The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

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A 'Nig GliT WHILE AhOLING.— It must be a
very p MIN state of things to have to live "on your
own hook." And the worst of it is, that the same :
position on ohs le idy else's hook would be equally ob-
jectionable, --Punch.
Sreent GI/NlL—Means, A. Perkins and Son
writes to The 7 iota
Now that the attention of the world is drawn to the mi.
trailletnie, which is stated will show such wonderful results
In the coming war, we take the liberty of reminding you of
a letter front the head of our lirm, inserted In The Times
about the commencement of the late Crimean War, offering
to supply the Government with steam guns capable of throw-
ing shot of one ton weight a distance of five miles Steam
working at a pressure of I Melb. on the square inch would
he sufficient to do this, and when an inform you that both the
English and Continental Governments have been using for the
last flew yeara our invention, frequently working steam at
3,00311). on the square inch, engineers will readily sea that
there is no chilbitilty in applying steam guns to men-of-war
provided they are Imuishe I with suitable boilers.
A PARAPHRASE OF A PROVERB.--Wbile Prussia,
who stole Schleswig-Holstein. and France, who oh-
tabled Savoy and Nice, ar- falling out, let us hope that
Italy, who justly claims Rome for her capital, tnay
come by her awn—Punch.
As Oott To Seal o —The following, by Josh
Billings, is only a trfis infsrior to some passages in
Thomson's "Seasons," by which noble poem it was
evidently inspired :—"Spring Come this year as much
as usual. Hail, butuous virgin! 5,000 years old and
upwards, hale and hearty old gal, svelte:lm tew New
York State and parts adjacent. Now the birds jaw,
now the cattle holler, now the pigs skrearn, now the
geeee warble, now tee hats nigh, and Nature is frisky ;
the virtuous bedbug and the nubby cockroach are
singing ' Yankee Doodle' and c aniug thru the rid.'
Now may be seen the musketeer, that grey outlined
critter of destiny, solitary and alone, examining his
last year's bill, and now be heard, with the naked ear,
the hoaree shanghigh bawling in the barnyard."
KARL BLIND'S SPEECH ON THE WAIL—A corre-
spondent writes :
" All theleadingGerman paiurs have published Earl
recent aiipeal for the armed union of the whole Fatherland
—including the German provinces of Austria—ln the struggle '
against the foreign invader. It is a characteristic sign of
Otto times that only a few papers in Prima a were so far ap-
prehensive of the severities of the Press law as to have out
some psisages in which the writer deelmes, in somewhat
strong languave, his unbenoing and stedfast adherence to the
priuciples of democracy. Tim Vitae-% dung of Berlin, the '
most widely circulating journal of Poissia, was, however,
bold enough to print the appeal in f ell, and its effect has
neen a marked one, at Benin as well as at Frankfort and
Vienna."
PROMOTION OF SINGLE BLESSEDNESS. The
enactment of the Maxried Women's Property Bill will
surely decrease the number of marriages into which
women are wheedled by men who only want their
money. It will be interesting to measure the diminu-
tion which will accordingly soon be visible in the news-
paper lista of "Marriages."—Punch.
DEAN STANLEY ON THE WAR.—On Sunday
morning the Very Rev, Dr. Stanley, the Dean of
Westminster, preached at Westminster, and made a
brief reference to the impending war. He selected
for his text the 12th chapter of St. John's Gospel,
verse 27, "Now is my soul troubled, and whist shall I
say 1" Ho said they might well ask, amongst the
troubles of the times, why Europe, which hail enjoyed
many years of peace and prosperity, was allowed to
be overrun with the horrors of war, blighting, it might
be, smiling harvests, destroying human life, and lay-
ing waste beautiful cities. Why was the progress of
the world to be arrested? Why were ruin, distrust,
and destruction toter brought in thehomes of innocent
eelf-denying fathers be slaughtered, and
little children left uncared for? They could not help
wilting such questions, but no answers cams. Christ
asked them before, but He obtained no answer.
In one sense there was no answer at all,
for It was impossible to know what were the designs
of Providence. It might be part of an inevitable trial
of a perplexed world, of which no knowledge could
at present be gained. But in another sense the
question could be answered just as Christ answered
it, by not giving way to despair, looking to a better
future rather than a miserable present—to a higher
and brighter heaven beyond the present lowering sky.
MEETING OF ( E RYAN S IN LONDON.—A meeting
of German residents in London was held on Tuesday at
the City Terminus Hotel, for the purpose of organising
a system of aid for the sick and woundedof the German
army. Baron Schrii ler, who presided, opened the
proceedings. In the course of his address, he said that
the meeting had been convened for the purpose of
urging upon all German residents in London the
necessity of subscribing quickly and largely to a fund
for the relief of the wounded of the German army and
the widows of the killed, and pointed out that those
who had called them together had no political object
in view. All the Germans who could do no were pro-
ceeding to their own country, and the result would be
that they would have a more powerful and united
country than ever before existed. (Hear, hear.) But
there were a great many who could not go, and it was
their duty to support the army with their money, and
in every other way in their power. For that purpose
the meeting had been called, and be would only say in
conclusion, "God help us and our Fatherland !" It was
announced that £13,000 had been subscribed within
the past few days, and £2,000 was subscribed in the
MOM.
CANNONADE AT ROME.— Pro arrangements have
been made for demonstrations of triumph at Rome on
the proclamation of the Crowning Dogma. Among
thi se are to be salutes of artillery. The Pope's In-
fallibility will probably be proclaimed amid the roar
of cannon other thanhie Prescience ever contemplated.
So much for Peace on Earth. It is remarkable that
IJitramontanes should consider the discharge of ord-
nance suitable to the announcement that his Holiness
has been voted infallible. Only Ultra-Protestants,
iine would imagine, could possibly think such a
solemnity fitly celebrated by the noise of murderous
weapons of war, inasmuch as war is anti-christian.
Marry, an Eliz sbethan jester, if extant, would per-
haps observe, these be your Cannons of the Mass.—
Pe nth.

LORD JOHN MANNERS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS.—
At Leicester, on Saturday afternoon, Lord John
Manners, M.P., presided over the annual meeting of
the Institution for Trained Nurses. The noble lord
said that, in these days, when women's rights were
being clamoured for on many platforms, and when even
Cabinet Ministers were heard to express hopes that
women would successfully contest the seats on school
boards, it was important to find out, if possible, leas
noisy but not less useful fields for women's labour and
intelligence. In such a work as that of nursing the
sick, for instance, a woman might well engage without
being called upon to do anything not strictly in accord-
ance with her primary mission, or which would unfit
her her, after, should she wish it, to return to the ordi.
nary avocations of domestic life. The benefits con-
ferred by each institutions such as the one in whose in.
terest they were met were twofold—to nurses and
nursed alike—for heroic virtues were practised in the
ministrations of a sick 'Mom, and eloquent lessons were
derived by the bedsides of dying men.
REQUIRING AN ANSWER.—Suppose a man and
a girl were married—the man :15 years old, the girl 5
—this makes the man seven times as old as the girl;
they live t .gether until the girl is 10 years—this
makes him 41 years old, and four times as old as the
girl ; they still live until she is 15, the man being 45
—this makes the man three times as old ; they still
live until she is :10 years old—this makes the man 60,
only twice as old, and Co on. Now, how long would
they have tolive t„. make the girl as old as the man?
DROWNED WHILE BATHINO.—Mr. Bradshaw, of
Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, and Mr. Henry Godolphin
Clarke, of Queen's College, Cambridge, arrived at
Lowestoft, on Monday, on a pleasure excursion. They
engaged a bathing machine opposite the Wellington
I Esplanade, and swam out some distance, although
cautioned not to do so, as there was rather a heavy
sea on. Mr. Clarke was seen to hold up his arms and
heard to call for assistance. Mr. Bradshaw. who had
b.on making for the machine returned to assist Mr.