The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-09-26 00:00:00

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THE INTENTIONS EXIIIDITION.—The number of visitor°
to the International Inventions Exhibition for the wed'
ending Saturday, Sept. 19, VW 128,193, the total since
the opening being 2,842,180.
A NOVELTY.—A gorilla has just arrived at DR'
Cross's zoological establishment in Earle-street, froo
the south-west coast of Africa by one of the African
mail steamers. This most interesting specimen is the
only one now alive in Europe. It is about three
of age, and stands two-and-a-half feet high.
PRECOCIOUS Wonkens.—Babies begin to work earl 9
in the German Breisgau. Children's EmploylleFt
Offices exist in the district, where tiny mites scarcell
out of their infancy are taught to sew the buttons 00
shirts at the large price of one pfennig per gross-
not half a farthing.
SOUTH KENSINGTON.—Two fresh departments of the
National History Museum at South Kensington are
now open to the public—the gallery of fishes and the
pavilion of the osteological department. There ere
some fine skeletons of elephants in the latter section.
ANOTHER STATUE FOR FRANCE.—The Colossal I3ar•
tholdi Liberty Statue, presented by the French to the
United States, is to be matched by a counter memorial
offered la, the Americans. It is proposed bo present
France with a monster bronze statue of Washington'
occupying an elaborate pedestal carved with bas-reliofa.
of the early Franco-American missionaries, and Ii eneral!
Lee and Grant. This statue would be placed in fret°
of the Paris Pantheon.
CORN AVERAGES.—The following are the acerage„
prices of British corn for last week, as received fr°,
the inspectors and officers of Excise: Wheat, 30s. Wu'
barley, 31s. id.; oats, 19s. 21. per imperial qr. Correa'
pending week last year: Wheat, 335. 10d. ; bariel'
325. 3d.; oats, 19s. Bd.
RAILWAY Pnoms.—The largest profit by a Geneso
railroad in 1883 was 91,9 per cent, by the Right Ban'
of Oder Railroad. Four German roads earned Were
than 8 per cent., two more than 7 per cent., but nc;
other earned as much as 6 per cent., while 14 e,arlie
less than 3 per cent.
UNPARDONABLE CARELESSNESS.—One of the master.'
pieces of Lucca della Robbie at Florence has been Pact;
ficed to culpable cal elessness. The cleaning of th
magnificent church in the Via Nazionale was left tfol.
he assistant of a picture-dealer. This man set h e
tladder against the neck of one of the apostles, and thht
instant he began to ascend the beatitifttlly-wrouP
terracotta head fell to the ground and split into ft
meets.
THE TUILERIES.—It appears that the gardens of
Tuileries are just now being taken possession
groups of Paris "toughs," who are rendering
favourite resort unapproachable by its usual vlsitebrie-
Among other diversions to %which these undesirs
guests have addicted themselves is that of mutilatng
the statues, and their latest exploit has been to bra
off the quiver held by a nymph. In view of these I.
ceedings the Director of the Louvre has expressed Ne,
intention of taking back into the building all 120,
statues under his administration which are now
gardens.
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CHEAP HARDWARE.—An instance of the c.espnd,
with which small wares ato now made in the Unite
States can be found in the miscellaneous hardw9airoe.
needed about a house. Good steel screw-drivers,
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long, handles on, can be bought for 5 cents; door b
.10ta
for the same price; dead latches for 35 cents.; 31,j
hinges for 5 cents, &c. A good pair of white if C.''t`
woven web suspenders can be bought for 15 cents; nrn,
a few years ago the same gaods sold readily for vv.
cents. This seems curious in a country where Prete%
tion is said ta run up prices. What would be the vain
of these things under Free-trade.—" Eneineer." ;
LAST WEER'S WRECKS.—Forty British and forete
shipwrecks were reported last week. Seventeen w„,,,
British vessels, including seven steamer& Off te"e
British Isles nine vessels (tight British andrfa
German) went down. Lives lost numbered g 3. ".„)
three vessels sank by collision (two off Great Britnio
but 17 lives were lost by that cause. Four,furet-e
sailers were abandoned at sea, and a British bar4vr,
was burnt at sea. Total wrecks for year, 822. Vfog
responding neek of last year—Wrecks, 23; total
year, 1032. t,a
MR. THOMAS COOPER IN A CITY PULPIT.— J.ni.- of
nouncement that the veteran lesturer and authorsio
"The Purgatory of Suicides," and other well-lowtba
works, would preach at the morning service ist
Falcon-square Congregational Church, Aldersga
street (one of the oldest Nonconformist plaee,lo3..
worship in the City of London), caused a large 10' oie
dance on Sunday morning. Mr. Cooper, who jar,n or
verging upon his 80th year, spoke with all the vigi°ol
and fervour of former days, and delivered an able the-
cogent address upon the words, "I am the sral'
truth, and the life."
FOREIGN LIVE STOCK AND FRESH 31.LEA.T. tof
arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at the 11,910'
Liverpool during the past week from the United ",,331.'
and Canada amounted to 2506 cattle 1134 sheelh.,..ooo
quarters of beef, and 250 carcases of mutton, ag,'Peept•
the preceding week's imports of 2034 cattle, 497 stio,
6848 quarters of beef, and 200 carcases of zruny
showing an increase in the shipments of both live siTer
and fresh meat. The conveying steamers, 12 in nuniterie
were as follows: Venetian, 677 cattle and 1243 quel,dge,
of beef; Brooklyn, 523 cattle and 231 sheep;
Huron, 324 cattle, 666 sheep, and 672 quarters of 'l'o
Oxenholme, 450 cattle and 237 sheep; Canadian, 00
cattle; St. Bernard, 184 cattle; Lord Gottgate
quarters of beef; Scythia, 776 quarters of beef;
680 quartters of beef and 50 carcases of mutton; a of'
of Richmond, 860 quarters of beef and 50 carc,aae'cor
mutton; Germanic, 780 quarters of beef and 50 beet
cases of mutton; and Abyssinia, 1400 quarters 01
and 100 carcases of mutton.
Tun ZootootcaL GARDIDIS.—The additions tnweel‘
Zoological Society's Gardens during the Paata,att4
include a Barbary ape from North Africa, Pre';ate°
by Miss Bedford; a bank vole from Essex, VI- are'
by Mr. E. Rosling ; a common hedgehog, Britiatle'est:
sented by Master C. Hanrott ; a common !IWO
British, presented by Mr. W. Buckley • an und.,10.,
grass parrakeet from Australia, presented by gafaa bt
Nujae ; a smooth snake from Dorsetshire,presenwAoo*
the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, C.M.Z.S.; two P°°°,
horned lizards from New Mexico, presented h 9 1;erto;
W. Shufeldt ln
; two common chameleons fro
Africa, presented by Mr. F. Bland. :„..ator,,a° •
BERANGER.—M. Andre Cochut, honorary 4 ,e—an
the Mont de Pike of Paris, has communicateoLg
" Temps" some facts, hitherto unknown, relnr
the life of Wranger, which he has discovered h-JetTo
records of the establishment. It seems that thresseri
Government, being under obligations to 33e ot ,
appointed him to the oddly inappropriate grief/
superintendent of the warehouses of the Mont dos
with a salary of 6000 francs. After a feLl t tn°
experience of the duties, the poet perceived ty„.doet
place was not to his taste, and induced the Goverao
fr
to appoint one of his friends, Benjamin Antier
a song writer) in his stead. riAogia;
Mkreoneres.--The superintendent of the
Survey of India gives an account of two Inew,ier- t
which are the first that have been examined tin- d
recent order of Government for the collection 0%0
amination of these objects. One meteorite ll th°
9th February, 1884, near the village of Pirthaw",,-oiflr
Punjab. The stone was received in three pleat, bel
ing in all 1160.5 grammes, the specific gravi_n"aotl_a
3.40. The shape was roughly cuboidal with ':'te
edges and indented sides. The other metelesterj
near the village of Chandpur, in the North',eigni
Provinces, on the 6th of April last. The stoil,,e ;pci
1201.3 grammes, its specific gravity being 3"2°_,1, O-60
roughly cuboidal in shape, with rounded
angles. „A„aiog„
THE CAPERCAILZIE.—As early as the beg'-igoop°,„'
this century the capercailzie, or "cock of the 13rini
was thought to be virtually extinct in Great wino
In the time of Bewick if a single specimen Tina °tecenild
it was regarded as a great curiosity. gore bhh,
it was alleged, and probably with truth, tilntplert,DG
had entirely died out. A few years ag0,.11"
Duke of Athole and some others imported a 0 teu:o
of the capercailzie from Norway. The birdsill'
plied in Perthshire to a wonderful extent, teloi get, 0,
told that the landowners are now as anxioue resiee
of them as they were to acquire them. The ealle, at,
feeds almost entirely on the young green allirerf tor
top of firs and pines. Thus it produces on
so 0000
which it attacks the effect which gardener! it goal
ping." Of course the fir is only useful tque, ths" ortf
into aaktraight spar, and it therefore felt jo 011
capercailzie destroys a tree at every weak...,
the capercailzie is far too expensive aluVl'fin baileoie
LINCOLN'S INN.—The remainder of the, 90010'00d
forming the block of chambers north of "-Abeett Von!
gateway, facing Chancery-lane, have now, rs,
down, and spacious new red-brick cha. irnuewid /noel*
in architecture with those already erected and t°0.10::
course replace them. The old gatewaYoloolnLel
which form the principal entrance to . at PLeic,:o
from Chancery-lane, will, howeeer, rewainotaret;rs
ritlb
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untouched. Over the gateway of this st ceato
was erected about the end of the fourteenea is . enx
the reign of Henry VII., Oliver Crornw,_ career; all_
have occupied chambers at one time in hrowititissfi'Dic
it is also stated that Ben Jonson, the .."Aorti,
poet, worked on the wall just pulled_ gla rola;
separated Lincoln's-inn from Chancerria?cfather;ita ta.
• 0 s° 000
in the early part of his life, sassting his
was a bricklayer. The remaining old cnan'i
the gateway, which have a very ancient.
L, will be eventually nulled down and rebtl