The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-10-04 00:00:00

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"Panther' velvet, woven to imitate the fur of the
wild beast and "boa constrictor" plush are the raost striking
novelties in Paris, the latter being declared an admirable
imitation of the reality.

The electric light has been adopted on the Hooghly
Bridge at Calcutta.

A new colouring material, called "parmaline," has
Nat been introduced by a French home. It is a dark blue
of a reddish shade, and is somewhat like Parma violet. It
can be used for silk, wool and cotton.
The art of being gallant is not quite boat in Paris.
"It must be that I am very awkward," said she, playing at
billiards,' I can't touch a ball." "Princes," responded the
marquis, #` that is because a billiard ball is not a heart,"—
Court Journal.

Intelligence has reachei Salt Lake City (ITtab),
that 28 miners have been massacred by Indians in Bastern
Utah.

Mr. Thomas Carter, the oldest of EngliPh trainera
resident in France, is dead. He had attained his 76th year,
and has been associated with the French turf for almost half
a century.

There is no doubt, the Volunteer Service Gazette
believes, that the unpopular regulation as to compulsory
retirement of volunteers at flay years of age will be modified
by next month's circulars.

One featnre of the last eruption of the remarkable
volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, is the fact that
the great molten lake of lava, occupying a huge cauldron
nearly a mile in width, and known as the "South Lake,"
was drawn off subterraneously, giving no warning of its
movements and leaving no visible indication of its path-
way or the plaae of its final deposit.

There were thirty•one deaths from yellow fever in
the city of Memphis during the past week.
A disastrous storm visited Central America in the
early part of September. It swept up the coast from the
south-west, doing oonsiderable damage at the ports of Sal-
vador and Guatemala. At Ban Jose the sea washed away
the pier and an embankment upon which some stores were
built. n other plaose along the coast the piers were de•
stroyed and houses demolished. Several lives were lost, and
a number of launches were driven ashore.

An unknown plague, which threatens to do even
greater damage to the vines than phylloxera, has broken out
at Semur. The attacked vines have the pith of the roots
and their ilbro-vascular tissues invaded by mouldiness.

A Reuter's telegram from Ottawa, dated Septemba
30, says :—The steamer Sarmatian' by which the Princess
Louise has taken passage for England, sails on the 18th of
October. Ills said that the physicians of the Princess have
urged a change of air for the benefit of her health, which Las
not been so good lately. Her Royal Highness, it it under-
stood, will return to Canada for the opening of the Dominion
Parliament.

Numerous Royalist banquets were held in Paris on
Monday to celebrate the birthday of the Comte de Chatubord.
Mass was said at the Church of St. Germain de-Pres. An
address to the Comte was read at all the Legitimist ban-
quets.

Paul proposes to his young wife to take a little jaunt
In Switzerland. "What is there in Switzerland 4" asks the
Ingenuous fair. "What is there in Switzeiland ?" echoes
her young husband; "why there is the most wonderful
scenery in the world—lofty mountain peaks tipped with
rosy snow, and verduous vales and sleeping lakes, and "
" Oh, shoot thy sleeping lakes (Oh tali ,funtier tes faces
dorneants)—take me somewhere where there are shops to
buy things at

There were 36 British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making the total for the present year
1.184, or an increase of 142 as compared with the correspond-
ing period of last year. The approximate value of property
lost was £740,000, including Bratsk £550,000. Seven vessels
were lost oft the coasts of British Isles, and six by collision;
six were abandoned in mid-ocean.

" Cham," the French caricaturist, had very long
legs. One day he went into a tailor's shop, chose some
()loth, and agreed to the price of forty•flve francs for a pair
of pantaloons. The tailor took his measure, and went
lower and lower while his astonishment went higher and
higher. At last he stopped a little below the knee, and
threw his measure over his shoulder. " Well," said
"Chain," do you stop there?" "Monsieur, for forty•five
francs I cannot go lower."

A gentleman carefully questioned the optician,
"What number must I wear after these cease to be strong
enough?" "This one," said the optician, showing him
another pair. "And after that?" "This." "And after
that?" " Alter that! after that! You'll need a little dog
and a string."

The Spanish Government intend to propose nest
session for measures for the abolition of slavery similar to
those carried out in the British colonies in 1834, viz., an im-
mediate emancipation next year, with a long term of nom.
pulsory labour.

Saturday (September 27th) being the Jewish Day of
Atonement, there was at all the synagogues In the metro-
polis a very strict observance of the day. The feast com-
menced at 5.45 p.m. on Friday, and terminated oa Saturday
6vening at 8.2.9.

A young St. Louis sculptor, Howard Kretsclunar,
has completed a statue in the claycalled The Stricken South,
symbolizing the scourge of yellow fever. The statue is a
figure of a woman around whom a serpent has coiled. She
stands with her head thrown back and her right arm clasped'
above it, as U in an agony of horror at the terrible tragedy
that Is Inevitabie. The artist has caught the marvellous ex-
pression of a pause between two breaths.

A ludicrous instanoe of mistaken identity occurred
in Monasterevan the other day. Daring the midday enter-
tainment at a travelling circus, a countrywoman, through
curiosity, lifted the cloth which covered a large oval looking
glass in the side of one of the show-carriages, and mistaking
her own appearance in the glass for one of the ladies of the
company, she became confused, and making a low courtesy,
apologised unconsciously to her veritable self for her rude.
nese, exclaiming, "I beg your pardon, ma'am, I was only
looking at the carriages."
A Paris paper says that some chestnut trees in the
public squares and gardens, after losing their leaves in the
seorching rays of the sun towards the close of the summer,
are putting forward new foliage and blossoms.
The troops in garrison at Gibraltar, under the
command of Major-General Anderson, Acting-Governor,
were paraded on the Alameda on the 6th inst. to witness the
presentation of the Victoria Cross to Lieut.-Colonel Hans
Garrett Moore, of the 93rd Highlanders, who won the dis-
tinction for his gallant conduct in risking his own life to
save Private Giese, of the Frontier Armed Police, on the oc-
casion of the action with the Gaikas near Komgho, South
Africa, on the 29th of December, 1877.

September 30th is an eventful day in the history of
Alsace. On this day, 18S1, or very nearly two centuries ago,
the French by stratagem gained possession of Strasburg, a
city which theretofore had belonged to Germany, while en
the same date nine years back General von Werder made his
triumphal entry through its gates, after a siege forming part
of a war which was the means of restoring to its Imperial
parent along-last child.

A Waterloo veteran, Mr. John Hollidsy, died at his
residence in Si. Mary-street, Woolwich, on Thursday in last
week, aged 92 years. He served in the Royal Artillery during
the war with the First Napoleon, and was engaged with his
battery on the field of Waterloo. For some years past he
has been very infirm, but he never omitted appearing in full
dress, with his medals on his breast, on the anniversary of
that battle.

As the Royal Princes will in their cruise in the
13acchante visit the Isthmus of Panama, Captain Peacock
expressed a wish to present them with a copy of his work on
the survey of the Isthmus for the cutting of a canal, which
he suggested and surveyed in 1831 to 1842, being-at that time
navigating officer of H.M.S. Hyacinthe. The Prince of Wales,
through Mx. Soollys, secretary, has graciously accepted the
gift for his sons.

Prince Bismarck's arrival at Vienna was looked for-
ward to with such eagerness by the Viennese that crowds
assembled daily before the hotel at which he was expected,
wearying out the officials with questions, while one news-
paper office, beset by continual inquiries, hung out a large
Placard announcing that the Prince was not in 'Vienna.
The Buitioniat says :—There has been again a prove-
relent idea that we may shortly see a rise in the value of
money, owing to the demand for gold for export to the
United States. Whatever may be in store for us in the
future, there are certainly few symptoms of anything of the
sort for the moment. Rates continue to rule low; discount
businees is languid, and loan transactions few; there is no
appearance in the money market of any effects from the
much-talked.ot revival of trade; and all the ordinary
symptoms by which we are accustomed to julge of the
monetary situation point to the persistence of ease with
abundance of supplies at such unprofitable terms as can
alone now be exacted.

On the 10th September the Viceregal party in
Canada visited the Loretto Convent at Toronto. Miss Agnes
Morrison, one of the pupils, read an address in blank verse
to his Excellency, and Miss Ford, of New York, read an ad-
dress of welcome to the Rimless. The address to the Mar-
quis was surrounded with a handsome border in mauve silk,
with rose, shamrock, and thistle, and maple leaves grouped
at the corners. The presentation to the Princess consisted of
an epergne filled with bouquets of flowers, placed there gni>
cessively by little girls until it was full. A waxen diadem,
resting on a cuahion elaborately embroidered, was also pre-
sented to the Princess.
A clever way of curing men of their quarrelsome
propensities was hit upon the other day by a Colonel of
Marines. There were two men in his regiment who were
for ever fighting. Remonstrance was of no avail; punish-
ment useless. Ile set the men to clean the whole of one
side of the barrack windows. The men were made to clean
the same windows at the same time, one inside and the other
out. After rubbing hard at each other for a dozen windows
they broke down, laughed at the ludicrousness of the situa-
tion, shook hands, and have been friends ever since.

Sicily and Southern Italy were visited on Sunday
night by a terrine storm, which drove the training ship
CAW di Napoli into harbour at Taranto, and carried away a
railway bridge, thereby wrecking an express train.

A Conference of the National Agricultural La-
bourers' Union was to have been held on Monday at
Aylesbury, but on the assembling of the committee, under
the presidency of Mr. Joseph Arch, it was found that, owing
to the late harvest, the time fixed was premature, and the
Conference wus adjourned sine die.—ln the evening, how-
ever, a public meeting was held in the Markel-place, and
Mr. 13,01, Mr. Arch, and other speakers denounced the
views on the land question lately enunciated by Lord
Beacon/field.

The Select Committee appointed to incinire;into the
constitution and operations of societies trading under the
name of co-operative stores, and to ascertain whether they
are exempted from taxes and imposts to which the trading
community
e inaerexalmiablee4" many just issued a report. The com-
mi ny witnestes as to the matters re-
ferred to them, but as it was not in their power to conclude
their investigation in last Session, they report to the House
the evidence which they have taken, and they now recom-
mend that the committee be reappointed in the next Session
of Parliament.

The young women of Philadelphia never grow old.
A theatrical manager who sdverllse4 for twenty-five beauti-
ful Ririe oomplains of old women who would pass I,r his
grandmother—and he is not a spring chicken himself—
ans rered the card. These were women who had capered
before the foot-lights for years, and tossed their ringlets at
the front row for a generation, and yet they still fancy they,
are young, sprightly and beautiful. This theatrical:imaginativeness is not confined to Philadelphia
In all the Roman Catholic churches and chapels of
the archdiocese of Westminster, a pastoral letter was read
on Sunday Item Cardinal Manning requesting that, at a
solemn service to be held next Sunday, which was Rosary
Sunday, special prayers should be offered for his Holiness
the Pope, who needed, and at the same time especially de-
served, the prayers and supplications of all his devoted
children throughout the world,
A large clearing of ancient timber has been made
by the Commissioner of Woods and Forests upon the
western side of the Long Walk, Windsor ['Ark, near the
base of the hit! which is crowned by the equestrian statue
of George 111. These trees, mostly chestnuts, and forming
an extensive portion of the avenue, have been felled, and
the ground is now being deeply trenched preparatory to its
being replanted. Many of the elm trees in the Long Walk
are supposed to have been planted about the year 1680.
According to the Mark-lane Express weekly report,
most of the wheat has now been cut in the southern and
midland counties, but a good breadth of spring corn has
yet to be reaped. The general crop of cereals is now ac-
knowledged to be exceedingly bad, the wheat crop alone
falling below the general average by 30 per cent. Hop-
picking will be completed in a few days, and there is a
general opinion that the crop this year will prove a disas-
trous one.
The editor of the American Inquirer says :=Mr.
Potter has hardly set foot on our shores before he takes or
makes Occasion to define his position. He comes here he
says, in about so many words, in behalf of the distressed iron
trade of England, and asks us to relieve the oppression pre-
vailing there by remitting our tariff and allowing English
iron to enter our markets. "We take your beef and your flour
and grain," be is reported to have said. "Why not relax your
tariff Just a little so as to receive some of our iron ?" For
the very good reason, Mr. Potter, that we dent want any of
your iron. We have iron in plenty of onr own, and, as we
can use more, some of our still idle furnaces will be put in
blast to make it.
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