The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

THE FUTEHL

TIME WILL SHOW!

"The farther the Pi malaise advance Into French territory
the farther they will have es go beck, and that Mesita. 4e
re rest, who ever it May come, alit hi terrible. lhe s., nor
it snit es the better f.r the Prussians. But if 11•Nialt ta
does lot crush lion, lath's battle, the ne sof which we are
expecting, lt p .setble th y mty get t.trettor euotga men
to COW/ on to!' iris, std there they will have, It. ORO seMel
Shah the moiety • no, to 'sit down ' SOJIO people shrug
their shoulders and say, 'Pane I. too big to he defend,' I
it it is too big so he eieeendeet, It Is to., big ea be in.
vested ; its size is a greater disadvantege to it. assailants
than to its defenders; but let the size be what it use', I can
promise these amateur wintery mini/Hera who sneer at the
ilea of a del, nee of Parts, that the capital will be bald g
Malty and resolutely, that it can neither be taken by coop Or
//011/. PO/ id•reted out, and that the only cinnce the enemy
had of taking it—that is by the coincidence of disturbances
from witiot—has disappeared. Wantlmi that the Prussians
laid A regular siege to Parts—ln eventusidy most tenor°.
battle. for the capitol and centre of a great nation cannot
be btleagn,red hke Sebastopol tiny tv, dild have
to move off as soon Si an army from Ihe Lire (sure
to do formed) fell on their fl ink or rear. And
then this reenlar lies e implies, as you will awe., an utter
defeat of hi Mahon beforehand ; for his splendid at any of
ote hundre d and fifty thousand rue., the soot of tt em ir, sh
could never be If, free to muerwe as it please] while the
invader starched byword to his tartly bomb ti dment ttl Perna
Iliac defeat a 14'11,thon is last possible—but nobody here
anticipates it; still if it come the cspital is prepared for it.
At noon yesterds) 550 C2POOD were an posh ion count Paris,
a girdle of iron that will not be readily forced
Correspondent of Duly Telegraph.

WHAT CABBY WOULD DO !

'' I have just come from the Bois de Minion.. I had to
wait fir an hour at the gate of the Avenue de Neon!), to
allow a locg procession of 'Fagg,ne to enter, loaded with
furniture, for all the inhabiter:to of the environs are sending
ih-ir household go de into Paris. The Blade Boulogne was
full of sheep and user], who were eating the branch. of the
trees. On the approach if toe PFUSBIaIa they are to be
driven Into the town : but if in the meantime they are , ot fed
mra plentifully than at t resent, they will tile before
then of starvation. On my return, the coachman of
the trap in which I was &lying had a ili,pute with the
Nergent,-do-allle at the gate. Ile and they called each
other Preset In spies, which Is now tin French for •
scoundrel My coachman, however, got the better of
his antagonhts when he asked them w hether they
were not ashamed if seising an Emperor and a Government
which had betrayed France. When he asked this question,
a crowd which had congregated applauded him, and the
ripp.aum became still stronger a hen he went on tt say teat
he only owned live franca, and that he would make • b mitre
of them if ly the Emperor and Marshal Let tort would be
good cot-ugh to get into it. ' Look yin 'said this patriot to
nie its we drove if, •In 1811 we were conquereit. but nothing
happened so huniinating to ma as now. Then we were
beaten by a coalition, now we are beaten hy one foreign eta.
thin ; and to think that I voted for the Emperor at the la..t
p!e".hcite, arid that we are still payit g Wm two million
francs amonth—my blood hums !* and he thrashed his un-
fortunate horse Id Chow how he would himself thrash a
Prussian army—Daily News' Correspondent,

PROVING TOO MUCH!

The following story, illustrating the present profensity of
Frenchmen tomes in "each bush an officer," Is told by the
Pays A superior ether, whose rotiment Is about
to march to the theatre of war, mated in a green-
grocer's OP p for asset of potatoes. lie was told that none
were tette& gentleman having that morning hought the whole
stock, comisting ~f 10,00011 u., and sent it , ff by the Northern
giallway. The cflLer, a colonel, it would seem, was alto.
lashed to hear that. such an enormous quantity of piston
sh. 01,1 hove been purchased ly one Person, and asked tolook
sth I e Ilere 't is,' said the shopkeemr, with the receipt,
the paint arqusttle. The sharprighted colonel observing
the name slip ed was that of a Dutchman at nice went, to
the nearest c.,ndnissary of p 'lice to lay Wolin ttion, and
the rotators were stt,prd in trans. fit as being the property
of it rfllnil4ll" There is Jot a litt,e flaw in Ws tale of the
Pow,; a receipt is necessarily in the hands of him who pt)s
the nicer, not of him who receives it, and the Pays' colonel
found the receipt for the price of the 10,0,0 111. 11l the pos-
session of the greengrocer who sold them.

WHAT PARIS MAY COME TO!

o The French people have the reputation of being thegayest
In Emote (says the Parts Correspond, ot of The Tout,); but
their voice. are int xpressibly gal. as 11 .11 the melancholy of
the bonne tool were there—a persistent grief and wail. ihe
rob e betand me was deep and hollow, as it it came from the
Imwels of the earth It belonged to • sausage seller in a blue
b'ouse, who etein.el to rnake his head.quat t,ra in the pre-
coils of the Cale des Var.6.es. ' Non cheoot ! mon Owen! !
mon ehe oat 1 lie said, with a rapidity which seemed cloud
the powers of any throat. I turned round and round hum in
the auto! telling a sausage made from hone Lorry neighbour
behind n: c—pr.ce one franc a pound. He offered me some,
hut I refused with a shudder. Then I tine Inhered that In
my time I had partaken of Lyons smote, and that the
sau,ge of that tionems town is sent often to owe Ifs
peculiar flar4ur to the nosh of the ass. 8 since
my friend the sausage .ller persisted in offering
rne, as a possible cu.tomer, a taste of his horse,
tcok a bit, and my advice to ell and every whom It may
concern is that if they should visit the Cafe des Varieles and
shoula find the devd come to tenri, them iii tho shape and
guise of a sausAge seller, they must by to Means yield to
his temptation,. The sausage seller I Rend many mist .. em,
hoe ever, and being rather drool, son bill ii, offering his
wares to the public. Vu should have semi the insult• I mok
of a prim l.di In black to whom he offered a slice of his
saioage—• Men cheeal. nnedotne.' And why do I tell you
about 'him sausage seller? Ills because the ta k in Parts ail
yesterda, .r today, hen reference to the male of providing
tor the c p tat. how Is LIM vast city to oe provided for in,
the even, .1 a alt-gr ? I anopo,o she nalk,age seller hail no
other throb lit in his mind th m resell Slew extra kmnds ol
his precious courage ; but behind lila jesting style tune was
in the minds of those who heard him is ern thought of 'mon
chem.!' se a possible dainty hereafter.