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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

A NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

The Paris Correspondent of The Times of Tuesday writes :
A rather numerous company met on Saturday after-
noon at the house of M. Frederic Kastner, in the Rue
de Clichy, to witness his experiments with a strange
invention of his which he calls the " Pyrophone."
The pyrophone, as its name indicates, is an instru-
ment which produces sounds by means of gas jets.
It had long been known that flames emit sounds,
and M. Kastner himself had tried experiments in
London; out yesterday the special public found them-
selves in the presence of an almost complete instru-
ment composed of a series of glass tubes, similar to
organ pipes of different lengths and dimensions, in
which gas jets were burning, and which played
some very powerful and very moving morceaux. The
difficulty of the invention consisted, of course in regu-
larizing the jets. The theory is this :—When an iso-
lated gas jet produces a sound, you have only to bring
another similar jet near it to make the sound cease.
M. Kastner, then, has invented a contrivance which
open and shuts like the fingers of a hand of which each
one should allow a jet to escape. When the fingers are
extended the sound is produced; when they are closed
or approached to each other the sound ceases, lie next
regulated the force of the sound by the dimensions of
the tubes, and by the height at which the jets were
placed in the tubes. The contrivance corresponds
to the key-board of a piano, and you are deeply moved
l_at hearing these jets sing with extraordinary power,
purity, and correctness. The audience was still more
astounded at suddenly hearing the gaseliers placed in
the centre of the room, and set in motion by invisible
' electric wires, execute " God Save the Queen" in
sonorous and penetrating tones. The invention is still
in a rudimentary state, but I hasten to call attention to
it because it seems to me destined to produce a great
sensation when it shall have received the improvements
which will certainly be introduced into it.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

THE EMPRESS OF INDIA.

The Cologne Gazette says it cannot be denied that,
leaving accidents ad vanity out of the question, there
are valid reasons for assuming the Imperial title in
India. When, after the mutiny in 1857, the posses-
sions of the East India Company were taken from it
and transferred direct to the Crown, then would have
been the proper time for assuming some sort of title
for an empire of 200 millions of inhabitants, instead of
treating it as a nameless dependency of a puny,
distant island. The Asiatic thinks more than we do
of dignity, rank, and outward ceremonies; and the
princes of India, who consider themselves kings, it has
been not incredibly asserted, would like to have
an Emperor as their liege lord. The journey of the
Prince of Wales in India, where he has been received
with so many honours, 'rave a fitting opportunity for
maktpg up what has been neglected. When the
English government announced the introduction of
special diitinctions for its Indian subjects, it cannot be
found fault with if it devises for those same subjects
also an especial title for the Queen. Ministers having
assured parliament that in Englan,l the Imperial title
is to be used neither for the Queen nor the Royal
family, the English people might rest assured, and
this all the more since the matter is not such a great
innovation as is now asserted. Already Queen
Elizabeth was called Empress, at least by the poets,
and the English have always called their realm an
empire. They say "United Kingdom," but
never the British Kingdom," but , simply
the "British Empire." They also call their
two houses of representatives the "Imperial Parlia-
ment." This notion is so generally accepted that Mr.
Disraeli, amid laughter, could read the letter of a girl
twelve years old, who expressed surprise that Parlia-
ment did not know Queen Victoria was Empress of
India, as she had long since learnt from her scbool-
book. And this school book has reached its 89th edi-
tion. Besides, in "Debrett's Peerage" the Queen for
years (we have before us the edition of 1868) has been
styled Empress of India, besides her other titles. We
cannot blame the Tory Ministry for having brought in,
under the circumstances, a measure which has been
accepted in both houses by great majorities. That
which really makes the English people set up its back
against the Bill is the power of habit, of old usage,
which exercises its influence everywhere, but nowhere
more strongly than in England.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

HAMS HOLIDAY.

ON EASTER MONDAY, a cheap 'excursion
tram will leave Smethwick Junction at 8.50 a.m.,
Oldbury 9.0, Rowley 98, and Cradly 9 15 a.m., for
Tingley, Kidderminster, Womester, aud :Malvern Link,-
returhing the same eve.uing...___
On EASTER MONDAY an Exen-rsion Train will run
to Tingley, Kidderminster, Worcester, end Malvern Link,
leaving Wolverhampton (Low Ltvel) 8.35, Bilston 8.43,
liaisy Bank 847, Princes End 851. Tipton 855, Dudley
9.5, Nahirten 9.10. Round Oak 9.17, Brie:ley Hilt 9.22,
and Brettel Lane 9 30 ; also (for Worce.ter and Malvern
Link only) from Stourbr:dge at 9 10, iiagley 9 45, and
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Kidderminster 10.2 a.m., at d return the sve day.
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For farther particulars t Special Bills: •
. . ..1.U141 ,RON, Getteral Maregtr.
Paddington Terminus.

FREE EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.

Free Passages are • granted by the Government of
Queensland as under—
.To General Servants, Cooks, Hous:maids, Nur6es, Dairy
Alaids, &c.
Weges £25 to £5O a-sear all found.
To Married and Single Farm Labourers. •
Wages £3O to £5O a. 3 ear with board and lodging.
Assisted pas3sges on payment of 1:4 to
A rtizans (allkinds) Saddlers
131,etismiths Plasterers
Carp•nteis and Joiners Plumbers arid Painters
butchers Qu ,rrywen
Bookbinders hope Makers
Bakers :-.ll9ernAers
Bricklayers - Shipwrights .
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Cauivet Makers Slit pberds
Gardners i Taii, rs•art.d others'
Grooms .

li.rcb Slip carries an c xperienced Surcoa• & Matron.
F.nulu have separate rleepiug c,mpac Uncut.
ork cal: be cforic d on n ti,riot cnicir all ri.c.yrewound
Ilea rind In nzton 3d a-lb.; Tea 2s Gd a-11, ;Our 15s

a-cut. ; sagar3l.

Apply per*Tnary or by letter to.
Queenblarhi, 82, Charing Cross, 1.,0nt
A. W. 8147. A LE, Commeici4 51..1,! Room s,
Hiddertninfler.

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POTATOES.

The trade for potatoes this morning was steady, and there
was no material change in prices. The supply was moderate.
Kent Regents, 120 s. to 150 s. ; Essex ditto, 110 s. to 140 s. ;
rocks, 1008. to 110 s. ; flukes, 130 s. to 160 s. ; Victories, 120 s. to
170 s. ; kidneys, 100 a. to 1251.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

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A FOSSIL APE-MAN! ,

There is joy in the bosoms of the Darwinians owing
to a discovery made a short time since in Prince
Edward's Island (says the Standard). A point in this
philosopher's theory on which carpers have always
insisted is, that no one has ever been able to discover
the connecting link between apes and men. A fossil
man, with an evident and respectable tail, was needed
to convince the sceptics, and such a man
COVered bv one Mis ou mute Edward's
....La.,. ncox was cliggiug for peat, and
when he had reached a " considerable" depth
he unearthed his skeleton, which, according to
the New York Times, resembled that of a man
of average height, with the important exceptions
that the skull was flattened, the jaws were extremely
prominent, the arms were excessively long, and the
spinal column was prolonged by nineteen vertebrm,
forming an unmistakable tail of at least eight inches in
length. Not only the tail therefore, but also the
arms, jaws, and skull went to show that Mr. Wilcox's
man had not been an ordinary man, and had been very
like an ape in several important particulars. The
separate vertebrz were naturally unconnected by any
remnants of cartilage; and a local clergyman made
this fact an excuse for the suggestion that the tail
was an artificial one, which bad been worn by the
owner of the skeleton as a fashionable ornament,
and buried with him ; but the journal doubts
whether the pre-historic inhabitants of the island
were addicted to wearing extraneous tails, and refuses
to believe that a resident would put on a frivolous and
fantastic tail to die in. The New York limeB prefers
to suppose that Prince Edward's Island was a favourite
place of resort for apes who wanted to better their posi-
tion in life and ascend in the social scale, and that Mr.
Wilcox's skeleton is that of an ape who died before the
process of development was complete, before he had
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may be inspected for a small fee.

The number of emigrants—natives of Ireland—who
left that country during the first three months of the present
year was 0,762, of whom 4,067 were males and 2,695 females.
The total for the corresponding period of last year was 8,540.
The total number of emigrants from Ireland from May'llt,
1851, to the 81st March, 1878, was 2,884,153.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

CROSSED CHEOUES."

The final clauses of Lord Cairn's Bill as to bankers'
cheques runs thus :—"9. A person taking a cheque
crossed specially shall not have and shall not be
capable of giving a better title to the cheque than
that whioh the person from whom he took it had. But
a banker to whom a cheque is crossed specially, and
who has in good faith and without negligence, re-
ceived payment of the cheque for a customer, shall
not in case the title to the cheque proves defective,
incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by
reason only of having received such payment." But
two cases may be imagined in which this protection is
incomplete (says the Economist). The first is, when
the banker to whom the cheque is specially
endorsed gives value for it. Even if the cheque has
been stolen, he will hardly be able to help
so doing, for it comes to him in the ordinary way,
is paid- to a customer's account, and has nothing
to distinguish it from any other cheque. But the
above clause does not protect till he has obtained the
money for the cheque. If, 'in 'the intrim, the true
owner takes it from him, he will lose the "value" be
has given for it. Secondly, the banker who pays the
cheque to the banker to whom it is especially endorsed
must be protected, though the cheque may have been
stolen, and the money may ultimately get to a wrong
person. Neither of these cases is, however, covered by
Lord Cairn's clause. To meet these difficulties, we
understand that the following clause is to be moved in
Committee, as a substitute for the present :"No per-
son taking a cheque crossed specially, except the
banker, who, or whose agent for collecting, is named in
such special crossing, shall have, or be capable of giv-
ing, a better title to the cheque than that which the
person from whom he took it had." These words pre-
cisely cure the fault of the clause, without impairing
the principle of the Bill and, therefore, we trust that
they will be adopted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

KINVER.

CAUTION TO BUTCHERB.-,--At the Brierley Hill Police
Court, on Monday, before Messrs. F. Evers and H. Hall,
John Berry, butcher, Kinver, was charged with having
in his possession two carcases of sheep and a piece of
mutton unlit for human food, on the 24th ult. Mr
Waldron defended. John Lowery, Faid he was Inspector
of Nuisances for the Seision Union, and the parish of
Kinver was in the Seisdon Union. On the 24th of March
he visited defendant,'s shop sod found two carcases of
sheep and one forequarter of mutton. The carcases
were in a most sodden conditlon and very emaciated.
The carcases were dressed in the usual way. It was '
very thin, wet, and Bibby. He pointed the meat out to
the medical officer. He called the attention of defend-
ant to the carcases, and defendant b aid one of them was
not fit for food but the other was. The piece of mutton'
in the shop was in the first stage of decomposition.
Dr. Spackrusn said he was medicai officer of health for
Seisdon Uni)n. The last witness called his attendon to -
the carcases of two sheep and a piece of mutton. it
was then at the police-station. It was in a very bad
state and was very emaciated altogether. It was ti itit
for human food. The fat was not set although it was
cold weathet and it had been killed some time. The
piece of mutton was also unlit for human food.—Mr.
Waldron, in defence, said one of the carcases was fit for
food and the other was bought furs gentleman for his
dog. The Bench considered the case proved and fined
defendant £2 and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

ROW TO GET RID OF ALLIGATORS.

A- correspondent of the Pittsburg
a" darky " Telegraph tells how
got rid of alligators. He says : —Lying-in
taking on wood one trip between Red River and Bayou
Sara, I addressed an old darky standing on the bank—
"Uncle, I suppose you have plenty of alligators
around here?" " Marsa, we used to hal) a mighty
smart heap ob dem out in de swamps and bayou, but
dere dun all cleaned out, I tells you," "Why, how
is that, Uncle?" "Well, you see, Mares' I was wid
Mr. Lincum's soger boys, an' I learned a heap 'bout
dem tinge. Was wid de boys whar dere was some
mighty hard scratchen, I tell you. Lamed all 'bout
dem tarpeedies, frowen shells, etc. When I came
back home I had plenty of powder and some dem
tinge what you pull wid a string to fire de cannon wid.
Dem alligators had been play in' de debil when I
cum back—dun toted off nearly all ob my pigs.
One day I sees one ob dem pigs laven by de bayou
wid his legs broke an' nearly all his bref gone.
So I kills him an' cleaned out, den I gets one ob
dent cans what des, -puts up tamaties in an' filled him
' up wid powder an' matches, den I fastens him up tight
and puts a little hole in de top and puts one dem tinge
in what dey tuches de cannons off wid, den I ties my
string to it jug as if I was gwine to fire de cannon, den
I puts him in de pig and sows him up and totes clown
by the water. Den I gets back 'mong de cane wid de
end ob de string in my hand to wait. Presently, by
and by, I seed one dem ugly brack heads swinemin'
toward de pig. Yah, yah, yah, I couldn' help laffin'
just tinked what dat fellow was gwine notch. Purty
soon he made a dive for dat pig, an's wollered him right
off azi' started. Den I pulls de string, yah, yah, yah,
hi, hi, hi, he, he. Marsa, I declar' to goodness if dat
alligator wusn't blown into free million pieces, and a
piece of dat same pig struck me on de head an' nearly
knocked me down. Dar hasn't been one dem 'gators
seen 'bout bar since. 'Spent dey found out dat one ob
Lincum sogars libbed 'round dese parts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

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No. 606

SALES BY AUCTION.

HACILWE 'WEEKLY STOCK SALE. ,
TUESDAI, APRIL 18th.
350 SHEEP. A few Early LAMBS.
60 Head of CATTLE.
10 COWS and HEIFERS, with Calves or in-calf,
the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Stamford and Warrington, and others.
The usual entry of CALVES and PIGS.
L useful COB, TRAP, and HARNESS.
The Sale at Eleven.
OATES, PERRENS & WOOLDRIDGE.

SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
PICTURES, CHINA, PLATE, &c.
THE RECTORY, OLDSIVI.NFORD,
STOURRIUDGE.
MESSRS.
OATES, PERRENS, and WOOLDRI9-E,
are honoured with instructions to SELL by
AUCTION, on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY, APRIL 25th, 20th, 27th, and 28th, 1876, the
valuable contents Of OLDIAVIEFORD RECTORY, STOUR-
BRIDGE, comprising a COLLECTION of PICTURES,
Including the-series of 7 Cartoon, after Raphael, choice
Engravings, prods before letters atter Raphael, Ruebens
Murillo, Lanclseer, and others " The Rabbi," by Sir
Martin Archer Shoe, P.R A. Paintings, in Oil and
Water Colours, by Miss Steele, Miss Walter, W. Hall,
. junr.. J. H. S. Mann, H. Chaplin H. Webb, J. Wright,
Bradish, G. Clare, and E Hall. 100 Pieces of Rare and
Valuable CHINA and. other COSTLY ORNAMENTS,
including Gilt and Oxidised Wares, of Messrs. Elkington
and Co. A superior and substantial MAHOGANY
DINING ROOM SUITE, an elegant DRAWING ROOM
SUITE in WALNUT, ROSEWOOD MARQUETERIE,
4kc ,an elaborate wALNur LIBRARY SUITE; the
FURNITURE of TEN BEUROOMS, TWO SITTING
ROOMS, and TWO STUDIES ; superior CARPETS,
Splendid WINDOW CURTAINS. in Striped Tapestry,
Rich Figured Silk, French, Tourney, &c. 20 BOOK
CASES. A quantity of SILVER PLATE. Capital
BA.ROU ORE, Vis-a-vis PH/ETON, HARNESS, superior
COB GELDING, about 15 hands high; GLASS,
CHINA, LINEN, and all necessary domestic requisites,
Se, Firc.

The Sale to commence each Morning at 11 o'clock.
The Goods will be on view on the Friday and Saturday
prior to the Sale.
The Pictures and Rare China will be sold on the first
day. The Furniture of the principal rooms, and the
Plate on the second day.
Catalogues 6d. each, may be obtained at the Offices of
the auctioneers, Stourbridge ; of Mr. Holmes, Picture
Dealer, 39i Cherry Street, Birmingham; at the Talbot
Hotel, Stourbridge ; at the Lion Hotel, Kidderminster;
or at Barrow's "Journal Office," Worcester.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

ELECTLON OF GIJA.EDEINS.

Tho following is file result of the contests which
have takon place in various paii,hts in the Stour-,
13..idge. 'Onion f,)r seat 3 at the Board of Guardians.
Thu naine3 niark-ede;witha,n ast2risk are those or
the electeil

Stourbridge itliaakew, 803; *Billinghain, 706;
Kelley, ö3; Duttou, 390; Bloower, 332; Pres-
cott, 217.

firierley : *Thompson, 501 ; *Cole, 460;
*Plant, 320; Higgs, 299; Wa,_-sall, 186; Bethlard,
93; Brice, 78 ; ryillen, 72.
Pensnett : *Hainer;4392 ; *Chambers, 304?
Parkes, 186; all, 161 '; Glaze 71; Smith, 37.
St. Mary's: *Giles, -457 '*Penzer 450; Bedding,.
ton, 245.
Wordsley : 41-la.ll, 560; *Baker, 418; Prescott,
173; Mullett, 71.
Hawn: #Weston, 89; Burr, 39.
Hasbury : *Burr 261; Prescott, 22.
The Hill: *Parkes, 257; Prescott, 0.

Amblecote : *Pargeter, 193; Corbett, 72; Pres-
cott, 71.

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Lye: *Ficl dian, 581; *Rhodes, 520; Brooks,
506.
Upper Swinford: *Forest, 336; Prescott, 60.
Cradley : *Hingley, 3(1; Oliver, 177; Prescott,
39; Had.dock, 37.

Stourbridge Stock Sale took place on Tuesday
and was again well e;upplied with a very superior
quality of stock. fTom the principal feeders in the
neighbourhood. The Sale included 360 sheep and
lambs, 60 head of cattle, 40 of which were fat, a
lot of fat calves and pigs. The highest figures ob-
tained were fat oxen .233 6s .od. 11 bullocks fed
by the Earl of tauiford and Warrington averaged
£26 13s. Od. Whether sheep 778. tep Oa fat
lambs 545. The sale was numerously attended by
the Birmingham, Black Country, and local buyers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

COBURG DESCRIBED.

and if it was not rather too much expose i to the
afternoon sun. She replied very pron.ptly, "I
scarcely can answer your question, as I am never at
home in the afternoon, but always am out at coffee
parties." Anotlier fir dame gleefully assured me
that during four weeks she had not pa-sed a single
afternoon at home, but had daily from three to four
invitations, and, indeed, was always engaged some
days in advance. Go to the masket place on any
market day and see the peasants from Thuringia and
Bavaria, each in their peculiar dress, sell'ng their
farm produce. The fortunate situation of the town
makes it the central market for all the region round. It
is interesting to notice fse crowds and the lively busi-
ness; to listen to the chatter in diffsrent dia ects of the
butter and cheese women; to obarve the se, vent girls
assembled, like so many Reheccas, at the fountains, each
carrying a heavy " butten" on her back into a hich the
water runs slowly while she gossips with others of her
class. The market-people occasionally leave their
wares to refresh themselves with a broiled sausage at
the open air cooking-placss which fringe the square.
The sausage-vendors are provided with a store of
rolls, a mass of " Wiirste," a mammoth gridiron,
and a fire fed by dried pine coLes—the latter im-
parting a balsamic taste to the food. The sausages
hiss and sputter on the gridiron. The customer
approaches. A roll is cut lengthwise through,
and a hot sausage is placed in the opening, its ends
projecting an inch or more, and the purchaser munches
his savoury morsel. From hie high pedestal in the
middle of the market-place Prince Albert looks down
upon the scene. Often in his boyhood has he stood
among the ranks of peasants and eaten his " Brat-
wurst ;"and evenonce after his marriage he did the sam
convulsed with laughter at the unskiltul attempts of his
English attendants to follow his example, unaided by
plate and knife and fork. But Coburgers say that
their much-loved Prince looks so foreign now in his
robes of the most noble Order of the Garter—his fine
bronze effigy, presented by her Majesty to the town in
1865, representing him in this imposing state. .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

OLD EIILL.

THE VICAR OV KIDDERMINSTER.

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. On Wednesday afternoon an influential deputation
waited upin the Rev. G.l). Boyle, vicar of Kidderminster
to present to him the memorial from the inhabitants
a-king him to reconsider his intention of resigning the
benefice. The de.putati in was headed by the Mayor
(Mr. T. Radford), who presented the addres,, .to which
nearly 3,000 signatures were appended. It was as
follows :
"'lO the Rev. G. D. Boyle, MA , vicar of Kidder-
minster.
" itvcrii aad deer sir,—We, the undersigned
paris'iioners of Kidderminster, desire to express our deep
regret at the causes which have led you to intimate your
intent.ol of resigning the vicarage if Kidderminver and
our hope and earnest endeavotit that nothing in future
may occur to disturb the cordiality which has so
existed. \tie also assure you of our unabated confidence
and affection, and of our deep sense of the great moral
and social influence you hare exercised tiy your re44ence
and disinterested labours amongst us during the filstni"
years. We sincerely hope you will reconsider your iutmu-
tion, and that fv,r many years we may continue to enjoy
the benefit of your ministry."
The Vicar expressed the pleasure it gave him to receive
:the address, and said, in compliance with the wish of so
'many of his parishioners, he should continue to retain hi.
•present position as long as he felt equal to its duties. He
trusted that politic 1 feeling would not interfere with
friendly feeling in that horou 0, as ii ha, done in the past
and that all -would Unite to.work f ir the common good
:A vote of thanks wits pas,ed t th, fity.r for his good
'offices ; and the Mayor said he was glad to have assisted
in bringing shunt a friecilly solution of this matter
but their thanks- were expressly tine' to Mr. 'Toinkin.on
for the steps he J.O taken.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

EASTER GIFTS IN PARIS.

The Paris correspondent of The Times writes—" To-
day being Palm Sunday, a great trade was done in the
branches of box which do service for the unobtainable
foliage of the palm tree. All the faithfurhave made
it a point to eecure a spray of the plant which has
been blessed by the Church, and in front of the Made-
leine great bundles were lying on the pavement,
whence the passers-by took what they wanted. The
cabdrivers evidently have a strong superstitie us feeling
in favour of the eauct.fied branches, for nearly every
one of their horses bore a green trophy on its bead
this afternoon; but I am unable to stat- that this
deference to a Christian festival has .produced any
corresponding feeling in so far as civility and moderate
charges are concerned. Palm Sunday, too, is the pre-
liele to the end of Lent, and curing this week a more
expensive trade than that involved by branches of b
wid continue. Ido not know who is responsible for the
first incubation of the Easter gifts with which the
confectioners' windows are crowded, but assuredly
flap coloured hard-boiled eggs of childhood never gave
promise of the uneatable works of art in sugar and
chocolate which meet the eye every three or four yards
one walks on the Boulevards. It is doubtless a sac-
charine triumph for a lobster to be represented so true
to nature as to almost defy detection, more especially
when it is made to contain a silver gilt pair of scissors
and a bodkin. There is, of course, much labour and
more paint expended on a huge oystershell wherein
reposed a ring or a pair of earrings. A fowl, as
large as life, sitting upon a brood of barleysugar
drops of huge magnitude may have some indi-
gestible connexion with the beginning of an era
of feasting, and a round mass of brown paste bigger
than a football induces a belief that numerous rocs
have taken up their spring quarters in the capital of
France. But in this display of Easter offerings there
is another illustration of the all-powerful influence of
the love of artificial exaggeration and luxury which
day by day and year by year grows and increases in
France. If Parisian child were offered a red and
blue hard•boiled egg next Sunday, he would inuig-
nantly refuset ; in the same way would his sister,
were she offered a rag doll instead a magnificent
waxen lady attired in the very lateststyle of female
costume. In , great many respects, therefore, is
Palm Sunday to be preferred by those with thinly.
stocked purses to its immediate successor in the
Christian Calendar.",
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

'A
KNOTTY OIIESTION.

The divisional Court of Appeal at Bordeaux is called
upon to settle a somewhat knotty point.of international
law (says the Pall Mall Gazette). In the year 1807 a
young Bavarian of the name of Forgo came to France
with his mother, who, subsequent to his birth, had
become the wife of a French soldier. When he was
twenty years of age he entered the Ftench armyas
a substitute, and afterwards settled in business at
Pau, where he married without any settlements
being made on either- side. One of his wife's
brothers, who had accumulated a large fortune
in California, left her about foity thousand pounds,
half of which, according to the French law, re-
verted to her husband, as the marriage had taken
place "sous le rdgitne de la communautd." A few
years ago Forgo, who had survived his wife, died at
Pau, leaving no heirs in France and without having
made a will. At his death, the property belonging to
him reverted to the State, but after some time a claim
was put in for it by collateral relations in Bavaria.
This claim being resisted, a trial took place at Pau
which was decided in favour of the State, but the
Bavarian relations of Forgo have appealed to the
Supreme Court at Bordeaux, and they base their
demand upon the law of Bavaria according to which
an inhabitant of that country cannot pot off his na-
tionality except with the authorization of the Sovereign,
which in Forgo's case was never obtained.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

LORD ABERDARE ON TRAINING
COLLEGES.

Lord Aberdare, on Saturday, opened a new training
college at Darlington, in connection with the British and
Foreign School Society of London. The building will
cost about £15,C00, of which £7,000 remains to be stb-
scribed. His lordship, in presiding at a breakfast pre-
vious to the ceremony, spoke of the importance of open-
ing new training colleges in the present state of education
in England. He especially recommended the training
of female teachers, as he believed they could secure
far more attention from the boys then men eould obtain.
All children of tend* years should be placed under
such teachers. He contrasted the state of education
in England with that of Scotland, to the great advan-
tage ot the latter. The great obstacle to education
was the indifference of parents. When he saw English
workmen refuse a good place because there was no
school in the neighbourhood to which they could send
their children, as Scotchmen did, our progress would
be assured. He was informed by Scotch agriculturists
that it WRB impossible to get men to work at a place
where there was not ready access to a school. Thus,
when a compulsory system was established, the Scotch
people were prepared for it and gladly welcomed it.
It was only by slow degrees—after generations of edu-
cation—that we in England could have that reverence
for it which existed in Scotland and Germany, where
a general system of education had existed for a long
time. We wanted not merely that the parents should
stimulate their children, but that there should be
aroused on the part of the parent- a higher sense of
duly. He had felt that an immediate and general
compulsory system of education in 1870 would have
defeated the object for which it was established. It
was only by degrees that it could be brought about..
In Scotland, where an immense majority of the people
were educated, they were ready to accept the compul-
sory system. Here it was dill-rent, but he looked for-
ward to the time when we should have, as they had in
Scotland, something like a general system of education.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

STOITRBRIDGE UNION.

WANTED, an Active Person sis- COOK,
and to assist the Matron, at the Union Work-
houEC, Kingswinford.

Salary X2O per annum, with Rations, Lodging, and
Washing. •
Candidates are rtqdested to send Testimonials as to
character, &c., to me, on or before the 20‘h April mat,
and attend, at their own expense, at the Workhouse, at
Kiugswinford, ou Friday, the 21st April inst, when the
election will take place,

By order, .
GE O. HOLLOWAY,
Clerk.

Workhouse, Kingswinford,
7 April, 1876.

TO BUILDERS.

PERSONS willing to TENDER for the
erection of of SIX-COTTAGES, at Audnam, near
Stoucbridge, may see Plans and Specifications, sn appli-
cation to me.
No pledge is given to accept the lowest or any Tender.
J. M. GE THING,
Architect.

Holloway End, Stourbridge,
April 7, 1876. ,

TO BUILDERS,

'DERSONS willing -to TENDER for the
J._ erection of TWO HOUSES at Wollaston, near
Stourbridge, may se Plans and Specifications, on appli-
cation to me.

No pledge is given to accept the lowest or any Tender.

J. M. GETHING-,
Architect.

Holloway End, Stourbridge,
April 7, 1876. '

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

EASTER HOLIDAYS, 1876
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

GAME AND POULTRY IN FRANCE.

Some interesting statistics are published of the
quantity of what in France is called " game " sold in
Paris during the past year. The returns comprise
2,386,680 larks, 658.661 partridges, 582,132 wild
rabbits, 367,517 hares, 130,799 quails, 87,187 pheasants,
46,709 blackbirds, 35,854 thrushes and fig-peckers,
24,230 woodcocks, 21.C149 lapwings, 14,190 prairie
hens, 11,581 snipe, 9 958 roebucks, 4,356 teal, 4,340
wild duck, 2,919 woodhens, 2,588 ortolans, 2,469
wood pigeons, 2,371 rays, 1,921 plovers, 1,844
grouse, 1,475 widgeon, 916 wild geese, 924 black
-
cock, 982 little bustards, 578 moorhens, 576 bus-
tards, 437 wild boars, 353 deer, 327 ptarmigans, 314
bucks, 307 squirrels, 46 hedgehogs, 32 chamois and
wild goats, 10 bisons, 8 bears, and 11,650 head
of game not specified. Under the general name
of "poultry" there have been sold in the course of
1875, 5,656,779 chickens, 2,156,610 tame rabbits,
1,583,317 pigeons, 706,389 geese, 695,618 ducks, 479,816
turkeys, 126,539 kids, 28,660 lambs and sucking-pigs,
14,956 guiuea-fowls, 21,014 kilogrammes (about 22
tons) of gooses' livers, 11,617 kilogrammes (about
11 tons) of cock's combs, 9,308 kilogrammes (nearly 10
tons) of ducks' livers, and 121 kilograinmes (more than
2 owt.) of chickens' kidneys. Altogether, the game
and poultry sold during the year represented a weight
of 21,064,569 kilogrammes (more than 21,000 tons),
which is equivalent to an annual consumption of about
25 lb. for each of the 1,851,000 inhabitants of Paris.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

No 4
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28, IRONMONGER LANE, LONDON.
(MR OLD H0116E.)
JOHNSTON'S
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"QUITE FREE FRoM ADULTRATION."—Lancet.
‘. Js DECIDNOLY SUPLRWR "—Lancet.
"I hay, examined Johnston's Corn Flour and find it
perf.eth pure and most excellent in quality When
boiled with milk affords complete and perfect nourish-
ment tot children and persons of weak digestion."
MAHLER A. CAMERON, M-D., F.R.C.S.I„
Professor of Chemistry,-Royal College of
Surgeons, Dublin.

GOSTLING'S PIG POWDERS.
Usefulailment of SOWS and PIGS of all ages. They act as a preventive of Milk Fever
ohealth and well cluing of glowing Pigs, greatly facilitate the fattening of Pigs, and are
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Foot and Month Dues, r bold iv Packets of 5 for is, uc 15 ior 2a. 6d, of all
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

PROVISIONS.

LONDON, Monday, April 10.—The arrivals List week from Ire-
land were 15 firkins Butter, and 3,692 bales Bacon, andirom
foreign ports 26,75 packages Bat t(r, 3,987 bales Bacon. With
increasedisupplies and the very fine weath(r, Normana y Batter
has rapidly declined ,prices now ranging from 1428 downwards,
aceorcing to qua:Hes ;1 best Dutch only declined 2s.—say to
134.. to 136 p. Br,e Bacon market ruled stPady, with no change
to v due o: List], but Hamburg six-sided and stout weights
Oeclined Is. per cwt.
Butter, per cwt.: s. a. . Cheese, per cwt. :
Doract 164 to 161 Cheshire ...... 64 to 80
Friealmd .. 134 136 Dble Gloucester 61 76
Jersey .. 1(4 116 Cheddar ...... 74 84
Fresh, per doz. 17 19 AI3I2rICSTI ..... 0 64
131.c0n, per cwt. : 13 : York...• •• 112
Wiltshire ...... 80 • 84 Cumberland ... • 112
btO 84 ir15h....... 112

TALLOW.
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d.
Town Tallow, per cwt. 43 6 Rough Stuff, per cwt. 14 9
Rough Fat, per 81b&.. 111 Greaves 16 0
Melted Stuff, per cwt. 29 0 Good Dregs ~ 6 0
Yellow Russian, new.... 48s. Ott. per cwt.
Ditto Ditto old .... 00s. od,
Australian Mutton 1 allow as. Od. ,
Ditto Beet Ditto 41s. tkl.
HAY.

WEITSCHAPICL, Saturday, April B.—There was a fair supply
of hay spa stra% on sale here to-day. With a steady trade,
prices remain unaltered. Prime Clover 100 s. to 160 s.
ferior, Ms. to 955. Prime meadow hay, 90s. to 1855.; in-
ferior, 555. to 755.; and Straw, SU. to bOs. per load.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

THE RINKER'S SONG.

(From Judy.)
COME, rink with me, and be my love !
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That better far than hills or fields
The slippery floor of asphalte yields.
Of skates with rubber ties a pair, A I
Thee o'er the asphalte safely bear;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come, rink with me, and be my love!

THE RINKMAID'S ANSWER.
If all the world and love were young,
And tr ith on every rinker's tongue,
These asphalte pleasures might me move
To rink with thee and be thy love.

Talk to me not of flowers and posies;
Suppose we fall and break our noses?
Thoult not prevail on me at all;
In truth, it is no joke to fall !
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

THE ANTIOIIITY OF MAN,

A joint papers by the Rev. J. M. Mello and Pro.
fessor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. was read at the meeting
of the Geological Society on the mammals and traces
of man found in the Robin Hood Cave. Mr. Mello
referred to the explorations, the plan of the cave, and
• the successive beds met with; and Professor Dawkins
described the fossil remains found. Between the
present floor of the cave and the rock below four
distinct beds can be traced. Beginning at the bottom
the lowest is a bed of sand with limestone fragments,
1, about two feet thick, and containing no bones. Above
this is a red sand of three feet thick, containing a large
assemblage of bones all marked with hyena teeth.
There seems no doubt that the bones were carried into
the cave by hyenas. Among the remains is sufficient
indication to identify the following—woolly rhinoceros,
mammoth lion, grisly hear, brown bear, bison, and
reindeer. There is, however, not the slightest trace
of man yet met with. Above this sand is a bed of
" cave earth," varying from one foot to three feet in
thickness. It contains the same assemblage of animal
k remains as the last bed, but with them are found
' traces, of man—rude, rough implements of quartzite,
a the pattern of the valley gravels and the lowest
beds of Kent's Hole. Among them one flint screper
has beet: found. Quartzite pebbles abound close at
hand in abundance, and hence the raw material.
Above this "cave earth" is a thickness of stalamitic
breccia. Here flint implements are the rule
and quartzite the exception. Flints for the manu-
facture of implements are to be met with
urther off than the quartzite. These implements are of
higher type—that of the spear head. The animal
temams in this bed are lion cave hyena, foz, wolf,
grisly and brown bear, Irish elk, reindeer, bison, horse,
wild boar, hare. The evidence which this cave affords
with the sequence or superposition of beds so clear,
Professo'r Dawkins spoke of as of the highest import-
ance with reference to the grouping of padeolitbie im-
plements. It fits in, too, in a remarkable way with
the theories founded on the examins.tion of Conti-
nental caves.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

THE PLAGUE IN MESOPOTAMIA.

The Levant Herald of the 29th ult. contains the fol-
lowing :—" The Sanitary Board continues to receive
rather gloomy advices from Mesopotamia, where the
plague epidemic of 1876 threatens to be more destruc-
tive than that of 1875. Hillah and Bacdad are still
the chief centres of the sickness. In the former town,
from the 13th to the 19th inst. there occurred 45
attacks and 25 deaths, which gives an average of
between 7 and 8 attacks, and 4 deaths per day. At
Bagdad, on the 19th inst., 9 persons were attacked
with plague and eight died. Nassyr Pacha, vali of the
new province of Bassorah has decided, we learn, that
arrivals from Bagdad shall be put in quarantine at
Kournah, near the c3nfluence of the Euphrates and the
Tigris. Dr. Millingen, of the Turkish S initary Ser-
vice, has been sent from Syria to the seat of the epi-
demic in Mesopotamia, in company with two other
doctors of the service. At Bagdad, a permanent sani-
tary commission has been instituted, one of the mem-
bers of which is the physician of the English consulate-
general. Subsequent telegraphic advices report • the
occurrence of 11 cases of plague on the 20th inst. at
Bagdad, and of these four proved fatal. The Sanitary
Board has decided to reinforce the medical staff at
Bagdad by two additional surgeons. Of these, one
will leave Constantinople forthwith, and the other is
instructed to proceed from the sanitary station of
Adalia, in Caramania. Dr. Cabiades has been com-
missioned to proceed from the capital at a remunera-
tion of 2T.45 a month, and the pay rrient of his travel-
ling expenses."
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

SEED.

LONDON, Monday, Aprq 10 —There was a very limited sup-
ply of Euglish Cloverseed, aud flue qualities commanded very
high pr,ces. Foreign red samples were fully as dear, with a
god sale ; some vt:ry select white made 1255. per cwt Tre-
foil was in request at enhanced values. E.lglish Rapeseed,
heiug still very scarce, realised high prices. Tares were
offered freely at h-ss monty, the supply being above the de-
mand. Grass seeds of all descriptioLs were in fair request,
St Vsr thll rates. Cauar}seed was drooping in value, with a
limited business t tt, this article. Dutch Hemp-
seeds realised as much motley as last ;veto, 'vac. ar.,i
Mustardseed supperied previois values, with a moderate
sale for both sorts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

WANTED, TWO BLACKSMITHS, used
to" Water Tue Irons preferred —Apply to
lfr-d Green, Stourbridge.

UPF.T.IIOII, APARTMENTS, for one or two
utnliew,n ra La Labur,ium Cottage,
lbe

WANTED, a HOUSEMAID and a
GENERA.L SERVANT. Good character
required.—Apply Wollescote House, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

AIILLINERY, HOSIERY, DRAPERY
AND

I[ABERDASHERY ESTABLISHMENT,

126, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

MRS. MT. CLIFF

---
hers to inform the Ladies of Stourbridge and District
that sh has taken to the above premises, and has
r4-opened them after extensive alterations, with a Choice
Stock of

LACT, RIBBONS, VELVETS, FEATHERS,
FLOWERS, BONNET SHAPES, &c., &C.

111-g. W. C. hopes by strict personal attention to
bibiness to men i a share of pubic patronage.

STRAW BONNETS CLEANED, DYED. AND

ALTERED TO ANY SHAPE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-15

AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE
BICYCLE.

The Standard remarks :—" Some few weeks since
we commented on an announcement made in the
Field, to the effect that an inventor had come to the
aid of the very numerous people who are unable to use
the bicycle, and had with some considerable ingenuity
overcome most, if not all, of the difficulties which have
hitherto stood in the way of a successful tricycle. This
week our contemporary informs us that the instrument
then shadowed forth has been completed, and sub-
jected to a public trial, a test which it has endured
very satisfactorily, though here and there a modifica-
tiou may have to be made. Hands and feet work
together in the propulsion of this machine, and
the steerage arrangements are said to be satisfactory ;
only people who weigh more than 15 stone, unless
they are abnormally strong, are warned not to expect
much from it, becau,e they have not usually sufficient
strength to propel their own weight coupled with that
of the machine. People of less weight are told that
though they will not get the_pace out of this machine
that can be got out of the bicycle, yet they will have
an instrument which is safe and easy to sit, and
in which they can make their nine or ten miles
an hour on ordinary roads in comfort. For
ordinary folk who do not care either to be or to
seem to be always running races, this should be quite
fart enough, and if the coat should turn out suffi-
ciently low to encourage purchasers, there seems no
reason why such a means of locomotion should not
comeinto general use. The next step will be to in-
vent some tiny engine, of about two-man power, with
a petroleum furnace, that shall put such machines
along at about ten miles an hour, while we sit in them
at our ease, occupying ourselves with no labour more
arduous than that of steering. Then even our heavy
weights will have no cause to complain of being left
out in the cold."