The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-09-15 00:00:00

Titz POLICE OF PARIS AND LONDON.—The increase
In the number of the policF, of Paris rai,es the total of
the municipal force for 1883 to 7,756. 01 these 6,800
are ordinary policemen, 700 sub-sergeants. 38 officers,
25 principal inspetors, 24 clerics, 5 divisional inspec-
tors, and 13 phy-icians. The total eTp,nses for the
police prefecture will be £37,500, or £3 000 more than
in the previoui year. The strength ot the London
police on the 31st of December, 1881. was-25 super-
intendents, 605 inspectors, 947 sergeants, and 9,657

ordinary policemen. -
WHERE RICH CATS BOARD.—& departnaerkt of the
Philadelphia Cat Ret uge, and one that kelps to sup-
port it, is the boarding of rich cats during the summer
months while their owners are away. There were re-
cently seventy of these pamperA pussies enjoying that
delights of the establishment. The quarters provided
for them include a large pen in the yard, with a num-
ber of wide shelves running around the four sides, and
a little grass plat in the centre. Most of the hoarders
are sleek and fat. They live very amicably together
and indulge in but few fight 4, spending moat of their
time asleep on the shelves. They are fed three times
a day, their menu being made up of raw meat, liver,
milk and fish, and one handsome tabby lives on an ex-
elusive diet of raw oysters and uuskimmed milk, her
luxurious fare being paid for at an advance over the
reviler rates of fifty cents a week.—betroit Free
Pre*

THE VACANT POST OF PUBLIC EXECUTIONER.—Tbs
following notice was published in the London daily
papers on Monday :—ln consequence of the numerous
applications which have been made to the Home Office-
for an appointment to the place of public executioner
we are reqneste Ito state that it is neither the right nor
the duty of the Secret .ry of State to make any such
appointment. There is no such office as that of publics
executioner appointed by the Government. The pe!--
son charged with the execution of capital sentences us
the sheriff. It is the right and duty of the sheriff to.
employ and to pay a fitting uerson to carry out the
sentence of the law, and the Secretary of State has no
authority to select the executioner.
THE FALL OP THE LEAP.— The Gardeners Magazine
, says :—An early fall or the leaf may be anticipated
this year, as the result of drought, and irrespective of
the early frosts which usually determine the matter.
On the 20th of August a very considerable fall of the
leave., of limes, planes, and chestnuts was noticeable
in the suburbs of London and in all the drier parts of
the southern counties. Since that date the leaves of
those and other trees have been falling freely. Its
many instances chestnuts have made a second leaf
growth, and show patches of golden green upon
ground of dingy russet, the "new wine" not agreehat
well with the 'Sold bottles."

RAILWAY APPLIANCES.—StatiatiCS RTC Issued show.'
jug the exports of railway applianzes from the United
States to foreign countries during the year 1282. It
appears from these that Philadelphia shipped abroad
1,915 car wheels, valued at 17,09 dole. ; 129 railroad
cars, valued at 63,227 dole. ; and 28 locomotives, valued
at 339,635 dole. 19 of the locomotives, valued at
238,488 dols., were sent to Brazil; five, valued at
73,047 dole., were sent to Mexico; and four, valued at
28,100 dole,, were sent to Crib% During the seven
months ending January 31, 1883, the exports from all
customs districts in the United States included 2,425
Passenger and freight cars, valued at 11,126,806 dole.; ,
2,810 car wheels, valued at 106,444 dole. ; and ln
locomotives, valued at 1,142 757 dole, During the
fiscal year endine June 30, 1882, the exports from alit -
portions of the United States included 2,663 paseengeX
and freight cars, valued at 1,373,059 dole,
THE STORMING OF SenesTorone—taat Saturdat
(Sept. Bth) being the annivereara of the itorming of
Sebastopol' which took place in 1855, the usual custom ;
of decking the colours was observed in those regiments
of Fuit Guards which took part in the engagement.
The subaltern doing duty with the detachment of '
the Ist battalion Coldstream Guar le which mounted
the " Queen's Guard" in London in the morning,
c,arried the laurel-decked colours from Chelsea
Betracks to the Guard-house at St. James's Palace.
and the band of the Regiment played a selection of
music in the courtyard of the palace dueing the ore'
moue, of changing the guard,
A VOTING LADY AND GENTLEMAN DRO74IID.—On
Tuesday evening Mr. English, aged twenty-eight, son
of a Liverpool merchant, took a butt at the Groves
for a row up the Dee with Mieli Lockwood, second
daughter of Mr. T. M, Lockwood architect, Chester.
When they arrived near 'le White House, the host
was tweet and both 'Occupants wore thrown into the
water.. Azt ale.rm was raised on the banks, and drags
keine procured, the body of Miss Lockwood was r 6.
covered at half. past nine o'clock, and the body of Airr
Englieh five minutes after. Both bodies were found
g.hout twenty yards on the Chester side of the White
House' the pleasant boating resort on the Dee, and
about fifteen yards from the river bank. Mr. Engliah
and Miss Lockwood heeeme engaged only on the pre".
vious evening.
-EXPRESS Comrerals.—ln connexion with the es'
tablishment of the Parcel Post in Great Britain, the
New York Nation points out that expreas companiee
were established in the -United States so far hack as
1839, and have been growing steadily in usefulnese
ever since. Tan years ago the capital employed in On
business amonnted to more than 25,000.000 dole. The
number of separate offic-s exceeded 8,000; more than
18,003 men and about 3,500 horses were employed, and
the distance travelled on the various railways wee
estimated at 300,000 miles a day. Immense fartunee
have been made in the business. Now that one reform
has been established, our American contemporary re;
marks that "within the course of the next quarter a
a century the British citizen may become weary of
fighting for his luggage at railway stations, and mat
Initiate another reform by the adoption of a system
checks."
A2sECDOTE OF JOHN STERLINg.—An anecdote DI
told of John Sterling, while a student at Cambridge
University, which well illustrates the zeal with which
he th:ew himself as a young man into whatever work
was going forward. While Mr, Hare, his college
tutor, was lecturing one day, a fire broke out in 12
neighbouring •
building, and all the students robed cU
to help extinguish it. Forming themselves in HOS
from the river to the fire, they kept passing buckets e!
water from one to another as long as was DSGSSIgirI
Mr. Hare, on going along the line, was surprised ter
find Sterling at the river end of it, up to his waist in
the water, and reproached him for his thoughtlessnel
in risking injury to his health, which was weak. All°
this was the answer Mr. Hare rsceived—"Somebod/
must be in it; why not I as well as another'
Folks.
II aHE ARyqICIAL CULTIVATION OF °MES.—FF(OS"i.
I sot rocvn Goode, the Commissioner of the "Unlit
States ta the International Fisheries Exhibition, bw
just received a telegram from Professor Baird, trie
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, P°
the effect that Mr. Ryder, the Embryologist of a
Fish cemmission, has finally solved the problem of
culture of oysters from artificially-impeegnated' eg
and that on the 4th inst,' at the Gieverieneent etatio,
at Stockton, Maiylend, there were many millions !
yoring oeOteeti three-quarters of an inch in diametee
which had been hatched from eggs artificially imPref
nated forty. six days before. This fact is of the t
most importance to oyster cultnrists throughout too
.
world, as from a single oyster several millions of egy
can be obtained by the planting of 'ilia tietificiehl'
reared spat; thus, eepetera may be produced in PI
tically nelimited quantities in any sheltered estuarro
in teneperate climates, and localities in which oystge
do not grow can, with great ease, be stocked by eett;
transplanted in bulk while very emall. It ma? •
added that oysters were artificielly impregnatedj
America by 1101. Breeks of Baltimore, in 1879,
the diAaolty Met with in hatching them D'S
been ta prevent the young oyster from elosPin
being lost immediately after they ikril batchtdi esitig
the spat pass through tha meshes of the nio,st PP"
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woven fabrics; titled as flannel.
THE LIIRARY Aieteetee.ron.—The sixth annual cee,°'
ference of the Library Association cf the United ICitt.oe,
dom was opened on Tuesday at Liverpool under the ty
sidency of Sir James Picton chairman of the 1.410'00
Committee of the Liverpool borpoeation. NearlY eog
hundred representative of libraries attended, anl„°o
others Dr. Qernott and Mr. Butler, from the Bt",eej
Mnseum. The chairman's inaugural address stne
that the object of the meeting was the diffusion
formation as to the working of publia libraries ath="r
and abroad. Several papers were read, and in the at',7„.
noon the members proceeded to Knowsley
Hall to
speet Lord Derby's library.
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PRINCE GEORGE or WA ft
Oø
received fOO
St. John's, Newfoundland, state that H.M.S. Canni
the
with Prince George of Wales on hod, errni'eu o
on the 19,th Altirno from 4a,lif ax. '(in the moo:do:co
that day a large steamship was observed on the rede
off Tilt Cove, about a hundred miles from St. sP3'Ol/
and the Canada proceeded to her assistance, but °fey
to find that she had been abandoned, although i° A
as could be seen she had sustained little ditroqe'leal
potion of her stern wes weshed away, but one 00
apparently uninjured above water. Her name° be'S
not visible. The stay of the Canada at St.
le
was short, as she was due at Quebec on the 5t1'e,2,0
the Straits of Belle Isle being taken en route.
George is said to be enjoying his trip immenseute
to be delighted with the constant change of seeP°
he is witnessing,
enne°l
Eunolex's lelieljenT oF Fiwinin—What's in
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ra en?.
THE FIRST VELOCIPEDE IN FRANCE.—The
de in C6te-d'Or publishes the following account
first velocipede, which appeared at Dijon on qtefeelt 4,
of August, 1818 ;—" This morning at ten ',;ea
machine has been tried in the Pleas Royal;
called ' draisienne, ' or y9lopipede. Tt has Pr°;este.er
success. M. Lagre.nge; turner of 13eanne, cal:n°*oo'l;
dey Irene that ttiven, which is seven miles ( tee
measurement) distant from Dijon, in two SO ateid
hours. He went rapidly round the uarlc.plAcethive,
seems to be well practiced in thz We of the resoo;
Two draisiennes have been teen in actipp at th?
time. M. Lagrange has already eenatroeted selerrhos9
great solidity and of 7. elegant appearance. 'of
who wollld like wocure for themselves Ole PI
means Of traneport can do so by applying,e`o
Lagrange. It is said that to-morrow, during
tivitiee in the park on the occasion of the fete, "4 t 11:
LOWS, M. Lagrange will give another PVc9,'„-goni°
celerity of this economical steed, w,i'ob to—
neither hay nor oats,"
cops°
A Rowe LIAOLE PIFTY•SIX 'YEARS OLD.---A•v.cittO
circumstance is related by the Yozsesche
For several days there was lately seen neAr,t,lo
of Furstenwalde an immense bird flying in Q'rwe io p
great height, which in the evening disapeeereeepieg
dit ection of the liAueer monntainp. One
labourer heard the howling of a dog in great reed fre
on running to see what was the matter, he, Vitiogiee
large bird seated on the dog's bac;lz, het'. her. off
into the sir' and dragging it hither and tbiteeetetbe
ran to fetch a companion and a gun, and 0;34
the two again caught sight of the bird env' rneA
latter was already dead, badly toee by the.,
CLIA,S Of its eni-iny. Thew st;cceaded iflblp (004.1,0
bird, and fout.d it to he a true Royalek4'
imperiolis), which measured from wing tin
0004,
ttp fully nit' Its dark feathers were ;11,4 earPlo
on the shoulders, indicating great age; An"'tbe eaffee,
lug circumstance confirmed the fact„
left foot, just above the claws, on
_d tee,
was faeten
smooth gold ring, on whioh were engraved e'yole t131;e0
distinguishable the letters HKSo. A, and beein2
Sq elePee
the word Eperjea. On the other side of the
04 date 10, 9, 1827,