The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-29 00:00:00

THE BERLIN INTERNATIONAL

PISCATORIAL EXHIBITION.

The International Piscatorial Exhibition, which is
to be opened at Berlin on the 20th of April next, will
include contributions from almost all civilised
countries in the world. Collective exhibitions have
already been promised by the following among other
countries :—Norway, Sweden, Holland, Italy,
Canada, Japan, China, and the Malay Islands, A
considerable number of special prizes have been
promised for meritorious special objects sent to
the exhibition, Thus the German Emperor has
promised to give three prizes of honour, while the King
of Saxony, the Grand Duke of Baden, the Grand
Duke of Mecklenbarg-Schwerin, and the Grand
Duke of Oldenburg, as well as the Senates of Ham.
burg, and Bremen, have each promised one prize of
honour. There are also to be money prizes for work.
ing fishermen who may prove successful exhibitors.
The prizes are to consist of three classes of medals—
gold, silver, and bronze. These and the money
prizes as well as the prizes of honour will be awarded
in accordance with the decisions of an international
jury, to be selected from all countries represented at
the exhibition.

The prize given by the King of Saxony is for the
best practical scheme for rendering harmless to fish
in rivers and lakes the refuse from factories and
sewage from towns. Although the prize thus offered
is intended for a complete solution of the question,
partial solutions are not to be excluded from consider.
ation by the jurors, who will also be instructed to
decide as to the plan deemed second in order of
merit. For this second plan a prize of 600 marks may
be awarded by the Minister of Agriculture if the plan
possesses advantages over the systems now in use.
Proposals Trom British subjects (which may be in
print or manuscript, and accompanied or not by
drawings) must be delivered before March 1, 1880, to
Mr. Edmund Johnson, Commissalre DaegurS, at the
London offices of the exhibition, 1, Castle.street,
liolborn. Apparatus and models intended to illus-
trate any at the plans so submitted will have subse.
quently to be forwarded to the exhibition. It is
requisite to apply before January 1 for the necessary
space in the British section.—The Times.

INTERESTING SALE OF PICTURES,
CURIOSITIES, la,
An interesting sale has been going on at Genoa dui:-
ing the last week or two—that, namely, of the curi-
osities, pictures, and old furniture belonging to Mr.
IL Mylius, whose picturesque villa on a point above
Carignano is familiar to all who have
approached
Genoa from the sea. Mr. Mylius had displayed great
taste and discernment in forming Lis collection, and
the sale attracted a large number of amateurs and
dealers from all parts of Europe. As a consequence
the prices realized ruled excessively high. The gem of
the collection (a correspondent writes) was a bronze
Mercury, rather under life size, of the sixteenth cen-
tury, a reproduction of which is in the Museum of the
Louvre. This is attributed by acme to Benvenuto
Celliui, and it was purchased fcr 100,000 f. for a
museura in Germany. A picture by Meissonier,
about 15 inches by 10 inches, a single figure of a
cavalier playing a guitar, fetched 25500 i.; a white
elephant in Dresden china, bearing a clock, went for
17,060 f. (it was said there was a coramission out to bid
up to 50,000 f.) ; a Salvator R ma soli for 15,000 f
bably the dearest thing in the sale ; and two very hand-
some carved oak cabinets, panels and figures of old
carving, put together a perfect match, realivd 9,000 f.
Among the curiosities was an old Venetian spinet
with inscriptions, and a gorgeous sedan-chair formerly
used by the Dukes of Parma. The old pictures went
for comparatively low prices, but the modern ones, as
a rule, sold well. The library, chiefly composed of
standard works on art and history, in all languages,
fetched good prices. A copy of the Journal des Beaux
Arts, in forty volumes, sold for 1,320 f. Among old
books, the Aldine Dante of 1502 went for 120 f. ; and
a copy of lA% Fontaine's " Coutes et Nouvelles en
Vera," the edition of the Fermiers•Gdodraux, for
450 f. A complete collection of Punch caused con-
siderable competition, and was knocked down for
270 f. to a dealer from Naples.—pall Mall Gazette.