The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-07-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Astronomer-Royal announces the discovery by
Professor Clinton, of New York, on July 17, of a minor
planet in R.A. 21 hours 31 mins., dec. 17 degrees 47 minutes,
with a daily motion of 3 nuns, south.

The Swiss Government has published the emigra-
tion statistics for 1878, from which it appears that the
number of emigrants, though 31 per cent. more numerous
than in 1877, showed a decrease of 36 per cent, upon the
average of the last ten years, the total for 1878 having been
2,602, as compared to 3,516 01 the 2,602 emigrants, 1,615
were men, 505 women, aud 482 children under sixteen years
of age; and 2,210, or 85 per cent, of them, went to North
America.

Marseilles continues to be exceptionally favoured
with regard to the weather. A journal of that town states
that while in some departments the crops are prejudiced by
want of heat, that of the Bouches-du-Ithene is enjoying an
exceptionally high temperature.

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The French Minister of War has lately devised a
novel method of instruction for the French soldiery. The
latter lately received, by authority, a supply of pocket-
handkerchiefs on each of which was printed a map of France
and its principal colonies, and the plan has now been ex-
tended still further. Others are now to be distributed
bearing impressed upon them the leading directions in re-
ference to the arms, equipment, harness, drill, dm, of the
infantry and cavalry.

The Cuban Government have hit upon an ingenious
scheme for protecting the sugar estates and finding occupa-
tlou for the soldiers in that island. It is proposed to dis-
tribute about 40,000 men of the troops in Cuba among tne
sugar plantations, to work as field bands, at tixed wages per
month, to be paid by the planters, under the supervision of
their officers. This measure it is urged will, in the first
place, secure the tranquility and protect the estates daring
the period of the gradual emancipation of the slaves. In
the second place, it will afford occupation to the soldiers,
who, thereby becoming accustomed to the field work on
Cuban soil, will form a nucleus for free labour on the day
when slavery shall have entirety ceased; and, lastly, it will
enable the Government to reduce taxation considerably.
One of the leaders of London scidety thus sums up
the season :—" Where in every former year for the pant ten
years there have been six invitations to dine out, this year
there has been but one. The private entertainments, with
the exception of those given with the assistance of the
Cemedle Franeaise, have been very poor; no one has ap-
peared to care to spend a penny more money than he or she
has been absolutely obliged to. I should think this season
the sum spent has not been half that which has been dis-
bursed in former years."— Court Journal.
Her Majesty has, it is said, received telegrams from
numerous Indian princes, congratulating her on the peaceful
termination of operations in Afghanistan, and expressing
the loyal sentiments of the senders and their anxiety at all
times to serve in the British cause. It has been decided
that, as soon as the British troops have returned to India
through the Khyber, the political officer at Jellalabed and
Daklia shall be withdrawn, and the control of the Khyber
tribes placed directly under the Government of the Pun-
pub.
The French Foie at the Albert Hall, South Ken-
sington, in aid of the French charities of London, which proved
one of the most brilliant and successful gatherings of the
season, had its pleasant sequel on Tuesday at Willis's Rooms,
when those articles remaining unsold at the termination of
the recant fancy fair were disposed of by "grand tombola."
There was a large and fashionable attendance, the visiters
being admitted by five shilling tickets, and, betides about
250 miscellaneous lets, the collection comprised a pair of
Sevres vases, valued at £240; a Sevres cup at £5O; a bronze
clock £10; and au Indian figure from the Louvre, estimated
at £5O. Judging from the keen interest taken in the pro-
ceedings, the sale will have added a substantial sum to the
amount already realised for benevolent purpoxee.

There have been falls of snow in the mountainous
parts of Germany, and at Landshnt young swallows have
been frozen to death.

There were 15 British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making a total of 745 for the present
year, or a decrease of 99 as compared with the correspond-
ing period of last peer. The approximate value of property
lost was £320,000, including British £260,000.
A farmer referring to the Royal Commission writes:
—" We require a net-work of tramways throughout the
entire kingdom laid on all public roads, that cars for the
transmission of farm produce may run thereon for its cheap
and ready carriage to all centres of population from the most
remote districts. If the Royal Commission only promote
this being done it will prove valuable indeed."
The St. Petersburg Correspondent of the Daily News
says he has reason to believe that the relatlens between
Russia and Great Britain are on an excellent footing at the
present time. Unless circumstances render it necessary, the
Russian Government does not intend to occupy Merv, and
has every desire to avoid troubles in questions of foreign
politics.

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"The most fashionable morning costume just now
for a young man ('a swell,' in fact) is a suit of flue slate grey
cloth, all alike, with buttons to match, and a small cardinal
red necktie. The waistcoat should be cut high, se as only to
show the necktie, and the coat somewhat of the Newmarket
shape, without external pockets."— Court Journal.
There were 2,488 births and 1,190 deaths rezistered
In London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births exceeded by 93, whereas the deaths were so many
as 490 below the average numbers in the corresponding week
of the last ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes
was equal to 17/. During the three week ending last Satur-
day, the rate of mortality in London has averaged 17-2 per
1,000 ; the nearest approach to so low a death-rate during
the first three weeks of July was in 1860, when, as now, the
summer was marked by an excessive rainfall.

A meeting of the Bonapartiste has been held in
Paris, at which a resolution was passed declaring that
Prince Jerome had become the chief and representative of
the family. The meeting also decided to adhere to the
plebiscitary principle. Neither M. Rot:tiler nor M. Paul de
Cassagnac were present.

On Sunday afternoon a private of the 20th Regi-
ment, a patient at the Military Hospital, Plymouth, Jumped
from a window in an upper story of the building. He fell a
distance of 60 feet, and was picked up dead.

At a Legitimist banquet which has been given at
Marseilles, the Marquis de Forests, speaking in the name of
the Comte de Chambori, denied that he preferred to live
abroad, and stated that he was anxious to return to France.

The Intelligence Branch of the Quactermaster•
General's Department has just issued an admirable map of
Zululand.

Taos' lay was the 72ad anniversary of the birth of
General Gulaeppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian Inde-
pendence, who was born at Nice on July 22, 1807.

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A veritable feast of roses was lately held at Brie-
Comte-Robert, near Paris. No less than thirty thousand
sorts of roses were collected there in the tents of the Rose
Society. Every lady present received a magnificent bouquet.
With a view to encourage this industry, the Government
sent as a first prize one of the beautiful Sevres cups which
were so much admired at the Paris Exhibition.—Land and
Water.

From the Continent the harvest reports are scarcely
better than at home (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette) In
France wheat is ripe all through the south ; but the con-
tinued bad weather presents a serious hindrance to the cut-
ting. Judging from the appearance of the fields, not much
damage has yet been done. That, however, will not be the
case unless there is a cessation of rain very soon. Through-
out the centre, and still more in the north, serious injury
has been done. In Italy, it is said, matters are worse than
In France. The destruction by floods in some districts is
grievous, and generally the crops are reported to be dis-
appointing. From Germany also the reports are unfavour.
able, as they are likewise from Austria-Hungary. In Spain,
again, drought has tione as much damage as excessive rains
elsewhere.
At a sale of autograph letters belonging to the late
Mr. Ridgway, a well-known collector, a letter of James I. to
Mary Queen of Scots went for seven guineas; and one of
Burns, signed " Barnes," for £6. Much interest was created
by letters of Napnleon I it, the Empress Eugenie, and the
late Prince Imperial, the last an affectionate note in English
In which he says—" I love 3nu with all my heart." These
brought £2o. Court Journal

Captain J. B. Eaqa, the engineer of the Mississippi
jetties, has suggested a counter project to M. de Lesseps'
inter-oceanic canal ; and, as he has proved his skill, his pro-
posal finds favour in the States. instead of the canal, he
suggests a railway upon which ships are to be carried across
the isthmus in 21 hours, "with absolute safety," and at one-
third the cost incident to the tlanal. The lifting of a ship
weighing, with cargo, some 10,000 tons, is no easy matter,
and owners will probably prefer the more costly method, if
capitalists can be found to make the canal.—Echo.
The First Lord of th 3 Admiralty, speaking at the
dinner of the Corporation of Westminster at Richmond on
Saturday, in response to the toast of "Her Majesty's
Ministers," said that the single object of the Government In
its foreign policy had been to protect the interests, uphold
the honour, and maintain the great objects and purposes
for which this country existed. England had to maintain
the liberty of the world without herself unduly interfering
with the right of peoples to govern themselves.

The sons of the Prince of Wales, the Princes Albert
Victor and George, went to Portsmouth on Monday, and
paid a visit to the Bacchante, the new vessel in which the
Royal cadets are about to take their first voyage, which will
be nearly round the world.

One of the severest storms of rain ever experienced
In Sheffield swept over the town on Saturday and Sur,clay.
The rain fell in torrents, flooding the Rivers Don and Sheaf
to an unusual extent, and in the low-lying parts of the
borough considerable damage was done, many cellars being
deeply flooded. In the country, on the Yorkshire and
Derbyshire side, the waters were out, and great damage was
done to the crops.

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The foreign trade in the United States appears to
be prospering, and for the fiscal 'year ending June 30th the
Imports were £92,000,000, and the exports £149,000,000 show-
ing a Daman() to favour of the country of £57,000,000.

The death is announced from Copenhagen of the
Marquise de Bonnay, aged 93. She was the widow of the
Marquis, who presided over the National Assembly of
Versailles in 1789.

Inland Post cards are to be introduced into India,
"Acting under the Prussian Minister of the Inte-
rior, the Konbgberg Government has issued a decree for-
bidding until further notice the import into or ,transit
through its district from Russia of all cattle, sheep, goats,
and other animals that chew the cud, on pain of their being
slaugetered and buried, as likewise of all fresh flesh thereof
at the risk of its being confiscated and destroyed Delin-
quents also will be severely punished."—Correspondent of
The Times.
At a meeting of the Scottish Meteorological Society
a report was submitted by the secretary, Mr. Buchan, which
showed that the degree of cold experienced since November
last was unprecedented since observations began to be made.
In some parts of Scotland the temperature for the past
seven months had been seven degrees below the average.

At Lord's, on Tuesday, a handsome clock and
chimney ornaments, with £1,400 in money, were pre-
sented to Mr. W. G. Grace, the well-known cricketer.
The presentation originated in Glocestershire, which is
naturally proud of its preeminence as a cricketing county,
due to the Grace family and especially to Mr. W. G. Grace.
Toe clock bears the following inscription :—" Presented to
W. G. Grace on July 22, 1879, on the occasion of the match
Over Thirty v. Under Thirty, played in his honour at Lord's."
Lord Fif zhardinge made the presentation, and in the course
of a very complimentary speech, alluded to the fact that the
Prince of Wales was one of the donors.

A conference of the ironworkers of Staffordshire,
Worcestershire, and Shropshire was held at Wednesbury en
Monday to consider whether a notice should be given for an
advance of wages and whether a new association for the three
counties should be formed. Arrangements were made for
the formation of such an association, the lines to be laid
down by a sub-committee within one month. With regard
to wages a resolution was passed to the effect that the time
had scarcely arrived to demand an advance.

A Bill before the Hungarian Parliament proposes
that after six years the Magyar language shall be obligatory
in all schools.

Speaking at Hucknall Torkard on Monday, where he
laid the foundation scone of a new chapel, Mr. S. Morley,
M.P., deplored the differences that existed between different
Christrian denominations. They might depend upont: that
the ministers and officers of their churches would do more
towards winning people to a higher life by talking to them
about becoming Christians than by telling them to become
members of this or that denomination, He wished there
were fewer denominations, and he regretted that, where
there was so much truth in common, trifling points should
separate them. Instead of standing shoulder to shoulder
against the common enemy, they were too often found con-
tending with each other.

On Saturday Lord St. Vincent died at Courtlees,
near Canterbury. His lordship, who was fifty-four years of
age, bad been unwell for many months, but was only con-
fined to his bed for a few days. He was the third viscount,
and succeeded to the title in 1859, on the death of his
grandfather, who was nephew of the great admiral, czeated
Earl St. Vincent. The deceased nobleman is succeeded by
his son, John Edward Leveson Jervis, lieutenant in the 7th
Hussars, born in 1850.
In consequence of the difficulties under which
farmers are labouring at the present time in Worcester-
shire, the landlords are generally returning from 10 to 20 per
cent, at the half-yearly audits now being held in that county
The following concessions have been made :—Earl B:au•
champ, 20 per cent. in casa or 30 per cent. in °liaise and
artificial manures; Lord Sandys, 10 per cent. ; Sir E. A. H.
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too, the wine turned out good.

Signor Patrizi, a deputy to the Italian Parliament,
played a neat trick on a couple of robbers the other night
(says the Correspondent of the G(obe). He was returning
home at twelve o'clock p.m., when he was assailed by two
armed men in the Via Alessandrina, near the Foro Trajano,
who demanded his purse with the usual formula. Signor
Patrizi put his hand in his pocket and drew out what the
robbers imagined to be a revolver, and presented it to his
assailants with a threat as loud and as confident as their
menace had been. The robbers fled precipitately. The
weapon thus used by Signor Patrizi was the key of the outer
door of the palace in which he lodged.

A Correspondent writes to The Times from Curhaus,
Kreuznacb, July 18 :—" Your correspondents treat the
superstition of Ht. Swithin's too literally, and thereby miss
the grain of truth contained in it. Toe third week in July is
undoubtedly the commencement, be it for good or bad, of a
period of weather. If the will d currents set in at that
time decidedly from south-west or northeast. so they will
continue for the next two or three months. We may, then,
comfort ourselves that they have this year, as may easily be
seen by the arrows on your daily chart, shifted at last to the
east, as that will no doubt bring England the same line, hot
weather that we have had here since last Monday. It may
be worth notice that the crops about here, particularly the
barley and potato crop, appear to be far above the average.
At any rate, during the last three years I hays never seen
them present such a magnificent appearance as this year.
On Monday the Liverpool Coroner held an inquest
on the body of Mr. Robert Merryweather, who had been
found dead in his office in pecullar circumstances. The
deceased, who was 51 years of age, lived in Falkner•street,
and had an office in Imperial-chambers. /le was last seen alive
on Wednesday in last week. Next day his managing clerk
called at the office and found it fastened, but it was not
deemed necessary to force open the door, as Mr. Merry weather
had before been away some dais without leavieg informa-
tion where he was going. As he did not come back by
Saturday, the office was forced open and the body of Mr.
Merryweather was found He had taken off his coats, hat,
and boots. Dr. IL Lowndes said that the deceased, who had
been a patient e f his 20 years, had a fall and threatening of
apoplexy a mouth ago and seemed to be in feeble health.
Death had occurred from apoplexy a few days before Satur-
day. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with this
evidence.
Au interesting ceremony took place on Saturday at
St. George's Hospital, London, when the nurses selected for
me appointment of St. Katherine nurses received their
badges from the hands of the Duchess of Westminster, who
kindly undertook to present them. The Duke of Westminster,
who presided, opened the proceedings with some remarks on
the Queen's kind offer of two of these badges to the hospital,
and, in alluding to the arduous duties of nurses generallx,
pointed out that tnese marks of distinction offered by Her
Majesty should stimulate the nurses to greater exertions, and
cause them to take still more pride in their profession. The
warrant of their appointment was then read by the secretary,
niter which the nurses selected by the Governore—viz., Head-
nurse Bradley, of King's Ward, and Bead nurse Bailey, of
the Wellington Ward, were presented by the treasurer,
Colonel Elaygarth, to tee Duchess of Westminster, who e -
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The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund has
realised £25,200. This is about £4OO more than was col-
lected last year. It is expected that the Distribution Com-
mittee will shortly meet to appropriate the money.

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From the Bth of June up to 14th July, over twentr
three million cubic metres of water have been pumped out
of Eizeaedin.

The crisis as regards fruit prospects has now been
reached, and the Chamber of Agriculture Journal expresses
Its conviction that 1879 will have to be recorded as a year of
scarcity, notwithstanding the bright prospects which existed
a few weeks ago.

The Servian authorities have resolved that "the
English custom of closing all places of business on Sunday"
shall be adopted.

A meeting of the friends of the late Lord Lawrence
was held on Monday afternoon in the Jerusalem Chamber at
Westminster Abbey, under the presidency of Dean Stanley,
when it was agreed that a personal memorial should be
erected to him by public subscription and apart from any
effort in this direction that may be made by his family.
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General Gourko has ordered further severe measures
to be takes, with a view to extinguish revolutionary papers
and pamphlets in St. Petersburg. Henceforth all pro-
prietors and tenants of houses will be held responsibleit
secret printing is discovered on their premises, which will be
closed by the authorities.
Two companies of the United States troops are re-
ported to have had an engagement on the 17th inst. with
300 Sioux Indians at the month of Beaver Creek, in which
the troops lost four killed. The main column coming up,
however, to their assistance, the Indians fled to Sitting
Bull's camp.
At the weekly meeting of the poor•law guardians of
the Preston Union, the chairman, after reading some
minutes of the workhouse committee relative to supplies of
food said that with regard to butter he was told by a gentle-
man well acquainted with such matters that the French
were rapidly eclipsing us in the production of that article of
food.

Eight persons have been drowned by the capsizing
of a yacht at Point aux Trembles, near Quebec.
Thirty•five persons were killed during the recent
tornado in the State of Massachusetts.
The suggestion has been made to form a peal of
carillon of glass bells, as if beaten with wood or some soft
substance they would be much more musical and sonorous
than metal. They can be cast at a cheap rate, of any size
or strength.

Military pigeon houses have been established in all
the fortified towns of France, and great attention is being
paid to thelbreeding and training of carrier pigeons, which in
case of siege would be of great service. The Minister of
Fine Arts, the Parisian tells us, has Just placed at the
disposal of the Minister of War fourteen Sevres vases to be
distributed as prizes for the encouragement of the breeding
and training of carrier pigeons.

The last issue of returns about pauperism that the
Local Government Board have put forth brings the informa-
tion down to the close of May. Then the number of paupers
In all England on the indoor and outdoor relief lists was
752 819 or 5} per cent, more than at the corresponding
date of 1878. Both numbers, it should be stated, exclude
paupers in lunatic asylums, and also vagrants relieved in
casual wards or otherwise.

The widow of Charles 11., Grand Duke of Parma,
who abdicated in 1849 in favour of his brother, has just died
near Lucca. She was the daughter of Victor Emmanuel I.
of Sardinia, and her twin sister is Empress Dowager of
Austria, and now the only survivor of the elder branch of
the House of Savoy.

The Queen has sent to the ex-Empress Enanie an
exquisite frame designed to enclose the last portrait taken of
the Prince Imperial. The frame is composed of amethysts
cut out in flowers, chiefly violets. A garland which crowns
the frame is surmounted by an eagle holding between its
claws a banner scroll in tricolour, on which is written in
gold letters the words, Not lost, but gone before." The
ex• Empress has been greatly touched wilts the sympathetic
present, and has ordered copies of it to be made and given
with the last photograph of the Prince, to his and her own
intimate friends.

This is not only ben trovato but vero. A gentleman
showing some ladies over the Oxford Colleges had his atten-
tion called to a picture of one of the celebrities of the
college. "A great gun ?" he asked of the cicerone. "Yes,
sir." "A canon, perhaps ?" said he, rememberirg his Joe
Miler in the midst of scenes of his youth. "Can't exactly say
sir," was the answer, "but I know he had a brother in the
army."—Court Journal.

A telegram from Pesth to the Daily News says :
"The harvest prospects in Hungary are very bad. I have
Just spoken with a gentleman who owns four large farms in
different counties. He reports utter failure everywhere."

The Americans are to have a Cleopatra's Needle
after all, at least so says the New York World, which states
that the negotiations which have been going on for the last
eighteen months are completed, and that the Khedive has
"graciously and liberally offered this magnific.nt monument
to the commercial metropolis of the New World." The
money for the scheme has long been promised "by the
splendid liberality of a single citizen of New York," and the
business details of the transfer will be pushed forward with
all proper and possible celerity Where the Needle is to be
ultimately lodged, however, is still a matter of discussion.
The new line of railway from Bettwa•y-coed to
Festintog, connecting the London and North Western system
with the great slate-producing district of Merionethshire,
was opened for passenger traffic on Tuesday m)rning. Its
'length is about eleven miles, and it has cost upwards of
£500,000, half that amount being expended on a tunnel two
miles long.

A telegram has been received in St. Petersburgh
by the Minister of the Interior from the Governor of Nijni
Novgorod stating that a fire broke out there on Saturday
morning, the bazaar and a large number of houses and shops
being destroyed. The telegram adds that while the fire was
raging an explosion of combustible material occurred in a
shop musing the death of seventeen persons. The charred
remains of four other persons were found in the burning
ruins.

Writing from Geneva, the Correspondent of The
Times says:—" On Monday and Tuesday in last week the
waters of Lake Leman rose 20 inches in 24 hours. Only
three times since 1792, the last occasion being in the summer
of 1846, bas the lake reached so high a level, and as the
Alpine snows continue to melt until the middle of August, it
is probable that the present year will mark the maximum of
the century. Owing to continual falls of fresh snow and the
frequent rains, Alpine ascents are attended this year with
considerable difficulty and more than usual danger. Several
attempts have been made to climb Mont Blanc, but no one,
not even a guide, has as yet succeeded in going further than
the Grande Mnlets."

On Saturday, two little girls named Meadons were
bitten in the leg by a snake in Epping Forest. They belonged
to a party ot Sunday school children at the East-end, London,
taken out for a "day in the country." Medical aid was
obtained, and it is believed the girls are not in danger,
though for some time the limbs were sore and swollen.

An accident happened to the London and Birming-
ham express for Chester, due at Crewe at 4 23 on Tuesday
afternoon. The train, which was driven by a powerful six
wheel coupled engine, proceeded some two miles on its jour-
ney, and was just approaching at full speed the bridge over
the Weaver when she blew her front cylinder completely
out, smashed her connecting rod, and broke the rest on which
the boiler sits. The steam poured out in dense volumes.
The driver immediately applied the powerful brake and blew
the danger whistle, and the engine was pulled up right over
the Weaver viaducr, Messengers were despatched with fog
signals to stop approaching trains, and after half an hour's
delay a special engine was procured from Crewe, and the
train proceeded on her way. Mr. Moon, chairman of the
Lrindin and North-Western Railway Company, and a num-
ber of clergymen and gentlemen attending the Chester
Mnsical Festival were in the train.
An inquiry has been held at West Croydon, as to
the death of Thoms.s Stone, aged 62, a railway gate-keeper
in the employment of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway, who was killed on the 17th Jost by a fast
train from New Croydon to Victoria. He was gate-keeper at
the junction near Croydon-common. At about a quarter.
past twelve o'clock on Thursday he was seen by a man
crossing the line near the gate-hut; a train came along at
full speed, the buffers of the engine struck him, and the
whole of the carriages passed over his body. The engine-
driver was called, and stated that he saw Stone when he was
about fifteen yards off. He sounded the whistle, but the
deceased appeared paralyzed and unable to move. The
jury, after hearing further evidence, returned a verdict of
"Accidental death" and exonerated the driver tram all
blame.

"A young man in the country sends me some
cheering announcements from County Devon. In the neigh-
bourhood of Exeter a good deal of grass has now been mown.
But from present appearances the farmers are more likely to
make manure of it than hay. Out-door fruit an entire
failure. No nectarines, no peaches, no apples, no cherries.
No honey; if the bees can make enough to feed themselves
through the winter, they will be lucky. Plenty of straw-
berries which have no flavour. Item of gooseberries which
will not ripen. Item of currants and raspberries also with-
out flavour. Vegetables, as a rule, plentiful and fine, but
tasteless. A fortnight's hot sun would do wonders. In
revenge, the roses are superb, and those who have had occa-
sion lately to plant trees or shrubs are surprised and de-
lighted at their wonderful growth."—The World.