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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-12

You are nvited to partic!pate in the chanee4-
ef winning in the grand drawings of prize,
guaranteed by the Sta.e of Hamburg in which
10 millions 402,000 marks have to.be won.
In the course of these advantageons drawing's
which contain according to the proeucetus only
100.030 tickets, the following prizes will be
orthcoming, Viz.:
The highest prize will be ev. 500,000 Marks
Premium of 300 000 Marks.-1 Prize of
200,000 Marks-1 Prize of 100,000
Marks-1 Prize of 80,000 larks-1 Prize of
80,000 Marks-2 Prizes of 50,000 Marks
—3 Prizes of 40,0f.:0 Marks— 2 Prizes o'
30,000 Marks-12 Prizes of 15,000 Marks
—1 Prize of 12,000 Marks-22 Prizes of
10,000 Marks-1 Prize of 8,000 Marks
3 Prizes of 8.000 Marks-55 Prizesof
5,000 Marks-2 Prizes of 4,000 Marks
—lO7 Prizes of 3,000 Marks-313 Prizes of
, 2.000 Marks-723 Prizes of 1 000 Marks
—lO4B Prizes of 500 Marks —lOO prizes of
300 Marks-50 Prizes of 250 Marks-
-25 Prizes of 240 Marks-85 Prize., of
200 Marks-33373 priz 2s of 150 Marks-
-2900 prizes f 130 Marks-4925 prizes of
100 Marks-50 Prize-4 of 80 Marks-
-6800 Priz of 70 & 40 Marks in all
50,500 prizes
which will be sure won in 7 drawings withiu
the space of a few months.
The first prize-drawing is officially fired for
17 and 18 of July of the present year
and the prize is for
a whole original ticket only 6 I —d or 6
Marks, a half original ticket only 3 sh—d or 3
Marks, a quarter original ticket only Ish ed I
or 1 Marks. and I will forward these
original tickets guaranteed by the State (not
prohibited promissory notes) even 0 the most
distant countries in return for the amount for-
warded prepaid. Every ticket. holder will
receive from me gratis along with the original
ticket the original prospectus provided with
the arms of the State and immediately after
the drawing, the official list without any
charge.
The payment and forwarding ef the sums
won to those concerned will have my special
nil prompt attention, and with the most ab-
solute
_secrecy.
gar All orders can be sent by' the medium of
a Post Office Order, or per ehseque, or in
English Postage Stamps, or by Postal Orders.
Please address the orders befoce•tho
17th of JULY
on account of the approaching drawing of the
prizes, in all confidence directlyto
Samuel Ileckscher,senr.,
Banker and exchange a4en t at Hamburg.
Germany.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-12

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

There was a young man out in Arizona who once
declined a pressing invitation to favour a select com-
pany with a song. "Oh, really you must excuse
he said. "I tell you I can't sing. I don't come of a
singing family. Why, there was my old father; he
used to try Old Hundred' but he had so little ear
for music that he never got more than ninety out of
the tune."

At a juvenile party in Lowell, one little fellow, re-
joicing in the splendour of his new clothes, sidled up to
another, with the triumphant remark: "You ain't
dressed as well as I am." " Well," retorted the
other, "I can lick you, anyhow."
The editor of a newspaper out towards Lake Cham-
plain, has discovered a way of keeping eggs from
spoiling. His method is to eat them while they are
fresh. _ _ _

A young man in Connecticut, having the late rail-
road disasters in his mind, has broken his engagement
with a young lady, because she wears a train and is
negligent about her switch.
There is a postmaster in Texas who has been in
three wars and has lived under five governments, says
a news item. If he has been married five times we
can't imagine why he has been in only three wars.
"Statistics show that there are at least 11,000 men
who can neither play football nor assist an obj ectim-
able visitor to alight from the front stoop," said a sad.
eyed Brooklyn bachelor. "What is the matter with
them ?" asked his friend. "They are one-legged,"
was the cheerful reply.
An exchange tells of an editor who went a sol-
diering and was chosen captain. One day at parade,
instead of giving the orders, "Front face, three paces
forward," he exclaimed: "Cash, two dollars a year,
in advance."
"Mary" said a mother to her daughter, "has
Henry proposed yet 2" "Not yet, ma, but I think ho
will before many days." "What makes you think
so ?" "Because he asked me if you expected to live
with me if I married, and I told him no.
Aunt Rosy was dividing a mince pie amona the boys,
and when Jim, who had wickedly pulled" the cat's
tail, asked for his share, the dame replied ; "No,
Jim, you are a wicked boy, and the Bible says there
is no piece for the wicked.
A Mississippi man advertises a runaway wife as
follows: "High cheek bones, with upper front teeth
out, crippled in one foot, cross-eyed and quick-
spoken." That man don't know when he is well off.
An Albany belle, after attending church on a recent
Sunday, was asked her opinion of the sermon. "Oh I
good, I suppose," she replied; "but what big feet the
minister had! I was so interested in his feet that I
forgot to listen to his sermon !"
They tell of a farmer in Kentucky, who was so
lazy that when he went to hoe corn, he worked so
slowly that the shade of his broad-brimmed hat killed
the plants.
When a Missouri troy has been thrashed by his
father for playing truant, he alludes to the old man
as having been on a whaling voyage, and getting lots
of blubber.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-12

NEW GUINEA.

In the HOUSE OF COMMONS' Mr. Ashley informed Mr.
R. N. Fowler that, in reply to Lord Derby's circular
despatch of the 3rd of May, the Australian Colonies
had agreed to provide the sum of £15,000 necessary for
the establishment on or near the Eastern coast of New
Guinea, of a High Commissioner or Deputy Com-
missioner, with large powers and a sufficient staff to
enable him to exercise protection, in the name of the
Queen, over those shores; and that, consequently, the
Government would take immediate steps to cary out
that object.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-12

THE MARCH ACROSS THE DESERT.
Appliances of several kinds for storing fresh water
and carrying it across the desert in the proposed
expedition from Souakim to Khartoum are in course
of preparation at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. For
use at the wells and oasis large reservoirs of water-
proof canvas have been provided, some of them
several yards square, for dipping pails in watering
horses, other shaped like ordinary troughs, and others
adapted to the requirements of the troops. For con-
veying the water on camels, iron tanks are being
made, about three feet long by eight inches broad,
and fourteen inches deep, but it is not quite decided
whether these or ordinary casks of wood shall be em-
ployed for the purpose, and probably a supply of both
will be sent out. Already have gone a great number
of cisterns formed of galvanised zinc plates riveted,
and each having a capacity of about 200 gallons,
and these it is proposed to place at convenient
points on the line of march for replenishing
the camel loads. Each animal will carry two casks
slung pannier-wise Across a pack saddle, and each
cask will cantain about 20 gallons. Not more than
ten miles of railway have yet been despatched to the
Soudan, but the steamship Engineer, which has just
left Woolwich, has on board some of tha locomotive
plant, including engines, steam cranes, &c. On Tuesday
some baulks of timber and bales of sand bags, which
the Engineer could not take, were sent on board the
P. and 0. steamer Rohilla for immediate conveyance
to Suez, en route for Souakim, being in urgent demand,
and the chartered steam transport Dunluce, which has
been for some time employed on similar service, will
arrive at the Arsenal in a few days for more railway
iron and some of the miscellaneous stores for Egypt
now accumulated, among which are a quantity of light
planks for hut building, and iron pipes for construct-
ing aqueducts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-12

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