The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A duel with swords was fought in France on Sunday
between Baron Calvet Rogniat, an attache, and Count
Patrnett, a foreign officer. lhe latter received two wounds,
one of which is somewhat serious. Some angry words ex-
changed in a diplomatic sal,on, wore the cause of tile duel.
The Viceroy of India has received the following
congratulatory telegram from Her Majesty the Queen :—" I
have received the news of the dezisive victory of General
Roberts and the splendid behaviour of my brave soldiers,
with pride and satisfaction, though I must ever deplore the
unavoidable loss of life. Pray iuquire after the wounded in
my name. May we continue to receive good news."
"What a wonderful climate is ours! A week ago
we were shivering over the tire; now we might sit out-
doors without overcoats and er,joy the genial air. The dif-
ference in temperature might be measured by three blankets
at night and a coupe of flannel shirts by day."—lfark Lane
Express.

There were 1,762 births, and 1,900 deaths registered
in L-ndon last seek. The annual death rate Occluding the
deaths of 627 persons on board the Princess Alice steamer,
recently registered), which had been equal to 237, 24.8, and
20•1 per I,oco inthe three preceding weles declined rg
to 277. During the 52 weeks of 1878, 85,605 deaths were
regis:ered in London, of which 14•734, or 18 per cent., were
referred to the wen principal zyrnotic diseases ; the death-
rate from all causes was equal to 235, and from the seven
prinlpal zymoticcliseases to 41 per 1,000 of the population,
against 219 and 3'i respectively in 1877.
During the la;e bcvero weather in Geneva, wheeled
carriages being annost useless, the demand for sledges was
so great that mans ancient vehicles which had not seen the
light for the greeter part of a century were brought into
requisition, and tie ident:cal sledge, gaily painted, and its
tides still ornaminted wilh victorious eagles, in which
Napoleon rode turn blartingy to Bourg St Pierre when he
was preparing to cross the Alps before the campaign of
Mareng.) was sem daily driven about the streets of
Lausanne This titerestlng relic is now the property of a
Vaudois voituricr, who lets it out for hire.
The new Act lelating to trout, char, and " coarse "
fresh-water fish ceme into force on Wednesday. The Act
extends ta trout atd char in all parts of the country (except
Norfolk asd Suffelk, for which a local law was 'Passed in
1877.
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There were liinched on the Clyde doring last year
23,1 vt ssels, with so aggregate tonnyg., of 219,829 tons. These
vess-ls comprises 6 corvettes. 146 steamers, 65 sailing
vessels, 2 steam .aunches, 7 yachts, 2 brrges, 5 tug,, and 3
dredgers. Then( were also built by two firms 15 and 12
barges respectvely, but these were shipped in pieces to
their dr stinatioly where they will be put together and made
ready for sea. :lompared with 1877, there is an increase in
the number of Itnoches of eight vessels, and in the tonnage
of 51,892 tons. *
he Publvheri Circular gives the result of the
registration of the titles of books inued in the year 1878.
In all 5,:;14 looks have been pubLehed within the last
twelve month; of these 3,730 are wholly new, and 1,584 are
new editions. The number exceeds by 250 the total of the
previous yea: No fewer Mau 879 novels and other works of
fietion—neaiy 17 every week—were published within twelve
months. Tlis class heads the list in point of numbers,
and is folloved by theological and educational works to the
number, repectivelLPl.7B9 and 566. Then come books on
belles lettrd, juvenile works, history and biography, poetry
and the (Irma, year books and serials in volumes, medicine
and surges, voyages and travels, and others.

A letter from Finland states that Lapland has suf
fered dreadfully from the ravages of wolves this summer.
One-thlrd of the reindeer belonging to the Lapps have been
destroyed, and nearly all the young ones.
"If everybody has not read the last San Francisco
Nem Letter there will still be some who will be amused by the
Yankee's latest argument in favour of crematior. ` If,' says
be, 'you earn ) our living, why the 400ce shouldn't you urn
your dead? --Mayfair.
Olives are to be cultivated in Victoria, and a com-
pany has been formed at Ballarat for the culture of the plant
and the manufacture rf the'ii and other products, the
Victorian soil being considered especially suitable for the
growth of the olive.
Belgium will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
her Independence in 18.30, when there will be& grand FAliibi-
tion of National Industry.
Souls peculiar locusts recently appeared in on of
the Indian Presidencies, Insects with red heads and gqeen
bodies, whereas locusts are usually all green. The creatores
Lrmed a cloud three miles in length, and of similar breath,
and in the't our of their stay in one plaee devoured halftthe
crops in two Tillages, and a quarter of the harvest in three
more. The videgers drove them away by shouting find
making a great srno'&e.
Durirg the two months from the 21st of October: to
the 21st of December 144 societies, 44 newspapers and:ls7
other publications were proscribed by virtue of the Socialist
aw in Germany.
The Sultan received, on the Turkish New Year's.
day (which fell on Saturday, the 28th ult.), the congratula-
tions of his Ministera, and, in reply, said he relied upon
obtaining the assistance of them all in his endeavours to
faithfully carry out the promised reforms. It is again
rumoured that negotiations with Russia are about to com-
mence fir the arrangement of a definitive treaty of peace.
The Standard recently, in one day, spent £lOO in
Afghan war telegrams. It the journalists of half a century
ago had been told tpat in 1878 a London daily paper would
disburse such a sum for a daily question of one kind of news,
they would have regarded it as a wild entertainment of the
Arabian Night's genre; and even journalists of to-day open
their eyes in gentle wonderment when they hear of £4,000
being spent by one newspaper since the Afghan business
broke into rupture.— Court Journal.
The Marchioness of Lorne has sent word home that
she is greatly pleased with Canada so far as she has already
seen the country, and likes her house at Halifax exceedingly.
An agrteable association between her Royal Highness's
English We and her new home is maintained by the presence
round the Governor• General's residence of sentinels in the
familiar uniform worn by the Coldstream Guards here.—
Court Journal.

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
states that he is in a position to give a positive contradic-
tion to all reports that England, in the negotiations pending
with Turkey, inshts upon the formal abdication or the
sovereignty of Cyprus by the Sultan, the pourparlers which
are in progress merely aim, in conformity with the Conven-
tion, at an undertaking relative to the sale to Great Britain
of the Ottoman State property in the islanci.

"If asked why there should be such feeling for the
bereaved Royal family the question can easily be answered—
it is because our Queen has through her long and glorious
reign not only given proof of her ability in the trying task of
reigning constitutionally': but has by ten thousand channels
and in ten thousand instances shown what a noble mind and
a tender heart she has. No Sovereign ever was more loved
than her, and it is because of this that her urrows are our
sorrows, her joys our joys."—Vanity Fair.
The following notice has been given by Lord Bate-
man, in the House of Lords :—" On an early day next Ses-
sion, to call the attention of their Lordships' House to the
past and present operations of the Freetrade policy of this
country without reciprocity and to its effect upon the
various home native industries, and the revenue and taxa-
tion of the kingdom, and to move a resolution."
The following notice was posted on a large box,
which passed over our great throui.h lines reilrcad, a few
(la) s since :—"Bag•smashers are requested to handle this
box with care, as it contains nitro-glycerine, Greek fire, gun
cotton and two live gorillas ! " The box was not broken.
Court Journal.

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St. Petersburg is to have some new public vehicles
this winter. Small sledges to hold from three to five per-
sons, and propelled by men on skates, are to be established
to cross the Neva at a cost of Id. during the day and 2d. at
night, small refuges, duly warmed, being established at cer-
tain intervals.

A touching act of charity was announced at the
Exeter police-court on Monday, when the mayor acknow-
ledged the receipt of Li from the boys of the British Sea-
men's Orphan home at Brixham. The letter accompanying
the nr)ney stated that the lads had given up many of their
Christmas dainties, and sent their value as a contribution to
the fund for relieving the distress in Exeter. lhe mayor
thanked the boys for their gifts, and remarked that it was a
noble example of self-denial on their part.

A sad ice accident occurred last week at Farnworth.
Three boys were sliding in the waters of Messrs. T. B.
Crompton and Co, paper-makers, when the ice gave way and
one fell into the water. A compaidon named Edward
Richard Faulkrer, aged nine year, we rit to Lis rescue, and
tucceeded in getting him out. Faulkner was then retraclig
his steps, alien the ice gave ways second time and he rank
and was drowned.
A district conference, to elicit expressions of opinion
as to the best means of dimtulihing the prevailing evils of
Intemperance, is being organised by the West of England
League (which has over 400 branches, and operates in four-
teen counties in the West of England and :-louth Wales), to
take plac- here eluting the third week in January. The Lord
Bishop of Exeter, Vice-President of the Western Temp:ranee
League, has consented to preside.

The American Orrespondent of The Times writes :
" A new line of 18 British s'earners will, with the new year,
begin traffic from New York to L'verpool, Havre, Antwerp,
and Hamburg in count con with the New York Central
Railroad, called the Unicorn Line. It will carry grain and
provisions on through bills of ladirg from the West to
Europe, the Vand,rbilt Railroad Combination guaranteeing
full cargoes and quick despatch. This announcement is
causing sensation amorg other New York shipping interests
which anticipate lower freights for themselves as the result
of the establistment of the new line."

The master builders of Sheffield have issued a
circular to the effect that it has become absolutely neessary
to reduce the wages in all branches of the trade. It is pro-
posed to reduce the joiners id. par hour, which will make a
d•fference of 4s, per week in their wages. The men now work
49i hours per week, but it is intended to go back to the old
system of 54 weekly.
Last week the deaths from small•pox in London,
which had been 17 and 14 in the two previous weeks, further
declined to 13, of which doyen were recorded in the Metro-
politan Asylum Hospitals at Fulham and Deptford, and 2 in
private duelling houses.

According to news from West Africa, the dispute
between King George of Bonny and some of the native
traders might have resulted seriously but for the interven-
tion of Consul Hopkins. When the King was in England he
was presented with a handsome steam launch, and
,on his
return he amused himself by journeying up and down the
various rivers. There is a law which forbids him visiting any
of the markets which are likely to be influenced by his pre-
sence; but on one occasion he broke this law, and was made
prisoner by the chiefs. Her Majesty's gunboat Pioneer, with
Mr. Hopkins on board, was sent up soon afterwards, and an
arrangement was made by which the tCing was released, on
parole, pending an inquiry into the "'Circumstances of the
case.

The millers of the neighbourhood of Exeter have
held a meeting and determined to adopt tr.e cental for the
sale of flour and meal

In Edinburgh the New Year was ushered in with the
taus' demonstratifts. In the High-street a large crowd col-
lected, and when the clock struck twelve three cheers were
given. The assemblage gradually dispersed, many viEi,ing
their friends at an early hour in the morning to wish them a
happy new year.

The body of Sister Dora, a la,ly who for several
years had held the chief position in the Cottage Hospital at
Walsall, was buried with public honours last Saturday. The
31ayor and Corporation, Bishops Abraham and J. Selwyn,
the magistrates, public bodies, friendly societies, and others
joined in the funeral procession. The streets were crowded
as the cortege passed. The Bishop of Lichfield preached on
her life and labours on Sunday.
On Saturday Lady Lindsay opened a Children's
Sanatorium at Southport, and laid a tablet in commemora-
tion of the event. Lady Lindsay was accompanied by Lord
Lindsay, M.P., and the Hon. T. Wilbraham, the president of
the institution.

The King of Italy has bad two days' hunting at
Castel Porzians. The bag, without counting other game,
contained 60 wild boars, fad required three large wagguns
to convey it to the Quirinal. Three dogs were gored during
the sport. .The product of the chase was distributed in pre-
sents from His Majesty to his Ministers, the Presidents of
the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate, to high
digaitaries at Court, and others.
Some statistics published by the Director of the
Ass;stance Publique show that, in 1859,the population of Paris
was 1,174,346, provided with 7,147 hospital beds, and 7,721 in
almshouses. At present, the capital has nearly two millions
of people, and the hospital beds number 8 430, and the alms-
houses 8,187. The result of these figures is that while the
population increased 47-per cent. toe accommodation pro-
vided only augmented 18 per cent.

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An uncle of General de Boucheman, aged eighty,
staying with his nephew in the Rue de l'Orangerie, at
Versailles, was found yesterday dead in his bedroom, with
his right hand in the lire completely calcined. During the
mometitary'absence cf Ws attendant he bad fallen from his
arm-ch dr on the hearth in an apoplectic fit—Paris Corre-
spondent o Daily News
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The parochial authorities of Bethnal Green have
Irsuod notices warning persot s against purcha,ing second-
hand articles of cicthing offered for sale in the public
streets, as it has been found that, in some cases where wear-
ing app trel bai changed bands, the wearers have been seized
with diseages of an infectious type. Persons found having
Las their po-seesion clothing belonging to a person stricken
with disease or milling the same to be distributed are liable
to a fine of £5. _ _

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Small-ox r,ported to be raging to such an extent
at Ceara., in the north of Brazil, that in the city itself the
deaths are six hundred daily. In the interior of the province
the distress is stated to be appalling.
The letters and packets posted in Liverpool this
Christmas in exceiis of the ordinary correspondence were
279,64 F,, and the excess oelivered was 200,636, showirig a
substantial increase of nearly 100,000 letters, (tc., over last
year,
The eruption of mud at the foct of Mount Etna
continues, and a smoking lake of steadily increasing dimen-
sions has been formed. Professor Bilves'ri sa3s there are
two, kinds of craters—one in constant activity, emitting
muddy and oily water, with exhalations of carbonic acid;
the other intermittent, issuing with subterranean noises
volumes of thicker mud.

A movement is now on foot at Berlin for building
a church to be called a "Church of Thanks," in grateful
memory of the Emperor William's happy escape from two
assassins' hand‘. A voluntary subscription is being made,
and the amount subscribed up to the present time is about
78,000 marks—that is, nearly £3,900. The church is expected
t) cost £ i 5,0 a) or more.

A conference of representative a of Friendly Societies,
in which a mil lop and a half members were represented,
was held on Tuesday at Manchester, to consider Mr. Mellor's
Bill for an alteration in the twenty-third came of tbe;Poor
Law Amendment Act. It was Unanimously resolved to re-
commend the societies to use their best efforts to secure the
passing of the Act during the coming session ; and they were
also recommended to promote a joint deputation to the
Chancellor of the Exceequer, asking the Government to
support the measure.

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Complaint is maoie by the North German Gazette that
at the marriage of the Mike of Cumberland a Guelph de-
putation, which presented a Hanoverian address of loyalty,
was officially received at the Danish Court. This reception,
the North German Gazette maintains, oversteps the bounds
prescribed by the rules of international intercourse.

The Glasgow Correspondent of The Tim(s says :
"I learn from a perfectly reliable source that at an influen-
tial meeting held here a scheme for the promotion of a
lottery was carefully considered and entertained with favour.
The object of the lottei y is to raise siv mill ons sterling,
one half of which is designed to assist the City Bank share-
holders in discharging their liabilities. The meeting was
adjourned for a week in order to mature and adjust a pro-
sincius and make other preliminary arrangements. A
number of the leading gentlemen belonging to Glasgow and
the West of Scotland, not thareholders in the Bank, have
indicated a disposition to support the scheme"

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The death is annonnced in Paris of Field-Marshal
Airoldi, a native of Brescia, ho served under Napoleon till
1814, then entered the Austrian service mad on the abdica-
tion of the Emperor Ferdinst.d was appointed his Aide-de-
Camp. lie was 80 years of age.

The news of the death of Princess Alice was
received in America with feeling of general regret, which
were reflected in the principal American papers. The IV eta
York Tribune makes the following reference to the sad
ev,nt :—" The English people, always prompt to recognise
the virtues of the Royal Family whenever an opportunity has
been afforded them of doing so, remember to this iJay the
devotion and filial fidelity of Princess Alice. She was not of
our blood or climate, yet even in our Republican homes
women will speak of the event with unusual eynipathy,
remembering that she was a woman full of personal graces,
a devoted daughter, a good wife, and a loving mother. If
virtues like hers had been common in Courts, history would
have been brighter and more encouraging."

The thaw has been followed in many parts of the
country.by a rise in tt.e rivers which have overflowed their
banks, and in some instances ifane considerable damav
A French paper states that a further affroilke has
been offered to France by the Bey of Tunis. He allowed the
marines of the man-of-war which conveyed the per4ltaltan
Envoy to enter the town In military array, with their bard,
whereas he lately retused to permit the crew of a Frenca
vessel to land even outside the town.
It is stated that illustrated scrmona are now the
rage in America, and that in several New York and Brook- -
lyn churches, on December 8, maps, diarrams, and oil paint-
ings, and even chalk sketches, were lazed by the preachers
t') expound their texts.

Partly owing to the severe weather and partly to
the general badness of the times, there is at present great'
distress throughout Switzerland. In Genera alone 6,000
people are reported to be out of work.
The marriage of the Duke of Connaught will, it is
understood, be solemnized at Windsor Cattle about the 13th
of March, the ceremony, originally fixed for February,
having been postponed a month in consequence of the death
of the Gratid Duchess of lease.
. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald,
infurms us (L he iroes) that the Arctic yacht Jeannette, late
the Pandora, has arrived at San Francisco, all well, after a
voyage of 84 days from Havre to the Straits of Magellan,
and Si days from the Straits to San Francisco The Jeannette
experienced four heavy gales and the shock of are earth-
quake. She proved herself a splendid sea boat. The
voyage was long, but pleasant.
The Daily Telegraph states that the Grand Duke of
Hesse-Darmstadt, accompanied by hi a children, will shortly
pay a visit to Her Majesty at Osborne.
The pigeon post during the Beige of Paris, which
proved so great a boon to those in the capital shut up from
all news of their family, is said to have been originated by
the late M. Garnier PagO, the French Republican. He sug-
gested the plan to the Portmaister-General, by whom it was
immediately adopted, requisitioned all the carrier pigeons
in Paris, and sent out by balloon a clever photographer
charged to reduce despatches to the most microscopic
dimensions.
"A touching incident is related by some ot those
who were recently at Harmst.dt. When the little Princess
Marie died, Princess Alice expressed a wish that her child
should be buried. at sunset, saying, 'Her sun is sat and
mine is setting fast.' "—Vanity Fair.

American Naval Officers are highly indignant at a
proposed change in their uniform, which is to be made more
atter the English st3le. The cap in particular is to be ren-
dered English in shape and embroidery, the well-known
device of the eagle surmounting a shield to be changed tos
gold laurel wreath encircling an eagle perched on an aucluir,
and the (Aura have pet:tioned Gov. rnment egainest such
alteration iu a uniform " so thoroughly American in its sim-
plicity and style, distinct in itself, and known all era the
world."
The Gobs of Saturday, in an article on the present
relations between England and Russia, deprecates the ides,
of Russian interlerence on behalf of the Ameer of Afghan-
istan. It remarks that the taxpayers lave been heavily
burdened in an unsatisfactory manner for the liberation cf
the Slays, and they would be overwhelmed by a struggle
for the independence of Sheer All. It would be better, the
Gobs thinks, for Russia to economise her military adminir-
tration in Central Asia.
By the way, it will be noted that more than forty
years ago Mr. Disraeli had contracted the habit of datiag
his correspondence by the names of festive days, which led
to so much ingenious speculation when he once happened to
have to write a letzer on 'Maundy Thursday."—Mayjair.
One of the New York papers has been sending a
reporter round to the principal hotels to inquire as to the
state of business, and the unanimous testimony of the hotel
keepers is that the business men who are their customers
speak of the present condition of trade as being decidedly
more hopeful than it hes been for a long time.
At a meeting of the Executive Council of the Kent
and Sussex Agricultural Labourers' Tinton, held at Maidstone
on Saturday, it was reported that there was to sign of any
abatement of the struggle between the men and the farmers.
A large number of applications for paessges to New Zealand -
continue to be received.

The master builders of Leeds have given notice of A
reduction of masons' and joiners' wages, which are to be re-
duced I,' per hour; and a proportionate reduction is to be
made in other branches of the trade,

A man named Lambert, of South Stockton, while
out shooting handed his gun through a hedge, butt-end
foremost, to a friend. The gun went off, and he received the
charge in the breast and was killed instantaneously.

It Is stated (according to a telegram from Constan-
tinop!e) that the negotiations for a definitive treaty of peace
between Russia and Turkey are to begin at once. Russia,
it is said, will not exact an immediate settlement of the war
indemuity, but will rest satisfied with a promise of a future
pecuniary arrargernent. As soon as the treaty is signed
the evacuation of Turkish territory by the Russians will
commence.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has sent a litter,
accompanied by a subscription of twenty pounds, expressing
sympathy with the shareholders of the West of El gland
Bank who are reduced to such a state of destitution as tobe
unable to provide for themselves the necessaries of life.
There are five hundred widows and spinsters among the
Devonshire shareholders. A cheque for two hundred
pounds has been sent towards their relief by the Hon. Mark
Rolle, and Lady Rolle has doubled her subscription of fifty
pounds. •
The number of tramways existing in Ps/is has Jail
some of the c:Alwrights to construct their vehicles with
wheels of the exact guage if these lines, so that by a little
widrecs en the part of the driver a great part of the labour
of the horse may be saved.

A meeting of railway servants has been held in the
Liverpool Amphitheatre, at which a resolution Was passed
condemning the longer hours and reduced wages insisted on
by the principal railway companies of the country. With-
out advocating a strike the meeting declared that, as rail-
way servants had not participated equally with others when
trade was good, they should not now be the victims of an
unjust reduction,
In London, on Tuesday, a four days' bazaar was
opened at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the congregation of
which place of worship are raising the sum of £5,000, as a
testimonial to the Rev. C. B. Spurgeon on the completion of
the twenty-fifth year of his pastorate. Of this sum about
£3,000 has been subscribed, and the object of the bazaar Is
to provide the remainder. Mr. Spurgeon having decline
to receive the money for himself, it is to be devoted, in
accordance with his wish, to the endowment of the alms-
houses established in connection with the Tabernacle. In the
absence of Mr. Spurgeon, through illness, the bazaar was
opened by the Rev. J. A. Spurgeon.
In London, on Monday, Alderman Sir Benjamin
Phillips presided at the final meeting of the Mansion House
Committee of the Princes Alice Relief Fund. A report,
which was adopted, stated that the fund had reached
£32,216 2s. 2d., of which more than £1,4410 had been received
in a box placed outside the Mansion House. The number of
claims found upon close investigation to deserve relief was
554; and £6,440 was distributed among widows, £5,135 am or
widowers, £5,205 upon dependent and other relatives, and
£17.625 upon purchased admissions of childen to orphanages,
or for their support in the care of friends; 212 children
being provided for.

The altered position of affairs in the Oldham strike
district brought abaut by a large number of operatives
accepting the five per cent. reduction was considered on
Saturday at a number of district meetings. The result of
the meetings was that 829 votes were given in favour of
leaving the question with the Provincial Board, 216 voted
for a ballot, and 385 were in favour of resisting the
reduction.
Grasshoppers as food were frequently tried during
the plague of these unpleisant visitors in the United States
some time since, but the diet did not suit the American
palate. Indian stemachg, however, are less nice, for a
Taheildar in the Madras Presidency, anxious to get rid of
the locusts, paid an anna to every individual who made a
meal of them is his presence, and the poorer clasp s took to
them with such avidity that not a locust was left in his
talug.

The estimate of the amount required from the
inhabitants of the Blackburn Hundred to meet the costs of
the cotton trade riots in May last is £11,935 Is , which will
necessitate the la)ing of a special rate of 2d. in the pound
on the Hundred. The riots in Preston cost the borough
£9ll 163. Id.

Geraniums in South Africa are considered as
efficacious preservatives against snakes, the San Francisco
News Letter tells us, as, though the flowers are scentless, the
leaves contain a large quantity of volatile oil with a pungent
odour, and therefore no snake will approach a bed of the
flowers. One missionary has surrounded his house with a
cordon of geraniums, and not a snake has come near him.
A harness maker, of Cirey-leg-Mareilles (Oise), has
hit upon an ingenious method of destroying wolves without
any danger. lie procured an old dog, which he poisoned
with a large dose of strychnine, and then carried the body to
a considerable distance. The next day when he visited the
spot he found six dead wolves. Having procured a cart he
took the animals to the Prefecture, where be received the
bouni y-36f. for two females and 601 for four malts.
From the Catholic Directory for 1879 it appears that
there are in Great Britain at the present time 21 arch-
bishops and bishops of the Roman Catholic faith, 2,175
priests. and 1,333 churches These figures show an increwe
over the previous year of 39 priests and 38 churches. In
Scotland, where the hierarchy has been recently re-
established, there are six bishops, 272 priests, and 264
churches and stations.
An expensive rook is now being carefully nurtured
in Washington. This bird cost the American Government
£2,200, according to the New York Christian Union, for he
is the sole survivor of a colony of a hundred, shipped over
from England at a cost of £2 4s. apiece, to eat up the
Western grasshoppers, The rooks started all right, but the
sea voyage was to) much for them, and all died but eiglit.
There eight, brought to Washington, were one cold rainrday
let out for an airing, when they, too, took cold, and seven •
died, leaving the present solitary specimen.

Mr. C. M. Palmer, M.P. for North Durham, ad-
dressing a large meeting on the occasion of opening some
now school board s hools at St,eithes, near Whitby, spoke
at great Jength on the importance of education to the work-
ing c,asses. The hon.gentleman remarked that it was thought
on the iurther devel6pment of machinery propelled by steam,
that there would be less call for manual labour. No doubt
this would be the ewe In many instancek, but in others it
would develop a market for labour whefe it never existed
before. But this new kind of labour would require more in-
telligence on the part of the vvarking chases, and It there-
fore behoved them, ii they were desirous of succeeding in
the future, to educate themselves and their children.

The. Liverpool Al erc ury learns that on leaving the
Sarmatian at Halifax, the Princess Louise presented to
Captain Aird, in her own name and that of the Marquis of
Lorne, a li,ndsome gold casks., P t. ken of his splendid
seamanship during an unusually stormy passage across the
Atlantic. Every officer, and indeed every au tuber, of the
ship's crew of the Samartian received some gift or o,lur
from the Marquis and Princess Louise in recollection of the
voyage.

The Desert of Sahara has been visited by M. de
Leeseps, who has been investigeting the p ,ssibildi, s of form-
ing an inland sea in the Desert by admitting the waters of
the Mediterranean. M. de Lesteps approves of the scheme.
and considers that the proposed lake would in no way injure
the various oases, as these are all above the level of the sea,
while the Desert itself is below the level.
An Admiralty notice which appears in the London
Gazette states that in accordance with the provisions of her
Majesty's Order in Council dated 30th December, Captain
'his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, KG, K T.,
G.C.S 1., G C M.G., Personal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen,
has been 1 romoted to the rank of Rear Admiral In her Ma-
jesty's Ileet ; such promotion being in eddition to the esta-
blished numbers of the List until the date arrives on which
his Royal Ilighnees would have been entitled to the same by
seniority.
"The Patric announces that the Czar has written
an autograph letter to the Queen expressing his pympot%
and condolence on the occasion of the death of the rtlllOe
Alice. The Czar also expresses a hope that the erelations
d on their
between England and Russia will soon he repice
Standard.
in respect to Mr.
former cordial footing." Paris' Correspondent of the
lodged at the Patent
Edisco's electric light Inventions wassand
gJ ensen In this
Office on Saturday by Messrs. Rrieweur
An application for a third patentld
maguetism and electric
provements in means for devil •naduating
by eleetri,ri, y."
currents and in apparatus for 1
dawniotwh
Iceadrgveidn gthaengdi f
thba has
is thus given :—" Im-
instance the title of the lovocoitniog
caused a book to be bound with
"Admiral Foley ha's cau
wood from the Eurydice,
prereeted it to , conveying her thank;
a very grac ,ic us autograph a for
is in raising the wreck. lie has I'
the Admiral's exertio,
of
ly a so
Wales's eons some small
presented to the Prince model
pres ornamented
heanste.
the wood and metal of the tame
thoeutQoufeen.
A meeting of the executive committee of the
oFta irextending
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, &c., was held in London,
vc :wen i
,ecol madeiVanity
on Monday night, to consider a proposal made by the com-
ehl4ourlisd
mittee of the Iron Trades Employ_,
era Aseociation, suggest-
of
fn
labourdistrict
fromt
eli hours per week. A resolution was passed in favour of
tit! aadmvieraethiregiteyf
immediate organisation of all trades for a determined
resistance of the contemplated attempt to destroy the nine
hours' system. enidileenetec! . -

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lntitled to the same by
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fpressing his sympathy
a death of the ralloeoB
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preopnldseCnetd Oonf chtehter
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magnetism and electricCnorhredes
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Jensen In this
mating by electrii y."
book to be bound with
id with carving and has
acknowledged the gift by
onveying her thanks for
the wreck. Ile has fitso .
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and metal of the tame
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zoposal made by the com- '
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3 London district to triscrusi •
hours of labour from 64 to
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1 trades for a determined
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