The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

That was a smart young man who asked the Bishop
of Niagara if Blondiu was the sole inhabitant of bis diocese.
—Whitehall Review.
Prince Bismarck wishes to see his sons elected to
the German Parliament. His eldest son, Count Herbert on
Bismarck, has already stated that he will be a candidate,
and his second son, William, will also ask for the suffrages
of one of the districts. The district of Goslar, however, has
refused to accept these young gentlemen as the candidates
of the Liberal party.—Mayfair.
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Mr. John Webster, a justice of the peace, and twice
mayor of Sheffield, has died suddenly from an affection of
the heart, accelerated by the excessive heat.
The Crystal Palace Dog show which opened on
Tuesday was pronounced as one of the best ever held.

The telezram from Queen Victoria to the King of
Spain said:—" Dear Brother, my heart bleeds for you. What
an a‘rful mialottune it has pleased God to send you I May
He give you strength to bear this terrible loss."
Miss Cecilia Mary Tennyson, niece of the Poet
Laureate, was married on Tuesday at the parish church of
St (Mies's, Oxford, to the R,v. R. W. M. Pope, B D ,Divinity
Lectnrer of Worcester College, and curate of Si. Giles's, by
the vicar, the Rev. IL Deane.
On Monday their Royal Highnerses Prince Frederick
Charles of Prussia aid the Duke of Connaught paid a visit
to the fleet assembled in Portland Roads. They arrived
about nine o'clock in the mornimt in her Majesty's ship
Lively, under Royal salutes. Her Majesty's %hip Tionolerer
having taken the B.cyal party on board, steamed outside the
breakwater and went through various mano3uvres, and firing
with the big guns which she carries in her turrets, and re-
turned at noon. During the afternoon torpedo practice was
successfully performed in the presence of the Royal visitors
by the gunboats and launches of the fleet. Their Royal
Highnesses witnessed the operations from the flagship, aul
afterwards returned to Weymouth in the Lively.
Dr. D. G. F. Macdonald writes to The Times :
" The heat is so intense that great care should be taken to
prevent sunstroke. We have already had early warnings.
If out-door labourers would put fern or cabbage leaves inside
their hats, or wind bands of rushes, vetchc,s, or green herbage
of sorn'e sort around them, there would be no cases of sun-
stroke. By this means the heat is strained through herbacious
substances and is much less oppressive.''

A storm of such tremendous fury visited Bath and
Its neighbourhood on Sunday evening that those old enough
to remember say that nothing like it has been known since
the night George 111. died. It came up from the north-
east, and, sweeping directly over the city, was carried by
the wind, which suddenly veered round, away to the south.
The thunder and lightning were appalling, but what made
the visitation notable was the perfect deluge of rain which
accompanied it.
Two more bodies were brought out of the Wood
Pt Haydock, on Saturda), making the total number re-
covered 173. It is not known definitely how many more
bodies are in the mine, but it is certain that at leas'. 17 more
still lie in the workings, and this number may be increised.

The Irish Emigration Statistics just publishel show
an increase of emigration last year to the extent of two
thousand nine hundred and ten, the total number who left
Ireland having been forty-one thousand two hundred and
twenty-five. Twenty thousand of these went, however, 110
further than England and Scotland.
A sad affair has occurred at Cofopton- Verney the
seat of Lord Willoughby de Broke. It appears that his lord-
ship's valet and huller went to bathe in an old quarry on
Saturday. They bathed from a boat, and suddenly the butler
saw his companion, who had been swimming, sink under the
water, and, as he old not rise again, he gave an alarm. The
body was recovered in about three quarters of an hour, and
a medical inan gave it as his Opinion that deceased had di,d
from heart disease whilst in the water. It seems that
deceased had been suffering from heart disease for sometime
back.

"It may not be uninteresting to hear that the
Manatee' is not unfrequently caught oft the coasts of
Jamaica, and that he makes more palatable veal than the
native-reared calves. The negro fishermen have no supersti-
tion about his being a mermaid or a merman, and as a race
they are superstition incarnate."— The World.

Adviees from the Cape confirm the report as to the
death of Sandilli, the Kaffir chief, and also the report that
Mocamo and Lowta, Sandilit's brother, had been captured.
Edmund Sandilli had offered to surrender.

A. fatal accident occurred in London in St. John's
burial-ground, between liorseferr)-road and Paget-street,
Westminster, on Sunday. A parrot escaped from a house in
Dean's-yard, and flew to the bnrial-ground, where it rested on
one of tie trees. A mason's labourer, named Harding, got a
'Adder and went up the tree to try and catch the bird, but
while boiling on to a branch it broke, and he fell head fore-
mo:it on the edge of a tombitone and was killed lie leaves
a widow and five children.

Dr. Diplock, the Coroner for Weat Middlesex has
held an ingairy at 76. Ladbroke-grove, Notting-hill, London,
RS to the death of Miss Adela Robinson. aged 18. It appeared
from the evidence of Mrs. Mary ri 1,1)3 that Miss Robinson
was a governess pupl at her boarding school, and that on
Sunday last she accompanied the scholars to St. Mark's
Church. Shortly before one o'clock there was a violent
thunderstorm, and Miss Robinson, being very much afraid of
it, waited in the porch of the church until it was over. As
soon as it abated she went home, and on reaching the house
staggered into Mrs. Tibbs's arms and died immediately.
Mr. Blackburn, 129, Ladbroke-grove said he was called in to
see Miss Robinson. She was dead when he artived at the
house. On making a post-mortein examination he found the
cause of death to be rupture of an aneurism, which was pro-
bably caused by excitement. The jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the medical evidence.

A meeting, convened by the Armenian Committee
in London, was held on Monday afternoon in the Jerusalem
Chamber, Westminster Abbey. Dean Stanley presided, and
the meeting was addressed at some length by the Earl of
Carnarvon, who strongly advocated the creation of a
separate Armenian province, and said that "if greater
freedom were awarded to this ancient and venerable nation
the light of a fairer day might once again break forth
amongst them and illumine the life of surrounding nations.
On Monday afternoon a very painful sensation was
created in Dorchester by the sudden death, from heart dis-
ease, of the Rev. Edmund Ward Pears, for many years rector i
of St. Peter's. He was n his sixty-sixth year, and was a
staunch evangelical preacher, widely.and deeply respected.

Mr. Dyke, the Canadian Government agent at
Liverpool, reports that 6,211 head of cattle, 401 horses,
3,318 sheep, and 838 pigs have been brought to Great Britain
by the Canadian steamship lines during the six months end-
ing June 30.
At a mass meeting of nailers at Sedgley on Monday
It was resolved that no means would be efficacious against
the threatened reduction of wages hut a general strike for
the restoration of the 1875 scale. At Old-hill a meeting of
delegates decided that unless the masters within fourteen
days issue a revised list, limiting the reduction to ten per
cent, on the 1875 list on all classes of work, there shall he a
general strike on the 15th inst., for the first rates of 1275.
On Sunday brenoon, during the thuud.rst.,rm which
raged with much violence in the Eastern distrity,s of the
metropolis a panic was caused among the congregation of
St. Ann's, Limehouse, by a great volume of water suddenly
bursting through Vie roof. It poured over the gallery, and
delu4ed the area of the church, many of the congregation,
getting an involuntary shower-bath. The rector, the Rev.
3lr. Charlesworth, at once stopped the service, and advised
the people to quit the church as speedily as possible. This
advice was promptly acted upon, and on examination it was
found that a gutter-pipe bad got overcharged during the
heavy dewupoUtot-iraiu, and that the effttent scatev-hati
penetrated and destroyed a portion of the roof. The books,
carpets, ac., were removed with all despateh. aid every
precaution talon to prevent dasoo4'e,

According to the St. Petersburg Gobs, the herring,
fishery at Astracan has been extraordinarily productive this
year. The number of fish taken is 151,000,000, or 46,000,000
more than last year.
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Lord Granville on Saturday performed the ceremony
of cutting the first sod of a short connecting link of railway
between Deal and Dover.

Perhaps the Paris establishment which profits the
most largely by the affinenco of strangers is the Grard Opera,
whose average receipts vary between 21,0001 r. and 22,000 fr.
a night.

P-unetuality is regarded as a sovereign virtue in
Thirmah, where the King recently imprisoned all his
Ilinisters for seye-al hours because they were unounctual in
attending his summons to a Council. His Majesty also
warned them that if they were late again their term of
Imprisonment would be considerably prolonged.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (as "Conscience Money") receipt of the first
halves of Bank notes for £lO and £1 6s. 61, in stamps from
"'r. C.," also of £l6 in notes from "H.," on account of con-
science money.

The funeral of the late Mr. Charles Mathews took
pikce on Saturday at Kemal-green Cemetery, his remains
-being laid to rest close to those of lsl first wife, better known
as Madame Vestris, and near to the spot where his mdther
was interred. Amongst those gathered around the grave
were many of the oldest members of the theatrical profes-
sion, some of whom had travelled long distances.

The motion of the Berlin Burgomasters that a grad
picture shall be painted, and a medal struck to commemorate
the Congress of 1878 has been rejected by the Town Council.
Times ',re too bad for public corporations to relish the like
luxuries.

In a paper read before the Statistical and Social
Inquiry Society of Dablin it has been stated that the value
of the annual wood-clip in Ireland is £1,500,000, and that the
dairy-farming industry has a capital inves,ed in it ol
£20,000,000. The writer, Mr. Connolly, who considers that
Ireland is steadily improving, states that there are now 409
legitimate banking establishments in the country. Between
the years 1862 and 1872 no fewer than 17,000 new buildings
were erected in Belfast. The town valuation increased from.
£352,000 in 1866 to £503.500 in 1876. The population in-
creased 40 per cent, in eight years.
At the last sitting of the Primitive Methodist Con-
ference, held on Saturday at Manchester, resolution was
passed recording its conviction "that the preservation of
this country from the calamity of unnecessary war is chiefly
due to the enlightened and patriotic efforts of Mr. Gladstone,
Lord•Carnarvon, and Lord Derby," and expressing the hope
"that these statesmen may be long spared to advocate the
CALM of peace and freedom, and that he Congress.now sit-
ting may arrive at a peaceable and permament settlement of
the Eastern Question."

Between the 18th and 27th of June, 10,547
foreigners arrived in Paris. England supplied 3,200, and
Belgium 1,603, while Germany stands third with 1,177.
Never since the war has Paris had so many German visitors,
and they everywhere meet with the utmost courtesy.
Indeed, one of the papers compliments them as being the
most painstaking inspectors of the Exhibition.

The Inland Revenue Department have issued a cir-
cular with reference to the Dog Tax, the main point in which
la the reminder that police-constables may now prosecute
before a court of summary Jurisdiction for the recovery of
the penalty any person found keeping a dog without a license.
Officers of Inland Revenue are, therefore, requested to
endeavour tc secure prompt renewal ot all dog licenses at
the beginning of each year. Of penalties recovered by the
police, only one half the amount is paid over to the Revenue.

"Same clever American gentlemen have brought to
this country an invention by which a boat can be stopped
Instantaneously when at full speed and turned npon her own
centre. The same apparatus which enables this to be done
also allows you to steer the boat. The other afternoon I
witnessed some experiments with the little craft which
Colonel Mallory has rought over from New York; and it
was unders ood that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
Massey Lopes, Mr. Algernon Egerton, and the practical
officials of the Admiralty, who watched the operations from
the Speaker's steps at Westminster, were more than in-
terested at all they saw. The American invention would
certainly be most valuable if applied to torpedo-boats; and
1 am told that it is capable of being used for large vessels."
—White/1421 Retnew

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Brookwood
Lunatic Asylum, Woking, before Mr. Hull, coroner, on the
body of .Tohu William Grosjean, aged twenty, an inmate of
the asylum. On the previous Thursdsy he, tcgether with a
num er of other lunatics, was taking the usual airing in the
asylum grounds, which are unenclosed, and abut on the
heath on which the asylum is erected, when, unobserved by
the attendants, he made his escape from the grounds, ran
through the Basingstoke Canal, and up the embankment of
the London and South-Western Railway. Here he was run
over by the Exeter express and killed. There was no
evidence to show whether he met with his death by accideut
or by suicide, and the jury returned an open verdict. •-
• "We are informed that the Pope's health is giving
rise .to serious anxiety. His Holiness is suffering from
general indisposition and nervous debility. Much of thisis
attributed to the heat, and the physicians have been urging
a speedy departure from' Rome. The doctors' opinions
having been communicated to the King, he has placed the
healthiest and most beautiful of the Royal country places at
the Pope's disposal. But it is feared that Leo XIII. will
not he induced to leave the Vatican."— Vanity Fair.
The gem of the Paris Exhibition inventions is the
ramasse mouchoir, an instrument by the help of which lazy
or very stout people ran pick up their pocket hanokerchief
without stooping. Ills on the principle of those zig-zaz
frames on which wooden soldiers are placed, and wh'ch
children amuse themselves with by shooting out and draw-
ing in. Supposing, then, a stout lady lets her handkerchief
fall, she has only to dart out the limbs of her rainass4
mouchoir, the instrument seizes the object, and the lady
comfortably draws it towards her.

In writing regretting his inability to be present at
the opening of a Ward Hall at Birmingham, Mr. John
Bright says, "It seems necessary for all the objects of free-
dom that every community should have convenient places
and means for discussion on all questions affecting the punlie
Interests. Your noble Town Hall has been of the highest
service to Birmingham."

An exhibition of fans was opened in London on
Tuesday afternoon, in the hall of the Drapers' Company, in
Throgniorron-street, by the Lady Ma3orese, who was accom-
panied by the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs. The aggregate
value of the fans exhibited was £15,000.

An important change in the working of some of the
largest collieries in West Yorkshire is about to take place.
Several companies, who are connected with the Coalownere
Association, have served non ices on their workmen of their
intention to introduce riddles, and the men are holdinit
meetings this week to discuss the change. They will want
additional remuneration for the extra work involved.

"Although Mrs. Manning was hung in black satin,
it is now more the rage than ever. Last week, rusting hot
though it wee. I sew a lady at a garden party in black satin.
She was a Belle Americaive ano wore 3 ellow gloves, yellow
feather in her hat, and yellow fan and holder. This style is,
I believe, in Yankeeland called Colorado. Something to do
with the beetle, I suppose."—" The Taller," in Pictorial
World.

An ingenious puzzle has been contriyed out of the
present political complication, which illustrates with sin-
gular fidelity the popular view of the situation. Portraits
tiortschakoff, Andrassy, Suavi Pacha, and Bismarck are
printed on a square, and the question submitted is to find
the head among them which aill solve the Eastern Question.
By folding the paper so as to bring a quarter of the head of
each Minister together, a fair portrait of the Earl of Beacons-
field is presented, with the words aruuud it, "This is the
head."

It has been decided by the Trinity Board, after six
weeks considerAtion, to build the new Eddystone Lighthouse
themselves, and not under contract.

The London Gazette of Tuesday night notifies that the
Queen, taking into her Royal consideration that upon the
decease of the late Earl of Leitrim without issue the title
devolved upon his repbew, whose sisters, according to the
ordinary rules of honour, cannot enjoy the place and pre-
cedence which would have been due to them had their father
eurvivea and succeeded to the title, her Majesty is pleased
to declare that the said sisters shall have such place and
precedence as if their father had survived the brother and
became Earl of Leitrim.
The death of the Queen of Spain has caused great
regret among all classes at Gibraltar, and the verb deepest
sympathy has been expressed for the sad loss which has be-
fallen King Alfonso Minute guns to the number of 21 were
fired from the saluting battery on the evening of Thursday
In last week, commencing half an hour before sunset, whilst
the Soanidi flag was hoisted half-mast high from the signal
station on the top of the rock.
"It is cut ions to notice the remarks which have
been made in the late sanitary reports about the causes of
typhoid fever. We are told that the least modicum of foul
air will cause disease; yet there are a good many plain facts
which most certainly speak to the contrary. Zymotic
theorists must sometimes be in the wrong! There is a
tradition among our London duatmen that their ancestors
in the business were the persons who carted away the dead
during the great plague of Charles II ; yet not one solitary
" dusty " was any the worse for his nauseous work. In Paris,
too, it is well known that during the cholera of 1849, the
quarter of Belleville, where the nightsoil and refuse of the
city was deposited, was the most free from pestilence. Oar
London dustmen, in fact, boast that they have always
escaped any of the epidemics that have raged through court
and slum.' —" The Tatler, ' in Pictorial 14 orld

At noon on /11-inday, the tnerobers of the Coaching
Clith met in Ride PAT k His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales rode on the coach titiven by Lord Carington, and
amongst the occupants of other of the coaches were the
Princess Mar), Duchess of Teck, and her four children. The
numtier of coaches assembled wee 25. a considerable propor-
tion, of which went on to the Orleans Club, at Twickenham.
An Inspector reports of a public school he visited
in the West of France—" Nothing to be found fault with,
except that reading and writing ought to be taught."
The Mark Lane Express saN s hat a dry atmosphere
and a high temperature have enabled farmers to secure the
bulk of the hay crop, which is admitted on all hands to be
an unusually heavy one. A good deal of clover has also
been carted. A decide.* change for the better has taken
place in the growing wheat now in fall bloom. Barley
and oats are everywhere poor crops.

Mr. Mester, of the Turkish Compassionate Fund,
has just died of typhus fever in Constantinople. He had
been serving the fund voluntarily for nearly ten months.
In the earlier stage of its existence he had charge of the
dustriMotion of clothes and food In the neighbourhood of
Kyzaulik. Leaving Sofia shortly before the arrival of the
Russians, he proceeded to Constantinople, and both there
and on the railway line, during January and February, he
did ailtnirable work amongst the masses of famishing and
frozen retugees who were daily pouring into the capital.
The idea of raiainz the Groner Kurfiirst from the
bottom of the English Channel has not yet been abandoned
in Germany; but it is beginning to be very generally ad-
mitted that the difficulties in the way are so great as to be
well-nigh insuperable.

Mrs. Clara L. Balfour died on Tuesday at her resi-
dence in Croydon, in her seventieth year. She was well
known as a writer and lecturer on temperance and other
subjects.

A frightful accident has occurred at Leicester to a
man named Thomas Brown whilst engaged upon some houses
in the course of erection, when he fell from the scaffolding, a
distance of about twenty feet. He had fallen head down-
wards upon a brick-end, which was crushed into his skull.
The imfortunate man died almost immediately on his
admission to the hospital.
The Shah of Per-ia is evidently an accomplished
artist, to judge from the Paris Figaro. When recently at
Enghien, the Shah visited the house of the Princess
Mathilde, who was absent, and found on the easel in her
studio a blank piece of paper. He immediately filled the
space with a capitally executed drawing, putting his auto-
graph beneath, and so pleased was the Princess on her
return, that she has sent his Ifajesty a charming painting of
a girt clasping in her arms a pigeon that died in bringing
her a message.
"I had a practical illustration this week of the ex-
treme tenacity of Russian smells. Nly (Jobs came one even-
leg so saturated with the smell of the St. Petersburg post-
loan's sheepskin—any person who has been near a moojtk or
a tam ard in wet weather will realise the odour—that I could
not read it until it had been out in the open air twenty-four
hours. Even now as I write this, with toe window open, it
perfumes the room and recalls a thonsand recollections of
-the days spent among the strong-smelling but jovial meojiki
o the verdant Oorals.,
In London, on Monday morning, a van accident, by
which two br•)thers were killed, eccerred in the Strand. A.
driver named Js rues Smliran was unloading a van opposite
Mr. Vicker's pablishiug establishment in the Strand, and his
brother, Lawiteee Sullivan, was is the van helping him.
Being proud of the horse and in order to show off the pro-
portions of its head to dr. Vicker's manager, the driver in-
cautiously took off its blinkers, when the animal iturne-
diately bolted at a furi.ius pace down the Strand, and turned
into Surrey-street. The driver attempten to stop the horse
by catching hold of the lock of hair on its fez ehead, but the
animal shook him cif, when be fell, and one of the wheels
passed over his head. Death was almost instantaneous.
The brother; Lawrence, then endeavoured to get out of the
cart, but the horse never stopped until it reached one of the
buttrosees of the Embankment at the end of the street,
where -the wheel catching it sideways, the cart was upset,
tutduifullivan- was vitettad 4:rat-betkl -foremost with such
violence that he fractured his skull. He was at once taken
to King's College Hospital. where he died shertly after-
wezda

Prince Eugene, Duke of Leuohtenberg, will on the
14th inst. be betrothed to bidlle. Robeleft, sister of the well.
known Russian General. Mdlle. ISltobeleff will bear the title
of CounteEs Beauharnals. •

Pursuant to the suggestion of the burgomaster of
Brussels a national subscription by all the women of Belgium
for the purpose of offering a present to the Queen of the
Belgians on the occasion of her silver wedding on the 22nd
of next August will be instituted. The subscriptions are
limited to 25 C. (2d)

The China papers state that it is impossible to
estimate the distress still prevailing in the northern pro-
vinces, and that some of the other provinces have suffered
severely from floods.

On Monday four waggons had to be sent from the
Ministry of Finance to the Faris Exhibition to fetch the
bronze money paid on Sunday for. admissions, which it is
believed numbered 130,000. Ordinarily, no money is taken
at the doors, tickets having to be bought at the tobacconists
and post offices; but on Sunday the rate was reduced to
25c, and no change being given, every visitor deposited
from three to five coins.

The correspondent of the Western Morning News
at Zanzibar writes that the slave trade is largely on the
increase, which is due to the withdrawal of the cruisers,
thus leaving two thousand miles of coast. unwatcbed..

Despatches from Fiji give an account of a great
earthquake at Tanna, Nev Ilebrides, which raised the land
along the shore and harbour ahout,2oft. Millions of fish
were thrown up and destroyed, also a number of canoes.
The circulation of Russian newspapers may easily
be estimated from the fact that the busiest newsvearldr in
St. Petersburg does not sell on an average more than=
copies per diem, and that there are only twelve such news-
vendors in the Russian capital.—Mcegfatir.
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A troupe of 40 male; and female gipsies (singers
from Moscow has obtained considerable success at the con- •
cert of the Orangery in the Tuileries Garden, Paris.
The German has sent to the Maharajah of Johore,
through Count .Munster, the Royal Prussian order of the
Crown (First Class).
That the wearbgg of the beard has some tendency
to prolong life is a fact. Longevity decreased rapiolly in all
nations when, for fashion's sake, the razor arts brought into
use. Statistics show that among people who have never
worn whiskers, no matter how simple may have been their
other habits of life, old age is a rare thing, and that since
It again became fashionablif to wear moustaches and whiskers
longevity is on the increase.—Court Journal.
A portion of a tunnel, near Schevelm' in Prussia,
21 metres in length, fell in on Friday night last and buried
27 persons.

Reporting on the fruit prospects, the Afaidst9ne
Journal says the plum crop wll be quite as good as ex-
pected, but the apple crop less. The late showers .have
done good in many parts where the leaves were already
yellowing. As regards the hop plantations, the late hot
weather has effected considerable improvement.

The Toronto Weekly Mail appears to desire to see
two institutions established in Canada—one a system of Pro-
tection, and the other the poor-house. If the first should be
adopted the second would no doubt be required. In Eng-
land we have long ago discarded one, and hope to live to see
the end of the other.—Mark Lane Express.

Messrs. Stnrge, Long, and- Alexander, acting in be-
half of the British Anti• Slavery Society have presented to
Prince Bismarck, in his capacity as presiding member of the
Congress, a petition requesting that the slave trade be hence-
forth regarded as piracy, and that.slavery be not recognized .
as a legal institution by the States forming the Congress.
The petition asserts that the existing remnant of the slave
trade, chiefly carried on for the supply of -Cuba and nahome-
dan countries, leads to the annual ciestrintion of 500,000
lives on the Bast African shores, and precludes commerce in
the most fertile regions.

Sir H. Drummond-Wolff, M.P., presided on Satur-
day evening at a public dinner held at Boscombe, Bourne-
mouth, to celebrate the opening of a new assembly rooms.
He said he believed no persons had ever had so difficult a
task as Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury at Berlin. They
had been met by an opposition of a most unworthy and plot-
ting character. Sir Henry believed we were now on the
verge of securing& peace which would increase our prosperity
and prestige, but it we achieved such a peace it would be
because we were prepared for war.
The Colngne Gazelle states that every evening Prince
William of PruEsia, the eldest son of the Herman Crown
Prises., now a student at Bonn, may be seen rowing on the
river between Bonn and Plittersdorf with a fellow-student,
In a handsome little two-oared boat, a present to the Prince
from his grandmother, Queen Victoria. Prince William has
acquired great proficiency in the use of his oar and pulls a
good stroke. Not long ago he and his friend did the distance
between Coblentz and Bonn in five hours. " '

Samples of air for examination by the chemists of a
century hence have been bottled knd stored away by the
New York scientific authorities. The air was collected
during the Centennial summer from the Exhibition grounds
at Philadelphia, as well as from New York, and fronr some
of the Adirondack Mountains, in order that the observers of
1976 may determine whether the earth's atmosphere has
undergone any change in the hundred years.

King Alfonso has decided to have a church built
near tbe Royal Palace in Madrid, containing a splendid
mausoleum in memory of the late Queen. The coat of the
work is estimated at 5,000,000 pesetas.

The Registrar-General reports that there were 2,266
births ana 1,570 deaths registered in London last week.
Allowing for increase of population, the births were 72 be-
low, whereas the deaths exceeded by 208, the average ntim-
bars in the corresponding week of „„/ he last ten years The
annual death-rate from all cau,es, which in the two previous
weeks had been equal to 19.0 and 20 3, further rose last
week, probably influenced by the heat, to 22.9 The deaths
included 38 from small-pox, 24 from measles, 23 from scarlet
fever, 7 from diphtheria, 97 from whooping cough, 19 from
different forms of fever, and 72 from diarrhoea.

There is a project afoot for importing to England
some of the famous trotting horses of Ameriaa for breeding
purposes. The American Lire Stock Journal thinks we are
not likely to get any of the best until we open our purses
much mord widely than we have yet done. It says "When
our cousins on the other side of tho Herring Pond will pay
from £2,000 to £4,000 guineas for an American trotter they
may expect some of our good ones to be taken to that
country; but so long as our best roadsters are readily taken
by our own wealthy gentlemen at such prices our British
friends need not expect dealers to take first-class horses to
that country."—Mark Lane Express.

A great Liberal demonstration, to celebrate the '
success of the party In the recent elections was held in
Briun•els on Sunday. All the provinces and principal towns
In Belgium were represented by deputations, the streets
were decorated with nags and thronged with people. In the
evening there was a monster banquet of 6,000 perrons, at
which the Ministers and all the notabilities of the Liberal
party were to be present