The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21 00:00:00

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December and My weddedreCently and among the
,gresenty.ira,a Wad case, "To Grandma, from Harry and
Frank." The poor girl burst into tears.
A. r
Saratogatghll 'writes home :—" There are plenty
, or, oajeo ,bero:— liepthg, silly, hair patted-in middle swells;
but 0, for the sight ot a genuine man !''

A: young lady, in conversing with a gentleman, spoke
of having resided in St. Louis. Was St. Louts your native
placer asked the gentleman.—" Well, yes, part of the time,"
responded the lady.

At a public gathering lately in New York, one of
the gentlemen present was called upon for a speech, and this
is how he responded :—" Gentlemen and womeh, I F.in't no
speedier. More'n twenty years back I came here a poor
idiot boy, and now what are I r
This note from a Chicago girl to her lover woi made
public through a lawsuit :—" Dear. Sainte: Pap's water-
millions is ripe. Come and bring some more poetry like you
brought afore. My love for you will ever 113 w like water
running down a tatur row."

oitizenr b! Pallatielphia;;vgifol *64 to live in an
ice-house during the summer, an Viand it Intolerably cold,
hit upon the happy expedient of patting up a stove, and is
now enjoying li:e serenely.

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The Woman's Journal cllims that the sexes are
tquat. A married man, bowevcr, always has tho advantazo
of baing able to Limb a tree when the argument aseumea the
form of a rolling pin. .
A Texas town was recently visited by a -clergyman
for the that time in its history, and the inhabitants, wishing
to do the handsome thing by ram, offered to get up a horse-
race fcr lils'cutertalnment.
A man seeing "a sure way of preventing bad
dreams" advertised in a New Xork paper, sent his dollar for
the remedy, and in return received a printed slip, saying,
"Be careful not to go to sleep."

_,,”.The,decteased,!' says a touching obituary notice in
N a 'ovia Width% fournal, left, as a legacy to his sorrowing
friends, seven dollars in cash, one dog, three pigs, ewel,ten
, „,.
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afs a -Wisatinein editor :--f ' A young peeteas Hada
In a contribution entitled, 'Let us Love.' We will do our
best, but we have been married Over four years now;lind'are
a little put/d pribitte." mU oith;
. A. Yankee editor, who speahe wit the air of a ,man
Who' hiut 'dftdovered a new fact bY etp*lence,'pays that% she
way to prevent bleeding. at the nose is to keep your none out
of other people's business.

The editor of a Qaincy (Florida) journal, after
Rating that there are twelve million of fleas to the square
acre in that place calmly adds that "life is a mere dream."
This ispn.anotoalous oondltioti of affairs; to/hay tejcilaist.
The following is a specimen of *eatrat lo nice,
and which forms the closing paragraph of the inaugural ad-
dress just delivered by a retiring mayor :—" With these few
derogatory remarks, gentlemen, I tender you my diabolical
congratulations, and subside into a useful and .union-loving
citizen of tits great and conglomerated public."
A correspondent at the Ciatsk lib; says that there English
expressions are all the rage this season, and one hears " j oily "
and "natty " usPd perpetually.

An obituary notice in a Connecticut paper concludes!
with the announcement that "the deceased leaves two infant I
daughters, both girls." •
A, young lady in Nashville is haging her views i
relative tothe questien ofanatrittin*.l. ShKsays that when
she "came out" in society, she determined that she would
not marry a man artless be were an galieopallan. Time
passed on, and she di I not get married, and then modified
her views, ' and concluded she would marry no man who was
not a Obristian. That young lady is still unmarried, and
says Kai lhat all she is looking for is a man who doesn't'
drink.
"Considering that the mosquitoes are making their
fall raids and are particularly lively jest now, my dear,"
said Jones to his wife, "don't you think it would be a good
idea to bring the baby's crib into our room We might:
divert the attention of the voracious insects a little fronvour-
selves ; I hate to be deprived of my rest; and baby* can sleep
all day, you know." Mrs. Jones went In search ut the'flre.
tongs at once.
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ttixsallancatizntJlitnct
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SOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.
!*
Morro Yon DAIRIES. One good churn
deserves another.—Fun.
• A CONFUSION OF Wonns.—The' following
appeared in a Yokohama (Japan) journal of August
2 :—" He was a seafaring individual, and he went into
the Kobe dispensary, and asked for a small bottle of
Lamplight Piratical Sailing.' The urbane Aber.
donian who pays out the drugs at the above establiah.
ment shook his head mournfully, and, with a gentle
sigh, intimated that they were out of that particular
article, but suggested that Lamplough's Pyretic
saline' would answer the same purpose, and thq,mari-
time gentleman, with that truthfulness peculiar,to his
profession, assented, and a sale was effected." ..
LUCK. —G ood luck and bad luck are myths. The
lucky man is he who, with keen true eye and swift though
discriminating hand, grasps each opportunity ere it fleets
past him. A woman who succeeds must be popular,
, and no qualities w;n popularity like candour and
truth. A diligent its:Direr-into the most secret deptha
of her own character—neither over or underrating her-
self—avails herself to the utmost of whatever useful or
ornamental qualities nature has endowed her with.
Should she possess a husbald, with the elasticity com-
mon to. women, the so studies, that husband's weak-
nesses, consults his peculiarities—iii fact, go adapts
herself to him—that ere long he sees through her eyoe
as frequently as through bis own, and derives such
benefit 'and reaewed strength from her ever ready
soothing sympathy, that the fact of his never having
once been heard to regret his lost freedom has beep
remarked and wondered at by all his bachelor friends,
many of whom have been heard to regret that wives
are such expensive articles as to be entirely out of their
reach.—St. James's Magasine.
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A LIVELY LOOK-OUT FOR JONES.—"
Mamma, that's Captain Jones's knock I know 14e.
has come to ask me to be his wife 1"—" Well, nTO
dear, you must accept him."—"But.,l thousL4 ydu"
hated him so I 9—" Hate him? L do—,se much, that!'
mean to be his MOTEIHRIN-LATT "4lAevenge is SWeet,
especially to women ]—.Punch.
AN IRISH WITNESS.—We once knew a case of
an Irishman who bore evidence before a commi-,sion on
the west coast of Ireland (saps The Field). Amongist
oteer qiestione, as he seemed rather discursive atid
inclined to aver anything one of the conemissions
asked him "If they had many whales there ?'. ,"Is it
whales?" answered Pat. "sure, ye may see 'm by
Vs dozen, spouting about like wather engines all over
the place." Another commis-dunes gravely asked ;if
there were many dogfish. "Dogs, megorra! Fairrore'd
say so 'ad ye passed the night there. Sure we can't
slape for the barkin' ov them," Lastly, one of the Other
commissioners asked "If flying fish abounded ?" The
I answer waa, " Arrah, an' we didn't put the shutters up
' every night, there wouldn't be a whole vane of glass
left in the hemq fsn the creatures bateing against Win."
raja Aniehe PAMt. ans:i.the next day.,tjais ,weeite3
came to aelefor its'efSerise4 exbraftninelfse ei473esion
of them, "Sure now, honey, didn't I swear 0 every.
thinE,, ye axed me!'

RUSSIAN CREDIT.—As an illustration of the
immense effect of the present complications in the
East tipm Russian credit, a chart of the Russian Five
t per Cents. frum the yea 6to the present time,
which is le,aard as a s ement to " Cracroit's
Weekly Stock and SThare st," shbytnthat this issue
has this year touched .its: , Ovest poirit •dpring that
Il
period, with the b i:, glii ercoption .of the i r 1848
when the Freuch Rsvolutibn took place n the
latter year the value of the itiock went. "flow in 112
to 74. This year.it has been dekessed-ti 7. -although
at the presenton.oruent *italic's at • ..,Inewhat
higher figure. 'Who lovies oint .uring the
Austro•Prussian or Franco-Germaii war was 80, and
the lowest during the Crimean War was .82. Last
;e II
lir reald the highest value it has coin.
in • th faaik siniip 1860, viz , 106 per cent.
i 3i,. lazita.—lt is a matter of
wonder 'why the thistle, with its defiant motto, has
cl_ ta....,t112. emblem of Scotland rather than
flthttieçwhieh- so-regiiFirielities - its -Mir- --Tne
rigid angularities of the national character liveyindeed,.
in one; but the tender grace, breaclth. of,colouri,
the fragility and yet the endurance of the' Itekther,"
. higiraelp-sod.-Canes -aspects -of...tha.Scatch
tt ture, and the deep affectinp and streng,thpf will which
derHe it. Tho-fact seam to be that until the Union
, e aggressive, prickly nature of the thistle can only
o iA
I t aptly symbolized the rough sod warklike dißposi•
I t (41:94§1.rt4M4A-Atio"92t the gelliffri,i.n.g4,s CIoPPYY

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iagazine.
Armi,o-SA3corr CHAITITEIt‘ .S.—SOITH) time ago we
itbnliciett tile;t: the Preparation Of a fieriest Of fab-sithileSrl
og Anglo-Saxon charters in. ,he British Muteum had
been sanctioned by the' Trusts. The G ,vernment
have now, we Awu glad to.be-Abis to adds undertaken to
bear the expense ' Of Ithe'publicatiorruf faWs4inilei of all
the existing Anglo-S4xon Charters that are not in the
llitiAelh.; iszid it isrtisoPeited teJbeg4lthilih+attiltblei
eloirtersiprege i rved n the Cathearal,Libraty.at Canter/
bury. The Museum 'authorities .havel •idopted .the
siutetype proces.s ;- for . the ntixoneries,': the photazlncia- .
grOhie hist lleen wohitiken, 0 =This .pweess.was . isb me whet a
(...iliattdited by thettinsatinfactoryichareater. of-thei bob .
simile Oft Domesday-end one be two other publications
in whit& photosineograPhy' was odopti.A. tEnt alzioe .
tPen.thordedus oierand,iltas.been mucki:iniOreved, and,.
besides, photo zincographs plying . tha.. groat xoesttof.
..tiiteiAlitY4': f:For ity 13ILTRoP. °f„tcriPg , 41i1',PF2eft./
wi ja ,y‘few get; I 1 a series of littr ex, r„,-..,., -1 r..
mined- by phbto-zzucogi4phy, wdrej, ?Ile IFeptifil.
lot water for more than four hours, an came" Out or
tiatt teal finite ittlinitired,L,-Athentiam.'
i 41; ril'N'AwSp,Oß.-74riserica; 'yes bigthibi ,
i o.
(ienisilis the ' Pleteirial if76iicl): There the 413k1-
flourishes in its own way; it has not one Paper" Which'
will well compare, with our best papers, either in
scholarship, intelligence, printing, paper, or manage, -
natuk,bnt it has the Centennial
.opirtit
..of he Tim%
#til4ished ,in St. Francisco,,
.01 forty pv914,, .mu..clikliz:g€F,
than; ordinary newspaper, and tixtbaap4a of sheets ,I#l ,
So big, that it has to be sewn together, by . a sewing
iioachine 1 There are portraits of Statesrcelebrities and-
iceittc of tilintultiho:st!.s,. andinigapthoef livrpereyrit6haitini, in
[
Mai fa-Ao inneti, for iettirydviand this obtaffralk,
oat AmeriArt'schedl6ll66--,itiE3tiakk-iii 1776 0-' We'.
eed not add that in this big newspaper the United
bates are ipp)ced iipm as the yery bisget-achievement
f the human race. "The Eird. of Freedom," as that
rent poet,
.Walt Whibmar, has it, "rises on its wings
lad gives a Wll4,Vaiip over the rad-4611i of ei4ntlon.l2A ....
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Ii SUSPECTED Durns.—There is i Ittrgemimilier

f aonscitaitrous, men and women in all ETociety. who
uspect, with a considerable degree of paint that they
!
,re ,liot.',Perior_ming the dutiea 'which -are urnDONA
ipon theta. They see duties to be no that somebody
ught to do. • They-do.hot understand thareasmayhy
hese duties do not belong
.to theni, ,f4iid yet they do
not di2cover any. motives, or any 4tnegiiki thempqinf,
to engage in them, and hey blaaai,.:thiniuselties,
in a weak way, for the fact. , They .see the duties
Oistinctly ; they apprehond,the nee-madded otaoeietv
4nd lading themeeli,es OcimPetent to •.jUdge;' -f
capable of a great tattny', thing', it lle'ethet6' V_
that these " duties are theirs. • Rather, 136 haps they
Onot discover any reasonri. why the; itrii ieot &eh's.
'hfsegnsequence is a vague Jgelang ot unreit Mid diE-•
atialletion 'dfitli themeelVed." B.omebod digit to lead '
some poXitieal, or. sociati .. , -ligious
,movement.
1
honk/ their' ad; it; or`ihdriltl . ;*, - iiii it firisothiliody
AlrefrerbetPhletwheoyrr.efigtqg'Pf°,,,!Zig;z,
.44,... .„I.)u tvh. tlfepr , l'quitionicompotenl,:,o,
verM ..e. ~ Tay' tw(ned*.h.to.tpeak pubh.4ls/7,,t0
ii4,l3.tftiliely',!.io 0 etiirinlvetifor wised as itsaferVo-
ssume. reSPOnlaibilitt, l'etk their '*holeLiiittlari3,atiebAls,
they '
And , are hot on
,'disgtisted'ivith AliiiiiselVes, bat
thekrbeborne m'cilit','nnMiselt:s&anieist'gThereltre;
mUltitird es of men E.JOVik Apdit:Evtibitirlyie 'burd emir •
iot. suspected- duties' *ire ' liesiVier than the" teal npes,''
with they' 'are °ilk Itltiqlad to: beittatilii.i.,-
..i.,• , ... •. IL oilk
peYibitteemonthiy: • ''. - , , •
; HYDROPHOBIA.—The Medical Examiner it).
)narks :-.JI-There haanot been wanting lately...prof:got
!a revival of interest in and renewed consideration of
this teekeia.d,igease.`..L. ~W.e)l glikliiitla :kei.ollltn from
official sources we find that no ess than 43 deaths per
annum have occurred from it. The Registrar General's
.reportXtlaiQj ttio . e air of 1e the cjeditediUvhy-
idroph • 4 four lollop). (Oak ere
ionly , a '-'1: ga . tkel-fo'ut 'Y lbwhat ears
!they were 216, the o,qt the five ynfiv, 1871, showing
;the highest number rebeirded.l L It -it-stated that when
the reports are completed for last year and the present
I there is resistn'. to believa A further increase •in the
• number of deaths from true hydrophobia will be shown.
, There seems, therefore,. little doubt that this disease is
• inereolikkgoltal liegisigtißn shin ici lo V beslCodeold to
stamp it out. More stringent regulations tr,re fiedasary,
both in respect to some ready means of awsrtaining the
ownership of &pi lit'd. police powers over these animals
in the public thoroughfares. HOW is it.that,the disease
is not included in the 'Contagions Diseaieit (Wiliam's)
West? • . .
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NOWL EFFECIS OF NICJTINE !—TIIO Augusta
. .
Chronicle, a paper corning to us all the way from
Georgia, is authority for d story illustrative of the
deleterious effects of nicotine which • may be com-
mended to the amice of the Anti• Tobacco League.
The victim to indulgence in.the pernicious weed in
this instance is, unfortunately, not a dissolute human
being, who would richly deserve his fate, bat an inno-
cent and unsuspecting rat. A vile smoker threw two
cigar ends into the coal-scuttle in his drawirg-raom, in
Greene•etreet ; the poor rodent, wandering about
in search of a meal, was attracted by the appear-
ance a the stumps, and greedily devoured them.
A young lady observed the rat at his Inealrbut had
neilter the charity-ter pretence of mind to inter-
fere. She waited until a her brother, the vile
smoker aforementioned, returned, and tOlc him of the
occurrence. He went to the coal-scuttle, shook it,
and oat tumbled that rat-in a state of coneplete stupe-
faction, and a most pitiful sight to see, as he made a
drunken effort to "navigate" the: carpet. It was
clear that he had lost his head, metaphorically as he
did literally a .few. mOnlents.afterwards. If this
episode had only I appened two thousand years ago,
avisat a pretty addition, withd moral, might have been
Wade to /E. op's faibles. As it is, owing to the death
of the rat, it is only too likely that the warning- of his
melancholy experience will be lost upon his brethren,
and .that ;vile smokers may, still continue to entrap
them to their doom:
THE SOARCITY OF CANDIDATES FOR ORDER&
—" Prellayter writes to The Standard ,
Sir, -a* experience as a 'ciergyman, by nomieins, I believe,
exceptional, may h 3 encouraging and helpful to yeung men'
who have an Eames, desire to enter the sacred ministr? of
the Church. At twenty-eight years of age I left a mercantile
house in London with a view to the minlatry. At that time
lad not know the Greek alphabet. Within two years I was
sufficient!? qhaiffied to enter 'one of obx theological colleges.
In two years more I was ordained, and my expenses during!
these four years did ilat greatly exceed £3OO. I passed my
examinations witli congratulations and success. I have
no deg. .1 have ,no oratorical ability in the ordi-,
nary sinus !of the 'sVord, • 'and I had no patrons ro
secure my advancement in the Church. ELght ydfs
served as curate, and on the strength of my testi-
monials and references I was': Appointed to my first and
present inctunbency. by a public body of men: The living
is worth Lfoo a year, and friefida are good enough to say that
the administration of my large parish is comparatively a
success. Now, Sir, what I strongly feel is needed at this
Uwe, and indeed at all times, for our sacred office, are the
:glowing qualifications. First of all that Dlvine "call"
which our Church declares to be "according to God's purpose
by His Spirit working in due season " ; a fair measure of
ability and intelligence; an inwrought desire to be engaged
in this bictsed work; an earnest longing to be useful in
winning souls; a determination, by God's grace, to spend
and be spent in that service which is perfect freedom; true
loyalty to the •teaching of the Church of Fargland, as set
forth an her Articles and standards of faith, and a simple
trust fer future provision in that God "whose never-
failing Providence ordereth all things both in heaven and
'earth."
CURIOUS Caen or POISONING. A very
curious case of arsenic poisoning is reported horn Paris
(saYs the Court Journal). A rich lady residing in the
Faubourg Si, HonozE found hersep growing very ill,
and the doctor pronounced her to he suffering from 'Lorne
Slow poison, Madame X. rejected this idea a's absurd;
but, on rising one morning, found a glass of water,
which was usually placed by her beside, to be discoloured
by a white filmy powder. On showing this to the
doctor, be at once declared it to be arsenic. All
inquiries failed to detect the' culprit, ai,d the nexit '
night madame filled the gime herself, and kept
careful watch that no"one meddled with it. Never- •
theless, in the morning the white powder again made
its appearance, and the doctor was fairly at his wits' end
to 'find the cauSe. Finally, lie discovered that his
patient WAS in the habit of reading in bed, and for
that reason candles Were kept burning all night in
her room. • These candles, of a dazzling whiteness,
had been strongly impregnated with arsenic during
their bleaching process, and the arsenic, becoming
volatilized by the combustion, thus poisoned the air of
the bedroom. -
A REPROOF.—COUntry Gent (lately a Citizen,
who bits Piet missed an easy shot). "Confound the
thing 1" Giles (with the hag). 'Ob, Aleaster ! don't
I Wish as I'd' had a Wan !"—Punch'
KNEW THE BEAST.— "You see this
have, don't you?" called out a woman about forty
years of age, as she drove up to a blacksmith the other
day. The smith came out and replied that his sight
was good. "I want a shoe on that bind foot right to
once," she continued, and the jumped down and had
• t.he horse &moat out of the old wagon before the smith
reached the curbstone. She led the boast into the
shop, sat down on the bench, and prepared to take a
smoke, and as the blacksmith took down a shoe she
ob.,erved, "No fooling now, I want the shoe to stick
to that foot for a whole year. Yon can't impose on
me 'cause I'm a woman. After the hoof had been
,prepared the horee suddenly became restive, dancing
aroend and bothering the eloper so that he could not
proceed. "You don't seem to have had any experience
with horses," remarked the woman, as she rose up and
'laid her pipe aside. "I know this beast from Dan'! to
ll:!sheba, and you just get back alittle." The smith
ret.iriAd a few Lea and the woman-caught the horse by
bit, gave him a two hundred pound kick intim ribs,.
andnyelled : " Whoa ! Charles Henry, git around
there; stand over and take that—and this and some
more! Now come up and toe the mark !" Charles
Henry kicked the handle off the block as she kicked
his ribs, but she kicked the haisdest, and when tha
horse-shoer stuck his head into the shop the horee was
+half over a bench but as quiet as a lamb. " N.w pro-
ceed," said the woman as she picked, uptherapipe.
"When a boas goes to fooling around me and' aching
for a row, he's laying up sorrow for his grey hairs !"

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FOR AND AGAINST ALOGROL.—.At the So
Science Congress, held at Liverpool, Dr. Norman Kerr
read a paper on the use of alcohol in wlrkhouses. Hes
said that not one atom of the much needed nourishing
matter did alcohol contribute to the body. He referred
at length to the experience of medical officers, who,.
like himself, had found the most beneficialresults from
the non employment of alcohol in the ordinary treat-
ment of disease.—Mr. W. J. Cooper took exception
to the statement that alcohol was in no sense food.
From experiments which he and Professor Wanklyn
had recently been making upon alcoholic solution",
there were good grounds for believing that alcohol was
3'3 much a food as sugar, starch, or other life-sustaining
substances.

NOTE.- Margate has been inundated. So
have several contributions from the general public to
In. No that the date mattered.—Fun.

. AMERIOAN ERRATUDf.—A New York paper,
from which we recently quoted a report of a speech of
IrFeteesor linxter, made-l A—the rutted Statesr 4,4t0,!?w-
Mented him as stating that English women
.bad been
detfqri ed by a diitinguished Americanae being rather_
"
to " eethy ;" the reader should substitute " bees'. w -A-
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TITTPTION-OF SEEDS BY PANTHERA:e--*XI4.;
Alfred Smee, 7, Finsbury-circus, London, writee to
the Standard •--- -
Sir,—An interesting fact in natural history .was revealed
dring the recent visit of his R tyal Highness the Prince
pt Wales to India. In one of the hunting excursions ins
the neighbourhood .of Baroda a panther was shot, and
numerous seeds were fennd to be attached to the , skin..
• e seeds had two perfect hooks, manifestly .desiglied'te
ttach themselves to foreign bodies. ' As, the 'panther
Moved about it collected the seeds on the skin:wad .carried
tiesitabdut-viberever•it went, but when he/ rulattel against
elthrubeitti Of -necesititr_brashed some offi.end Ulna dls-,
ii
buted them. The seeds were taken fresh' therakint-...'
b an cificer wbe. jwits Lone ,al the hunting party,-I en& 6
wend camit, into the poskession of 'MIS.' 'lleirrter,-idat
Staines, a, ,great 'hirer -oi horticulture, • Cad. Aildi,W.
the frieDisr 'df • sending 'me specimens. I was simarnck with
•e incident and the remarkable character of the seed, that,,
A ter accurately figuring it, I desired it to be sown at "MY
I 2
, arden," when it rapkily grew into a handsome plant, and
:produced beautiful blusters of tubular flowers. : It was ina- ,-
,414ediatelyecogniasd to belong to the genus Martynia, and
'on exanithation both Professor Oliver, of the Royal Gardena,
'Kew, and Dr. Masters agree that-it is Marquis Diandra, at
:plant, which, although introduced into this coantry as far
,bacit
,as 178,1, , has scarcely ever been cultivated for mans ' • •
,Th
years. , I have placed my specimen in . the hands 'of Mr.- ) • -
Sorierby, the secretary of the Bayal Botanic Society, Regent's
'Birk, ' and) the plant, with one of theitegile taken from the
pantherliskin, are now exhibited in tial gi,•: t.consl,terY. • ' •
IVIORE ' HONEYMOON Ammirrii,s. itikelina 'it <1
Oho has been perusing the .Births, bisphr...W, . ,
thlarriare.") "Edwin, Ido so object to that Wild.- --
t;word ' elict ' ! If I should die, Edwin, promise, oh, .
preariisti, you Will not allow ml toitteedeseribill7.7ol3F e • .
, Relict I ''—Punch. , ,
1- AMERICAN COTTON GOODS.—A "Shipper '7
writes tOna(The Times) from Liverpool pointing out --
' that some time ago a good deal Was said and writtenll
beral/he loge of our trade in coiiCie, censeauent on the,,,
r'apropetitriop, of. American manufacturerseand the pre-!
,-dietion.veaa made that all our cotton mills were. to .bau.
&sec), because a quantity of manufactured cotton.
; goods were sent here for sale from- American iaetoriese_, _
lln connection with this he says it may be interesting teed , ,
know that a large quantity-450 bales—of cotton goodies
manufactured in toe United States and sent to Ware 1
country for sale has been,rershipped hack to New
York. , .
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i TEE VALUE OP IENALTH.-Lln chllalrodd all'
creative exercise should be free as the air (writes l)r.
ie
ichaletsbii, in • Good Words).' . Eyeee iposlose townifs
riaa ahildren who roam the streete sayl -alleys and .
ty•slutna arehetter off-for health than *Ahoy who
, a kept in'the close nursery or parlour. TlVft3itrfAireo •
in such a place as London, the street childien with the" -
dhildren of the squares, we see a conanariSen -which is
t tenfavonrable ; but if we compare both these classes ,
; itlitthise ichildten of the shopkeepers who -are too
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spectable to be let free of, the street.% and too poor to
bind a playground hrthe squares, we see how s
1k the the compari on ; how strong' and well the out•cloor
urchins are, rich and poor, by the aide of the unfortu-e
nates who pine indoors, or find their longest stroll from -
home to school, and school to home. Bat through all
the elapses reform is demanded. Less of forced work;
. more of recreative freedom; less life-indoors ; more lifee
in the geideni; on the hilts, by. the Sea. Learning he .1
tihean now, and whoever can read and write can become (
* Eicholar, If .he can become a healthy being, The
dearest thing in the market is health, without which;
learn ingAse it ever so cheap,. Is bought fpr a sacrifice, •
and i,s Intents% iteaewn altarf : - li 0
kTHE PB,OPER " STATION ". 'Eat -51 ilk- si.-Tox
pailn-cmon-streo.742-iciy:— „. , aev '.-
. ,a' MONO WOODCS CAS. ••,- FO•reSt t 'eata ' zicrettri,,
4notingv aletter from, New 'Brainswielr, DT.,r.;,aeGcribo-
-0 case where several woodcocks Were hicitight tip by W
firener and became weltdonteitieMed. He found four
in 'a nest;'and brbtight-theris 'home with him; not ez-'
peeling they would live/ But he RAVI that by holding'
'worms before their bills they -would swallow them,
although eley "mild not pick them off the ground. In
p few days they became -very tame, and at they grew
Older and acquired their frill plumage they would take
dlhott,ilightidatteut the farnechnt always returning to
beehouseetad reoiting beneath the stone slab forming ~
he kileten doorstep. Wheiv-tamer and our 1,
ermant went, into the garctene-the birds, attracted bf
heir owner'S 440 ' came hopping otit of the bush and
ew upon his s'eoulders, manifesting not the slightest ,
ila but not permitting his companion to approac#
hem. After taking food from his hand they ag• -
ew -*way.- - Watching the birds feedilgi it wee
, beerved-that they would rapidly drive their bills into
ithe soft ground, constantly boring until they found
i itheir worm. 'They would then give tb' peculiar twiats -
draw it out its full length and gulp the worm down.
1 A LITTLE OF BOTH. —A telegranz from New
York states that* the reports- of -yellow fever in the
Savannah are extiensely highlypoicnred. It would be
difficult to tell from thiiirhether tbe fever was Ter, 1
yellowi or the reporters very green. —Puts. • - ,
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A VEGETABLE PECK US. --A Slititlliatishericak •
'merlon is recorded ' in' the Mein= journal DI
Naturfotscher as having happened man orchard neer
the village* 'BruChelheins. • A- WO fire etburredio -
the village in the begitning of- September; and four
weeks after it-numerous trees'in,the ..orchard that ha 4 •
been singed by the fire began to vegetate anew, patio'
forth tender :green leive,s and blossomseof ten by the
side of fruits which the fire had spared. On examiv ,
lug the wood with a microscope, it was found that the
contents of the cells were transformed into a pulPl
mass. Sugar was foutld to be present both in the_
singed ancleineih'ked treeEr.---Globe. - , -
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AN liiMIGRANT.,--, A boa . conatrigtor i
naeasnring 81t. in Vngth,ihas beencaptured ha the l.
of the ship Kit -Carson,, which recently arrived eZ '
Greenock:from the West Inciles.— Land and Water. .
THE Mak C CTR.E. —A - Consid.erable -deal h•
been said in Medical journaht Conceinhig` the value °t
milk as a remedial agent in certain diseases. An ie‘-
teresting article upon this subject lately appeared,
which it is stated on the .authority of De. Benjemitr
Clarke, that in the East Indies' warm milk is used, W
a very great extent,. as a, specific for dierrhee a. A piste
every four hours, will check the most violent diarrhee
s'ones.chetehe, incipient cholera,' and dysentery.- Th 6
milk should never be boiled, 'but only heated sufa
eiently to be agreeably warm—not too hot to drink,
Milk which has been boiled is not fit, for use, The'
_writer gives several instances to show the value of this
simple. substance in arresting this disease. Another
writer in the same journal says :—" We have aloo
lately tested the value of milk id omelet fever, autl .
learn that it is now - recommended by the medical
faculty in all casei of this often very distressing chil-
dren's disease. Give all the milk the patient will take,-
even during the period of the greatest fever. It keePt
up the strength of the patient, acts weW open the
stomach, and is in every way 'il blessed thing in this
sickness. Parents, remember it,- and do 'not fear to
give it if your dear ones are afflicted with the disease?

A HEALTHY PARISH.—The Rev. John Bowen
RoWliands writes to the Daily News:— ;
" Would you allow me to draw attention through Yee(
vett:table paper to the very healthy state of this pariah, Ha:
berstop,Mllford Haven, of which lam rector? From the 9th ol
August last to the present data no death has occurred in
the death upon that date was a man of 65 years of age. no
that for more than two months in a parish with a poptilatior!
according to the census of 1171 of- one thousand one hundrea
and eighty-three persons no death has taken place •, and thsto
too, amongst ,a mixed population of sailors, shipwright.,
soldiers, and farm labourers. The parish is situated along
the shores of Milford Haven, and is most healthy. I have
heard thatisn eminent London physician lately spoke In tbe
hignest terms of the salubrity of this place, and I feel sure
that it it was more generally known it would be sought bl
many as a health ream t, possessing as it does a climate pee°.
liarly suited for certain forms of alsease."
FOND OF HORSES.—There is a retired trainer,
mulled Long, reeiding on a small farm in Alemedo
county, California, who lives for nothing else but she
pleasure of bring near horses, He eats his meals in the
oftentimes pesetas the night' in the same stall
with a favourite peep, and among his equine pets ia *
mare who whinnies in answer every time he speaks to
her. The most perfect understanding evidently exists"
between Mr. Long and at least three out of the fiV
toms in his stable. Two are recent additions, buw
!•even in their case the same affinity is seen in a lesser
'degree. The training of horses, their obedience, doilitYs
and tricks in a circus, are no novelty. All of us htk.v,a
seen a horse fire a pistol, stand on two legs, waltb
down with his trainer, and perform a hundred acts of
,magacity,- but Ashes() are simply the result of patiapV
training -and systematic correction. What Mr. "ODE
claims is far more astounding. He asserte thatefiajt,e'
life leng intimacy with herses he understands
speech. He goes even further, and declares thet
their nasal gutteral, explodent, and unnbstructea
sour& have a different meaning, are used by the
coalition of the brain and vooal organs, and that
not only do his favourite horses understand biro'
but that every sound which they. utter, is persfeatli
kleise to him. When arguing with him. that,
though he might comprehend the meaning .OL the
sounds emanating- from the vocal chords of a horse.
yet it was a patent impossibility for a horse t 0
understand the English language, he
*replied
"Living, eating, and sleeping with my horses .4r'l4
given me the knowledge I possess, and the -same
timacy has acquired- for my horses the powers I (delta
for them." Here, turning to a slender,dight-built grel
pony, he said: "Billy we are talking of you. If VI
underetend what I am saying, turn your head roc*,
on the off aide." The pony did so, and then resuree°
its feed. "Billy," he continued, "tell me your eget
how long you have lived here, and on which side of yol!,
is your friend Vesta?" Th 3 pens, whinnied for show'
two minutes consecutively, and then, being loose in it 4
stall, walked into the adjoining one occupied by tl4
mere Vesta. "Now," he Continued, "do you r-0„
Billy walk down together to the trough and drink whw' ,„
I make up your beds." Vesta and Billy walked quieti_i
out and proceeded straight to the trough. While the'
were out, Mr. L .ng tuned over the strew carefullY
with a fork, and earned on an animated conversatio,ll3 •
with a roan gelding about fifteen hands high. Vest 34
neig' lsour on the other side. The name of this hor,
s_
Wes Poley, and afte: talking nnsrily to him for solve
minutes about some fault he had committed the del
befere, he ordered Foley to lie down and not get ul3
until after-Vesta and Billy had returned. The naerator
saw but little in this to prove Mr. Long's claims, r
many horse will lie down at the word of conenesoi
but when wfthout a further word, Foley aroseloP_
walked mit to the water trough after the return-of tst!
other two horses, the subject bocittniraPette# Cr
• solution its before.