The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-20 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1876.

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vaPay yeas had odd her eglibles on the side walk in i resolution carried by a large majority.
Nit t oS hit '...whotesala. viarehouse, to be removed, -1 -. Miss Sturge moved the second resolution, as fol.
-stall& -and all, to kie-uptown---store,--becanse-- he - be., -1-lows :—"-That-thiir meeting hereby -ttpresses' if'
lieved that she brought him good luck. He had some earnest thanks to Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Jacob Bright,
relsson to believe in luck. When he opened his first Dr. Ward, Mr. Fawcett, Sir Robert Anstruther, and
store, a little hole only a few feet square, an Irish lady Sir Charles Legard for introducing and supporting the
told him that she must be his first customer, as she Women's Disabilities Removal Bill; also to the 161
always brought luck. She was his first customer. Members of the House of Commons who voted or
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Years afterwards, when visiting Dublin, he heard Pired in its favour in the divisions on the second
reading of the measure onthe 26th of April, 1876, and
that this lady had fallen into distress. He called upon
her, asked her to (hive With him, took her to a nicely respectfully requests Mr. Forsyth hid his coadjutors
furnished house, told her that this was hers, and settled to take steps, tor the re-introduction of the Bill at an
a comfortable annuity upon her for life. On another earlseperiodnext Session."
occasion he ordered 100,000 dole, worth of gaods to be Mr. O'Shaughnessy, M.P., seconded the motion,
, sent out by the steamer Arctic, and, as was his ruler_ .wwas supported by Miss Tod, and carried.
hesdid not insure. The vessel was lost .and he then The Chairman was thanked for presiding, and the
discovered that through a misunderstanding his goods meeting broke up.
had been sent by a sailing vessel of the same -name.
His will has taken everyone by surprise. Eventually MR. W. E. FORSTER ON SCRIPTURi -
his vast property will come to some young ladies,
who will thus be probably the richest heiresses in the EDUCATION.
id. A significant demonstration, at once a pretty
spectacle for holyclaY Znalgeß Tand...a practical commen-
A MAD MONTH, a&rvitprEggi r.q.' ( -try on the- malay, 4.2ktris ett_rasisi_ education was held in the
years in and out
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What mean these East winds7)that so chill and parch? Parliataent on r i .
Crystal Palace on Saturday, in the presentation of
Merely that May has on us stolen a March.- Punch.
4,000 Bibles and Testaments, the gift of Mr. Francis
,
_ Peek and of the Religious Tract Society, to pupil
THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION AT teachers and children of the London Spheol Board.
Mr. W. E. Forster,-.M.P.,' who Made the presenta-
SOUTH KENSINGTON. tion, said there was much in that gathering to soothe
The series of conferencee,at the Exhibition of Seim- the fears and remove setae doubts which ' were felt by
tific Apparatus at South Kensington was opened on many during the passing of the Elementary Education
Tuesday. Mr. W. Spottiewoode in- his address said Act. The 4,000 children present, picked out of 126,000
this was the firet serious, or at all events the first sue- children in the London board schools, represented
cessful, attempt at a cosmopolitan collection. He children who would have been untaught but
adverted to the advantages which may accrue to the for that Act, aid besides that, the' average atten-
cultivators of science, arid through them to the nation dance 'in denominational schools last year was
at larg.. from a national, cellection of seiehtilic appa- 35,000 above what -it ' was 'in 1871. The majority
ratus. He suggested that inkArnments whose innm-diate in Parliament said at the Anne of the passing. of
use has goneby, but which are nevertheless of historical the Act, notwithstanding the strOng objections that
interest, lent either by public departments or by private were expressed, that parents would prefer to have
individuals, might remain there on permanent loan: children taught in the Bible, that the ratepayers
further, that other instruments as they pass out of active would require the Bible to be taught, and that teachers
service, for example, fro 31 the Admiralty, from the would most gladly teach it. That gathering he thought
Board of Trade, from the o,dnaece Survey, or from showed that the majority had good reason for their
the other departments, should similarly had a place in faith. The London Schnol Board had set the example
this museum. In such A category also might be in- ,in undenominational Bible teaching to school boards
eluded the scientific outfit of the Challenger, and of throughout the country, and he did not believe there
the Arctic Expeditions, and likewise those of expedi- was any probabillity of a departure from the course
tions for the observations of the transit of Venus or of they had taken. Out of 126,000 children in the
solar eclipses. To these might be added apparatus pur- london board schools, the - number :of with-
chased for special investigations through the Parlia- drawals from religious instruction, according to
mentary grant annually administered by the Royal the last returns, had been only 126, and the
Society. And further, if this deriasit of instruments majority of them did so, not from any conscientious
be made without alienation of ownership, then private objections, but merely from motives of convenience.
societies or even individuatle might, he thought, be He quoted an inspector of the London School Board
glad to avail themselves of ilacivo depositok ofiinstru- to prove that religious instrUction ,was as thoroughly
meats not actually in use. '•"---'.- and as reverentially imparted in the Board echools as
i q - lilti I A in voluntary schools. He asserted that teachers found
the Bible lesson to be their greatest hold ever the
,
i' wit I. FLOATING HOTELS...IOI(IOIM obedience and affections of the children; while so far
: Irons conscientious objections existing on the part of
, the religious teaching, they, on the contrary,
...their-destre that their .c.liildren-nsight benefit
by it, by sending them early enough in the morning,
the Bible lesson being the first in tee time table.
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Speaßing of the floating hotels erected on thp-Pellyrare
river, Philadelphia, the Daiiy.Teleg*aph says
At this moment a'considerable part of that hive of
human beings which swarms in China has to dwell in
aquatic habitations because there is not space on land,
and high ground rents do not suit empty pcckets. In
the veracious memoirs of "Jacob Faithful 'it is re-
lated how many bargees live on the Thames, and inland
waters have always had human- inhabitants floating,
under some sort of roof. Aceordingly.-why not the
Delaware as well as the estuary of the Thames or Can-
ton harbour?. The difficulties will soon be removed by
so practical a people as the Americans, being chiefly
such as must arise from the necessity of communi-
cating with the shore. It would be unpleasant even
to imagine the contingency of a rival hotelkeeper in-
spiring some land or water rat to cut the c )nnecting
cable or sever the mooring cholas during the night,
thus giving the inmates of the improvised ark t:
luxury of a new sensation, at finding theniselves a\
daWn bound outwards for the Atrantic without
engines, rudder, sailors, or sail. America is so big,
and the new Exhibition is so emphatically the biggest
thing cf it kind, that a hulk lees, or a hundred visitors
less, would not be missed, and Dr. Johnson's definition
of a ship would rece:ve a new illustration. But
the people that have utilised Pullman cars, and
started moving drawing-rooms on our railways are not
likely to be baffitd by such trifles as the facts that
vessels move as well as fleet, if they: are not looked
after; and we should not be surprised to find the marine
hotel become a most successful novelty. In fact,
facility of locomotion will probably be converted into
a boon, for when the summer heat becomes stifling in
the City of Brotherly Love, the floating hotel has only
to lift anchor from before the panting town, and drop
down the Delaware in the sultry afternoon, to give the
inmates a breath of fresh air, returning at the hour
when the early milkman goes his first round, and the
brs.fast cakes have to be shipped from shore. '

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JOTTINGS ABOUT THE LATE MR. would in the end triumph.
, Whatever else women voted for, they would be sure to
STEWART. . favour peace, economy, and temperance. (Hear,
Americans are never weary of talking about their hear.)
late fellow-countryman, Mr. E:ehteen Million Ster- Bliss Coblie raid indirectly the giving of the vote to
hug Stewart (says the Court Jou'rna ). Early in his women would make even lerntal men have somewhat
1116 n, respect for them, and they would have no mere
cat eer he made a grand stroke. Fashion in America
the cry of a recent murderer, "Do 3o • they
suddenly derean&ci cotton trimmings for dreeses.
twwou, Ildu(l_,lsatnegplaennidi:dmpfroivriikeigleli,a
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Fashion in England hajloradelkem unsaleable. . Mitt
Stewart creesed the anti ent to Belfast, re '
seemed to be that maid-sery were not i
they were manufactu cr, and bought them at 2, `'i Per
lv that iti kii-:
breach tit promise Of atri . women obtained' in
, whi wss for below the pre ofernannfacturetke foktmeasauderortiogliad
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,„. nliew !York he *Old tlieniat 21. per lb.,
as e sill in later years, " After that specula- quitouely favourable v ' ibte Tilii last privilege
1 sonclided,that money could he made in the Bhe confessed; real. : h i 0 judgea and es w
goops lastsineee." When air. Stewart was .visit- cOld enoug4.4when! la ma 'ilost her Prepert
~,knikfof the,colossals4hopl in this couuti+,' the 126-
limbs, .or even-hr lifs )13 when she lest- ."4 --"P,
rietorfrisaid to him, with a eelf-complacent .. / -their sympaly and . tone, sense o ndignation atifer`wrc e(,)
understand you have a very large place in New York, was to the last degree affecting and instruAive. 1
(Laughter.) She believed the granting of the Buffre,eii
but I suppose it wen% compare with this?" "No, it
wo*t,",,. said Stewart,. "fox-it- is six tinees‘afi-large." _to woman was no lea-expedient.formen than )us-for
and that it'. would redoundt.o. thOltppineliti,
1 virtue, and honour of the countrial. k ALL
111 Englishman was a little peortified; but he,thought 1 women,
he was safe against rlvalry\ kheu he added, "Well, but
I sell two millions worth of goods here every year." After a few words from Mr. Hinde Palmer in sup-
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4iie that it was expedient arid wise to-allovrthe"
Stewart replied, "And I sell ten millions worth." some extraordinary s
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AN EXTRAORDINARY SCORE.—The following
wonderful score has recently been made by Corporal
Foster, 9th Lancashire (Warrington) Volunteer Rifles,
When they do have a hail-storm in Lucknow it which has never been equalled, viz. :
would appear that it is a storm of no ordinary descrip-
Seven. shots at 200 yards.. .. 5555 4 6 5 .... 34
tion, according to evidence quoted in the Times of at 50J yards__ 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 .... 34
India (remwks the Standard). In this country a I', at COO yards 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 .... 33
hail-stone the E3Z-) of a m zble is rsgarded as large;
but then we have a good m rms in the'course of
the winter, which may no be sai,d, to last from
September until the begin g of alittlrd in
Lucknow, where it does not hail ¶so re tly,
they have in one, fall a sufficient quantity of h to
make up several storms of very considerable poteer.
One evening, a few days before the dispatch of
the last mails from India, for about a quarter of an
hour, the Times of India pays, there was a downpour
of hail-stones varying in siz3 from a pigeon's egg to
sumps of a pound, and even more, in weight. The
largest stones are reported to have fallen in the open
country, between,Lucknpw and Rai Bareilly, bat that
:Lucknow itself had a fate share is shown by the fact
that numerous lumps of eight and ten ounces were picked
' up. An officer of Royal Artillery had a sample weigh-
ing a full pound, whilst at the various officers messes
some extraordinary specimens vieie banded round.
"There was," the journal observes, "a curious variety
in the nature and formation of much of the hail, as in
a quantity we collected, weighing in the mass close
pon 251b.,' some the largest lumps were opaque,
tading to the idea that they must have baeß raxidly
rozen in the ;I:Ll43er:region-a ; whilst others again twere
anslucent and of considerable size." The raia of ice
tot did much injury; and altogether it was a very
;markable storm. Certainly it is better to put up
ith the inconvenience Of frequent hail storms than to
Ei visited by such a tremendous one as this seems to
ave been.
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~ WHAT MAY HAPPEN!
There is an American story of respectable antiquity
ich tells hovy a fast train outran the sound of ifs own
ads and came to Utter grief, the seund of the warning
dstle arrivingtafter the collision (says the Standard).
se 'driver was killed, and the- story ended with the
-de, "PoorLfelfovr-Flrta was -dead - when-his Curses
th,d liiiio 'As curious, and much more Certainly
se, is the fact that when a man is struck by lightning
does not see the flash. We do not know whether it
a been observed that something similar will happen
the firstpaan killed by the 81-ton gun within a mile
' the hitti44,l'who Wilt wit"hear the shot fired., The
ilcicity of lioniad ial.,/32' feet 'per second. The Muzzle:
hicity of' the belt of the, 81-ton gun is about 1,500
det per second. This, of course, rapidly diminishes,
mt the average for some distance would be greater
;Ilan that of the sound. In fact, as the shot carries its
whistle along with it, one would hear the whistle. of
the shot before hearing the explos',on of the gun. Some
curious observations might be Ensile with regard to this
latter point as to the acoustic effect of sound emitted
by a body travellinr faster than the sound. The only
other examp'e we have la thelightning flash, producing
'le irregular rolrof the thunder,

SOMETHING LIKE A HAIL-STORM.

T0ta1....... ..... .............. 101

11;ghest p-Asible score, 105. Corporal Foster shoe
with the Snider rifle.
FitOM PORMMOUTEL —Lines of troops were
drawn un on the Hard last Thursday. Sad that his
Royal Highness should meet with Hard Lines the
xnument 11-3 landA.—Fun.
A LOVE OF HORSEFLESH. —The Paris people
are becoming confirmed hippophagists. The siege tirst
converted them against their will, and ever since the
new gastronomical faith has gone on increasing. The
quantity of horse-flesh sold and eaten in the French
capital during the first quarter of the present year was
no leas than 429,300 kilo,tratinnes, an increase of several
thousands of pounds over the corresponding period of
last year. The society whose special duty it is to in-
culcate an appetite for the noble animal point out in
the most feeling, but not very enti,-.ing terms, that "this
progress of hippophagy is particularly advantageous to
old horses, whose,. period of infirmity- is thereby short-
ened.'

" Fant PLAY.-Young Miqtlsise" It's your
'Sunday out' next week. Jane; isn't it?"—Jaue.
" Lor', Mum! Why, you've forgct:en ! yours.'!"
—Punch.
A BALLOON -ACOIDENT.—A i,balloon ascent
took! place Jae :week at Dijon ,(Cn'te-d'Or). 1.
Beugust was to go up on a trapeis, attached to the
car. At sir o'clock: the departure was effected, but
the huge machine WOO suddenly struck by a gust of
na ad driven into a tree. The gymnast was for-
tunatelY able to cling to a popl-..r. and there he called
lustily for a knife to free himself from the cords which
attached him to the balloon. His request, however,
could not be complied with in consequence of the
great • height at which he was placed, so that he was
obliged to free himself as well as he could, but he ulti.
mately descended with no further damage than some -
abrasions of the hands. The balloon was subsequently

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THE QUAKERS—The total gross income of
a Society of Friends' as appears in a Parliamentary
ePer just printed, on Endowed Charities, is returned .
i £27,425 us. 93. Among the items of the appliaa-
pia; £7,190 7a. 6d. appears for the education of Dis- )
inters, and £2,278 12s. 10d. for the poor.
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' TRADE WITH FRANC . E.—ln the quarter ended :
he 31st of March the declared value of merchandise
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mported into the United Kingdom was £12,215,819, a:
6gainst £12,458,319, in the correeponding period of the
Erevious,.year. The export of British and Irish pro-
tocol in- the same pereel of 1875 amounted to r.,
£3a 720A 1409 and this year to £4,416,406.
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AACEIANGE• FOR SOMEONE.—There was once ',l
--• &good kind Cook, who having often heard her Missus • I,
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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. 1 * .j
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P.sninzLrIIIA.,,AN,D FRATERNITY.—PhiIadeI- ci •
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p ia is' certainly ,a' happy name for the site of ,an ragret not having any children, and say that she
6 :Would like to adopt some dear little creature, thou ht
As• she was doing an act of kindness when she introduced
one whose mother was blessed with at least a dozen
moils Of the same sore. i We believe he was declined e .1
with thanks.—Judy. ,
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SALE OF AUTOGRAPH ETTERS.— a aee ,
International Exhibition which seems calculated' to
autograph letters and literary documents, which took p ‘
place on Saturday, in Edinburgh, Robert Burns—sec
promote brotheely love. At any rate, let us hope the
American World's Fair" will-not be followed by 'Pa ' triotie song £6 10s. ; charaeteristic song, "Why IS
"shouldn't t poor people mow?" 26 10e. ; sketch of his • 4
tremendous -wars like those which fulfilled the preidc- ballad on the Galloway election, £5 ; letter to Colonel i
Coes of the prophets who foretold that our Hyde- Fullerton with some of his own poems, £7 10e. ; auto- ei
Park Exhibition would be the beginning of the reign graph dre:ft of a love letter, £5 ss. ; ballads to "My -:.
a universal brotherhood.—Punch. , ,iT Jean " &c-.,£6 15e. ; song in the character of a si
i A A,Veas TOF SMALL CHANGE.7—The scarcity of milled farmer, £6 se. ; letter addressed to. Mr. '
small 'Wangs for business purposes in .the United Thomas Orr, Park, £3; poems, theKilmarnock edition,
States, has, it is stated by-- New York Tribune, become £4. Thomas Campbell—Two poems, £2 4s. Charles
so great that a flood of complaints is constantly pour- 11.—Sign menuel, :),6s. Olive Cromwell—Superscrip-
iug in on the United States Treasurer and senators tion to the Committee for the Island of Ely, Lincoln,
and members (says the Pall Mall Gazette). At the blamieg them for having released persons committed, .
Treasury Department more than 100 letters on the with other letters, £8 5. Charles Dickens—Letter
subject have been received from various parts of the while editor of Morning Chronicle, £2 4s. Henry IV.
country, and the department is also beset by members of France—Two pages superscription to Marshal Dan- d
of Congress, who seek to serve their constituents with I villa, aos. Marie Smart, Qaeen of Scotland—Letter do
small change as well as garden seeds and documents, signed and dated "Setowna, March 20th, 1436," £6 6s.
The silver substitution thus far has, in the opinion of It. will be seen that a letter of Bobby Burns is more ncf
the Treasury, officials, been a failure. There is what esteemed than one by hapless Queen Mary.
is termed a ' panicky feeling among the people. They That ought to be comforting to the poet wherever be !Ps'
know that fractional currency is to be swept away, and may be.—Notes [rain the North in " Pictorial World." .a.
they know" as a consequence that it must soon be ,-e. ',Leh' ~.
scarce. In this belief they are hoarding it. Even a INANCIAL t.iIIEMISTRY. .I_re he Khedive has iot
business men are laying aside each day, as they as e able issued a degree for the consolidation of the Egyptia4 „a,
to spare it from their business, an amount of small cur- Debt. His LUghness's creditors would much prefer all 4;;,)
rency, in the belief that they will some day require it i order for its liquidation.—Punch. -4,.
for the necessities of business. THE BIRMINGHAM MEMBERS ON THE INCOME Ai
A PUZZLE.— Scene—Village Inn, Hampshire. TAN: —At the annual dinner of the Birmingham Pro- • ;
Languid Swell. " 'sthawa Wurcaw heaw ? "—Bar- perty Owners Aeeociation, a letter of apology was read a
maid. "'Beg pard'n, sir !"—S well. " 'Sthawa Wifl'eaw tram Ms. John Bright, who'said :—" Two years ago it
heava?"—Barmaid. "Don't understand Francis, Sir!" was proposed to get rid of the income tax. Now the :,1(
—Swell. " Haw !" (Exit )—(He is suppoeed to have tat ie being increased. This is very disappointing.
meant, "Is there a Rifle Corps here? "—Punch. Birmingham is not responsible for- this, and this is
SALMON FOR THE ANTIPODES.—ACCOUIItS have
stabut the only consolation you have." Mr. Muntz,
1. P. wrote—" You ask me if I know other members ,
reached England of the arrival of the ship Durham in of Parliement who object to the income tax? In re- '
m Australia with the censienent of salmon eggs, col-
lected in England by Messrs, Youl and Buckland r , allow‘-,in, etb say that Ido not know one who is in
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(hiring the past winter. - The greater bulk of eggs _
have, besn sent to Bit Samuel Wilson's resideeee at. .itiflON IN NEW YORK.— Striped stockings
Ercildoun (about 18 miles from Ballarat), at whi passe, and red petticoats are all the rage just
place hatching boxes have been fitted up in close 1, . It is considered-en regle for every woman who
proximity to a stream which is said to possess every jars one, and walks Broadway, whether the day is s
characteristic favourable to the propagation of migra- ale, or sunshiny, to show a red petticoat—under the ,
tory fish, Of the 31,000 ova received at Ere.ildoun, In of her dress. This is the rule_, and seeing a woman . .
10,000 were living several hours after being deposited without one is the exception. Like everything else ,
in the troughs, and were for. the most Part in a veep which is considered ultra-fashionable in this great city,
healthy condition.. The great pains taken by Messrs. the red petticoat is aped by servant girls, and on Sun- .
Buckland and Youl to insure as large a percentage as day you meet the Bridgets returning from rases in the '
possible of the eggs arriving at their destination in a morning sporting the red under-garment, and the „e
healthy condition it is hoped will bo attended with mistress going to church marked by the same scarlet -Ylii
success, edging below her black dress. ly.
THE ACTON TRAGEDY.—On Monday Dr. THE GERMAN EMPRESS AT THE BLUE COAT
Diplosk, the Coroner for the Western Division of SCHOOL—The German Empresspaiel avisit to Christ's
Middlesex, opened an inquest at the "Duke of Sussex " Islimpita,l on Monday, accompanied by the Duke of
Tavern, Turnhara-green, meths body ofJoseph Niblett, Clrnhridge, its President. Her Majesty arrived at e
22, who shot a young lady and afterwards himself at twalve o'clock, and found the boys drawn up in parade ~.
Aqton a short time since. The evidence was confirms. order in the playground. The Treasurer, the Head '
tory ()fettle atatementi whieh bliae, already' bein pub"- Master, and the Warden were presented by the Pre- '
lished. Henry Pullen, a police-constable, said that the enent, and the boys marched past into the great hall '
deceased made a statement to the effect that he.phot to the music of their band. The Empress then came '
Miss Burleton as he lay in bed, and as she was coming, into the hall, and viewed the 700 bops ranged at the
way from the looking-glass. She jumped up about long lines of tables, while the choir sang "God Bless
3 feet and fell under the bed;' When he saw her the Prince of Wales ! " She was evidently much 7
kat him he thought, "I can't stand that," and he struck by the eight, and. after a few moments ad- .
n shot himself. The jury, after a short deliberation, dressed the boys, expressing the plaasure her visit gave a s
ailed a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind. he, and the hope that they would "grow up god i''-
'fav, INDEED ? —"Too much calanot be man and faithful subjects of their Queen." Before e.a.
said," a contemporary observes, in its remarks on the leaving the hall the Empress desired that a half- na
-Prince of Wales's return, "too much cannot be said as holiday might be given in honour of her visit, which #
to the utility of the ocean to England, The 'silver was greeted by the boys with three hearty cheers for al .
steak' is, and ever was, Britain's safeguard." If this her and the President. Her Majesty next visited 'one
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of ;the dormitories, whose quaint and simple arrange- ,01 -
bei so, why on earth do 1 eople go about calling the i
meats met with her entire approval. A visit 'was next
occiati'a waste of water ?—iTudy. _
paid to the spacious swimming bath End other parte er :
SUCCESSFUL BORROWERS.—The Times, in a of the school. "Before leaving the Empress again ex- a -
leader remarking upon the recent issue of Stock by the pressed the 'pleasure her visit had given, concluding e -
Metropolitan Board of Works, says :—Tne Metro- with these words :—" I have vie ted many educational a-,
politan Board of -Works must be ranked among the inatitutions, and 1 have sometimes had to say, 'Ah ! s
most successful of the great borrowers of the day. The yoh will improve ; ' but I say to you, 'Remain as you
£1,350,000 of Stock which they lately offered for public ar4:,” ,
subscription at a minimunt price of 99 has been all !A a,
placed at a little above par. The more fully the case) ee.N 12,XPENSIVE EDUCATION. The Edinburgh_ ,
is gone into the more satisfactory will the result appear. School-board election has cost nearly fifteen hundred
The whole of the late loan was, in fact, subscribed for pounds There seem' to ha a good deaf more 2S. D. '
more than five times over. The contributors to it were than AB C about it Linea education just at present.
,
of all classes. The interest the Board gives is only 3i
per cent., hut the security for this is thoroughly good.
The new Metropolitan Stock has accordingly found ,
favour, on the one hand, with email holders, who have ;
been wise enough to look chiefly fora safe investment
for their money, and have been contented with a frac-
tion more than they could obtain for it in the Three
per Cents, We learn, on the other hand that one
single firm send in a tender for the whole sum which
the Board was asking for, though we are not told the
exact terms of the application, or the amount which has
been allotted in consequence of it. . . . The Board
any how, have good reason ;to be gratified with the
soundness of their financial position, and with their
popularity with the investine world. There are plenty
of arowned heads who will envy them their easy control
over the purse-strings of their fellow-citizens, and who
would in vain offer twice the interest for the same sub-
stantial results. . . .
"FAT, FAIR, AND FORTY."—Mamma. "A
penny for your thoughts, Ethel !"—Ethel.—"Oh, I
was thinking about whati he delrgyman said about our
all being weighed in the balance -ou know. and—
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'HE IMPEnIAL TITLE.—Tho Saturday _Review A,
'arks :—" The controversy as to the title ot Empress
tow at nest. The Queen is Empress of India, and
; is not to be called Empress here more than is una-
idable.. How far it will in real life be avoided de-
'ode not en the terms of the proclamation, but on the
idance of the Government and the unfailing good •itv
lee of the Royal Family. The panful episode of .0,
r. Lowe's indiscretion had at least the salutary effect '9,:
dispelling the illusion that the Queen personally .104
a any thirst for a grander name; and the Prince S.!he
journey, his reception at every point of his pro-
)24, and the warmth of his welcome home, may be •.b
;fed on, among other things, to have fortified his con-
ntion that there is nothing greater or better on earth
ban to be King of England."
" TOASTED ANGELS ! "—Any suggestion as to
ill
a new diet will be welcome to housekeepers worried by.
the grumbling of their families on the subject of the
dinners and suppersprovided for them. A. colonel of
a British regiment was, according to the Times of India, 6111
lately much distressed by the constant complaints of -
his men respecting their rations. The beef was tough
and stringy, the bread coarse and tasteless, the tea had
no strengtu in it, and the sugar was largely composed ,
of sand. The colonel, although he was unable to arrive
at any other conclusion than that tht se compltints were
unfounded, at last sent for the sergeant-major, and, 'SI
confiding to him the trouble he felt. at the gnmbling
which went on, asked him what could be done to stop
it. "Grumble about rations," said the eergeant-major,
"why, of cure they do, sir; and so they would if you
,was to feed them on toasted angels!" Certainly
toasted angels sounds more harmless and respectable
than devilled biscuits, and would, moreover, be a
,pleasing novelty. —Pall Mall Gazette.
.APPROPRIATE NAME FOR A PAINTER.— GAINS.
'I3OIIOOMT. —(Did not his portrait of the Duchess of
Devonshire sell at Cbristie's last week for•ov:z ten
thousand guineas?)—Judy.
' i
THE PLAGUE IN MESOFOTA.MIA.—m 3.110 Lecaatr
IVrald of May 3, says :—A bulletin of the Sanitaiy
'Board issued last week shows a serious increase of the
platoie at Hillah 'and Bagdad, but happily no exten-
sion of the epidemic outside the circle nownnelosed by
a sanitary cordon. At Bagdad, from the IGth to the ,
22ed April; there was 336 fatal cases, or an average -
of 43 per day. At Hillan 159 deaths were registered
dining the same period, or an average of 22 per day.
Some isolated eases, too are reported from Imam.-
Alonea and Nedjef, but these localities am o within the
sanitary cordon, outside of which, up to the 2nd
init., no instance of plague had occurred. According
to private information we have received, the number
of deaths at Nedjef was 11 from the 16th to the 21st .
of April, and at Imam-Meusa (a village wittin• an
.roi - 7th

hurled in vain, against the mountain and foiest de-
fended Cuban patriots, who are steadily approaching
Havana and ,pu-liiiag their enemies off or under the
soil of Cuba: After a struggle that has now lasteit
over seven yeaifi we find the area of Spanish domina-:,
tidal on the island growing gradually smaller ever;
year; arid the chances of a final suPpresdon of the revo..o
lution absolutely nil. The soil seems to swallow the
u
enetniesi of Cuba, for army alter army has Marched,,
emtwards into these dense forests and ruge4
defiles, but has never returned; for " even
disease is patriobio I.in Cuba,' and yellow fever
arid smallpox mow down the columns of •Spaitl
as egeetuali7 as the bullet and machete of the Cnbant
insurgents. The Spanish troops at present engaged;
hi the Cuban war are mostly young boys, drafted
under the conscription laws that were in force during
he civil war in the old, country. The majority of
;due poor young fellows have scarcely attained the
ifte of twenty years, and, being brought direct from a
;emperate into a tropical climate, and exposed to all
;he hardships of a guerilla warfare, they speedily
luccumb to the terrible forms of disease incidental to
:tropical campaign. It is a fact, and one pregnant of
'earful meaning, that the Spanish reinforcements for
:Juba rarely bring arms with them. They are furnished
with weapons from the ranks of their dead pre,de:
cessors,; and in turn surrender the oft-tranafeired rifle
td death and their successors.

ADVICE • GRATlg.—When making your Will
very careful, and write full instructions, if you
Ish the,writefull heir to inherit.—pun.
1 TIIE ARIGHT OF DIVORCE IN FRANCE.— In
Apport, of a petition addressed to the French Chanft-
Arof Deputies praying that the right of divorce may
oi, re-established "upon civil, moral, and political
ei-ounds," statistics are given in support of the argu-
ment that such an enactment is much needed. These
i4atistiCs show that in the twenty-three years from
3 840.6 1862 28,640 suites for separation, or upon an
4erage.1,219 a year, were brougLt before the trlbu-
nalo. iii. 513 cases separation was asked for
-71ter orilya year's married life; in 7,446 cases after
i I Athan five years ; in 7,935 cases after more than
-ili d and less than ten years; in 10,295 cases after from
* td twenty years; in 4,341 cas.s after from twenty
1 thirty
.yeals ; in 1,436 ewes from thirty to forty
,)V ash; and in 305 cases atter-morfs than forty years of
? viage. In no fewer than 22,763 cases the suit was
niumlnced by the wife, the husband being the
14Pia: in culy 3,09 cases, the other 2.77 S being
c 4iL snits. . The grounds of the suit were, in at least
.73 eAPY, cases out of a hundred, "cruelty and-
n glect" on the part of the husband, adultery not
b ug charged in more than 2,000 mfr.—Pan Mall
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hour's distance of Bagdad), 7 from the 15t to the
19th.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP " SERAPIS.” The
'itinerary of this ship is well worth recording. She has
'kept her time as if she were a chronometer from the
beginning to the end of her cruise and has been a
th ost agreeable surprise to thoee who remember the
accounts of her early performance. Here are her
emus :—From Portsmouth to Malta, canny, in (as en
incident) on her way to Plymouth, 2,245 miles; Malta
to Brindisi, 373 miles; 13rindisi to Athens, 471 miles;
-thens to Pert Said, 594 miles; Canal, 83 miles; Suez
to Aden, 1,307 miles; Aden to Bombay, 1.649 miles;
Bombay to Goa, 228 miles; Goa t 3 Beypore, 305 miles;
Beypore to Colombo, 394 miles; Colombo to Tuticorin,
, 126 miles ; Tuticorin to Trincomalee, 493 miles ;
Trincomalee to Maaras, 290 miles; Madras to Cal-
cutta, 744 miles; Calcutta to Bombay, 2,123 miles ;
Bombay I o /Vex.), 1,C47 miles ; Aden to Suez, 1,304
AltailES ; Cmial, 88 miles ; Port Sr.io to Alexandria, 148
tttrni!es ; Alexandria to Malta, 863 miles; Malta CO
.iGibraltar, 984 miles; Gibraltar to Lisbon, 249 miles;
duisbon to Portsmouth, 850 miles. Grand total
,{17,45.2 miles. She travelled 13,000 knots through the
'water in 1,780 hours, brient in doing BO 5,445 tone of
coal, and made 4,693,743 revolution of her screw, her
speed varying according to circumstances,

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_HE WAR /N ODEA.—The New c Herald
the 24kin.d. pays that the eohiliet waxes fiercer in.
3 "Ever Faithful Isle." and the mi2lat of Spain is