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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-24 00:00:00

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WITH COMPLIMENTS T if tWARDEN CASTLE.—
A Welsh Grammarian rends rts • conundrum. As •
Scotch lady card of a sermon, "Watt we has the
presumption to understand it?" It in this. Why is
Mr. Gladstone like a Welsh Apposition Pronoun?
"fl-cause when he is marked by emphasis, be retnii.a
his Radical and atrong form ..l—Piencit.
I SIIOCHING CARFLICSBNIIBB.—At liatiTtou Rave
oa Friday, ..;eorge Beard went to a ride gallery Mel
Paid for a shot with a loaded rifle, when ho playfully
, threatened to shoot his mother. He then turned to
the erowd, putting the ride to hie shoulder, and jesksil
lit off. The Pullet hit Adrecl Goodman, embedding
I itself in his thigh, from where it hoe riot )et been ex.
trneted. Bard was arrested, and taken before the
county magistrates, and fitted £2 and conlc, or 14
weeks' imprisonment.
THZ I,,T6HIIATAISAL FX,IBTtON. Tbe
proved state of aff sire in France since the annihilation
of the Comuitivii•ts hru heel) i^ a measure, mnifriord
at the London International Exhibition. Tho French
annexe, which a few weeks ago was an atm.-lute blenk,
was on Mon lay opened tinier ciscionatancts that
promh e • very eucceeeful future. Ilia Hovaliiighnees
the Prince of Waln, and the Prince-ea of Wales, meow-
panics' by Prince To k and Prioress YiLmy, Prince
Christian, and suite, igspeeted and passed through the
part of the Exhibition, with which hie It yel Highness
was, in 'unofficial capacity of President of her Majesty's
coin windon era. pleaseil t ex pre. his entire satiefactieo.
This addition to the Exhibition in one of very conebiere
able ituportance alike from the extensivn diliiny of the
"exhibits" as from the fact f it. cimploting, no far as
the different continental countrien are concerned, the
object if her Itlnj styles commbsiontra for without
aornething like • "chow" loon France this the fis4
of a series of international exhibition., would have
been se rionely Md. olive. Tile French Court is situated
On the south•cast. side of the building. arid 00,014
large area of ground, Indeed, it forme a kind of exhitd.
lion in itself, insomuch as it is suclosed on the west aide
by • portion of the Royal lloidcnlturat Gardens, and
will no dou'ot offer to all visitors a great c ntre of
itttractinr. in addition to a number of good plcturis
by well-known French artiste, Franco is repr. seated
by come of her principal manufacturers, whose unit:.
nificent production., by the way, wre here and there
nterspersed with English stalls and show care.
OH3III.OLBOIY DROZGHT.—Mr. Thomas Hughes,
'M.P., in a lecture lately delivered to workMgmen on
the subject of America, spoke favourably of the
stringent but not absolutely prohibitory liquor laws of
ichuatts. He remarked that

" The practical result co these stri Igent laws WA., that a
dreeken man was nor. hare to be aeon, aid that a tiOnity one
voull hove to travel thr,ugh many atrctrsi betore he came to
a lhoor shop ^

Hers are goo.l and ill ; but more ill thau good. It la
good to ree a drunken man nowhere ; It is ill, twinz
thirsty, mit to be able to get beer anywhere. A just
Fijnor law would repress diunkelintas by some moans
rot neeissitating sober people to hilt for thirst.—
Punch.

L'Ari.lll 01 Tan WEED I—A o rrespandent

Lays :
The great c dimMtlon left to the Emperor at Chbethrust
le his fragrant growl, which he sushi. Momently Who I
wee lii Drainage I Feld sow the King of that cow try with.
out • clear I u his inotth Almost alt the other K logs and
Princes of K mope smoke, thon,h %Intl mo, ins derethm.
hive more than once seen the handsome IS allege of Au-tile
with a eigu In her (ratty mouth. Mr Q wet:, I am thst.klid,
does not .131 dho: hat all her sous to, and her good husind
lwed lit, we •.g. Few man smoke more cigars of an
evec.lng than tin Prince of Wald. I wonder line, member
ii the Beech of /I shops ei.j Is • mild clear. I understand
snore than cite right rtveretdl prelate done. If so. can It be
ac elogularly sensual an Indulgence aa D.,ctor says ?

66 rif R PATRON AND THR GAOL " - Good
Father Hisciutte says that "France defends the
cattle of society at large.' Ono would'ilt Co much
obj•ct to this (,hough she had better mind her own
bto icePt), but for same time the capital of France has
been CI. fending the cause of the s ciety that ought not
to be at htette.• Punch.

ALL FELL INTO TEE TeAP! --A curious atory
is told of three young candidatts fee • Scer lien
roini-try. The first one put upon Lis trial, • hile
putting on him robes. happened to &eery an ancient-
looking well.worn roll of paper, whiA prove d lobe a
perarion Upon the text, "Jacob waa a plain man,
dwelling in ten's." S-ring that the old sermon was
n.uch better than tie new one, the aspirant to pulpit
le °mum took peso onion of it, delivers d tt an his own, and
then returned it to its old re,t'elg-place. The sermm
WWI a good one, and plessesel the Mestere, although they
would have preferred one delivered wiehnut a boric.
Great was their astembehtnent the folloyeing Sunday
when preacher number two treated them with the some
sermon from the tame text; but it was too much for
Sodtth h patience when • third minister, fohing into
le e ranee trsp, commenced be rerenou by anannec ng
'hat Jscrob wag a plate man, awelNeg in ten's f. and
one old woman relieved the feelings of ler fedow-
cuff erem sby eon:lshtar*, " Led dwell time I Ia he
never gaun to ildf"
PROPENE you FIRS PvLITP.—Tbe Paven.ent of
PAtiq i 4 raid to cow ht chit fly of asphalt. Another
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account of it in the more cmrt'ot— Voris is paved with
good intentiona—Punch.

Toe FIRAYOR OF 171 R CE!,6I/B.—ATTIOng the
various (lakecut of the recent ernmeration 14
be people, the payment. F thoon ecgog, d la the WM k
han not been one of the lee t arduous. Th. enumerai
tore naturally winked to be pail vle bout delay, aud
the llegietrarieeneral war equally deeroua that their
welliearne el fees should be haudrd over to them wilt, all
poi elide dreptetch. The State, bowel% r, re; resented
by the Contrahr and Auditor-General very properly
el (paired that the accuracy of every i ingle claim made
by the 35,430 local offiotro shi uld be leafed in the
countey before bent forwarded to the Central-office,
where they had again to undergo a rigid examination,
wtech ent Ailed upon the accountant and clerks no MA
lab sue and reaponeibility. The payment,' of the local
oft erne employed in Evil sod and Wales commenced
on the 21ot of April and by the 13 h of May, 22.559
emirate, including 411 ounmeeirs, had teen exsinlnetl
and the cloims of 22,128 t fibers amounting to £4B 812
ha 1 been paid Between the 13th of May and the Ott
of June 13.498 additional accoteds, includirg 193 sum-
maries have been received and examined, and the
claims of 13 302 CffiCelP, anieriading to £29 458, have
b en told. Thus in the conree of lers than eight weeks,
36,057 account, were examicied, some of them conrietirg
I pages of figures; and payuiente amounting
to £78,3(0 were made to 3.5,430 local officers Ta nearly
every corm the payments were made on the day follow-
tog the receipt of the cleina from one of the 627 ',firer
iutendent reaistrine iu Euglarid anti Wales
TOR 8,,1T PLACR FOR Co/MOS k."--
" Pow Commune."—ruNcii.
'Fir lUNP,IAL Ec )110111 .—flow the Prussiatis
"do" their triumphal eat ic explained by a Berlin
c irrespordent, who mays we, in B isle, have no notion
of cheap effective decors:rho, in our benighted is:aud.
ft ni statues if cot of marble, moot lie of plaster of
Paris at the c. mmoneot. Orr Adel& mutt le of
hammered metal ; our pillars, if not of gone, of hobow
wood, Thnn weave thaeriefaced ; and when we res rt
t ehans we try to get them out of bond mei, cover
of Wit, no that tie foible rest:i. not get into our secret.
The Berlin, ro are superior to ouch weakeiemser, and to
in fir cheapao FS ith a frank fate. A column in the
himiea is constructed In thin wirer'. The pedestal Iran
open frame of wood ;out of it tics, arranged on the
outekle of • circle, a numb. r est wooden splinta about
two Inches apart. They are united at top by a capital,
consirtivg apparent,y of canvas dinteoiled by rare.
I Lis simple structure having wood in the Hecht of
r several hours the men arrive who ore to convert it
Into a column in the much "tote. This they do by
coy oing pedestni sad ecantlinyo over with stiritehed
convaa, all eh Ii 5 puts on. Tusui trow the velites
may be expected, aid they will, as taste decrees, turn
out a chaste coleme of snow-white Perin or ono of
porphyry, granite, or scaglida, worth about a tea
pound note.
A SOIRItIIIO BET.— 0:4 MEN E .1Z BM R.—
Pundt.

_
THY EMPEROR NAPJLEGE.—On Saturday, Mr.
Brown, contractor for the eewage work, in cenetetion
with the Greenwich District Board of Work, with his
manager, Mr. Steven., gave the &hung treot to the
workmen •mph)} ed, who aswernbled at the "Black
More," at Skimp, at dinner. On their w-ay into the
country the whole party etopped oppopire Camden
lieuee, Chieelhurst, awl the loud which accompanied
them played "God pave the queen," and '' Auld laug
epee. The cheore which were given at the terminta
nation of each air brought the Emperor Napo': oe, the
Linprese, and the Prince Imperial cut of the gates,
when, with their cute, they walked &crow the common,
to the puhaie highway, and were wcai veil with heel
cheer,. Ac the Emperor %vat approaching, Mr. Pook,
the golicitor to Mr. Drown, wee deputed to aldreaa the
Emperor on the part of all present, which he did by
stating that it we the earnest hope of acme whom he
stood there to represent that the cloud which had
Lung so long over France might eons be diepelled, and
that recent midi:atones might be followed by the res-
toration of tae Emphe and the consolidation of the
triendehip which by his moans had existed between
France awl England. The Emperor, who was visibly
aII c rd, said, in reply, he felt 'mach flattered at the
rematke oda:rowed to him. Ile felt that he had always
hien a god friend to England. (Lou! cake from the
melt:nen, " We know you 11111,1,—yon hate," accem-
pania al by three eheere toe the Emperor, the Emprars,
and the Prince Imperial.) The Emperor then oh iok
handm with eeveral of those present, upon which the
baud etruck up, 'We may be happy yet," and the
Emperor, Emprese, and the Prince Imperial and suite
returned to the house, amid the ringing cheers of all
pro sent.

•
TRRILLING ADYZEITtIr.E WISH • 8.-SR IN lena.
--A few nights ag,a, a genie:situ r turoiag alon; t;.e
Grand Trunk Ito,al to ltmeeguage. in a palkee, was
suddenly awakened by Ids hearers dropping his pelkee
in the middle of the road, and screaming out, " Ile or,
li etr." On looking nut, he raw a bear within a few
yards of the palkee. llofoitunately, the traveller b,-itig
of a pew eful di pasitism, corn i -d no more effective arms
with him than a drawin;;-roolu pistol, which was cost.
elsiered tufient to inspire terror amongst the natives
of Bengal. But Bruin was not to be so easily ttrrified,
and he approached the makes.. The traveller's finit
thoughts were to appenee L.a eneu y, and having a
small dock of refreshments with him, he threw out a
hard-boiled egg as a Wren of friendship. This Bruin ,
shor,ly smarmed, and then apoaared closer to the I
plikee, like Oliver Twist asking for more. The pistol
then appeared the only eafegt.ard, and as Bruin's in.
quisitivenese led him close to the palkee dGorP, the
I travel's r made up his mind to do or die in the attempt
Ito kill the bear with that weapon. Waiting tdl the
bear came close to the small aperture left open between
the palkee doors to watch the enemy's movemente, the
traveller raieed his fatal weapon and fired at Bruirs's
eye. The result was nit. Again the bear sniffed at
the mall aperture, Ai if in search of another egg, or
something more enbeantial in the chaps of human
flesh. 11.ipy thought! W animals dread fire.
Seizlng a bun of Bryant and Mayl'a fusses, the traveller
struAs two or three of them on the boa, and thrust
them through the aperture into Bruin'a noatrils. Happy
result ! Bruin fled. Traveller tecaped.
Always carry Br. net and May's fuseee. This is Lot an
advertisement, but a fact,