The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-22 00:00:00

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NOME, FOREPIN, AND COI °Nita,

ART Doome.—An Artist's Wife never admires
her husband's wozk co much as when he is Doming her
a Cueque.—Punch.

EXCITING SPORT WITH A TIORESEL—A corres-
pondent of an Indian paper, writing from .C.sragolsh,
under date the 12th inst., says :
•• A shooting Tatty has Jost beckon up, eter healing rho
southero Jungles of Purnerh for several days The pally
were nearly the same that two years ago beat the same covers
and bagged eight tigers in Revel days. This year they were
less euzcessful. However, they got four tigers, one of which
(a tigress) showed great sport, charging four elephant. one
after another. She got on the head of a howdah elephant.
dug her claws foto the mahout's calf, arid would have had
the MU) off but for a timely shot from the howdah that
knocked her down. She was op again into the back Of
another howdah elephant. ihe occupant was nearly pitched
out. Ile met his gun, pistol fashion, healing en with one
hand, when she let go toe howdah ropes she was holding
Ws her teeth. liesidea the four tigers they had a good bag
of MAI sloes, deer, ant iplga. A male buffalo charged right
and left, making good his charge on one of the elephant.,
burying his horn some inches deep in the elephant's flank..
"THE ROL!NG PASSION STRONG IN SLEEP ! "
—Bad habit, are hard to overcome. If JW true this it,
is shown in the case of those who live tau rapidly, for
even when they go to rest they are of ten known to be
fast asleep.—Punch.
HOW TO GAT OUT OF PARIS.—The </mama/ de
Rouen gives an account of the proceedings of a gentle-
man who has lately made his way to that city from
Paris. lie went to the Prefecture of Police early in
the morning, and found in the great square a queue,
consisting of about 3,000 persons. A man in a blouse,
who wee almost the first, offered to give him his place
for a franc. The franc was paid, but such a tumult
resulted that the purchaser did not dare to take the
place. A National Guard, however, scon afterwards
off-red to admit him at a price into a room whence he
cool I obtain access to the hall. On entering this room
he found it already filled with persons who had pur•
chased the same privilege. A drummer who came in
then offered for If. to take bin into the ettard room,
whence he could readily enter the hall. Ile paid the
money, and found be had to wait in the guard room
while the men there consumed the value of his If.,
which they hospitably insisted on his sharing with
them. After some time, however, he reached the hall,
where he found some officials smoking comfortably,
and now and then signing a pose; however, after some
delay here, he obtained one of the precious documents.
and returned to the guard room, where he encountered
a lieutenant of the guard who had not been present
when he had previously passed through, and whose
lowering brow was only smoothened after a parley
with his friend the drummer, and a further expenditure
of 20f. After all, the traveller did not regret the
expenditure, which procured for him liberty to breathe
fresh air and to move at his ease.

A TEMITATION.—A Book, by a delightful Amc-
rican writer. is announced, with the title of 'My
Study Windows." Has the &Mir r well considered
what he is doing? has he reflected on the conse-
quences of such a provocative title, on the number of
imitations it is sore to engender, eu.th as "My Parlour
Fireplace," "My Drawing Room Ceiling," "My
Kitchen Chimney," "My Front Door Knocker,"
"My Nursery Cupboard," "My Library Wainscot,"
?--Pusch.

RHOGVERY OF DAMAOFS 131' A Gipsy.—At the
Sheriff Small Debt Court, Paisley, Alfred Iti ynolds, a
gipsy, whose encampment is at present located in the
neighbourhood, sued David Forrest, spirit dealer, for
1:12, as solatium and reparation for the loss, injury,
and damage sustained by the pursuer in consequence
of the defender haring, in his shop at Greenhaok.
tetrace, in the presence of Robert Wade and others,
tale ly, nutiiciously, and with( ut probable cause asserted
that the pursuer was a thief, and that he had stolen
defenders watch and chain. Sheriff Cowan found tt at
he did make false and inaliciou4 statements al to
pursuer which were utterly unjustified, and he awarded
E 5 damaz,es, with expenses,

A FTEIt MR CANNING.— Schnee (to 1r0m0u).......
"1 have called a New Se wirg Machine into extritence
to re-dress the O'd."—Punch,

MACMAIION Al+D THlERS.—Whatever besita-
iton may seem to characteri,e the proceedinga of M.
Thiers and the Versaidea Executive, it win] pmbably
be found, when the time for deckled action anise',
that there will be no lack of energy on the part oi the
new Commander-in-Chief of the French forces. Before
Marshal MacMahon could be persuaded to accept the
important, though somewhat Invidious, duty which
has been assigned to him, he stipulated, it is under.
Mord, for absolute control over the operations auainat
the insurgents. M.Thiers, whose unwillingness to leave
any opening for the predominance of a military chief
is at least intelligible, ohjected to grant ouch power..
"A. Chief cf the Executive," he observed, "I
can only give you a delegation of my own autho-
rity.'The Marshall's reply PM prompt, and to
the point: "I must be master of my own mcvementv,
and cannot subordinate them to political speculations.
I am about to rick my own life and the lives of my
troops. If I succeed in my attack upon the insurgents,
I must be allowed to repress the emcutc in my own
fashion; but I insist that you shall not, when my
plans prove successful, interfere with their thorough
execution under the pretext that too much blood has
been shed. Ido not choose to be left with all the
odium of repression, while you reap all the benefit of
the indulgence that folows." The tieneral'e bluntness
was more than a match for the fincsse of the statea-
man, M. Thiers, well knowing that the soldiers
would follow the hero of Magenta when they would
follow no one else, gave up his point, and Mandl/dna
is now free to take what measure he pleading.

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A FuItCHAAh'S SKNINIIIICKNCSA op Ta,
—To London, on Monday afternoon, at
Rooms, Vicount de Vali:mat, lately 'private secret., to M. Oacuhetta, delivered the first of a coms.
lectures on the war. M. de Valmont gave an interest,
log account of Ns experierce at Met; and
of Lis
rucnitg the German blockade. In We service he ra
ceived a despatch roiled up in a small pea ; this 4,
placed in a hollow tooth, and covered over with mt.
perch& Several times he attempted to pass the Ger.
man lines, but at last returned to Metz, and obtsitiq a pads made out in the name of Mr. Field, Arnana2 journalist, which served him in good stead. knio-74 at Tours, his disappointment was great to fiud that
the despatch had been written in a cipher which as
only known to the Emperor Napoleon and la,
Ministers. However, nothing daunted, be c nimoaid the amount of Ritz sine's doings is Metz, and, at reading thii M. Gaioltetta issued the fatuous pro 4 motion branding Razaine as a traitor.
SHOCKING SCILIPE IN A THE/TlM—The Ihritis
of Florence givea an account of a shocking aceldeht
which took place the other tight at the Prince Huriiihett
Theatre in that city. A ballet pantomime was beiog performed, in which an encounter takes place beterrex
brigands and soldiers. One of the former, who wat
tired at, fell mortally wounded, a ballet havitg eo.
tered the forehead oaf penetrated the brain. At firet
the audience applauded the incident. It soon, how.
ever, became apparent that a terrible tragedy hal
really occurred, and the audience were worked up to
! a pitch of the highest excitement. Women sobbed,
I men shouted, and many leaped upon the stage to ass
of the man WWI really dead. The pf rforuk.ne,,
who, the King was present in his private box,
inimediately stopped; and shortly afterwards a niagis-
! trate came upon the stage and took the names ib
performers and impetumneries engaged in the pieea. It is not thought that the occurrence was accidental,
The deceased was not a regular performer, but
printer engaged by the night as a supernumerary,
Ide was only 17 years of age.
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MORE PROM MRS. MALAPROP.—Our esteemed
friend has been spending a few days in the country,
which Ile says is looking dutiful. Spring timers are
epringing up in most luxurious confusion. Randy
are abundant in the meadows at the back, and het
front garden is full of scarlet agapemones. —Plonk
POLITICS IN VICTORIA. —"Our readers in Eng.
land," sap the Mei/Jeerer Argus, "will suipect us of making an extrsvahant demand upon their credulity
when we inform them that the general election now in
progress in this colony turns chiefly on the question of
protection, and that there is every probability of a
majority being returned to Parliament in favour of
artificial scarcity and increased taxatiar. With a
population 1083 than that of Liverpool and Manchester
combined, with only one sixtieth iif the area of the
country under cultivation, and with only one-twentieth
part of its auriferous ground actually worked upon, it
Is humiliating to have to make an admission so dis,
paraging to the intelligence of our fellow-colonists."
ETIQIITTE IN HAVANA. This is carriage.
driving etiquette in Havana :—Whenever a carnags
arrives, the jaunty footman jumps from his neat,
springs to the door, doffing his glossy leaver with hie
right hand, opens the door with his left, and stands
there, a miniature Beau BrummeL Just as the ladies
rise to vacate the carriage, the driver, (sitting holt
uprioht in his seat, with reins in his left hand nearly
in aline with his chin, and whip perpendicular in hie
right), suddenly, and with military precision, places
the whip in hie left hand, and taking his beaver in
his right, holds it at a respectful elevation.
WORK AND PLAT.— University athletic sport"'
are said to develope Pluck. Very likely they do.—
Punch.

THE yaw "DOCTOR" OF THE CHURCH.—His
Holiness Pope Pius has just formally conferred the
1 "Doctor of the Church" upon St... \ Iphonsue Liguori,
who died in 1787, and was canonzel early in the pre
sent century. "There are," says Benedict XIV.,
doctors in the Church and doctors of the Church; th•
former are many; the latter title belongs to few, sod
I these alone the Church a !dresses and salutes in her
Liturgy with the words, '0 Doctor optime, Eeeloir!
Sanche bonen, and allows the Creel to be sung in the
Mass of their festivals as in that of Apostles and
Evangelists." Indeed, It is said that in the eighteen
centuries and more of the Christian era this title his
been conferred on only 17 learned writers before Si,
Alphonaus Liguori. Catholic Opinion says that this
act of the Holy fine had been solicited by no less than
Sod Bishops—that is, by a large al:1j silly of the
episcopate of all countries, and by 25 generals of
religious orders, besides theological faculties ani
chapters. Nothing could more forcibly prove how
widespread has become the influence and Low gr.g
the reputation for sanctify and learning of Si,
Alphonsus during the SO years that have elapsed since
his death. It is a remarkable proof of the unity ,f
sentiment which pervades the Episcopate of the British
Isles, that every Bishop, without one exc,ption, in
England, Ireland, and Scotland, signed the petition to
the Holy See for the Doctorate of St. Alphonse& It
only remains to add that St. Alphonsus was Bishop of
St. Agatha, in the Kingdom of Naples, and the
founder of the Redempturist Order of monks, and DI
the cloistered nuns of the same name. His religions,
spiritual, and causticsl writings amount to several
volumes, including a Treatise on Christian Perfecto,.,
Eleditat On: on the Eternal Truths; most of the,e have
been translated frotn the Italian into French, German,
and Spanish, and the li,deroptorist Fathers in England
are busy on an English version of the Saint's collected
works. •

A LMIDLOAVIS OPINION.—In the new edition
of Charles Lamb's writing is a funny anecdote of
Wordsworth. The porson with whom the Lambe
boarded at Enfield ch argedone shilling extra when
they had a fnend to dinner; but when Wordsworth
was the guest be charged one and sixpence. Lamb
remonstrated, saying, "Hoe a great poet." "Don't
know about the groat port," repliedthe practical land.
lord, "but he eats a great lot."

DELIVERY OF LEITERS ON SIINDAT.—In London,
on Monday evening, a public meeting, convened by the
Wm king Men's Lord's Day Meet Aseociation, was held
in the. Freemasons' Hall, in etapport of Mr. Charles
Reed's Bill for relieving the provincial postmen from
their compulsory Employment on the Sunday. Mr.
Girdlestene occupied the chair, and in opening the pro.
ceerlinga said it appeared to him a great anomaly ithat
while in London, the great centre of commerce, they
could do without a Sunday delivery of letters more than
20,(00 men were employed in the provinces during the
whole of the Sabbath Day as on week days. Many of
three men had to travel 16 and 20 miles on the Sunday,
while the indoor officials had to work from seven to
eight hours per day. The great bu' kof the traders in
the provinces did not require a Sunday delivery, gml
their letters were seldom opened until the Monday
morning, Several resolutions were passed ; and the
llev. Mr. Murphy woved the adoption of a petition to
the House of Commons in favour of Mr. Reed's Lill,
which was also agreed to. The proceedings conalialcd
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

ACTION FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT,—At Man-
chester, on Monday, a young man named Moss brought
an action in the County Court against Captain Lane,
Governor of the City Gaol, for false imprisonment.
The plaintiff was some time ago employed as second
warder in the gaol. One day he was superintending
some prisoners who were cleaning a corridor. Another
warder reported MOFS because one of the men went
into the warder's office for a scrubbing-brush. Moss
was cons quently detained in the gaol after the mull
hour, and was forced back when he attempted to leave.
Subs( quently Moss broke a window, and was hand-
cuffed. Ile was taken to the police-station on a Sun-
day morning, and next day was fined 40s. by the
magistrates. After heariog the evidence the jury
awarded him 4:40 for false imprisonment and loss of
character. There was much cheering in the court, and
Captain Lane was hissed by a number of loiterers no.
leaving.
RAILWAY Us INTELLIGEt S— Natiolle have theiz
Emblems. That of Canada should be a mammoth
Elephant. Caned,, bas a Grand Trunk.—Punch.

&GAL REPARTEE.—Mr. Pettigrew, of South
Carolina, was as famed for repartee 83 for legal
acumem. On one occasion he entered the Court of
Common Pleas, Abbeville District, clad in a lines
summer suit. Ile had to Wee a jury suit at once, and
borrowing a black robe from a fellow.barrister, went
at it. Carolina has all the old English form and fuss,
and the judge said, "Mr Pettigrew, you have on
light coat. You can't speak.' Pettigrew rei,lied,
"May it please the bench, I conform strictly to the
law. Let me illustrate : The law says that a barrister
shall wear a black gown and coat and your Honour
thinks that means a black cud?' " Yes," said the
judge. "Well, the law also says the sheriff shall wear
a cocked hat and sword. Does your Honour hold
that the sword must be cocked as well as the hat !" He,
was permitted to go on.—"Edifor's Draiocr,"in Harker' a
Ntto Monthly Magazine.

MP. VOYSET off EDINBURGII.—On Tuesday
night the Rev. Mr. Voysey, late vicar of Bralaugh,
lectured In E liziburgh en "Twenty•five years in
the Church of England." In the oeuvre Of his fet
masks he said that if the Tbirty-Nine articles Wed
not soon decently buried the Church must be diseatab-
lishcd. It must he reformed or die. " 1 have only
now," he said, " to let it be known to those who cart
to know it what course I have resolved to take.
Theologically I shall endeavour to do as I have done
hitherto, only with no freerriot hatever upon my
Immune—namely, to proclaim what I bAieve to be
the highest truth sb ut God and man, to teach, or,
rather, to try to penmade my bearers to forswear, as
.have hitherto done, authinitative and dogmatic po i.
tione, and to lead every one to think for himself.
Politically, I hall sill strive, as before, to promote
religious liberty, aiming hi secure that end first for
the Church established in this realm by the abolition
of dogmatic standards of belief." Mr. Voysey was
both cheered and hissed during the lecture.
THE PAR:6 PIOEON P,r, --TOO f0:1t Of M-
c:losing 15,000 ordinary and 500 Bvo weirs of official
despatches ia a small quill, and attaching the latter to
the tail feather of a pigeou in sail a manner as not to
impede the bird's light, or to incommode its and to
cause it to dieembarrass itself of its precious burden,
was accomplished, and the means hy which it was
effected are highly interesting. The result was not
attained by one effort ; at brat the deepatchee were
written by hand on the thinnest paper known, that
called in Pence peliere, from its resemblance to the
inner skin of an onion; next, the manuscript messages
were photographed microscopically on paper; thirdly,
the despatches were set up in type first, and then
reduced by photography, which allowed of maker
diminution in e're 'and afforded more legibility when
enlarged. Icaatly, an important iiroprnf mint WWI
c eel by sending the almost imponceptible mesaages
on thin Idm. of coiludion. There iiit..a were ten times
thinner and lighter than ihe yentr iiniiady mentioned,
PO that a pigs o wilt cn....lEd to r. ry an immensely
increareil hush: at o ?Wit any r lr ional weight or
volume- in free% with a Zimilitnion of bath. The
system was co: ceived and worked e-st by Al.
&cher& Director-General of Telegraphs, with tbn aid
of AIM. Bareswell, Blake, and licafollye, wbr, were at
Tours. By the original mode of prneerding forty
pages of despatches were prepared and forwarded;
two pages of photographic paper, each measuring GO
by :15 millimetres (2 2-5 in. by 12.5 in.), containing
210 despatches; these were sent tom Tours is October
and November.—Paris Ciltrespondent of the Engineer,