The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-10 00:00:00

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Mr. Carlyle, at the rgent request of some friends
Ma. It is said, prepared materiels In nil own biography.
Boston (U.S.) open& upwards of £13,000 annually on
musk lit her public schools.
The Spanish l'oet.ottice lung determined upon the
adoption of post-cards such IA am to use In k:oiglius

The total expenditure in Europe to education,
science, and art, is more than C29,000,0t0 per annum

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General von Moltke is expectoil to visit England
during the summer. and to be present at the sham campaign
of troops which is to take place in the coming autumn.

A company is about to be launched, the object of
which Is to insure the owner. of mina agaimit loam aching
from lire, dec.

New York the week before last received the cargo of
ei,k worm eggs worth 600,00 dollars which hu been Co route
from Japan, vitt California, to Europe.
The bronze statue of President Lincoln, designed
for Fairmont Park, le now on It. way to New York from
Raw..

The pwint,erest Ilotherham nowon etrike have offered
to return to work at E,ll. per hoar Ike mestere refuse thie,
and utter

A man in Illinois, twenty.four hours after his wife
died, and before her funeral, played croquet with the ptrls.
For this the Indignant neighbours tarred slid feathered Alm.
A college for the daughters of Congregational
ministers I. about to be establighet In Loudon, the capital
fund subscribed already ainuaufa to 4:4,tlitt

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The Emperor of Russia has conferred a pension for
Ilk of I,lkOrouteas a year en the widow of the lately deceaeed
Itasilau composer, A Soroft

There are at preaent ne fewer than eight public
exhibitions of pieta.* open te London, beside. the galleries
of dealers, the National Uallery, and the South Kenslngtvn
Museum.

Troy's affection for Albany finde expression in the
Lf the former place, which speaks of Albany as a
little one.horse place, made up of • legislature and another
cattle market."

A man lately made application for insurance on a
building situated in • village where there I. no tire-engine.
In answer to the question, What are the faellitlea for antic-
gabbing fire "he wrote. It MIMI sometime."

Some one ambitious of doing • new thing has pro.
duced a weddiug card with the lads's maiden name ruled
through stove her marriage name. Ills supposed this Is to
signify that she has come under rule.

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In tbe beautiful escristry or vestry of Notre I arne
they exhibit a ghestly relic in a hlgkly ornamented case.
portion of the vertebro3 of the neck of the Archbishop who
wan shot In lef,, with the bullet etill flied In
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lii Glasgow, the other day, as a man, named Martin,
was lifting a tool cheat along with another man, his hand
slipped, and the chest fell upon his sou, aged nine mouths,
ktlllog him Instantaneously.

Another ;Endo° reformer, labo S gi Perahati
Beneflee, end his wife, both members of the Brehm° Soma!,
to which Bubo° Keshub Chunder lien belongs, have left Cal-
cults on a voyage to England.

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Ott Saturday the ship Severn left the Victoria Dock
with near WA emigrants, mostly of • very superior class,
for Canada. The majority of those on board were sent out
by tbe National Emigration League and most of the others
by different societies.

A contemporary says that from the quantity of
marble rudely hewn In the shape of nomleacript men and
things that hal teen collected in the Capitol at Waehingten,
one would be apt to suppose that the Government is gather-
ing the material, for a national limekiln.
The thirtyaix Englieh sparrows imported at Mass
mood, Virginia, In 1069, have multiplied so much that they
now, with their progeny, number over 500. lobe. York the
English eparrows have not only established themselves., but
they have driven all the other small birds out.

The mutilated body of a young girl, apparently
shout fifteen years of age, has been !theorem' In Johnstown
Wood, about four miles from Athlone. The holy nun so
torn, apparently by dogs, that It could not be Wantland with
certainty.

An American paper says—William 1.. Barry, a corn.
posltor on the Lebanon (leon Reread, has just passed his
ninety-first birthday. ifs Is promptly at his case at seven
o'clock every morning, and sets 6 000 ems a day without the
leant difficulty. We presume this Is the American .ay of
spelling nes but what use ts a compositor who, alter 01
years practice, can only set up m's

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Thousando of well-dreeeed, intelligent young men
and women are leaving the porta of Dublin, Derry, Cork, and
Warxrford for the United States. The Inman line of steamers
was increued during the month of May by the purchase of
two ocean steamers, to meet the Increased demand for pas-
sage to America; and the Cunard vessels often leave paw
sengers behind.

Au Improved colouring matter for butter— carotine
—has been suocesetully employed From Ile name it might
be suppoeed It would be equally applicable In producing the
taahionable colour tor hair. which Is decidedly ..caretine•'
Poeta will Ilud the new word medal, thus—

Thy hair, OCeeoiioe.
Of hue so carotine
As a proof of the luck which occasionally attends a
buyer who rummages the old book-shops, it Is mentioned
that out of a box marked "All these books 3d. each," •
gentleman recently plekni a copy of the second edition of
Henry VIPs book against Lather, ana Bishop Fisher's do-
rmice of the same.

A gentleman of independent circumstances has been
credited with tolling the bell recently at the funeral of •
clergyman. it, Is a cartons fancy, but it is sal I that he hu
such a crave for this kind of work that he attend, most
funeral. within • reasonable distance, to have the great gra-
tification of tolling the bell.
The Postmaater-General has given notice that the
order of the 14 ult.. Intimating that the purchase of pottage
stamps from the public by the Post 'di,on would be discon-
tinued after the 30th lust., Is rescinded. The arrangements
under which thch purchatee have beau hitherto made will,
therefore, remain undisturbed.

An opinion has got abroad that the Premier is
adverse to the consecration of any more suffragan bishops.
From • statement made on authority at • committee meet-
ing of the Society for the Extension of the Episcopate, it
appears that such la not the case, but that Mr. Gladstone is
quite prepared to aid In the appointment of further bishops
under the Suffragan Act, whenever that aid is sought.
Recently a man named Grant committed a murder
at Ddruerara, W I , whence he escaped to Ilelltax,
where he was arrested and pot on board • vessel to be returned
to Demerara for trial. Du arriving In sight of his death..
Mon the prisoner jumped overboard, and was Immediately
devoured by sharks.
A German imperial ordinance requires a solemn ser.
vice to be held In all chanters on the 18th Inst., In thanks-
giving for tie triumph of the German semi. The unveiling
of the monument of Frederick William 111. will Lire
e 1501, the entry of the tDeps Into Berlin. Thu
Emperor of Itusais will arrive in Berlin on the sib, and stay
.1,11 !Am IILA

On Saturday, William Scott, a convict (who was
under sentence of ten years' penal servitude), was employed,
with several hundred other convicts. at the worksinChathans
Dockyard. when he suddenly broke away from the gang, and
threw lamp If into the repairing basin, in whh.ll there was
about 15 feet of water. Another convict Immediately
plunged In to rescue Wm, but the deceased resisted in so de-
termined a manner that the efforts to save him were um
avalling.—Wlthin the last few weeks three of the c ,hvlcut
at Chatham have wilfully mutilated themselves In order to
be released from their sentences of penal servitude.

Lout Week the aggregate mortality in Loudon atui
nineteen other large town, of the United kingdom was at the
rate of 23 deaths annually to every TOto of the seetmo,d
population. In the metropolis 1,952 birth, and 1,3113 deaths
were registered, the former having been 247 below, aol the
latter 20 above the average. Zymotic Meese*. named 403
deaths, Including :229 from small-p0x,16 from measles, 25 from
scarlet fever, 10 from diphtheria, 20 from whooping cough,
49 from different forms of fever of which 10 were certified
as typhus, 2.) am enteric or typhoid. and 13a1 simple continued
fever), and 20 from diarrlues. The failure of vaccination in
arresting small-pox is due chiefly to defective administration.
Dr. Bain, writing from Poplar, apeaka of the great advantage,
that havethere teen derived, In spite of °naiades of 1,111401211
kinds, from the appointment of • vaccination officer to lock
up unvaccinated case., and to promote vaccination. In
the Poplar District the annual rate of mortality from small-
pox in the ten weeks ending 27th alt, was only if, while in
the whole of London It averaged 30 per 1,000 penman Ilvllag