The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

A NICE SORT OF PATRIOTISM.

Accordi,g to the Goon.i. of the 3rd, the Government im.
prov-ed at the Hotel c Vdle due irg the recent attempted
revolution In Faris sent a number Or proclamations :...d de-
crees to the office of the Journal Ogioeei for publication.
The compositors, however. detected they unauthorised
character by their bed stalling. The man who fired the re-
volver in the xalle du Mine while M. Jules Payee was giving
esplanations to the male:intents was a porcelain worker
named b uis Rousseau Ile w‘as arrested fly some citizens
and token to he p lie prefecture, but resisted so violently
that sir perrons were necessary to secure him, and In th,
struggle he received a bayonet thrust In the breast. The
fieeloiS Puce the key to the events of the day In M. Jules
Ferry's reply to Si. Maurice Joly, a prominent " Reel
" You declare os hcepable today, and a fortnight ago you
were askitg us for an appointment.' "These envious Inca-
pablee," it says, "demand a small post, or else it is war to
the leeth. Such Is the patrioli.m of these cli izens,—' Get
sway, that I may take your place !"'

BRITISH PHILANTROPHT.
The Main Zeilvng a Hasse paper, speaks very highly of
the Alice Hospital at Darmstadt, devoted to the treatment
of soldiers sufftring from Mensal cinema It is under the
protection of the Princees Alice, "whom," says the Zeilung,
we are accustomed to Nee at the head of so many phil.-
thructe undertskir gi," and hes been establiehed by the
English society for the 81ct anti Wofinded in the War. The
Hesse Government granted the necessary accommodation,
atd there are usually about 80 patients, mostly suffering
flora typhus and ilssentery. The Crown Princess recently
visitel tile h...pitoil r,ll the 21,4 nit , and Impacted the wards
anti the whole of the domestic arrangements, as also one of
Dr. Mayo's new sick transport can. The eta consists of
Dr. Mayo, Yellow of New College, Oxford Mr .1 C. Dalton,
Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at the Charing-cross
hospital; Mr H. Itundir, formerly house surgeon at Win-
chester Hospital ; and Mr. Atthill, dresser at St. George's
Hospital, London. Some ladle* belonging to the Alice
Vereist manage the household arrangemeat, and the nurses
of that society attend on the patient.

WOMEN DISPLAYING MoRE COURAGE THAN MEN !

Herr Wachenhusen writes from Nanteull to the Cologne
Gazette :—" Women display in this war many exampies of
courage and selfipouession. In many towns and villages
Site men have run away at the approach of the enemy, and
the women have remained and protected their households
On recently inquiring any way of • married couple standing
before their door at Villeneuve, the man stared at me with
open mouth, and on my repeating the ipiestl n ran Into the
house. The woman was evidently ashamed when the soldiers
standing near laughed at him and stepped up to nie.
Nerci, madame, de tedre bontl,' said 1, 'les J'esnmes out
plus de ccrur quo les hooonee.' 'Vous eters muon, Monsieur,'
she repind, in a tone implying that this was a matter of
Course. Whenever one tike, up quarters in houses the
occupiers of which have not retreated, the wife exercises the
rule, and of crier., the tongue also. The husband either
helpleinly sticks hi. hands In his pockets or treat, the un-
bidden guest with awkward courtesy, whereas the wile, with
Innate tact, lots on see she wishes us somewhere else, but
petfornis the duties of hostess with the utmost diligence,
and even indulges in • sunk to the guest if bets particularly
anliabli, and mndest lhe people, moreover. have long per-
ceived the olfference between the German and the French
soldier.. Only yesterday the lan llady of unordinary village
inn begged me, with a sigh, to interpret foe her what the
soldiets nostaire were wanting. 'One ought not,' she said,
'to treat them ill, for cur soldiers are much wine than yours,
and mottling is safe from them.'"