The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

THE " KICKLEBERYS" COMING FROM THE RHINE.

" Anyone can govern," said favour, with his dying breath,
"in a state of it, go ;" and, so 11. r as my experience goes, any
one can lice under that c nation, prcvided he is not given
to wandering at late home itlnut the streets, or otherwise to
susyiclota habits. Last time I lived meter a state of siege
was in Rome, and then I found, as I do here (we are quoting
from Cologne Correspondent of Echo), that it hes a tendency
to widen ore's elbow mut at the hole's. The Kicklebury'a
are tint on the Rhine this year. The E iglish who have been
up the Rhine are now descending and hastening away to
lands where neutrality prevails. There are very few left.
One I met lost now on the stairs of my hotel, who had lost
his pocket-tiook, and with it £4O of circular notes. Another
I build talking the funniest German over his baggage at the
Custom-house. lie had not the key his wife's trunk, and
he could not, comprehend why the officers laughed when he
alibi apologetically, laying his hand on the huge receptacle
of the latest fashions—'' This is my wife." Of course he
meant to say it belonged to his wife, and contained her
clothes, but in his ig tomer° of German lie kept on insisting
that " This is my wife," "with his clothes," and so on.
It may be that some siege of CAgrie will divert our
h oughts, but who does not now associate this city with the
moons scout? "Take si.me, do sir, for yer 'audkerchief,"
aid a stout fellow-countryman to me two year. ago, 011
hoard a Wilma boat ; "I know it's good—l bought it at 11 o •
de- Colon e."

THE FORCE OF SYMPATHY!

The friends and rel Wong of the poor fellow. flock to are
them as tt,ey leave the different railway st,tione, arid weep
and lament over them as if thsy were going to certain death,
and the soldier is overcome by their contagious grief, and
often cries for company, but certainly not from disinclination
to the risks of a clmpaigit. " I had seventeen of my rela-
tions who came to see me off," an officer declared the other
day "They were cli'etly eromen awl all were crying. What
could I do? I cried too, like any calk"

THE " NIARSEILLAISE {YORKE', TO DEATH."
" The ingenuity, and fertility of invention, and vivacity
with which French Journalists are keeping up the 'generous
fire' are worth a little study. First and foremost as a
stimulant to the warlike prospensitiee of the nation is the
' area Reiser' next follows 'Mourir pour Is Petrie ;' next
the ' Chant du IXpart and next Alfred de Mussets's 'La
Rhin Allernand" (writes the correspondent of the Daily
News). "in every theatre, at every public ball, in the
Tuileries palace. the ' Marseillaise ' must Ire had. If the
Government wished to get rid of this air, which acts like
strong wine upon every Frenchman's blood, ro better plan
than this could have been adopted. It is Cuing worked to
death, and every variation is a relief, even when the police
inspire it. Some of the regments that have taken their leave
during the last three or four days have shown their weariness
of the noble old song, and as they have passed along, the
mat lies of it have been fainter and fainter The Parisians
have torn the thing to tat' ere : they are hoarse, and tired,
and reaction is setting in. They must have fresh food before
they will crowd the Boulevards and wake the echoes
again."

THE EMPERORS RAH GRAMMAR!

It was the "town talk" fir ritriS. on Saturday, that the
Emperor's proclamation to the French people contained a
glaring piece of had French. This is riot wonderful, seeing
that while his Majesty is making war on Germany for a
French Idea, the only language he speaks with a native
accent is German. The Emperor, splitting upon the rock of
one of the most difficult verbs In the French language, said,
"J'anOne moo fits avec moi" (I bring my son with me) ;
whereas the proper Academic French should have been
" J'enun;,ne mon file avec too!" (I take my son with me).
The mistake is thought so important that the 0 Inc iat Journal
contains a paragraph correcting It to-day. Mean. hile. on
the walls (if Parte, and of the 36000 communes Of France, the
Emperor's had grammar is herd up to the criticism of village
masters. This little mishap, which is made infinitely worse
by the official notice taken of it, will he of small moment
Indeed in ca=e of that victory of which the French make
no doubt whatever. Then the French Emperor will be
eitabltd to say as proudly as the Klngs of the middle
ages, who not being "delta" made there mark with the
sword's point, "Maio grammatic non vitiat chartant.