The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-01-20 00:00:00

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H0.,+,1E, FOREIGN, AND COLONIit..;

".FOUND DROWNED."-Sir John Humphreys held
an inquest on Monday at Poplar on the body of Patrick
McDonald, aged fifty-six, a ship's keeper, who was
found drowned. On Saturday evening, the 6th inst.,
he left home about half.past seven for the purpose of
going to his work on board the steamship Himalaya,
which was moored in the West India Dock. Nothing
more was seen of him until the following Sunday,
when his dead body was found some fifty yards from
the spot where the Himalaya was berthed. No one
saw deceased fall in, or knew anything further of the
case. —The jury returned a verdict of "Found
drowned."

HUNTING OVER YOUNG CROPS. —Sir H. Selwin-
Ibbetbon, master of the Essex hounds, has addressed
a circular to the subscribers of the hunt. He says
that the season has been exceptionally wet, the young
crops have suffered, and are more likely to suffer
from being ridden over in such a season than in
ordinary years. He begs his friends who go hunting
with him to realize that more care is required in carry-
ing on the sport. It would help the master if those who
follow the hunt would not jump into a field where
either wheat or seeds were c3ming up • and, if they
cannot help crossing a field, they had better ride the
furrows, and thus prevent the damage and annoyance
which a number of horsemen crossing such a crop must
undoubtedly occasion.
AN ADVOWSON FOR SALE.—The advowson, with
right of next aid future presentations to the vicarage
of Pattishall, in the archdeaconry of Northampton
and ',be t l'aterborough, was on Monday
offered for sale by auction at the Mart, Tokenhouse-
yard, London. There was a fair attendance,
and the bidding, which began at £5OO, increased by
degrees to £B5O, beyond which there was no offer.
The auctioneer thereupon consulted with the vendor's
solicitors, and then announced that the reserve price
was £1,050, a sum which no one appeared willing to
bid. The sale was, therefore, not effected. The
peculiar attractions of the living were set forth with
business-like exactness in the prospectus. From this
document it appears that the total value is about £430
a year, rather more than half of which is derived
from glebe lands, the remainder being made up in
various ways. The population of the parish is about
1,000 persons, the average attendance is about 120, and
there is a weekly offertory. The present vicar is 53
years of age.

THE LATE FEsitvrms.—First Little Girl: " Ah,
Polly, we had a half-a-guinea goose for Christmas
dinner."—Second Little Gi: : : "We had better than
that; we ate our guinesepig "—Moonshine.
EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.—The following vessels
have left Plymouth for Queensland :—On the 6th inst.,
the Earl Granville, Captain Jamie' son with 336 souls,
equal to 299 statute adults; medical superintendent,
Dr. Hill, and matron, Miss Affleck. On the 7th inst.,
the ilavenscraig, Captain Biggam, with 408 souls,
equal to Mai statute adults; medical superintendent,
Dr. Goodall, and matron, Miss Lee. On the 11th inst.,
the Bulimba, Captain D'Arcy Clarke, 600 souls, equal
to 520 i statute adults; Dr. Macartney acting as
medical superintendent, and Miss Lamond as matron.

GOOD ADviOE.--Mr. Rogers, Government school
inspector at Mallow, notes among the most powerful
iinfluences inducing parents to send their children to
school in that district, the letters from relatives and
friends who have emigrated, and found riome amount
of education indispensable to success. "ft so happens
(he observes) that there is hardly an individual any-
where through the country who has not friends in the
far west. Letters are regularly received from these
and eagerly read, and the point which of all others the
writers enforce with endless iteration is that young
people from Ireland emigrating to America must, in
order to succeed, be able to read, write, and cipher,"
A SKAQuai.a.—_--The captain of the Aneroid, of
Swansea, which arrived in St. Bridle Bay, near
Milford, on January 8, wind bound; reported that or
December 2, while on a voyage from Porto Cabello
with a cargo of copper ore, the sky became overcast,
with slight drizzling rain, very little wind, and a very
high se-a from the no4:liwnr4. At ei p.m. it tell
calm; the vessel got broadside on to the sea, rolling
rails under water, and at 6.30 p.m. a very heavy shock
of seaquake was felt. It lasted for three minutes, and
the vessel trembled very much. The captain say& he
has never heard of any similar occurrence in that part
of the world —viz., lat. 24 deg. 29min. N., long. 64 deg.
38c4in. W.

S.EAD CORN.-*Feara are openly expressed by men
competent to form an opinion, that the successive
years of bad harvest will have a More or less effect on
the quality of our reed corn (says Land and Water).
It is common sense to suppose that unless corn is
thoroughly ripened by the sun that a certain deteriora-
tion in its procreative powers will ensue. The result
will be that a weaker and a lighter crop of corn must
be produced, and with less nutritive conditions con-
tained in it. Should this year turn out another wet
one it will make the ninth in succession of had
harvests; and if it is found that seed corn grown in
England is gradually losing its vitality, recourse must
be had to corn grown in foreign climates, and where
the sun is more dutiful than in England. Agriculture
is the most important industry in the kingdom, and if
it is to fall all other interests will feel the shock in a
correspondieg degree.
A SINGULAR Fox HUNT.—On Monday while Sir
Watkin Wynn's hounds were drawing the COV6II at
Broughton Hall, near Malpas, the residence of Mr.
Robert Howard, two foxes went away. Both jumped
the park wall, and the one which the hounds followed
ran a short ring, and got back to the house. Enter-
ing the front door, it visited two or three rooms, and
made an exit by the back door, after having astonished
the inmates considerably. The hounds met the fox
at the back of the house, and killed.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.—First Little
Minus (calculating household expense) : Let me see,
Clara, how much is seven times eight ?—Little Missus
No. 2: I don't know, dear, but let's begin at seven
times ten, and go backwards I—Judy.
THE SHIPPING TRADE OF NEW YORK.—In the past
year 6,476 vessels entered new York from foreign
ports. Of these 1.878 were American, 2,633 British,
534 German, 413 Norwegian, 309 Italian, 131 Austrian,
and 108 French. Siberia, Greece, and Venezuela sent
only one vessel each. Of all the vessels arriving 1,945
were steamers, of which 197 were American, 1,168
British, 223 German, and 100 French; 407 were ships,
1,857 were barques, 896 were brigs, and 1,371 were
schooners. America "leads Great Britain in the
arrivals only of ships, brigs, and soh( oners. Of coast-
ing vessels the number was 3,968.
rale arrivals from
foreign ports were fewer than foriany year since 1877.
These from "domestic ports" were greater than for
any year within the same period.
THE DARWIN MEMORIAL.—The subscription for the
Darwin memorial has awakened so much enthusiasm
in Sweden that the local committee formed there has
received subscriptions from no less than 1,400 persons,
including all classes. The English committee, which
has its headquarters at the Royal Society, hatenow re-
ceived (inclusive of subscriptions from abroad) £4,000,
but the number of subscribers in the United Kingdom
is only about 600.
STORM WARNING.—The following message was re-
ceived at the London office of the New York Herald :
"A disturbance, likely to develop to dangerous energy,
is crossing, and will arrive on the British, Norwegian,
End North Coasts of France, between the 14th and 16th
inst., preceded and attended by snow and east backing
north gales. Another follows within 48 hours."

THE TROOPS IN Eayser.—The returns of sick for
the whole of the forces in Egypt, dated the 12th of
January, show that 28 officers out of 382, and 1,675
men out of 12,633, were then in hospital. The average
of the cases among the Cavalry is nearly 21, and
among the Artillery nearly 19 per cent. The sick-list
for the first 15 days of January at Cairo alone shows
518 fresh admission., and 11 deaths, of which ten were
occasioned by enteric fever.
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRMSH CORN.—The following
are the average prices of British corn for last week,
as received from the inspectors and officers of EXCiB3 :
—Wheat, 40s. ; barley, 325. 3d. ; oats, 20s. 7d. per
imperial qr. Corresponding week last year :—Wheat,
455. sd. ; barley, 325. 9d.; oats, 20s. 3d.
TreecTioN-ENGINES.—An important action affecting
the liability of traction-engine proprietors was heard
on Monday by Mr. Baron Huddleston, at the Berke
Assizes. It was a claim by the Sun and the Royal
Exchange Assurance Offices to recover £240, the
amount the offices had paid on policies held by Mr.
Chatteris, the owner, and Mr. Summersby, the tenant,
ef a farm near Newbury, on which a fire occurred,
and was alleged to have been occasioned by a spark
from the chimney of the defendant's traction-engine,
which was passing along the road on the 17th of
February, 1881. The evidence was of a very conflict-
ing character; but the jury eventually gave a verdict
for the plaintifs, also allowing Mr. Sammersby £4O,
the amount of his loss beyond the sum he was paid
under his policy.
RELICS OF BABYLON —The Athenceum says that the
British Museum has just acquired an interesting
selection of 39 silver objects which give an insight
into the daily life of the Babylonians and remind us
of the find of the bird dealer's shop at Pompeii. These
objects, which were all found together on the site of
Babylon, consist of fragments of silver dishes, the
broken handle of a vase, and coins, most of the latter
being defaced and clipped. It is easy to see that all
have been broken purposely by a practised hand, with
the view of using the metal again; and we may fairly
conclude that the collection is the remains of a silver-
smith's or coiner's shop. Among the coins is a Lycian
one in good preservation. So far as can be judged
from the vase handle and dishes, the art is distinctly
Babylonian under Persian influence, and the work-
shop may date fro- the conquest of Alexander.
EVENING PAPELS (latest editions).—The wife's
curl-papers. —Judy.
A STEP IN THE DIRECTION.—Mr. T. B. Green,
secretary of the National Thrift Society, has issued
an address to the working men of Great Britian, in
which he urges them to try voluntary and syetematic
th; "f. It is not enough, he says, to join a club or
—i-ty, or to take out a policy of insurance,
but all in it,,eipt of weekly wages should endeavour to
put aside something therefrom in the Post office Savings
Banks. Working men, too, should aim at thrift in
spending as well as at saving.
FIRE AT NORTHAMPTON.—The "George" Hotel,
Northampton, narrowly escaped destruction by fire
on Sunday night. At about 9.30 the rear of the pre-
mises was found to be in flames. The two town
brigades were called, but before they arrived the
flames had taken firm hold on the billiard room,
lavatory, the premises used by the Northampton
Bicycle Club, and a large loft containing a quantity
of hay. Below were the stables in which were some
valuable horses. These, however, were happily
rescued, though with much difficulty. The adjoining
premises were at one time in considerable danger.
THE LOST TREASURE RESTORED.—The woman of
Scripture who, having lost her gold piece, lighted a
candle and searched the house until she found it,
knows how the St. Louis woman, who lost I,loodols.
—the earnings of thirty years—now feels, (says the
Detriot Free Press). Sitting in her house next day,
her eyes swollen with weeping and moving about
mechanically, thinking there was nothing in life
worth living for, she heard a knock at the door.
There stood a bright. eyed boy holding something in
his left hand which proved to be her money. He had
found it, and seeing the story of her loss in the news-
papers had brought it to her. She threw her arms
around his neck and not only asked God to bless him,
but gave him 50do1s. reward. He was a telegraph
messenger boy, and at seeing her happiness, Was
almost as happy as she was.
THE CONSUMPTION OF COAL IN LONDON.—Now
that the miners are agitating for the limitation of the
output of coal so as to raise its price, it is a signifi-
cant fact that with the great increase which took
place in the population of the metropolis last year,
and the large areas that were covered with buildings,
in which fuel for gas and other purposes would be re-
quired, nearly 2,000,000 tons less coals was entered
within the area of the city duty in 1882 than was the
case in 1881. This was the result of increased economy
and of the many applian ees introduced a few years since
when coal was abnormally high and somewhat scarce.
It may now be taken as a fact that the higher the
price the lower will be the consumption, and this will
be the result no matter whet course the miners may
take. In 1882 the quantity of coal sent to London was
10,380,775 tons, and the duty pale the shape of city
duty was £564,291.
THE JOLLY HOLIDAY.—Fond mother (out market-
ting late at night, to child whom she has taken with
her by way of a treat).-11old yqur tongue, you un-
grateful little imp, or I'll just ta' you home and put
you to bed! That's what I'll e you see !—[Still the
child is not pacified.]—Judy.
THE MAIZE CROP.—The Bueno Ayres Herald of
December 15 says :—"Maize wi this year show a
greater crop than ever, and so wiF wheat and flax. One
house has taken orders for 1, earveeting machines
for next season, showing the iaa aigious ..ncrease of
acreage sown to grain. Probably no less than 100,000
tons of maize will be available for exportation this
year. This increase of agriculture is taxing our rail-
way facilities to the utmost, all lines doing a heavy
business, and showing unequalled earnings,"
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.—The Magnet, in ite
review of the British cern trade during the past week
says :—" The weather has been rather more favour-
able, but not much progress has been made with field
work, owing to the sodden state of the ground. The
acreage under wheat has been materially reduced, and
thus far the seed time has been very disappointing. A
much worse state of affairs prevails on the Continent,
where the floods remain very severe."
AT IT AGAlN.—Another "Constant Subscriber"
writing to long-suffering Mrs. 4. "wants to know"
whether, "when a sportsman fires both barrels at a
poor little partridge, he makes it quail?" Mrs. J.'s
answer is this :—" Don't attempt to make game of
me I"—Judy. . •
How SOME OLD WALLS IN ROUE WERE MADE.—
On the wet side of the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele,
where large houses are being built, a peculiar wall has
been found (says the Athenceum), It gave us some two
hundred pieces of marble bodies. As far as I can
judge, they belong to four statues, but a great many
fragments have not yet been classified. One of the
statues, of colossal size, seems to represent an athlete
of the Greek-Roman school brought to such perfection
under Hadzian. Another represents 4 female figure.,
perhaps a Fauetina.- There are, besides, lovely
busts of Hadrian, of Antinoue, and others. It
is difficult to state at what period these works of art
were turned into buildipg matorials. Perhaps they
met their fate in the Middle Ages, although I should
not wonder if such things had happened before
the fall of the Empire. Here is an example of
statues walled up under Aureliaas nesk gate
is being bored through the walla of the city to
afford a direct communication between the Esquiline
and Saint Lorenzo fuori le Mari. Between the third
and the fourth tower south of the old gate, the walls,
ten feet thick, are patched up in the following wit'),;
the outside faze is of brickwork of the time of Awe-
Han ; the inside face belongs to an earlier building, of
which Aurelian took advantage, aa if fell eTactly on
the line of his projected ramparts-. It is an enclosure
or toendation-wall of a garden, handsomely orna-
mented with a rustic kind of mosaic made of ;hells,
coloured stones, and pieces of ee4snel, each as are
often seen in Roman nymphsea and fountains. The
wall had rows of niches for statues. Three niches have
been found in cutting the new gate, and in front of
each one the corresponding statue lay imbedded in the
nucleus of the wall. One represents a sittinq ye;ue,
of no artistic value; the second Ted the' third repre-
sent fightieg, fauns, bright Oa spirited in their atti-
Ode, reU"Chin-led, and beautifully preserved.

How HOGS PREVENT THE RENEWAL OF FINZ
FORESTS.—A correspondent of tne Scientific Americo"
writing from Johnsonville, S.O , incidentally mentions
a curious instance of the influence of animals in con'
trolling or preventing forest growth. It appears that
the fondness of hogs for the juicy toots of young pines
leads them to seek them assiduously, so that where
hogs are allowed to roam in that region one can
hardly find a young long.leafed pine in a thousand
acres of pine forest. There being no young trees to
take the place of the old ones used up by the lumber-
men and turpentine gatherers, that species of pine
timber is rapidly being exterminated,
FRUIT FROM BARREN LAND.—Red and white currants
and smallish gooseberries thrive in a chalky or lime.
stone soil, and if there is in any part of a iJarden a
place that has been spoilod by the admixture with the
loam of lime rubbish and bricks and coat-a,bea you
may on such a spot grow capital crops of tt..so fruits,
and more especially red currants. In my o wza case,
some years ago, the knowledge of this fact was parti-
cularly serviceable, for I took a garden in which there
was a ridiculous multiplicity of broad well'
made walks, ' and when I brcke up one of these
I found a great depth of the most starvation-lookini
rubbish. My first thought was to dig it all out and
put good loam in its place, but my second thought was
to have it well knocked about and planted with red
currants and small gooseberries. The second theugbt
was justified, for the trees prospered and bore &bun.
dantly.—Gardeners' Magazine.

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SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. George Fenwick, who had
been for many years master of the Tynedale Fox-
hounds, one of the directors of the North-Eastern
Railway Company, and heal of the banking firm of
Lambton and Co., Newcastle, died suddenly on Tues-
day afternoon while shooting in company uith Earl
Ravensworth, at Ravensworth Castle.
TEACHING THE YOUNG IDEA.—Modern Athletic
Mamma.—" You need not look so unhappy, Tommy,
simply because your chum, Jack has given you a
thrashing. If you had not been so slow in guarding
with your 'Left,' had used your Right' more freely,
and tried that Postman's Knock' I've so often shown
you, you would not have been beaten."—Fun.
AN HARBOUR OF REFUGE FOR DOVER.—The Dover
military authorities have received a copy of a letter
forwarded from the Home Office to the Director.
General of Fortifications, Major-General Sir. A.
Clarke, stating in effect that as the Government had
now determined to construct a harbour of refuge at
Dover, it would be necessary to take into considera-
tion the erection of barracks for the accommodation of
convicts. It further requested that officers should be
selected to confer with Sir Edward Ducane respecting
the site where it would be most desirable to have the
convict station situated,
AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT JERUSALEM.—The
American Ambassador at Constantinople, General
Lew Wallace, has recently visited Jerusalem. All
the Americans in the city came out to meet him at
the Joppa Gate. The star-spangled banner was car-
ried by the Jews and a leading rabbi made an address
of welcome and fed the crowd in giving three cheers.
General Wallace jumped down from his horse.
thanked the rabbi in appropriate terms, and shook
hands all around. Afterward he was given a reception
at the consulate. The Sultan had telegraphed ordera
in advance as to General Wallace's lodgings and en-
tertainment by the city officers, which was an unprea.
cedented attention.

TREES IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—By direction of Sir
Henry Brougham Loch, Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, the mountains of the Isle of Man, which are
now bare of vegetation, are about to be planted with
trees. The other day 25 men arrived from Scotland
with the first instalment of two and a quarter minicar
of trees, with which the mountain called Arcallegan 11
to be planted. Should the experiment prove success'
ful, it is intended to plant other mountains of the islangt
amongst others Snaefell, which, it is calculatedk-wW
take four years to plant.
THE INHABITED HOUSE DUTY.—To see that the
fastenings are properly secured at night—FunnY
Folks.

AN INTERESTING DISOOVERY.—The Correspondent,
of The Times at Naples writes :—" Recently a visit Of
some interest was made by the Synlic and sevr
archeeologists to the neighbourhood of Posilippo.
Society of Tramways are there constructing a tunru,
so as to open a better communication between Napl .
and Pozzuoli, and during the excavations an ancien
subterranean road has been discovered. I have call
it a road, but more properly it might be described as 9
passage, not higher than a Inetre and a half, so as t,,0
allow of a man of moderate stature to walk upright -
it. It was c.pparently made for the passage of water.
and inscriptions made by nails were found on the
walls indicating the villas which were supplied.
Another inscription, made after a restoration, It
having been discovered between two layers of plaster.
is dated by the words ' Nerva Consule.' It has net,
yet been ascertained where this conduit terminates.
but a workman has walked in a forward direction for
an hour without any results. A guard is very PO'
perly placed at the entrance, and Coo work of excars'
tion will be carried on vigorously. On the aide or nes'
the base of the rising ground called Posilippo, block'
ing the way between Naples and Pozzuoli, lies a
group of Roman villas not often visited, and it is pre'
bable that for the supply of these and other villas lc
since destroyed this conduit was constructed."

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IN STATU PUPILLAIII.—What is the difference be•
tween rickety babies and pupils of the eye T—The
former die early, and the others di-late.—Judy.
SUNDAY SCHOOL TALKEltS.—Experienced Sunda
school speakers know the danger of asking questions
at random of their juvenile audiences (says the Detroi4
Free Press). Novices often blunder into the habit,
not knowing its risks. One of these novices, wb°
happened to be a particularly well-dressed young
clergyman, tried his hand on a Boston Sunday school.
He began by saying :—" Now, my dear childrett
look at me and tel me where you think
came from." One of the "dear children" hela
up his little hand and said :—" I. know, sir.'
The spruce-looking clergyman benignantly gazed 01:1
the young child, and, bestowing ever so sweet a smile
on him, said, "Well, my little man, where do Ycl.
think I came from?" The clerical and benigngl"
smile was changed into an expression of horror wile°
the illiterate youngster blurted out, "From the
country, sir." An irreverent guffaw of laughter 111
stantly pervaded the assembly, and the moral ate),.°'
sphere ot the place became such as almost to qnenc-u
the good man's efforts at Sunday School oratort
Greatly embarrassed, he struggled on for a HOP
while with his speech, and then floundered to a hastl
conclusion,
Too MUCH OF A GOOD THING.—Groom (to Visact
"Please, Sir, Master wantgi to know where, yott.
like me to meet you with Fresh 'Oss, Sir! Judkliv
(who wishes he were comfortable at home). " Fret
Horse! This Is Fresh enough for me—ugh !—doil
want another— ugh !—Stand still, will yer I !
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A MONSTER BREEuvE.—For nearly fifteen Yee/
past a colony of bees have had their quarters 10 7,
large cave situated on the highest bluff of the Butte'
in the Rocky Mountains. They have occupied the
place so lone that the rock is generally known as Of
" Bee Reek." To rea3h the top from three sides iv
is necessary to climb a perpendicular wall from 15°
to 200 feet in height. The top is accessible at cult
one point, and there by crawling through a creVic:
barely wide enough for a man to pass. Then
bridge twenty feet long and one foot wide has to 17.'
crossed. It is about 400 feet from the bridge to the
ground beneath. Last month a party of young Ineihn
went to the place determined to take the manera°"-
hive. They were supplied with powder, fuse, ad";
bars, &c., with which to assail the stronghold. -re
of the invaders had nerve enough to cross the bride'.
but three of them got over all right and fired a blael"
The result was a cloud of bees that made them retreat" I
Next day the assault was renewed, and after a liveklie
battle of three hours the bees were defeated. La.
dead bees filled three grain sacks to overflowing. 'Ara
cave was then blasted open and the party found a sot ;
mass of honey in the comb two and a half feet thiot,
The expedition was a success, but many of the par"
cipante paid dear for their victory.
THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN TASMANIA.—A teeelei
gram from Hobart 'Town published in the Daily PIP"
states that the Hon. Ivo Bligh's team have played
Eighteen of Hobart Town and District. The hop„I
team had first turn at the wickets, and were put Fit
for 82. The Englishmen were a little lame success4o
compiling 110 before they were disposed of,
Hobart Town cricketers made 95 in their seocTs,
innings, leaving the visitors with only 08 to get to 0,0
Only three batsmen fell before these were obtained.
that the Englishmen won by seven wickets.
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"FAIR TRADE" IN AMERICA.—Mr, Edward
Wathereton writes to the Daily News :—"The
so often exposed, that Protection raises the rate
wages, has been moat forcibly demonstrated bY ‘
latest American census returns. Working Well
especially those who have listened to the so-oameei,
Fair Traders in this country, should well cansiderr,d
following figures :—Protectionists have had full swift"
during the last twelve years, therefore we look to ono
a most liberal outlay in the shape Of wages. Wileie
are the facts? The nvelase number of workpeolo
employed in the States, in 253,840 eatablishroee,i
is 2,738,950: wages earned 947,919,674 dollars' or I,
the rete of 346 dollars per head—less thaD :4
dollar (44.) a day. When it is remembered that tbeii,
includes all the skilled operatives earning high vivito
it may he imagined that the rank and file are
poorly off indeed. These figeree but too clearly Prtase
what the voice of political ecanomiets from 10:74
Smith downwards has ever demonstrated—that t'
enormous profits which Protection undoubtedlY Pi`o
vides flow into the pockets of capitalists, not 1060
those of labourers. On the contrary, the Pr° of
partly flow from the labourers' poc i kets nto those,
capitalists by meaas of the prioea paid for the
saries of life,
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THE DRAINAQE QUESTION.—This year's Drin-
-Puwl4,
STOCK FARMING IN CHINA.—An interesting
of a stock farm by the Viceroy of the province:li,
Chihle, in China, is given by the American 0001,0
General at Shanghai. In his previous reports
pointed out that the Mongolian herds °Quid be greib
increased in value by the establishment of a fartoeo,
some convenient locality, at which fine stock, hlvie
cattle, and sheep could be bred, This report c the
under the cognisance of his Excellency Li, with
result that an interview between the consul.generot,
breeder from New York, and Li was brought
The New York breeder urged the advantages toolc
good stock farm very strongly, and his Excelleno3:_reet
up the matter warmly. Through his active i„„a
and influence, Mr, Tang Xing Sing, an activisierity
progreseiee yandarin, was convinced of the sußerwoo
of Western ideas and at once declared his willeingeaool
to give them a trial. His farm consists 01 'cella
5,000 acres, near the Naiping coal mines, 1,1"/1000,
opened by foreign engineers under his snperintenet
eitaete about eiehty miles to the north of Tienabo
He obtained some United States cattle, which testa
used with the native stock fer the purpose of „on
the practicability of the Mlggeationg which have. /be
made. Mr. Tang Xing Sing announces that
promotion of this enterprise his object is to 0013 of
nonatrymen an opportunity to become posserra
at least a portion of the science already attool'afj of
Western nations in the improvement of their broLhocl
cattle. The result of this inesement will be VA'
with no little interest,

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