats on the bench and in the court itself, and
every bit of standing room, are occupied day after
day, and the game has be-n w nth the candle during the
cross-exeniination, for this Is generally the moat inter.
eating start of a trial, and in this case it is particularly
so. When will It end! Ay, when? "I have 117
more witmesee to be examined," says the claimant,
"and you can have 2(0 more if you like." At this
statem-nt we ure told the Judge looked "aghast,"
and no wond.r ; and perhaps the jury looked aghast,
too. Perhaps, moreover, they now repent having given
the; r so is ices cratuitausly.

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Vi.iturs to Londen this season must see eo great a
change in respect to vehicular teeth:: that it is highly
probable that the mete:polls will hi this In .tter set an
example to minor towns, insteml of following lesser
towns ai is cenunonly the case. I allude to tramways
and ROl:ate r ‘a_lways. These two great improve.
ments are being visited out simultaneously, and their
supericrity ever the previously existing state of
things is so minifest that this double referm must go
on and develops itself. Not the least benefit we de-
rive from these reforms is the decrease of noise. The
fact will not be lost upon provincial towns.
We have hail a monster wedding hire, really a very
great affair--nothing less than the marriage of Captain
Van Barra Bates to Miss Anna Swan. I saw them
at the Cr 3 gad Palace, and c :aid not decide which was
the taller tithe two, but I incline to believe that the
lady 'has the re:vantage" ( n a showman'a enss of
the term.) Nor eau I wcertain %hat their real height
Is. They are adverihed as eight feet high, but I
should ray they are about 7 feet 6 inches. But at all
events it may be add of th
Sure such a pair was never seen,

So Oily formed by Nature.
The royal pariah of St. Martin was "all agog" on
Saturday on neeeatac. i al.:. ..-
e.onuer,-ter we do n
not have s Kentucky giant and •
Newfoundland giantets married every day.
Man frurtently treats one of his best friends, the
dog, in a very ignorant and unfair way, and perhaps
the real .r;ty of us know no more about doggy's nature
than EP vs ,I.llt tore. But we might re amnaLly ea-
peet that e,l•en nt le,tielatee on the subject of
hydrophobic. ou: gislate r should have a bale of
round ku, vr:r.l;;,, on wh!,h to take their it incl. As at
this time of the y eir people are %Pt to be frightened
about hy,tr. ell ,ha, let me bridle note some of the
salient poi..ta ef Mr. G. li. Jesee'a views on the sub-
ject. He ors s tat hydrophobia (the fear of water) is
the wr,ef; 12,1131.1 fir the diocese art! that it is rabies
(madnear) ; that this disease is peculiar to no time of
year, and is at frequent in winter as in summer. If
this be true, we had better get rid of ourabaurd notions
about •` the do,: nave." The bill row before Parliament
ia it seem,, er.tir•ly ia the wrong direction, and will do
more harm tli-af god. Let us Lear in mind that canine
mscicest chi fly arises from the "rice, stupidity, and
eelliAme a of mem" In such important matters as
food, water, el.e.ter, and liberty, we treat &guy very
badly, and then complain if he go mad. "Rabic) is,
even in England," says Mr. Jesee, "a very rare disease.
Other complaints are frequently mistaken for it. Fits,
costivenerw, distemper, are among them. The dog.days
ought rather to be termed the fool and coward days. A
wad dog miters from a devouring thirst; moat people,
even of the 'educated classes,' think, on the contrary, he
dreads water. Rabies is far from being necessarily
connected with the dog. Doge swarm in all the villages
and towns of Egypt, but madness am mg them is un-
known. Yet the Muesulrean neither chains, muzzles,
nor murders theni. We can only govern nature by obey-
ing her.' In connection with these judicious remarks
I may add that the police are just now displaying
unusual activity in London in capturing really or pre-
sumably "bat and starving dogs," and taking them
as prbioners to the station-house. Thence they are
taken to the home for lost and starving doge at Wands
worth. This place has now become quite an important
institution. I visited it the other day, and was much
pleased with the systematic care and attention devoted
to a very large number of dog, and all sorts of dogs,
too,' puppy and mongrel, whelp and bound, and cur ol
low degree," aye, and doge of high degree, also, and
there were among them a few members of the canine
aristocracy.

Whether It ie IL-aftil to "do evil that good may come'.
Is an oft.dieputt I que.tion that I am not going to re-
open ; tor will I maintain or deny that "the end
sanctifiea the means." We all know that there are
people who think nothing of a train, a cab, or an
orrudbus to their places of w.dship who would
think it very wrong to ride as part of half
"a day's recreation on the hhtz day ; that a child
at a. Suudayochool to encotuageil to buy a penny peri-
dice' on a Suo,lay, wLerear a " peon', rth" of sweetstuff
would be condered very dreadful ; and co on.
DOUbtit PM there is moo', to be said on both sides, and
so there is vi.th regard to bazars, where wheedling
add pendia in jun a hale overstep the boundary
between truth and fa'sellood. For example, I was
called on the other day to attend a bazaar for a charit-
able object, awl was pleaeantly victimised in more
than one way. bored intolerably to wltne,s the
'fine-art collection," I paid my money and entered
the inner circle; and here amii I was wheedled into
buying a catalogue a the paintinsa and works of art.
Here are "MP,: : No. 14, the Rd Sea MO
FiaMe beyond Pipe I, tter e printed in rLd, behind which
were two carlieriteen Panes); 16, Caught in a Squall
cif Yarmouth, by Fa her (a real herrin, ) ; it, the
Colman,' f ret ( w.. 1 candles); 22, Thiugn to Adore
(lock, key, awl hl4ee— a door, do you understand ) ;
'24, the Wearied G in.:, r (an ,atrw.tvd tooth). All very
funny, no &till-, nod if ct-. w,•hial been didll-41init of
our money, at lovnt we had tile rati:tiolion of km.w,ng
that otir 14 hi. COI nof the realm promoted a goo I oh-
ject,

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• SrMETHIcto !AUG • WHIALWIND.--A lines
Zidlan Mad say.: -

" for dwellers ha England, it le cot easy folly to
realise the terrible force of a ',Willett,' In the tropics,
a Ithourth our paganism:mations centana wooderfol attics or
Leystacks ltirag throe distance through the air, Even hay-
rtaclts, however, incite our scepticism rather than .oir rpm-
lathy. What shall we my, then, to a at-try h rae from Co.
r. 00148, on the Coromandel Cos's, and ac,,,toted ail true by
the Madras lfr.:? I. apreers th ,t a nemlny • f thatched
t maths, treys, at d a •hole is rd if cattle with It, limonite an
were caualat p 'p the le ,h nf May by a fearrol whlziwtod
from a village ch the Yilapore Ertate. Co.l riled a
way tbrcrigh the air, lialbtn^e‘ as Ng as wood ap des '
fun doring the *tom Ira pr•rlt 1 the n thonced !Pahl
Clronsh the air, we .re told that the berdamth we lotind
dead in. a-trait outaide the village, and that the corlites of
Is cattle were 'scattered about within a radius of one tO
Ivo miles.' What became of the tree. and bungee we We
plt hoer able to athertaln..