The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-18 00:00:00

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_ , ,• CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday.
As I hinted to_you yesterday, Russia is checkmatiad.
The, stribbort siatance of -1 rance and Italy to her
claims, and tkie;moral support of England ;given to the
combined policy of Austria and Germany, have had
their due effect. Sir Henry Elliott has submitted a
. scheme to the Russian Ambassador, whieh is now said
to be undergoing consideration.
• CON4T4TINOPLE, Thursday.
•
Frona the tope of my yesterday's despatch you will
be prepared.toJearn that. Europe is threatened at this
Moment with one of the greatest calamities that could
possibly happen to her. The alliance offensive and
defensive, between Russia, France; Austria, and Italy,
(at which I hinted yesterday), is causing the most
. hopeless -complications. I may add that Sir Henry
Elliott's scheme submitted to Russia yesterday has
been withdrawn, at the instigation of Lord Salisbury.
CONSTANTINOPLH, Fri Cay.
• After my yesterday's despatch it will scarcely be news
or you to hear that Russia has sent an ultimatum to
aris; Vienna; an.cl R,ofne. England has offered to
arbitrate between the quarrelling Powers, but unhappily
. if feeling of -atiimotitk," which is accountable for
'Russia's strange conduct, is of many years standing.
Sir Henry Elliot has submitterl schemes tn Raps.,
seutatives.ot tierManyi Austria Switzerland, France,
and Spain.
CONSTiNTINOPLE,
'r •
' Trots the tenor of my yesterday's remarks, you will
have guessed that Russia has withdrawn all her de-
mends, and is now the Tildes best friend. The Inter-
national Banquet (to Which I alluded in my last die-
patch),Vas a great success. The healths of the Queen'
of England, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Italy,
and the President of the French Republic, were pro-
posed Inmost affectionate terms by the Russian host.
There is no other news except that the schemes sub-
mitted yesterday by Sir Henry Elliott •to the Repre-
sentatives of Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,
France, and Spain, have been withdrawn at the insti-
gation of Lord Salisbury.

THE POTATO BEETLE.
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....The Canadian Minister of Agelculture Itle, at the
• .—.— , . .
request of the Earl of Carnarvon, made a report upon
'ee prevention of the introdnetion of the Colorado
potato beetle into other countries. He states that the
hebits of the beetle as connected with the possibility
of its penetrating almost anywhere, and by almost any ,
means of transport render insoluble the problem of
absolutely preventing its inroad into new fields of de-
vastation, no matter how remote or by what obstacles
they may be separated from the regions already in-
vaded. Potatoes and their covering are neither more
or less apt to harbour the insect than anything else.
But if the absolute repelling of the invader is unfortu-
nately beyond reach the extent of the disaster is fortu-
nately in a very great measure under control,( nvolving, .
of -course, care and expense. The remedies which
necessity has taught In Canada are such as to require
,1:•
r their application the joint effort of the corn-
, enunity at large, kept alive to its interests and duties
by the authorities, and men of devotedness to the corn- .
mon welfare. These remedies are-1, Searching for,
, and crushing every potato beetle wherever found; 2, .
, Frequent visits to the potato fields, and searching fori
the eggs deposited on the under side of the leaves of
etheipotato vine; and 3, watching for the presence of
thnlarvie.on the buds and on the leaves of the plant,
id Ordeith destroy them by means of Paris green, the
, Only substance yet discovered to be Effectually opera-
tive on a large scale for the destruction of the insect
in its larva state. By this means, and by these means
only, the invaded American States and the westerne
part of Canada have been able to secure potato crops in q
a measure commensurate with the care and energy be-
stowed, and by similar means only can the invasion be
retarded and lessened in its effects.
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ME .FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
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I A SLENDER JOKE.—When a fellow's father
and mother are very thitnehe is doubly justified in
callicglhem his aparteentnele-Fun..
,
" fiedt+RTELLE WREATHS. —the manufacture of
i,
immortelle wreaths in Paris occupies no less than
1,500 nereone. The immortelles are gathered about the
.begenteng of -L'ooper, q. ms ...,,wv ~.......,
I.illsin the middle and Solitli Of France. • They are
brought to the markets in their natural condition and
the yellow blossoms are dyed green, red, and White,
and woven into wreaths by special workmen in readi-
ness for All Saints' and All Souls' days (Noveneber 1
and 2), _when all good Parisians visit their relatives'
'graves. On them fifes des morts the gates of the
cereeterieslreleFiet 'with crowds of dealers in immor-
telle wreaths, wire creme% and head crowns. At Pre- '
i la-Chaise alone more than 200.000 persons are nalcu-
-1 lated to visit the cemetery, and the sale of immortelle
wreaths varies from 20,000 to 25,000. . .
A !‘ juu.D."—" A. B. R." writes "to 'bit
~..`tiines:--:"We" have heard a good deal lately of the
possibility of the Turks proclaiming a Jihad, or religious
_war, if everything was not done by the rowers agree-
ably to their pretensions. This you have admirably
disposed of in your leaders, as has also your Corre-
spondent at Constantinople; bat it may tend to allay
the fears of any who still dread this to know from the
!following extract from the Moohc;t-es•Surukhsee that
3/lahomedan fanaticism is not quite so uncontrolled by
.the maxims of worldly prudence as many suppose :
" Twe things are required to justify a Jihad; one of these
ifs the refusal of the enemy to accept the true religion when
called upon, end the absence of any special protection granted
,to them, or subsiie ing Treaty between them and us; and the
-other is a reasonable hope that the people of Islam will be
endowed with strength and courage to contend with them
and their allies. Where there is no ground for expecting
this, such war is unlawful, as being a manifest throwing away
of life '--Fut. Alum., Vol. IL, p. 266."
A NON-SIQUITOR. —What interest we do take
in American politics I Last Wednesday there appeared
in the window of the Daily News a gigantic placard
announcing that Mr. Tilden had been elected President
of the United States. If the announcement had been
to the effect that 11r. Tilde had been incontinently
hanged, perhaps a little more enthusiasm might have
been evoked; as it was, the British public passed by
unheeding. With one exctption I An old gentleman
gazed at the placard for some time, and then informed
all who cared to listen to him that be "knew all along
that we hadn't heard the last of that Bravo case."—
World.
' - SITTING ON A .PORCUPINE.—The Sacramento
(Cald.) "Union" has the following incident :—" Yes-
' terday morning &traveller by one of the railroad trains
brought to the city a porcupine of large size caged in a
,
'roomy box, with pieces of board plaeed across the top
at intervals of about an inch and a half, in order ,that
'the animal might have as much, air as possible, . His
Owner set the box down near the ticket office while
attending to some other matter, and it attracted little
attention. By and by a young 'man, who had got
tired of standing up, seeing what appeared to be an
empty fruit box handy, deposited himself upon it
with a sigh of relief. : A bystander who understood the
"situation" stepped up quietly, and with .his cane
began punching the porcupine. It was, hut a few
seconds before the animal became 'fretful' as ie were,'
and then he got his.' back up.' The reader may .at
some time have admired the. alacrity with which an
individual has risen from a chair out of deference to. a
bent pin which had somehow got there before 'him, but
on this occasion ;he man shot up as thougli' lie had sat
down upon a fell pager of bent pins, alltionattliet."
. . .. . ,
A RIDDLE ME R.E.E'D".--A: good .epecinaetepf
the "soft answer that' turnetlf away wrath was Oven
;the other morning at a suburban railway station: A.'
lessy old, gentleman, after galloping up and down the
"platform and finding no room, shrieked to. an official;
Guard I guard! Why ain't I put in a second-claes t"
Why?" replied the guard pensively, " S'pose it'ee'coe
,you're not labelled."—Fun. 7 re. •
Tun LORD MAYOR'S ELEPHANTS.—The Times,.
in remarking upon the appearance of elephants in the
are both from NepauL
procession of the Lord Mayor of London, remarks :
teen years in England,
reference what these elephants were. The two largest,
la:lhda, (s
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are a male and female, both from Burmah, both ten years
present under the care of Mr. C. 11.
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old, who arrived in England three ye.ars ago. Another is
from Central India, ten years old, and has been here only
ItaeBarplhants drew atido from the procession at
two years. six small ones are from Ceylon, their ages being
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'the Temple, and stood in line while the Mayor's 'Carriage
passed, and it was intended they should " trumpet " a salute,
, but an order was given for them to abstain, as it was feared
JACKALS.--Some interes-
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titeod,the acclimatization of the
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THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT OF , ,ttninerrghßofarzscetssNmwuiigtinhst,reNeefeferEriegnhoctxpee
- jackal are given by one of the' Indian papers (says the
. COAL-FIELDS. I Pall Mall Gazette). 'ln days gone by, says the Dar-.
At this season of the year it is pleasant to hear of jeeling News, Darjeeling was an unknown district to
an extraordinary development of the Yorkshire coal- the jackal of Bengal;. but it is said that some jackal
fields. During last week, according
eo the Manchester fancier took it into his head a few years ago, in an evil
Guardian, the coal has been tapped in the largest un- hour for Darjeeling, to give a few of these pets of his
worked mineral field in the West Riding, the area the benefit of a hill climate, and had them carefully
being estimated it from seven to eight square miles. brought up from below and let loose in Darjeeling. -At
One of the top beds was reached, and foundto be four the time the whole thing was laughed at, ' and put
feet ten inches thick, and of excellent nuelity. down to the wandering eccentricity of a soft heart and
Within the last fortnight the Barnsley thick pal 'softer head; but the 'jackals have since so multiplied
,was reached at Carlton and the Silkstone at the, cql- and developed. in size and noise that their invasion of
liery of ,the Barrow Hematite Company. In 1875 the the district is no longer-a laughing matter, but an
Inspector, of, Mines 'called attention tee the fact that abominable nuisance. • They are a great deal -bigger
111 new *Collieries wee° in course of sinking, and a late than their brethren of the philtre, are better coated, of
many of these have recently been opened oategnd others lighter colour, 'rand have better lungs, as can be certified
are very close to the coal. Among the new collieries to by the deafest resident in Darjeeling, and would be
in the Barnsley district are the Corton WOdd, Where the , absolutely dangerous if by increasing numbers and
estimated production 181,500 tons is day; the Mitchell's scarcity of food they are ever driven to seek a dinner off.
Main,' 1;00() tons a day; the Wherucliffe, -Caeiton, "a poor Paharee Puttawalla." . The introduceien
_ofee
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:.410 tons 'a day; and the g. ~ _ „ ,
..., . , trange animal into,a dietrice is always; si tletnietits
. , 'land gilkstond Collieries, the output of whic 13 einerinient, and-it terrible tespOnsibility attaches the
estimated at 3,500 tons a day. This would give, when first person who brought cats to London. Not even
all are in full operation, an increase in the production, the romantic story of Whittington consoles the sloop.
within an area of less than four miles of Barnsley, of less invalid whose nerves are kept in a constant state
more than two and a half million tons per annum. In of tenson during the "witching hours of night" by
' addition to the collieries that were being Rink and the ceaseless serenade of these eccentric creatures.

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