The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-09-26 00:00:00

AS llikiligtnfto

AND COLONIAL

tITION.—The number of visiterl
!ntions Exhibition for the weelg
.9, was 128,193, the total eilice
180.
iha has rest arrived at gr.
lishrcent its Earle-street, frac
Africa' by one of the Afrioan
)st interesting specimen is the
trope. It is about three year°,
nd-a-half feet high.
i.—Babies begin to work early'.
an. Children's Employroeo
ct, where tiny mites scarceli
taught to sew the buttous oa
of one pfennig per gross- —i-e't

-Two fresh departments of the
um at South Kensington are
-the gallery of fishes and the
gical department. There are
ephants in the latter section.
FRANcE.—The Colossal Bar'
resented by the French to tpl
[latched by a counter meraoriss
is. It is proposed to presenV
bronze statue of Washingtoat
)edesthl carved with bas-relief.-
rican missionaries, and U enerals
tatue would be placed in front

43 following are the ay.:OBC
For last week, as received tr°,;:.
rs of Fxcise : Wheat, 30s. 10°'
Is. 2d. per imperial qr. Correll'
: Wheat, 335. 10d. ; barleP

The largest profit by a Gerroan„
) per cent, by the Right
r German roads earned lore„
more than 7 per cent., but 01/
6 per cent., while 14 e,arneci

MESSICRSB.—One of the master.'
thbis at Florence has been Peri;
:ssuess. The cleauing of th
le Via Nazionale was left t 9
ire-dealer. This mats set hiS"
: of one of the apostles, and thi.et
scend the beaut if idly -wrougu
the ground and split iuto frg`g.

ppears that the gardens of the
being taken possession of by,
ghs," who are renderin; this
roachable by its usual visitors;
is to which these undesirable
Lemselves is that of mutilatitig
Latest exploit has been to breals.
nymph. In view of these Pr
)f the Louvre has expressed tP"n
e'
ick into the building all th,
kistration which are now hi the

-An instance of the chespneae
'• '
I ato now made in the United
n the miscellaneous hardware'
Good steel screw-drivera, 9io.
bought for 5 cents; door bolts.'
;ad latches for 35 cents.; 3in.
. A good pair of white well
can be bought for 15 cents; but
same gpods sold readily for 50'
ous in a country where PrOtEW
ices. What would be the via°
ree-trade.—" Engineer."
:s.—Forty British and fore/gri.
bed last week. Seventeen were
ing seven steamers. Off the
ssels (( ight British and °13,:
Lives lost numbered g 3.
elliaion (two off Great Britelt" '
; by that cause. Four Watt
I at sea, and a British barcltle
otal wrecks for year, 822. o°r.
lst year—Wrecks, 23; total feg

t IN A CITY PULPIT.—The
veteran lesturer and author °
via
licides," and other we114,11°05
Lt the morning service at
;rational Church, Aldersga of•
lest Nonconformist Placeeatteavt-'
;ondon), caused a large
ming. Mr. Cooper, who ittileur
year, spoke with all the vlg:o3
lays, and delivered an able of
he words, "I am the WO'
The
CK AND FR --
FSII MEAT. kof
Lnd fresh meat at the 11,91.:tee'
Lst week from the United P'331.•
to 2506 cattle 1134 sheer', 1.
50 carcases of mutton, agiSla,ni •
nports of 2034 cattle, 497
and 200 carcases of ra01,',4
the shipments of both live 170-p.
nveying steamers, 12 in nuramfe•
.ian, 677 cattle and 1243 quar,:ge
3 cattle and 231 sheep
sheep, and 672 quarters ef '145
and 237 sheep; Canadian, no
184 cattle; Lord Gotigh._.,
aia, 776 quarters of beef; tf
ad 50 carcases of mutton; , at
hers of beef and 50 carc,asePot.
quarters of beef and 59 beet
Abyssinia, 1400 quarters 0,
rtton. tile
IrtlMTS.—The additions W cel/
ardens during the past viol
; from North Africa, Pres„enllteS
ank vole from Essex, presThre
3oramon hedgehog, Britillblercat.
Hanrott ; a common
Mr. W. Buckley • an urg- oe'
Lustralia, presented by blafs,ibt
a from Dorsetshire, preBeow,ol'
ridge, 0.151.Z.5.; two Doug' *
etv Mexico, presented by D.,Portir,
tmmon chameleons frail ;
Ir. F. Bland. „to,
ire Cochut, honorary direc,„'"
Paris has commurucatn, tO,
hitherto unknown, relatroott
vhich he has discovered °jolt
lament. It seems that the gel
nder obligations to "1101 ~C 1
3 oddly inappropriate beriell
warehouses of the Mont de
Kt francs. After a fey/. t ths
es, the poet perceived tha,eat
ste, and induced the Goya/710P
friends, Benjamin Antler k
ead. 00°1
luperintendent of the Getrn
tact, to
an account of two Die
t have been examined undecri e•V
Lment for the collection aho the
jects. One meteorite tbe
ar the village of Pirthal,'",;olfir
;s received in three Pieeee' be
mmes, the specific gravitlolll,,
s roughly cuboidal Wt' rOfel*
ides. The other meteotrotarl
aandpur, in the North-11;4W
tf April last. The stone Lval
ecific gravity being 3'25/;;;0 ea'
shape, with rounded cub- t
-As early as the be•S`-000..0V,
cailzie, or "cock of the Ord.
;litany extinct in Great btataa
if a single specimen was eteceop
;reat curiosity. WO, bbho
obably with truth, els'
A few years ago, hoview
me others imported a heealt°_4
a Norway. The birds hav A Pt:r
o a wonderful extent, eliget,ll.rs,
srs are now as anxioue t° reaile
o acquire them. The oaPe at 14'..A
hoots tre-
on the young green 6' veri
Thus it produces on 000,4
ffect which gardeners colt gtotr;
; fir is only useful vibe° oat tt;
nd it therefore fellovis 10 silo
a tree at every naeaL
too expensive a luitlridbuilliled
Le remainder of the 0' 010'110
;hambers north of Lin° pti
beet' loy-
cery-lane, have noic 0111
3W red-brick chamber.chi
ose already erected,
s'ild to,7.iat)
The old gatevlaY.o3olo
cipal entrance te ;1' at Pre, je
16
howeVer,rerasultate,t
gateway of this sti ?lt eat ,
end of the fourteelltr, is 0100
11., Oliver Crotrov.s'esteer; oad
rs at one time in hys
Ben Jonson the drsilLe,
) wall just 'Pulled (0 11:0-0
from ChancerY4aYl 00094 o'
is life, assisting hals,,lo 00,04
;remaining old ch orope,srli- •
lave a very ancieTt
led down and rebut .