The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-11 00:00:00

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TRICYCLES PROMBlTED.—Tricycles are forbidden
the Berlin streets, the police ordinances deciding tila
the machine is a velocipede, and FO is prohibited. ,t
ART BARONET.—Sir John Millais will not be the
English artist-baronet. Sir Godfrey KnePer
knighted by William 111., and made a baronet bi
George I.
Bunnntsu.—A Buddhist temple is to be establisbe3
in Vienna. So large a Japanese colony resides in !1/:
Austrian capital that the members feel ply ball
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unable to bury their dead with fitting ceremonies..,,S
the decorations and furniture of the temple vat'
sent from Japan. v pnCh
THE NEW FRENCH SURVEY.—When the
Ministry of Finance was burnt down during the
mune in 1871, all the official land register books fe',.
prey to the flames. The loss has just, to a certain 731,
tent, been repaired by the completion of a fresh
of France, which shows that the superficial area a ta
country is 52,153,203 hectares.
CREMATlON.—Cremation in Paris will soon be aC 2
able for the general public, at the small cost of 1
jog
for each operat;on. An experimental furnace is ?ethe
constructed at Pere-la-Chaise on the principle ei
crematories at Rome and Milan.
HUNGARIAN PEERS.—Amon n
PEERS.—Among the 30 life-peers - of
nated by the Crown. in consequence of the referrl.lsl,
the Hungarian House of Magnates, is M. Paul GY.
critic, novelist, and poet. egt
ANOTHER EXHIBITION.— Athens will be the r
capital to hold an International exhibition. A Pittri°,J
Greek has lately bequeathed the necessary fu.tnis, '-
,
the display will take place in 1887. A tistriO
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT STA 1' ugs.—The rit
Academy of Science has been informed by. ti"-ori.
Kalnoky, that some excavations which are beui,,,,g
ducted by Austrian Archmologists at Luxor, in I)llPits
Egypt, have brought to light five ma,nificent gre..710
statues, all supposed to represent- the ithp bat
Rameses 11. Four of the statues are damage

one is entire. h• torie
GUILDFORD CASTLE KEEP.—This ancient er -!
ee ;est
building and surrounding pleasure-groundsanor, ns'g`i;ord
been purchased from the Lord of the
Grantley, who has 'eh' eft the neiglabourhoodu,.
the Corporation of Guilcrford, to be us d as P D
parks, or pleasure grounds, for £2OO. The ireer'.
which is the principal portion of the castle neve re
mah_ing, is of Norman character, of about 1150. ,8
Coss AVERAGES.—The following are the averav
prices of British corn for last week, as received troll;
the inspectors and officers of Excise: Wheat, 335. act
c erre
barley, 285.; oats, 225. 7d. per imperial qr.
M
pending week last year: Wheat, 37g. id.; bold'
275. 2d.; eats, 235. sd.
LAST WEEK'S Wieecss.—Among the shipwrecks .reb.
ported last week only four occurred off the Britti:o
Isles, the number for the week bong 19, of which ,00
were British owned. Steamers numbered only
~e 0
(British), one being reported with all hands.
small British sailers sunk by collision off Great 13rit t
A British and a Norwegian sailer were abandonedeesx
sea. Total wrecks for year, 587. Corresponding vi
of last year: Wrecks, 21; total for year, 815. „II
PAINFUL POLITENESS.—OfficiaI dignity is s" of $
severely maintained in Germany 'that the director 0
Pomeranian Court recently issued a stern rebuke% ct
those subordinates who did not show sufficient resrtbe
to their superiors when encountering them e
streets. He requested them to observe the follov.'4;
regulation: " Every official who meets the direete.!oø
one of the judges is expected to pass him or theLe4
the right, and on approaching them within two steeN'of
make a bow, and take off his hat down to the le'
the knee." _e
THE EDELW e
ElSS.—Writing on the subject l enieel
weiss, Mr. Burbeige, of the Trinity College Bl)taeisil9
Gardens, Dublin, points out that the pleet 115„,c-re in
grown in English gardens from seed. It iS
common garden earth in a cold frame, and when, DI $
enough each little plant is placed in a small Pe" tee
mixture of loamy earth and old lime rubbish, e:
plants, he says, are equally well pleased by a nieL'ittite
sunny rock garden, provided a supply of their Woe/
lime rubbish or old mortar be afforded them. Cflireseg
to the generally-received opinion, the edelweiss tt'bere
a plant of extremely easy culture from seeds 'mete
directed, and, further, good fresh seeds of it erec'eeed
readily obtainable from the usual sources 0'
supply. ot
ege ha"
A PATENT LAW FOR JAPAN.—The JApan— „near-
last promulgated a patent law. The new lacy gea
like many other recent Japanese laws, to be °rare,
from similar laws of other countries—a clause
0"5,
England here, from France there, from Gerineta fleet
another place, as seemed advisable in the circutesveteee
The term of protection is 15 years; "articles thm gid
to disturb social tranquility, or demoralise custoteesitiee
fashions, or are injurious to health,' and rnealchoe
cannot be patented; the inventions must have "sill
publicly applied within two years, and patent° beeP
become void when the patented mventionei have
imported from abroad and sold. COtn°
HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS.—Some curiouselPe- 133(41,, -
were made on the decapitated head of Gagar ito
murderer executed in Troyes) 15 minutes
separation from the trunk. The blood of a dog II tbe
fused through tb,e carotid artery, and by titillathgento
nerves the eyelids became contracted, and racsl,e slo°
were visible in the lower jaw. These resulte
obtained with the head of Gamahut, Madame core
rich's murderer • but the doctors at Troyeo,t,artter,
Gagny was executed, pushed their experiments o OOP
Electric currents were applied to the nerves of tl opot
and caused motion. The trunk was then acteds viettil„e
by the same forces. The nerves of the loin .00
visibly affected, and 20 minutes after fool to IN
heart was made to beat. This organ was fetille of tliB
clogged, owing (it is supposed) to the stoPlee cert
circulation a few momenta before death.
demned man had, in fact, become livid set° itit 117
face to face with the instrument of death, se" osien'
conjectured that the circulation stopped at thatl3:3l teen
The experiments were conducted by five 'meal eate
of Troyes.
• CURIOUS PLANT.—A correspondent with the piece
Frontier Commission says: "We passed at one op;
through acres of a wonderful plant, said to he ra one
the cup of life' by Turkomans, but I never hesooos
rise to such a height of political imagery. It° fain d
name is kalkelli, and it has the most lovely Tires" reo
by the base of the leaves at two or three Vac tiiro..ll.
the stem. These cups allow the stalk to 1309 „,orcvol
them, but close round in many shapes, and f°,lr
to the ripeness of the plant take many colc'er'le 0;a
the most delicate green to orange; while frc'rnetells .00
of the rim of the cup springs a graceful de „ebeill 0
spray of leafage. I fully expect to see strsll,oeer
sold in the streets of London in these natural ;deli
some day. These cups catch and retain rah!, oef#
and on the steppes, if they grow there, as they
to do, must be indeed 'the cup of life.'" bse
ANCIENT POTTERY.—A curious discos'exi oriitycoo
made in taking down, for rebuilding, the eel 40 pi
modern church at Iping, erected only abou of
ago on a site of a building known to have bee 11000
Norman date. The demolition of the ancleet,e ailid
this period must ever be a matter of regreLloositY ell
uselessness of the work is shown by the eeL
rebuilding now what was then poorly erecte, _ foopu,d
the work was removed to the original level
ve,lo
tions of the ancient church were found. of Woe
the architect foupd a number of fragrael date, ere'
pottery which prove to be of Romano-Britis._
e, is tkeer
occupation of the site at this very early Per
fore indicated, and the discovery idr°ruth °tleir-eA
example of a somewhat similar find beneant 00000
church. Remains of fully a dozen differe,,,.riod -40
urns have been found. Among them, Lw_f
orle
other portions of the site, are fragments
es. 'too
pottery with the usual finger-marked pai!,,te.rePrecteej
floor line of the most ancient of the chureuZ,:, fortaeo
the site was cut through and found tc! 44.
beaten mortar similar to what is met vnt%tachet 014
the Roman villas as well as in some earlY °from th fog
portion of a Saxon pilaster strip was takelei, itelieteea
Norman foundations used as old materl: nrritie
apparently that a Saxon church of stone ffAreedr ni,,eete!
• the Norman building. This will be Pre7eterl °"tbie
new building, as well as a curious "13th nail, in
chral slab a very small size which has
churchyard for many years.