The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-09 00:00:00

ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLC*ILIL.

TIT Fox Ter.—ln the December number of
a new If agaldne, Freelight, there is an article, by a
Lady Contributor,. on the "Age of Man." Another
proof of the alarming spread of independence among
Women. We hope no Gentleman will so far forget
himself as to take his revenge by writing a paper on
that very delicate subject, about which, with all our
accessions of knowledge, so little is etill known—the
" Age of Women."— Punch.

TIIE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—Tho subjoined is
a veritable copy of a letter actually received the other
day by a gentleman in Morayshire from a young man
in the same county. The aspirations the letter
breathes are in singular contrast with the actual com-
position of the poslucthoi itself:--
Dear Sir,—l beg Levy to inform you that we have al betting.
softy &Da the debete Is Sow dreames (tan trow or dow thay
for shadow what is to Came to Pass I have Fromesed
asiste the one has the drames of nu n to state that the drems
(tune trow and if you Could give sue Ennay sistens on dreius
I a ill be much obliged to you and I hop you will"
me for yonsiturthe Liberty and I will be very undies to hear
from you as the debate Comes of on Slooday (list.
Two LARGE CLAMP'S OF SOCIETY.—Froe
Thinkers and Free Drinkers.--Punek

Iteszer INsirscrn !—A correspondent relates
a touching instance of insect instinct as follows:
" I found a cockroach struggling in a howl of water. I
took halt a nutshell for a boat: I put him Into it and gave
him two wooden toothpicks for oars, and left him. The
next morning I visited him, and he hal put a piece of white
cotton thread on one of the toothpicks, and act the tooth-
pick on end as a signal of distress. Lie had a hair on the
other toothpick, and there that cockroach sat fishing. The
cockroach, exhausted, had folk n asleep. I took that cock-
roach out, gave him a spoonful of gruel, and left him. That
animal never forgot that act of kindness, and communicated
the circumstances to all his relatives and friends, so that
inm my house is chuck full of cockroaches."
ENCOCISTER WITH A TIGER.—A letter from
Chittagong, dated the 25th ult., gives the following
account of an encounter with a tiger at a village about
six miles from that place
On the morning of the previous day it entered the
village and seriously injured feur natives. As soon as the
news reaehed Chittagong, it. went in pursuit of it almie, and
after looking about in the long grass for two hours he saw
it tea yards from him. It WIN a young one, about too yeays
old. Ile fired and fortunately missed, as the tiger w,uld ton
certainty he killed him In the long grass. Then C. and 0,
came up. They heat the animal out of the grass lido a
strip of jungle and succeeded in hitting it with two
bullets, one of which broke its hind leg. Then It. saw
the animal again and fired, hitting it in the chat. Ile
could not, however, escape. The brute limped up to him,
threw him down, and mauled him fearfully on the right
shoulder, digging its claws an inch or more into his hack.
C. fired, and it jumped at him, and nearly nit Ids rife stock
through. It caught his hand, tearing it down from She wrist
to the palm. G. then struck it, and it rushed at him. He,
however. got round a tree just in time, for the tiger struck
him on the arm and thigh, fortunately causing .ly flesh
wounds, and then it skulked. 0. and C. pluckily followed,
and saw it lying down apparently dead. To niake sure, they
lodged two more bullets In the animal, and then looked to
It. who had lost a great deal of blood. ma tiger was finite
i▪ mam on.. mmering only eight test, but it had received
nine bullets, one of which had gone through the hes,rl and
lunp. C., and O. are all doing well."

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