The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-01-06 00:00:00

CONVERSAZIONE Al' DUDLEY.

-Tie usual conversazione arranged cy the commit-
tee of the Dudley Mechanics' Institute to )k place
on Wednesday evening, a numerous assemblage of
ladies and gentlemen being present, Everything
hdd been done to make the affair as attractive as.
possible, and all the rooms in the Institute were
utilised for the purposes of the evening. In the Li-
brary there was exhibited a very fine collection f
Zulu weapons of warfare, beads, skins, and other
curiosities liktly to be found within a Zulu kraal.
Among the weapons a number of the deadly asse-
gais, such as were weilded by the savages with such
effect dtring the campaign of 1879, attraeted much
attention. The collection was placed on view by
Mr, Hairy Harrison. Among other attoactions in
the same room was a splendid model of a locomo-
tive engine, made by Mr. G. H. Claughton, at
Castle Mill Works. In the museums upstairs Mr.
Walter Fisher was in charge of several microscopes
and kept the liwer prisms of two microscopes mov-
ing with a Siemen's electric motor. Close to this
the work of brush-making was carried on by a
number of persons, including a blind mar, who was
at work making dandy brushes, This departmen,
was in charge of Mr. J. Mello Houghton. In the
same room Mr. Richard Wilkes, of Campbell-street
exhibited sonic magnificent specimens of cut glass.
011le of the articles being the same as were placed
on view at the Worcestershire Exhibition. Mr, E.
J. Lloyd, engineer to the Dudley Gas Company,
eaowed, amen; other theaes, different dyes pro-
duced from coal tar, expoimentai gaugt s' a inoiem
Set of gas retorts, and a curiosity in the shape of a
model wincing en..eiae, supposed to be the criginal
itteuel deposited by Isaac Watts at the Patent
Office. Mr. G. W. Holbrook gave interesting experi-
meets of fretionai el, etrieity, induction by fr.et-
itnol electricity, and showed different methods of
producing electricity. Mr. W. Whitehouse inter-
ested toe ceui any with chemical experiments,
ol the properties of gases. In the class-
room the great a; traction here however, was a nutn •
eer of lel, pi,one inetruments, in charge of Mr.
Fredrick Mown, of o.e Thifige, Walsall, and dis •
triet avea to the National Teiephoue Company,
feitnitne Communication was established with
Brown's house at Rushad, Lear Waleall where a
cone et wile being given for the benefit of the com
pony at Dud ey, tne vociAists and the strains of
the pianofort being heard with distinctness by the
listeness at the conversazione. Mtn the above and
other objects of interest, and with two operettas
rformed by Messis. Dale and West's amateur
company, the visiters were cutorteined uetil aboot
ten o'elonft, when the 11 ,or of the Public Hall;
which hal been furni,-bed in ballroom s yle, was .
covered ih a diaper by Me C. Hale, and da hing
commoic:d, the music being supplied by Mr J,
Hale's bad. During the evening, too, the billiard
room wis thrown open a eareroom provided, and
refreshments were E (Toiled in the reading r: one
Altogether, the committee and the energeJc sxre-
tary of the Institute (Ai% W. Woodhouse) are to
be co6gratulatel on th.c• siteeesstal results of their
efforts.

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