The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-02-03 00:00:00

11011 SANDS 01 TISTIWONIALS FROX ALL PARTS,
CTali 07 DROPSY

North- ststat, Audesshaw (near Manchester),
"January 10, 1882.
"II affords me great pleasure to add my testimony to
the voadertal offsets of your Blood Mixture, which
has sired me of a very bad ulcerated foot and ankle. Ibad
tear wesads whir& prevented me from following my)
eeespatieo for four years, during which time I barekl
bees is ire different infirmaries and under fifteen!,
Cruise doctors. I was at last induced to try y
Coed Mixture, andrafter taking three small bottle,
was able te go to work, and by the time 1 ha I is
wise or tea bottles I was completely cured. "
whatever us you like of this, for the benefit of 001
efferers.--I am, yours respectfully. •` JOEN WILLIIX
IMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—Cleans
the vitiated blood whenever you And ies im
purities bursting through the skin in pimples,
eruptions, or sores ; cleanse it when you find
Li obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse
when it is foul, and your feelings will tell
yew when. Keep the blood pure, and the
health of the system will follow.
As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and
warranted free from anythinginjurious to the
most delicate constitution of either sex, the
Proprietors solicit sufferers to give it a trial
to test its value.
CLARKE'S WORLD -FAMED BLOOD
MIXTURE is Sold in Bottles 2s 6d each,and in
Cases, eoataining six times the quantity, 11 t each—
soginient to effect a permanent cure in the great
majority of long-standing eases, by allChemistr and
Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the worla, or
eat •it reeeipt of 30 or 182 stamps, by the Proprietor
Tint LINCOLN & MIDLAND Covirissi Diva COM
WT. LINCOLN.

THE MAGIC REMEDY provides the
human system with thought, brain and narve food
ana furnishes vitality, health and strength in nervous or
general weakneu. It instantly relieves headache, !indi-
gestion, cough and lung complaints, and cures eoeu-
matistn, put, skin eruptions, Jte.. by purifing the 1)1 od.
The first dose will convince any fagged, nervous, u (an-
on% sufferer of its marvellous powers in arresting disease
and physical decay. On rowel pt of directed elm ore
and 2 penny stamps. by Dr. RUSSELL, 17, C,owa
Terrace, Haverstock Hill, Lou don, it will be sent gratis
"My general health is much i mproved that even toy
friends have remarked the change in my appearance
it. W." "My stomach is in a healthy state, and 1 can
enjoy my meals now. J. `N.' "I was so nervous br-fore
taking year medicine, that I was unable to write. J
"The trembling of the hands and knees is gone. T. J.'
"I have had no palpitation of the h,:art or head.: Ile
1111100 I took it. Mrs. G. L." "My frirnis ccn :der
your cure et my ease a pert id miracle. lie. J. liar
eourt."

TOWLE'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL PIU
FOR FEMALES finiekly eorteci all irregularities and
relieve the distressing syraptems so prevalent with the
Sous la. lid- and Is. 9d., of all Chemists. gent
anywhere on receipt of 16 or 114 stamps by the MaKII•
T. TOWLE, Chemist. Notting ham
A CARD.—TO ALL Wito ATM StlFFEarcd /ROM TUX
errors and indiscretions of you th, nervous weskners
early delay, loss of manhood. dm, I will sand a rece,pt
that will care you, FREE OF CHARGE. 'this great
remedy Was iiseorered by a missionary
America *lead a self. addressei envelope to the Rey.
J °SRNs T. INDIAN, Station D., New York City, U S.A.
A DELIGHTFUL FLAVOUR. CRACRORT's ARRCA-NUT
TOOTE PASTX.—By using this delicious Aromatic Denti.
fries, the enamel °Mae teeth becomes white, sound, and
polished like ivory. It is exceedingly fragrant, and
specially useful for removing incrustations of tartaraou
neglected teeth. hold by all Clic:ll6W. P..ta. Is and
sti ssmii. (let Craernft'c)

ADvlOll TO MeTilErtel—Are you broken in your
rest by a siok child suffering with the pain of cutting
teethe Go at once to a chemist and gets bottle of
WINiiLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve
the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harm.
less and pleasant to taste, it produces natural,
quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the
htfle cherub awakes "as bright as a button." It
soothes the ohild, it softens the gums, allays all
pain, seheTes wiad, regulates the bowels, and is the
Sept iusowr.%reaedy for dysentery and diarrhcea,
rr arising frogs teething or other causes. s Mrs.
ietelliowle a Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers
uprarrandos as ha 10. per bottle.

DEATN}..4.9, Notass yr TITS EARS. &C. Dst.r..tits
EsSENCH ou Dssresss alriuld always be tried, as iu
numbers of resat. seemingly incurable, it has done
wondes. Slight Deafness, obstructions in the Ears.
sas4 the incessant bumming sounds so frequent with
affected hearine, are removed after two or three nights'
applications. Dellar's Essence can be spoken of as sure
to give s• me relief in any ease of Deafness without
causing the slightest injury to the delicate organisms ef
the ear ; and, however surprising, peraons for years
Deaf have heard amends after a fair trial of Dollars
gssence. Bottles, is. lid. and 2s. 9d. Sold by all
Chemists. Post free for 18 Stamps sent t 3 Bedford
Laboratory Bayley Street, London, V.C.
Fun-ruse Peoores.(This week,)"This wonderful v-
aults of DR. I..CCOOiee PCLISONIC WAFERS as Can bear
testimos, to; we have customers who some regularly
far theta sod say tiey wo.ild on no aocount be without
them, We bell-va then, to be oafe a d effectual; the
PoPularity they have ga;ned. has beep from the be.nifi-
• resnitsexperiseled by those who bare used them
and they well • o,i,eve the large &attend there is fir.
thew. (Signtd) W,. Las tin & Sans, Nechella tfouie,
Neeheila piemiaghans, hey insissotiy relieve aud rapidly
• Asthma. Coossessiption, Bronchitis. Coughs, Colds
Shortness of Breath, lrblegar, Pains in the Chest, Rhea
and taste pleasantly. Sold at Is. led, and
e.•
ed, per or, of all Druggists
TUT TOl7ll WNIGET 1--Hydroleina (Eairstad Oil)
aa k preyed of the hirliest value se a -Au con,
saraptien =4 all vd-i.sting e.:srases, invariably pro-
ductug increase is Eash and wight. This preparation
Zydrated Cod Cll a tonic, digestive, and
fell tints* lucre ulterisYLg, weU as far more
pleasant to taste tlltn p!ain cO liver oil. Ifydroleine
yid newish and pieelc...‘ Jul:rases of weight in those
althea where oils or 4 ro4 an wrested, are difficult at
isr;oseilfle to digest. .4.1 to-lotiony to seaseiation and
kw of weight is azraiSol by tte we rkdroleis..
gutithesigto, 46.• " diP36. nrsialOga
NIAILANaakah •

• •

A GPIIIT Wantei to push first•class Lubricatin
Oil. Commission 10 to 15 per cent.—Box 322
tot -Office, Liverpool.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1883.

ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE.

THIS is the age of engineering projects of great
magnitude, either projected or actuell, ac-
complished. :ebtetnes which were at one time
the subject of ridicule bays became solid
material facts, changing the aspect of the
world's commercial life. Brunel no les3 than
Lesseps had his day of trial before he experi-
enced his day of triumph, it is not a guava,
of a century age since that isganhard Ringdoln
Brunel and Robert Stephenson were both living
amongst us, the one the champi at of the broad
gauge, and the other of the narrow. Brunel had
constructed the Great Weee ern Reilway, and had
carried the line through obstacles which
ordinary men might well have deemed insur-
mountable. The wonderful Box Tunnel and the
marvellous structure which spans the river
Tamar between Devon and Cornwall, where the
railway is carried over a tidal stream broad as an
arm of the sea testify to the extraordinary genius
of the projector. Stephenson mean sibile was
busy over the London and North-Western, and
his tubular bridge across the Menai Straits was
justly regarded as one of the wonders of the
world. It seemed hard upon the world of
mechanical skill that in the autumn of 1859,
within five weeks of each other, both these in-
tellectual giants should have been removed
from amongst our midst, in the prime of life and
in the full maturity of their powers.
By this time however the SUCZ Canal had
begun to occupy public attention. The proposal
to cut a wide and deep water-way between the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea was long re-
garded by the most eminent English statesmen
as one of the most chimerical ideas which ever
entered the brain of man. To say nothing of
the objection that the engineer was a French-
man, that French enterprise was findi: g the
money, and that the work was to be executed
in a land which in the days of Bonaparte was
the battle ground between the two nations,
practical men declared that the scheme never
could be made of a workable character. If the
difference of level between the two seas did not
effectually prevent its being of the slighest use,
the sands of the desert through which it passed
would choke it, and the task of keeping it clear
would be an impossibility. AL de Lesseps
persevered, however, in spite of discourage-
ments which might well have broken toe heart
and crushed the spirit of a less resolute and con-
fident man. The sanal was finished ; and in the
month of November, 1869, was opened with
much pomp and splendour of surrounding
circumstance by the Empress Eugenie, then the
Queen of Fashion, and one of the most col.
spicuous figures in European politics. No sooner
did the ships of various nations begin to pass
through it than it was seen that the commerce
of Great Britian exceeded the whole. The
Canal was very soon know as the highway to
India, thus saving a long and dangerous voyage.
Since 1869, both of the political parties into
which our public life is divided have swayed the
councils of the State ; but whatever difference
of opinion may have arisen upon other points
there has been none upon the absolute import-
ance of the Suez Canal to England. Lord
Beaconsfield took especial care of it five years
ago when there was a fear of our being involved
in difficulties with Russia, and under the rule of
Mr. Gladstone, Lord Wolseley's first act on
arriving in Egypt a few -months ago, we' to
secure undisputul control over the Suez Canal.

In later tim- es the projected exploits of our
mechanical engineers have remained colossal in
their character. There is, for instance, the
proposed canal through the Isthmus of Panama,
thus connecting two mighty oceans, aud practi-
cally severing a vast continent. This ming:,
fire on account of international jealousy. A con-
siderable section of the American people is
disposed to support the Monroe doctrine, and to
claim exclusive control over the Canal should it
be made—a claim which other nations are nt
disposed to concede. Then there is the Channel
Tunnel, for joining England on to the continent
by a railway under the Straits of Dover- What-
ever the people of France way think of this it
would be idle to contend that there is the
slightest enthusiara for it on this side of the
water. The works at the English end of the
tunnel have been suspended for mouths by
order of the Board of Trade, pending the final
decision of Parliament upon the matter Later,
the scheme of the Manchester Ship Canal has
been launched, an idea attractive enough in its
description, and declared to be perfectly practic-
able by our most eminent engineers. The notion
that canals had had their day, and that railway b
were to have absolute sway is thus dissipated.
Manchester has determined to become a seaport,
and to the merchant princes of that city the five
millions sterling necessary to the construction
of the canal is not a formidable sum. Again,
we have the proposal to cut a waterway between
the bays of Dublin and Galway, lu4
This would save a day in the passage of ocean
steamers between this country mid the United
tates, and several days at least in the case of
sailing vessels. Sir Edward Watkia, one of the
aighest railway authorities, has estimated th..t
a ship canal connecting tIF- two points mentioned
200 feet in width and 25 feet deep, could be
made for eight millions steriog. The money
forthcoming, the engineers would find not the
slightest difficulty in construction of the canal
any more than M. Lessepa found in making that
which we now regard as the highway to our
Indian Empire.