The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-27 00:00:00

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A new planet, to be named "Amalthes," has been
almost almultaneonely discovered by astronomers in Germany
and America.
For '' personally Insulting" the people of Cheyenne,
a Mr. Forbes less recently shot there. Ills offence was
attempting to deliver a temperance lecture.
The nflicial list of business to come before the
Divorce Court le unprocedentedly heavy, there being no fewer
SUal le camel tor heeling.

ine of our Government recently retaarke4 in his
ene peroration —lnnocence Is like an umbrella, when once
we have lost it we may never hope to see It back &gala
The Uuardian says that the Rey. J. A. Fronde, the
hlatortan, has taken stepe, under the Clerey Dleablittles 13111,
to divest himself of his clerical dealaustiou.
The Chunder Sen, whose baptism by the Weeleyttni
has been announced, Is, It eeems, • Llu•krow preacher of that
name, unlike HAW° who Wall lately lu this c,uutry.

A man named Darnford ha 4 given filtnavif up to be
ponce at lilrmingbam, stating that he wee the bartear in
company with Csmrbell and Galbraith on the occasion of air.
Galloway's muri.er at Stratford.

Mr Church Times mentions a clergyman of the
Church of tusland who not only writes Ms discourseslu t
prints them, and bass copy placed la each seat before the
commencement of genie..

A female lecturer says-- "Get marrie3, young unlit,
and be quick about It. Don watt for the mtlieunlum, for
the atria to became angel,. You'd look well beside an angel,
wouldn't you?"
A new liquor law has gone Into effect In the state of
tallzhiseu. For the sale of Intoalcathig liquor, It urovldes
due of 25 deli, for the drat couylctlon, O dots. for the second,
and 100 dols.fer the third,

In the couri.e of last Saturday night the steamship
Perelman, trading between New York end London, came
Into collision With a screw steamer, read to be the T. ll'.
Webb, cff Dungen... Ihe latter foundered within live
minute., and 13 out 01 a crew of tO perished.
" According to a Manchester authority the l'rinee
of Wales died on Saturday last—with Earl Granville Upon
Inquiry we found that his It lel Highness, tio far frond harlot,
shudisd elf this tuortal coil, had dined with the noble earl. '
—Court Journal.

Scholastic Boetou is sorely troubled because the
chief co. kof the Parker house nd ices, much larger salary
than the President of Havarti College. The effects of this
on the minds of the students is Inch that many of them Sr.
reported to spend more time in the hotel than in the halls
of recitation.

Whilo diamonds are Increasing In value, }warts seem
to be s .menliat depreciated The famous pearl necklace
bridal pitt of the Empress Eugfnie to the Prhicess Alms
Murat, hs a been sold In London for 9.),,k) francs. The neck-
lace was made by Lemoonier. and Its original cost not tees
than 300 500 franca t. 12,000,.

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A poetic lover, who recently lost the roistreeS of his
soul, has. In memory et her, given a bell to his parish church,
with MIL simple and pathetic inscription upon It. Minnie."
memorandum nir otflheeekereTtagdhto,nt2thelly7l.,
makers
almenrdsonnleamig
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neath the name? Chu., "Minnie, 32011 w."
The registrar of Killin Mentions a curioue physio-
logical fact One woman had been 27 years manicd before
she bore her find child ; two had been married 2:years ; one
had been 22 jean; one 32 years ; one 32 years; one 391
year.; and one did not bear-her first child till :37 years after
the date of her marriage. lilt were left to the people of
Ulln It Is clear the world would stand a risk of going out.
Our telegraph eyst in does not always work as cor-
rectly as a chronometer. On a recent occasion, "send a
hearse to the station for Mr. Cl—," rather alarmed the
household; but the united wisdom concluded even as they
hoped, that It should have been • horse—and 101 l turned
out.
An individual who was taken up at Tipperary for
going through the streets In a state of drunkenness, and
giving vent to hie national aspirations, it was proved had
been in the army, but wee discharged, marked 8.C....
which distinction he facetiously informed the court meant
" Bachelor of Arta."

The Royal Co/Enlists{On on the Contagious Diseases
Acta has ad) maned until the 511101 June. when it will Marius
the draft report of it. labours. The Lancet undentands
that strong approval will be given of the mode in which the
act, have been carried out, and all suspicion of Illegal work-
ing and cruel tyranny on the part of the police proved utterly
groundlesi.

A few days ago Lord Granville spoke of the mass of
correspondents with reference to the negotiations at Wash-
ington which had passed through the Atlantic cable. Some
Idea of the magnitude of this correspondence may be de-
rived the Score-mon remarks from the fact that the tele-
graphic charges are said to amount to the sum of 5.2i..00u.
This. of enure, includes all message., whether to or Mat
Washington.

A New York organist, whose performance had been
criticised by a music committee, th. retorts :—" Your organ
It, without doubt, one of the most wretched machines of the
name to be found anywhere. It rattles, It wheezes, it squeal.,
It squeak.. it snorts, it grunts, It grouse and growls, It blows
like a lists-horn, and puffs like a locomotive, It thumps, It
whimpers, Icily'. and whines, It lows like a cow, height like
a horse, and brays like an ass—and yet you wonder that the,
music is unsatisfactory.'
The official hat of the Mayor of Red Wing, Nlinn.,
is a Odle silk hat of • style worn before fashion plates were
invented, and indescribable. It bean the autograph signatures
of the several mayors, and upon the crown, lostcle, Is In-
scribed this tuggestive motto and advice "Fret not thy
gizzard." 111. the custom of the council in that goodly city,
on the Induction of a mayor into office, to present him this
hat, as the mole dtathigulthing mark of his °Mee.
An inquest was held on Saturday at Camden Town.
on the body of • young man who had died after • Mist
Illness. It was announced that his death was the result of
poison, but the post mort Pm showed that death was caused
by Intestinal disease. A verdict to that effect was returned.
II was stated at the Inquest that the sweetheart el deceteed,
heaving that he had poisoned himself, Soot a dose of aqua.
forth, but being taken to the hospital and remedies befog
applied, she Is in a fair way of recoverhig,
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On Monday, the Select Committee of the Howie of
Common, upon baby-farming met for the first time, Mr.
Walpole In the chair. Mr. Ernest Hart ant Dr. Wißabire
were amongst the witnesses examined. Mr. Hart stated that
the proportion of the mortality 01 Illegitimate children Ir,
excessively large: and In some parts of the country, and mu
in district. of London, Illegitimate children lege than spear
old had no chance of life. Si much was the drugging of
children practised, that In most cues where Infants ware
put out temporarily the charge was less by ,dl.. per week if
the mother provided the opiate.
Last week the aggregate mortality in London And
19 other large towns of the t-nited Kingdom was at th.e rate
of 25 deaths annually to every 1,1,00 of the estimated popuna.
Mon, lu the metropolis, 2,00 births and 1,480 de.tha were
registered, the former having been 102 below, r-id the latter
-G abovo the average 'las fatal ..Clr Li amau,„o,„
and from the same ilsease 50 persons died_ In Liverpool, 14
In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 10 In Manchester, 9 in Sunderland,
and sin Salford. Small-pox contin,os fatally prevalent in
many other parts of the country With respect to London,
the deaths from other zymotic stigeases were if from maa
from scarlet fever, s from diphtheria, 43 from whooping
-
cough, 24 from different forms of fever of which 9 were
certified as typhus, lone enteric or typhoid, and 7as simple
continued fever), and 02 front dined osa.

Social etonomiste are sadly puzzled about the dial.
covery of the African diamond fields, and ask what will be
the effect upon the commercial value of the precious atone,
and the answer is satisfactory when based upon comparison
with that produced by the ir !tux of gold from California and
Australia, the demand for which keeps pace with the supply.
Thus will it he with diamonds. Their use will spread to all
clauses of society. Nothing is ever likely to replace them as
ornaments. During the last twenty years so much have they
been in request that their value has been doubled, and, whea
is more strange, the supply has come more from the ail
Spanish, French, and Italian family Jewels than from tilt
mines.