The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-04-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

There are great complaints in Algeria of the murders
mid depredations by native banditti, the farmers being the
chief hufferers, and, in the absence of an efficient rural
police, the local bodies and the Press urge that every tribe
should be held responsible for the acts of its nirAnbers.

General Garibaldi, in declining a pressing invita-
tion to Paris, says :—" 1 deem it impossible to repair to the
Exhibition, and I am the more sorry for this inasmuch as I
have been from childhood a worshipper of the great philo-
zeplwr of Verney."
Seeing a friend off, or meeting him at the Spanish
railway stations, is provided for by the issue of a special
ticket at a low price, allowing the holder to wait upon the
platform. The price is devoted to the benevolent fund.
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- The shipping of several thousand Circassians for
the coast of Syria, is, it is said, causing much :apiiety to the
inhabitants.

A remarkable haul of fish was made in the Great
Western Dry Dock at Plymouth the other morning. A
Norwegian vassal having been docked, the dock was pumped
out in the usual manner, and when the water was clear a
shoal of grey mullet was found at the bettom. They
fetched absut £l5O, and were at once despatched to various
markets, the bulk going to London. The right to fish taken
in this manner in the dock is rented for a few pounds ayear,
and not very long ago a similar haul was made.

The death at Moabit, near Berlin, is announced of
Harr Borsig, one of the principal ironmasters of Germany.
Many thousands of locomotives have been manufactured in
hi g Lerlia works.
A castoin, long observed in France, prohibited max.
riages during Lent. This year, however, in Paris, t laast,
the rule has been broken, and the Catholics plead contagion
as an excuse. They say that Protestants marry, the Jews
marry, why therefore should not they?

loan artiQlQ. -.Ton the late Madame Dufaure, the
Dibgts It•-:<311s upon the usefulness of her life. Eager in evei y
(muse of charity, she made choice of one direction for her
supreme efforts —the education of girls. By her instru-
mentality thirty schools to this end were founded in Paris,
and 2,000 young women were trained under her unceasing
encouragement and observation.

At no period f.--r nearly half a century has the
yeomanry force exhibited such a healthy condition as at the
present time, recruiting having been carried on briskly
during the met few months and the drills being especially
well attended.

The journals of Bologna state that a young man
named Monari, a smith, and a clever gymnast, performed a
few days back the extraordinary feat of descending the
Azinelli tower, outside, by the lightning conductor. This
was done for a small wager. He occupied about twenty
minutes in the task, as he stopped about every thirty feet to
sing and perform acts of bravado. When he reached the
bottom two police officers requested him to accompany
them to the station; he was, however, libmited imme-
diately on giving his name and address.

Monday's Magnet says the heavy rainfall coming
after the somewhat lengthened period of dry weather must
have a beneficial effect upon agriculture. As the weather
has at the same time become much milder, the development
of vegetation will be more rapid. At present affairs are
rather in a backward condition, but the general appearance
of the growing crops is satisfactory.

Mr. Lane Fox's plan of lighting street lamps by
eleotricity was tried in L mdon on Saturday evening 1r Pall-
mall, Wateiloo-place, and part of Regent-street. The ex-
perimental lighting was commenced at five o'clock, and at
first the whole of the lamps in the circuit were lighted by
the aid of electricity. They were then put out by the same
means, and some necessary adjustments of the mechanism
n some of the' lamps was made. A subsequent attempt to
relight them preyed but partially successful, several lamps
on the circuit refusing to answer to the electric discharge. In
the great majority of instances, however, where the points
had been properly adjusted, the experiment succeeded.
Governor Fairbanks, of Vermont, in his Fast-day
proclamation, says :—" Let us especially pray that He will
graciously vouchsafe to make and keep us as individuals,
and as a State and a nation, inflexibly honest, even in times
of financial depression. So shall we fulfil our high destiny,
and transmit to our children unimpaired the rich legacy re-
ceived from our fathers."

Professor Bluntschil, the famous jurist, has cele-
brated his seventieth birthday by sending a present of 700
francs to Zurich, his native city, which is to be expended in
buying money-boxes for the children of the working classes
in the schools, "in order to train them," as he says, "by the
regular laying by of their little savings, to begin the collec-
tion of a small capital early in life."

The quantity of wheat sold during the past week
according to the return of the Officers of Excise was 36,319
quarters at 51s. sd. In the corresponding week of last year
the quantity sold was 33,263 quarters, at 625. 41.

On Saturday (13th) some loads of palm were sold in
London, and the vendors of this emblem of the season made
a good harvest by their enterprise. Many of these itinerant
class stationed themselves at central parts to catch visitors
to the Boat Race, and they sold out their ware at good
prices.
An inquest has been held before the Li verpool coroner
on the body of Henry Melville Pemberton, 17, a joiner's
apprentice who died in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary
i 0 fro he effects of a dog bite four months ago. When
bitten he sucked the wound and had it cauterized. He re-
tained his health till the 7th inst. On Tuesday following
a doctor was called in, and pronounced him suffering from.
hydrophobia. The jury returned a verdict that the "dc-
ceased died from hydrophobia, the result of the bite of a
dog."

Mr. Morgan Howard, Q.C., Recorder of Guildford,
was presented with a pair of white kid gloves, according to
custom, at a maiden quarter sessions held there on lionday.•
In accepting them, he said that Guildford enjoyed a greater
immunity from crime titan any other town of its size in the
country.

The Bishop of Manchester, preaching at his Cathe-
dral on Sunday evening, referred to the prospect of this
country being shortly engaged in war. If, ho said, war was
inevitable, as the English nation we would engage in it with
seriousness, realising the tremendous responsibility before
God and man which we were incurring.

"In the Bishop of Lichfield the Bench has lost one
of its manliest members. In harness till the very end, his
last reluaining strength was expended in signing papers of
Immediate importance. had he been more caretul about
himself and less eager about his work he might have lived
another ten years. He can ill be spared. The friction
caused by the new system of work which he introduced into
his diocese had rubbed itself away and the good results were
being felt. All who came in contact with him will remember
his genuine admiration for work, and his disregard of the
claims of party or family connection."—Maw`air.
In London, on Saturday, Dr. Hardwicke, coroner
for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the Islington
Coroner's Court, touching the death of the Rev. Ambrose
Lawson, aged 43, the newly appointed vicar of St. Mark's,
Tollington Park, Hornsey-road, where he preached his first
sermon on Sunday, the 7th inst., who was found dead in his
chair on IVeduesday inerning in last week. It appeared in
evidence that to obtain relief in a distressing ailment he had
been in the habit of teking doses of morphia hypedermati-
cahy, though he had been warned of the d Inger. A verdict
was returned of death by misadventure by an overdose of
morphia by injection.
Twenty-three British and foreign wreck 3 were re-
ported during the past week, making the total for the present
year 425, or a decrease of 247 as against the corresponding
week of last year. The approximate value of property
lost was £348,000, of which BritLsh property represented
£•:78,000.
On the occasion of the marriage of the Princes
Charlotte of Prussia, a carved oak chest was presented to her,
executed by the pupils of the wood-carving establishment of
the painter Magnussen in Schleswig. The chest was en-
riched by three reliefs, representing subjects taken from
English history, and the lid rested on a rhu of lions' heads.
Altogether, this richly-ornamented work seems to have
endeavoured to rival the magniticent-marriage coffers pre-
sented to brides of old, though we do not read that it was
domed, as they so o,ften were, with paintings.

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The Prince Impezial lately drew by proxy a number
subjecting him to service in the French Army. This done,
lie sent in his claim for exemption as the only son of a widow.
The claim wai admitted, so that the formalitie3 have been
fulfilled without sensation.

A telegram from China says that a destructive
hurricane, accompanied by two water-spouts, caused im-
mense damage at Canton last Friday in the foreign concession
and the native city. No lives are reported to have been
lost among the foreign population.

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The Ameircan firemen with their steam•engines will
create a marked sensation in Paris It is said that the
authorities have granted them permission to parade in the
Champs Elysees.

One of the signs of the approaching dissolution may
be found in the rumour which is floating about that a new
batch of Peers is about to be createu.—Court Journal.
The Island of St. Bartholomew, the only possession
held by Sweden in the West Indies, was, on March 15, trans-
ferred to France with the usual formalities.

His Majesty King Humbert has subscribed
1,000,000 f to a monument which the city of Turin is about to
erect to his father, Victor Emmanuel.

"I myself have lost my servant by the calling out
of the Reserve Forces, and two of my friends are in a like
eve.l don't well know what I shall do, how I shall look, or
who will varnish my boots for me for some time to come;
but I put it all down to the Russians, and I have enjoined
my man to do his duty by them."— Vanity Fair.

A Bill, brought in by Mr. Andereon, for the
further proteetiou of the property of married women in Scot-
land, and a Bill, bearing the name of Mr. Raikes, to grant
certain duties of customs and ibland revenue, to alter
other duties, and to amend the laws relating to Customs and
inland revenue, have been printed.

Amongst the passengers who arrived at Liverpool
last week by the City of Rerlin was the Rev. Dr. E C.
Wines, secretary of the American Prison iociety. lie is
accredited by the President of the United; tates to repre-
sent his Government at the World's Prison Congress, to be
held t Stockholin in August.

...
M. Coggia, of Marseilles, announces the discovery
of a small planet of the tenth magnitude in R.A. 12 hours
30 minutes, N. P. D. 90 degrees 158 minutes; moving
southerly.

A committee of Irish 11I.P.'s and noblemen have
called a conference of Irish members of both Houses of
Parliament, literary men, clergymen, and others, for the
purpose of considering the best means to be taken for the
preservation of the Irish and kindred Celtic languages in the
elementary education of the country. The conference will
be held in London.

There is a severe drought in Morocco, and the
Sultan has been on foot to the chief mosque to pray for rain.
At Marateah, Medineh, and Mellah a famine rages, and corn
a six times the price of last year.

The Government of India has deposed the Rajah
Tuket for misconduct. His son will succeed him.

Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, is at present
a candidate for canonization, and the reliquary at Bruges
containing his bones has been inspected by the Bishop and
Chapter in connexion with the inquiry now going on.
"A Suffering Farmer," who writes to The Times to
urge that the Dog-tax should be raised to be, and really
enforced, adds :—" At this moment I can skow no fewer
than 43 sheep and lambs worried to death by stray dogs
within a radisa of five miles. Eighteen lie dead in one field
close to the public road. Surely the owners of these
mangled sheep have a right to some remedy ? "
The steam torpedo launches in the Mediterranean
do not appear to give entire satisfaction. A report has been
received at the Admiralty from the officers showing that
there is no room within the shields for the stokers and the
men working the craft, and that if the shields could be
lightened and removed forward, even to the extent of half a
foot, it would be a great improvement. Objection is also
made to the arrangements for steering within the cover of
the shield, which is pronounced to be useless, as in going
round it is necessary to send a man to the helm.

By the award of Mr. David Dale, the late presi-
dent of the arbitration for the manipulated iron trade of
the North of England a reduction in the wages of the
northern ironworkers will be brought into force of 9d. per
ton on puddling and 7i per cent. on other wages. Mr. Dale
was selected as arbitrator after the masters and men lvid
failed to come to an agreement. The reduction claimed by
the employers was 10 per cent. all round.
"There is no foundation for the rumour that the
Faris Exhibition will be opened only for one day on the let
of May, in consequence of the impossibility of completing
the arrangemeiats while the building is thronged with
visitors. I hear, on the contrary, that it will retnain open,
and that there will be plenty to see by that time. Hotel.
keepers are asking fabulous prices already on the strength
of it."—Vanity Fair.

A humiirons Bostonian writes to the New York
Nation to suggest that, with the passing of Mr. Bland's
Silver Bill, Congress owes it to the country to make silver
watches, with fifty-five minute 3 to the hour, the only legal
time-keepers in the United "States."

Two young men in the service of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, were engaged in shunting
carriages at the Monument-lane station, Birmingham, the
other morning, when they were knocked down by Dudley
goods train, which struck one of them on the head, killing
him on the spot, and passed over the legs of the other, who
died of his injuries in the course of a few hours.

Queen Christina of Spain has fractured a bone in
the thigh through a fall In her own house.

In the excavations carried out on April 4 in the
presence of Prince Leopold at Pompeii the following ob-
lects were found : Gold—an armlet; a ring with engraved
agate; and another plain ring. Bronze—a candelabrum
two vases in the form of a lagena ; a pastrycook's " shape ;"
a ring; some bosses; a large vase in fragments. Glass—a
blue vase with one handle, a bottle, two ampullae, one
small square vase. Terra cotta— a lamp, two small pots,
two olive flasks,. a porringer. Iron—a candelaorum. Lead
—three weights. —A cademy.

On Sunday (14th) the bells of Windsor rang merrily
in honour of the twenty-first birthday of Princess Beatrice.
who thus attains her majority. It being Sunday, the Royal
salutes usually fired in honour of the occasion were reserved
until Monday.

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By the calling up the men of the first-class army
reserve the Great Eastern railway Company will lose the
services of 400 nen, most of whom are employed at their
London Goods Dep

It is stated, on legal authority, that the stamps on
the B.osebery-Rotlischtld ante-nuptial settlement instruments
amounted to £4,Coo.—Four columns were cabled to the New
York Herald descriptive of Lord Rosebery's wedding.

Recruiting for the cavalry has been going on so
briskly that nearly all the regiments on the home establish-
ment are racruitel up to their full strength, and little or no
difficulty has been experienced in preparing the six regi-
meut.6 of the First Army Corps for service.

The American expre;sion when a sufficient number
of directors cannot be got together to make a board is,
" They failud to materialize."

A provincial (Italian) paper relates that Leo XIII.
hearing a few days after his accession that Madame de
Montalernbert had arrived at Rome, expressed a desire to
sie her. She accordingly went to the Vatican, accompanied
by her daughter. The Pope spoke of the eminent services
rendered to the Church by her husband and her brother,
Monseigneur do Merode. He also laid his hand on her
daughter's head, saying, "I give you my blessing, Theresa,
for yc.urself and for your renowned father."

The King of Portug,l is continuing his translations
from Shakespeare, and is now engaged upon the Merchant
of Venice.—Academy.

And now a lot of people are coming forward and
writing letters to the newspapers to tell how they see the moon
as a globe, and not as a disk. We do not like this We are
not rigid piethits, but we think a decent reserve is advisable
in these matters. We have thought we saw both aides of
the moon at the same time, but we never flaunted it in the
face of the public.—American Paper.

According to a Calcutta telegram, the Indian press
has little doubt but that, if England so willed it, the Dative
military force might in a comparatively short time be re-
cruited up to the strength of a 4nillion If fully and effi-
ciently officered it would in fighting qualities be second only
to an army of English soldiers, while in respect of endurance
and power of bearing privations it woulci be second to no
military for^e in the world. An auxiliary army raised in
India, where for all practical purposes our resources are
limitless, would, it is said, give England a military prepon-
derance in almost any European war in which she engaged.
"There are good manners left even now. On that
hideously wet ThurEchy in this week I was walking down
Waterloo-place, almost the only man there, certainly the
only one smoking. In front of Howell and James's were two
chimney sweeps trying to light their pipes with a wax vesta.
I happened to have some vesuvians and suggested them as
an improvement in such a downpour. They eyed me doubt-
fully, touched their hats, and then accepted gingerly and
apologetically. While I was striking it the spokesman said,
' Well, sir, if you're not ashamed to recognise us I think we
win.' The simplicity was delightful."—" Argus," in Land
and Water.

Captain Boyton has written to a French paper a
most amusing account of his swim across the Straiii of
Gibraltar. Be says that the feat was far more difficult than
swimming across the Straits of Dover, for the currents carried
him so far that he traversed fifty miles in doing the journey.
Ile adds, "I saw several sharks, but none of them made a
meal of me, and I owe them my best acknowledgments. I
suffered much from the sun and the salt water which came
into my eyes, and I was almost blind when I landed. As I
was not expected at Tangiers I blew my horn as I approached
the town. Some Moorish guards came down to know what
the noise was about, and seeing sue emerge from the sea,
they ran back to arouse the town, declaring that the
devil had just come ashore. I left them the same day by
steamer."

"The sergeants of the regimental transport of
Infantry regiments have been each supplied with a revolver.
This is quite right, as they have no other arms at present
than a sword bayonet, which would be a rather awkward
weapon to wear 'when mounted. I want to know, how-
ever, why officers when going on active service should not
also be provided with a revolver. It is a much more useful
weapon than a sword, and though the ißsue of a pistol—for
the campaign only—to each officer would cost the Govern
ment little, the purchase of it by individuals would be a
heavy tax, and swallow up a good deal of the first issue of
field allowance."— Vanity Fair.

The Chancellor of the diocese of London has granted
a faculty for the erEction of a mortuary and post-ntortem
examination-rooms in the graveyard of St. Matthew's,
Bethual-green but refused permission for a coroner's court-
room and a residence for the mortuary keeper to be built on
the same site, as that would be using consecrated ground for
secular and profane purposes.

"The quantity of spare cash which seems to be at
the disposal of individual members of the Russian army,
not only officers, but also, and more especially, common
soldiers, has, I am told, much surprised the good people of
Constantinople. The Muscovites, who come daily for a
walk into the beleaguered city, throw about even gold right
royally, ard the Islamite tradesmen, I hear, are reaping a
harvest out of their coriquerors—spoiling the Egyptians in
very truth. It is no ordinary sight, lam told, to Fee a jolly
old Turk supremely happy on the coachbox as he rattles
hither and thither with a carriage-load of drunken Russian
soldiers. They have not had such good times of it in the
Turkish metropolis for many a long day."— Whitehall
Review.
A Pandemonium Club, composed of artists, actors,
musicians, and journalists, has been organized in San Fran-
cisco.
Osman Pasha, before leaving his Russian imprison-
ment, is sa4d to have presented jewellery to the host of the
hotel in which he stayed, and expressed himself moat favour-
ably to the correspondent of the Gobs with respect to the
treatment of his countrymen, sick and otherwise, in cap-
tivity. Ile ordered 5,000 cigarettes to be distributed, with-
out distinction of nationality, to the patiehts in the local
hospital.-
In connection with Lord Lytton's strong enactment
against the disaffected vernacular press of India one who
knows India well (says the Court Journal), and who has just
returned from the country, sass, "That the result of careful
inquiry proved to him that none of the blatant papers whose
Influence is so much feared has a circulation above a few
hundreds, and that many of them cannot count fifty regular
readers. The natives as a rule either read nothing, or those
papers which are translations of the old-established English
jouTnals."

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In London, the other evening, a lad, about eight
years of age, was playing upon the steps at Southwark
Bridge, aryl, overbalaileiug himself, fell into about tweive
feet of water. Fortunately. at the time, a gentleman was
giving his retriever dog a swim by throwing a stick WO the
river, and whilst goitig after the piece of wood he caught
sight of the tittle fellow struggling. The dog immediately
left the wood and swam to the boy, catching him, as he was
going down, by the jacket, and mought him safely ashore.
At a public meeting held on Monday night at
Sheffield Mr. Waddy, M. I'., formally accepted the invitation
of the Libtral Association of that town to become a can,
didate tor the borough at the next general election; in con-
junction with Mr. Alundella. Speeches were inade by both
these lion gentlemen. Mr. Mundella expresi•ed his entire
approval of the choice made by the Liberal Association. He
repudiated the motion that the political character of
Sheffield had changed, and as to the Eastern question he
considered that tho danger of war was becoming increas-
ingly imminent, and that the 'position of England WM never
more critioal than at present.

A pious man was going through the Boston Coxnapn
one Sunday, and came upon some youngsters "playing
marbles" "Boys," he said, "boys, do you know what day
it is?" One of the imps turned to a bystander with, "Here,
can you tell this man what day it is, he don't know?
More than 50,000 roubles have already been sub-
scribed to the S'ociets started a few weeks ago by a daughter
of the Grand Duke Michael for supplying disabled soldiers
with artificial arms Lud legs.—Mayfair.
A meeting of delegates of the Ancient Order of
Foresters was held at Sheffield on 3lomber, when Brother
Robert Shaw was appointed high Chief Ranger, and
Brother Wilson Sub-Ringer, The Order has 500,000 mem-
bers and £2,00,000 sterling capital. •

A waterfall costing £25.000 is rather an extravagant
undertaking, even in these days of costly enterprise. That,
or, to he precise, £24.800, is the sum which the gond cas-
cade in front of the crntral hall of the Trocadero Palace at
Paris will cost. The work contains over 30,000 cubic yards
of excavation and masonry.

The additions to the Regent's Park (London)
Zoological Gardens during the past week include two Persian
gazelles from I'ersia, a macaque monkey from India, a com-
mon squirrel, European, a vulpine phalanger, a Pudu deer,
a naked-eared deer from Chili a maned goose, from Austra-
lia, an Egyptian gazelle from Egypt, a Frazer's squirrel from
Ecuador, and a black steniothere from West Africa,

A Cape Town telegram, yid Madeira, states that
the condition of affairs in the Transvaal is very serious,
fighting has been going on for a week around Bide Bush.
Several officers were killed.

A Lyons silk mannfacturer states that he has now
over 300 different shades of blue and as many of green, re-
producing all the skades of the minerals, vegetables, animals,
flowers, and fruits of creation, which he uscs in the manu-
facture of his fabrics.

The Atlanta Constitution says that to be a man and
not be a " Colonel " is preposterous, and asks what Georgia
would do without her hundred thousand " colonels "
The result of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
leaves Oxford two a-head of Cambridge, the former .having
won eighteen and the latter sixteen races, the race' latt yule
being a dead heat. -

For the first time in Holland the degree of Doctor
of Medicine has been conferred upon a lady, Miss Aletta
Jacobs, who has announced her intention to practkse in m 31
eine at Amsterdam.

While the walking match was going on on Saturday,
at the Agricultural Hall in London, a man climbed from the
gallery to the girders, and made his way to the top of the
span. Here he missed his hold and slipped, and after hang-
ing a minute, fell with terrific force on the boards When
picked up he was quite dead

At St. Petersburg the authorities are afraid to
publish correct accounts of the mortality from the spotted
typhus, for fear of causing a panic. The death-rate is
frightful—considerably over 50 per thousand.—Mayfair.
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.Mr. Frank Buckland has recently made an exami-
nation of a huge conger eel, which died lately at Southport
Aquarium. Its weight was Nibs., of which 7114 consisted
of ova, and it was found that the number of eggs must have
been not less than 14,651,000.

Increased activity is visible at Portsmouth in fitting
ships for commission, and orders have been given within the
last few daysito enter a large number of additional workmen.

A meeting of the Executive Committee appointed
to promote the holding of a great agricultural exhibition in
London next year, under the auspices of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England, was held in Lonion on Monday,
at the Mansion House. It was expected that before the
next meeting of the committee a convenient site of
nearly 100 acres in the west pf London would be secured.
About £20,000 will be required for the purposes of the exhibi-
tion, and of that amount nearly £2,500 is reported as having
been promised.
A Tiflis journal enumerates the names of 27 doctors
belonging to the town who have fallen victims to the typhus
plague during the laat few weeks.

The Mark Lane Express remarks that the present
aspect of the wheat plant does not give rise to complaint,
and the acreage sown may be taken at about an average ;
while a somewhat larger breadth than usual has been put
under spring corn during the recent favourable seedtime.
The total population of Stockholm on the Ist of
January, 1878, was, according to an official statement,
151,523, or about 60,000 less than the population of. Copen-
hagen.

The Sherteld Telegraph says that some time ago,
when the distress consequent on the depression of trade was
at its worst, the Duke of Norfolk charitably gave employ-
ment to a number of men on land situated near All Saints'
Church and on the Burngreave-road, Sheffield. The work
consisted in the removal of earth and rock to a "tip" some
distance off. Upwards cf 250 men accepted employment,
and one "gang" of 95 men were delegated to the rocky land
of Burngreave-road Payment was made according to the
work performed, and for a time satisfactory incomes were
realised. As, h,wever, the rocks grew more formidable,
and the distance to the tip greater, signs of dissatisfaction ap-
peared, and a consultation of the men has resulted in a strike
for more advantageous terms.

" How impossible is it to make a foreigner, even
when he has lived a long time in England, understand our
ways I I was talking te a German friend of mine—a natural-
i.sed Englishman—of the stiffness of the course from Putney
to Mortlake, and he said, ' 0, I suppose both crews have a
good drink of brandy before starting I' Is not this enough
to make a trainer turn in his graver —The World.
Charles Hale, aged 19, employed in the Post-office
at Bath as rural messenger, whilst delivering letters at a
farm, was attacked two months ago by a large retriever
dog, and the lower portion of his right thigh severely
lacerated. The wound was cauterised by a chemist, and he
was afterwards attended by a surgeon. He seemed, how-
ever, to suffer from nervousness. On Saturday morning he
was seized with spasms in the chest and throat, and tetanus
afterwards set in. He was very violent during Saturday and
Sunday night, and repeatedly exclaimed as well as he was
able through his clenched teeth that he knew that it was the
bite of the dog that was killing him. Several medical men
were called in, and, for the purpose of more complete treat-
ment, the deceased was removed to the Royal United Hos-
pital, where he died on Monday.

The great Pane Exhibition mirror from the manu-
factory of Saint-Gobain, measuring 2311. by 1311., has arrived
safely at the Champ de Mars. It was carried on an immense
oblique frame borne on two trucks.

In a contribution to the Austrian Monasthrift f. d.
Orient, Baron von Richthofen reckons the coal production
of China at 3,000,000 tons annually. The anthracite beds of
Shansi represent 1,000,000 tons, the bituminous coal of than
province, 700,000, the province of Hunan, 600,000, Shantung,
200,000, and Chi-li, 150,000. Exact statistics would evidently
increase the total quantity. All the 18 provinces contain
coal; and, although the extent of the coal-fields and the
age and quality of the coal vary, yet China may now be
regarded as cue of the first-coal countries of the world,

The men belonging to the Liverpool and Birkenhead
Operative Painters Association, numbering about 1,000
struck work on Saturday. They had demanded an advance
of Id. per hour, which tne masters had refused, They have
been receiving 7id. per hour, and now asked Sid. The
Birkenhead men subsequently reduced their demand to Sd.
per hour, but without avail except with a few small
employers.

An immense number of officers have been attending
the levees of H R. 1.1. the Fie. hi Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief and the Military Secretary at the Horse Guards, for
the purpose of making known their desire to see service in
case of war, and it deserves to be stated that the work of the
military authorities has been very considerably lightened,
in a period of national anxiety, by the praiseworthy manner
in which all ranks have come forward and seconded the
exertions the Government have been making to prepare for
war, should warnnfortunately be thrust upon us by the ob-
stinate end grasping policy of the Russian diplomatists.
Whitehall Re rietr.

The new flying machine, recently invented by Mr.
C. F. Ritchel, of Corry, Pennsylvania, seems from its de-
scription to bear a strong family likeness to a balloon en-
cumbered with sundry fans and other useless appliances.
The fans are said to work on the same principle that the
Fowler steering apparatus works on the water. It need
hardly be said that the first exhibition was a complete
failure. The bag—so much like a balloon—which " requifes
3,000 feet of gas for its inflation," for awhile refused to raise
the machine more than a few yards from the ground, and
when it was persuaded to act the steering fans smashed up.
It is unnecessary to add that the inventor has no doubt that,
In time, the problem of directing an aerial ship will be solved
by his device.—lron.