The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-31 00:00:00

RI is tellantans Inttitignut,

HOKE, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.-...The fOllOll
ore the average prices of British corn for last week,
reci-ived from the inspectors and officers of Excoe.;
Wheat, 345. lid.; barley, 325. 5d.; oats, 205., 4d. P 7,
imperial qr. Corresponding week last year : Whe3
35.; barley, 325. Bd.; oats, 19s. sd.
ART STUDENTS IN BRUSSELS.—At the Brussels CA!.
.ery atoire last year there were 539 students, who ive."'
instructed by 43 professors. Native students receive
ra ; uitous teaching • foreigners, of whom last year there
were only 38, pay 200 francs per annum.
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A CURIO AN US GERM CUSTOM.—An odd couect t..
party snuff boxes is owned by the German Pedigree
Each political section of the Reichstag is provided it
its Gwn special Parliamentary snuff box, which is kcP
fill,:d by one of the members, a snuff manufacturer.
MornioNisar.—From information furnished by 01
Cot sus Bureau in relation to the Mormon Church,]
appears that in 1850 there were 16 church orgacti";
torts and 10,880 sittings; in 1860 24 organisations acl
131.00 sittings; in 1870, 189 organisations and 37,N,...,1„
sittings; and in 1880, 267 organisations and
,ittings. The actual membership of the Blonlicil
Church, according to the census of 1880, was 79,886* .
A LARGE ROOM.—The largest room in the worlar
ender one roof and unbroken by pillars, is at St. PeterP
burg. It is 62{ift. long by 150 ft. in breadth. By der
light it is used for military displays, and a battalion call.
completely manceuvre in it. Twenty thousand wel
tapers are required to light it. The roof of this strut'
ture is a single arch of iron, and it exhibits remarkable'
engineering skill in the architect.
WOOD PAVING.—On the Ist Januiry, 1884, Paris bsa
65.000 square metres of wood paving; to-day she his
252,000 square metres, and orders have been giceu
which make up 80,000 metres more, and 175,000 ino
are proposed, so that at the end of 1885 it is thciligti
that Paris will have 500,000 square metres of vow,
paving, about one-sixteenth of the whole, for the streev
area of Paris is about 8,000,000 square metres.
ENORMOUS SKELETON.—The well preserved Bkeletoo'
of an enormous aurochs has been found at Aden on the
Elbe, by some workmen occupied in digging a eeP_A
The horns from one extremity to the other meaSnm—
over 9ft. The vertebra and ribs resemble those or
antediluvian monsters. As the aurochs avoids' tu".
proximity of man, and as the district where the slielstoe'
has been found was very populated at the time of Jul_nilie
C:--sar, it is believed that the skeleton is about 20ks/
years old.
TEE TREASURY'S GENEROSITY.—The Council of the'
University College of North Wales have received
intimation from the Treasury that the grant will b!„
paid to them for three-quarters of last year—that is w'
say, from the month of April—amounting to £3OOO. it!.
the college was opened at Bangor only in October it ha'
been feared that the grant would have been made frolt,
that date, and the liberal and unexpected generositY
the Treasury had given great satisfaction. cl
ACREAGE Awn POPULATION.—There are in Enggie,
aid Wales 37,239,351 acres of the gross rental
:1t_,7,149,369, to be divided among a population, acce,el
lug to the census of 1881, consisting of 25,9394'
persons, representing 5,633,192 families. Taking these
figures (though the population will have increased 50!
five per cent., while the number of acres divisible is
constant quantity) the result will be for each Per°
1.41 acres of the annual value of £6 Bs. 11d., or about
2s. 6d. a week; and for each family 6.6 acres, of the
annual value of £29 18s. id., or us. 6d. a week.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETT.—The additions to tbr,
Zoological Society's Gardens during the past wee
include a golden eagle from Sutherlandshire, Prf
settled by Col. E. D. Hunt; a crossbill, British, 17„,
sented by Mr. G. Skegg ; seven bramblings, te:
chaffinches, a tree-sparrow, a black-headed buntic,s
from Norfolk, presented by Mr. T. E. Gunn; a Niicti:
crocodile, from Africa, presented by Mr. H. E. Ores; -
brush-tailed kangaroo from New South Wales, a golcleir
crowned conure from South-East Brazil, deposited;
two striated tanagers from Buenos Ayres, two siskies;
British, purchased; a Virginian fox from Nnrt
America, received in exchange. of
A FOREIGN PRIZE.—The Turin Royal Acadeneii
Sciences will award in 1886 a prize of £4BO, foundv bid
Signor Bressa, to the author of the beat work publish!
between 1883 and 1886 on physics, chemistry, phY
logy, natural history, geplogy, history, geograph
statistics, or to the author of the discovery madeduril
the same period which may be pronounced the 03°,,„°
brilliant or the most useful. The competition will
open to the savants of all countries excepting the rae„l
bers of the Turin Royal Academy, who will be etwe
upon to adjudicate.
TILE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S TELESCOPE.-4 tele.
scope with a fino object glass of 31in. aperture, has...._,,kee°
presented by the Duchess of Marlborough to the
cliffe Trustees for the use of the Radcliffe Obsercatorf•
The instrument bears the following inscription : " T 11,11,19
valued instrument, given to John Winston, seven',"
Duke of Marlborough, by Sir James South, F.R.SI
esented to the Radcliffe Observatory by Frances AV°
wager Duchess of Marlborough, to aid those
ri CR
cal studies in which her beloved husband took
deep an interest, and to preserve a memory of }lira
institution of which he was so long trustee. Novenxer."
1834."
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TUE CULTIVATION OF BROCCOLL—The importance
the broccoli industry in West Cornwall is showll4
the fact that the acreage under cultivation ill
l'enzance district is estimated at 1000; each sore bl 4
supposed to contain about 10,000 broccoli—that I.
the whole district a rough total of 10,000,000 brocco
Boys are paid in the season, for frightening aimy
6s. per week.
AMERICAN MURDERS.—Statistics of the intir.,d4r:
committed in the United States during the year
show that Ohio leads with 189, Texas following jtb
w;i,
184, and Rhode Island and Delaware having each f
the smallest number. In the Prohibition States 0
Kansas, lowa, and Maine the number of murders WI
7'4, 58, and 16 respectively. Besides Ohio and Te'"
the States having more than 100 murders were:
tacky, 178; Missouri, 146; Tennessee, 120; Gear_
135; New York, 125; Pennsylvania, 120 ; filichlgTh7
100; and Virginia, 102. Of the popuinits State,:
Illinois shines out like a star, having only 63 murders2.l
the year, one-half less than the number in BeVelP.
States with populations one-third less than its On
As compared with 1883 the murders in the tirdM
States have more than doubled, the number in 1.88-,-r
being no less than 3377. Of these 315 were" mysteriet,
and likely to remain so; 48 children were killed -
their parents, 83 wives by their husbands, and 12 blll,ll,
bands by their wives. Only 103 legal executions
murder took place; but 219 "lynchings " were reporte24,
during the twelvemonth, so that the murderers
not allowed to have it all their own way.
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FRENCH ACADAMICIANS.—The youngest meni
the French Academy is M. Francois Copp* wh°
only 42. M. Sully-Prudhomme is 49, MM. Pallier°
and Halevy are each 50; M. Sardon is three years oldetrl;
There are two members of the same age--56
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Edond About, M. Taine, and M. Perron& Two t0.,0",
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bers—Mezi res and Caro—are 58; and two—the v"-
d'Audiffret-Pasquier and M. 011ivier-59; Alexaliw"„
Dumas is 60; and MM. Renan, Cherbuliez, and Glast,°-
Boissier share the honours of 61. Four members °'",l
62; Pasteur, J. Bertrand, Maxima Du Camp,
dlAumale. Octave Femllet, Rousset, De Mazadet
the Duc de Broglie are each 63; Emile Angier is
and M. Rousse 68; M. John Lemoinne and M. Labic4
are 69. The list of septuagenarians commences all
M. Jules Simon; M. Camille Doucet comes next, age
72; M. de Falloux and M. Durny are each 73 ;
Lesseps, like M. Marinier, is 75; N. Legouve is 77,4
N. Nisard 78. Victor Hugo is 82, so also are ra'ue
Casillier-Fleury and Noailles. The doyen of tR
Academy is M. de Miel-Castel, who was born with
century.
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THE LATE ARCHDEACON JACOll.—The reredos
Winchoster Cathedral, which it is proposed to resin
in memory of the late Archdeacon Jacob, at a eost,:d
C5OOO, is similar to that of St. Albans, and when finis°
will be the finest of its kind in England. It was begilj
if not completed, by Cardinal Beaufort, who suecee°,„.,,e
William of Wykeham as bishop, and died in 1447.
screen is an admirable example of fine perpendicili,..
work, executed in a white and soft stone, the elaboray:
canopies and delicate lacework of the upper part of 01
structure, and, above all, the boldness of trestP3e;
shown in the centre spire, the fine buttresses, and,
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crocketted pinnacles, all surmounted by a triple iry •
of running leaves, quatrefoil, and Tudor flowers, forma,,A.
splendid monument of the best architectural work
be found in the style of the 15th century.