The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

POLITICS OF THE PAVEMENT.
Duna Man. Torchlight meeting! Why torchlight?
DononstraliVe Cad. A nything for all ,up,—Punch.

I,Plisccllncous .sLtetitgeme,

OCME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

TFIR FRIVOLOUS PARMA/4s. —The correspon-
dent of the Daily Telegraph, shut up in Park says
Not forgetting that thus is the seventeenth eay of the
siege, the Parisians seem to me just as frivolous as
ever. Abeinthe, chartreuse, brandy, and grog Ameri-
coin continue to be consumed as gaily and unsparingly
as though Bismarck and Moltke were empty names, Cr
as though Paris bad no more to do with the war cf
1870 than she had with the death of Lopez and the
victory of Brr zil over Paraguay. As for the general
sights and scenes of the boulevards, I have never seen
loose women of the lowest order, and repulsive mendie
cants of both sexes awl every age, so multitudia,pus or
so importunate. There was a theory that with the
state of siege the dolorous sisterhood would pass out of
sight. The old Imperial police, indeed, made a haul
or two, and dragged a net through the boulevards,
during cxe or two nights before the commenc inent of
the riege. It was believed that no loose woman would
be tolerated, or permitted to ply her trade, while Paris
was in mourning, and while, at any rate in theory, all
her eons were brave. But it soon transpired th it the
, unhappy women arrested by the Imperial moucharda
' were aLI Germane; and, with the easily aroused ens.
pinion which the circumstances around no are so apt to
engeeder. Parisians love to tell you that Bismarck and
Moltke had found their ablest and most efficient epics
among the 4,000 t:erman "gay women" of Paris.
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A SAD STORY—An inquest has been held in
London, at the House of Correction, ("oldbath- fields, on
the body of Clement Bayley, aged 20, who had died
in the prison. Tim deceased was a medical student,
and had married a young lady whose parents were in
a we'd position. Shortly after his marriage he took to
drinking, and became involved in betting transactions.
An engagement at the Olympic Theatre WWI pro sired
for him, and he was at'orwwds tried and convicted Ur
stealing a gold watch and chain belonging to an actress
engaged at that establishment. He was sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, and immediately after his
removal to ptimn he became ill, and died in the pried'
infirmary from inflammation of the lungs. A verdict
of "heath from natural causes" was returned.
OUT OF HER LATITOG no one lend
Mrs. Malaprop an Atha? One of her sons is a sailor,
and she will persist in saying that be is now in the
Specific Ocean.—Pimeh.
Tax CHAMPAGNE VINTAGE wr AY.—The fol-
lowing (published in the Wine Trade Rtrieu) is an ex.
tract from the letter (.7 a champagne manufacturer at
Ay, dated September 30 :
We are busily engaged In securing our crops of grapes,
In which we are not Impeded by the German troops passing
through the town every day, but receive every protection
from he commanding t Meers. I feel it due to them to ac-
knowledge this, and the whole world will be grateful to them
for their forbearance awl aid, when the 'smilers of mail
other erinies would, uniier similar circumatsaicos, have I ern
turned loose into our vineyards, not only to eat up the b nit
so ttniptingly lsplayed In their sight, but also to trample
down and destroy the plants themselves. Such consider ste
conduct rill T a c,e lit on the .crs, and exhibits in a
striking light the discipline of the ',ldlers In the German
etudes."

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Ti* Ban " Rani, MARRIAGE Act." --The
Panctsi Louis&s tngagement. —Punch.

Soma or A I;ainstm J OWE. —Judge Deks I
vane, once the terror of Parisian journalists, and who,
for his never-failing ingenuity in framing reasons f. r a
conviction in every press case brought before him, was
promoted in the latter days of the Empire from the
Tribunal of Carrectioaal Police to the presidency of a
Civil Chamber, has committed suicide. The news is
brought from Paris by balloon, and long details are
given in the Pcuple Sou rev/ in. Before destroying him-
self, he sat up all nidit writing. At three o cicck in
ths morvieg his valet, who had lived with him for 24
years, seeing • light in his belmom, opened the door, and
mok the liberty of re minmendin g his master to go to bed.
The judge ssi i "Presently," and dismissed the servant
in • peremptory tone which he was not in the habit
of using towards him, The man we." shocked to see

how (badly pale the judge looked, arid this was the
more remarkable because he had a red scorbutic face.
At six o'clock, having reained at his desk all the
time, M. Delesvaux rang for hiz e.rvant, gave him a
packet of letters, which he said he was to deliver to
their address, and told him to let nobody disturb him.
A few minutes later a report of sehot was heard, and
M. Delesvaux was found with his head bathed in blood,
and gaite dead. Some of the letters will probably re-
veal the motive/ for the act. Judge Delesvaux, who
was raised to the bench for the zeal which he displayed
as a commissary of police at the Coop d'Elot, was a
lonely man, and scarcely ever went into society.
FIGHTING HT STEAM,—The gentleman whoae
name is identified with a very valuable mode of pro.
during steel—Mr. Berry Bessemer—has written sup
gesting • mode of making steam directly applicable for
the purposes of warfare, which, if successful, would
supersede to a great ottent, the mitrailleuse. He pro.
PIACI to apply the principle of the steam lire engine to
the projection of bullets. lie calculates that, with a
pregame of 1501 he. of steam, loz and 2 2. bullets might
be projected with an initial velocity of 1,600 or 1,800
feet per second, at the rate of 2,000 ptr minute of the
smaller, and 1,000 per minute of the larger missiles.
Mr, Bessemer proposes to submit detail, to the War-
office ; but he seems confident of the practicability of
c ambining the bullet projector with the traction engine,
and of so producing a warlike machine of most for-
midable and deadly character.
THC Romezt Quesnox.—The Westminster
Gazette publishes the following protest id the Catholics
of Great Britain against the invasion of Rome, which
has been adupted by a committee of which the Duke of
Norfolk is chairman : -

"We, the undersigned Catholics of Great Britain, have
witnessed with grief and iudignati n the invasion nf the
States of the Church, and the assault and capture of Rome,
by the army of King Victor Emmanuel. We hold that to
witness these events in silence would be to connive at a blow
to those first Instincts of honour and justice, without which
security and freedom are Impossible, whether for State. or
individuals. We protest against these acts. We protest
against them In the Interests of public order, of morality,
and of religion. We invite all good citir.hs to j'AU Us In
condemning this great crime against the law of nations We
Invite all honest men to Hu us In condemning this unjusti-
fiable spoliation. We Invite all faithful Catholics to join on
In condemning this act of sacrilege."

DIAMONDS OF THE C'.--Intaigent Police-
men.—Punch.

THE GREAT KRUPP Gdx.—lt is said that the
Prussians have abandoned the intention of bringing up
to the siege of Paris, the great 1,003-pounder Krupp
gun (liteniied to throw a solid shot of 1,2121 b., or a
shell of 1,080111), which many persons will remember in
the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Toe reason given is the
weight of the gun, which is equal, including the car-
riage, to 65 tons; and this would be too great a trial
for the temporary brid4es and pontoons that would
have to be passel. Put the real reason piobably is
the untrustworthinsEs of the monster, which cost
£15.750 sterling, occupied 16 month., in construction,
and has never, we believe, been fired.
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OLD SOLDIERS. -A return, prepared in Decetn•
her last, of the old soldier. in Chelsea ft spital abows
SO Peninsular men • 53 Waterloo men; Holland, 5 ;
America, 4; Nepau, 3; Burmah, 7; Bhurtpoor cam-
paigu, 2; China, 8 • Alfghaniatan campaign of 1939,
11, and of 1842, 6; Seinde, 1; Gwalior campaign, 15;
SIAM, 18; Punjab, 19 ; Sutthern Africa, 7; the
Crimea, 32; the Indian Mutiuiee, 19; and New
Zealand, 7. _ _

TO BE SOLD WITH OR WITHOUT HER CHIL-
DREN !—The following advertieemente are taken from
recent numb:r of the Diario de la Marina, of
Haysonah

For want of money, will be sold cheap Two healthy
and robust Negro Boys, suitable Co amuse children, and do
some hand labour.—Addreas. Alalogallo " To be sold, •
Negress of els years, good and serviceable knows how 1,0
sow, mind children, and serve table —Apply, Celle Comp,
stele, 126' •To be :old a Negress, 26 years of age; alone
or with her child of three years ; exaellent cook, nurse,
sewer, and embrolderer.—Calle liernaze, 28.'"

WHERE'd Ttt6 Devit..—A Scotch g.mtleman,
who has recently taken a run through the South, eaye
that the only negro song he heard that had a vindictive
turn about it was one dating from an early day in the
confl.ct, and was said to have been first sung by an old
negro prophetess at a jubilee meeting of emancipated
slaves near Waehington. It run thus:

" If de debble do not catch
DAVik dat Confederate wretch,
And roast and Momse dot rebble,
It hat is de use of any debble I"
—"Edaor's Drawee," in Harper's New Mo.ithly Maga-

TFIE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PEMBERTON.
—A little incident connected with this lamented officer,
who fell a sacrifice at Sedan while acting as the mili-
tary correspondent of The Times, may not be without
general interest. Shor:ly before his departure from
England, and desiring to leave some souvenir to his
brother ofibiers, by whom he was beloved, he in-
structed Mr. Wreeter to manufacture a clock for pre-
sentation to the Guards' mes.s. This clods, elaborately
di sigmd, and having for its facade a representation of
St. James's Palace, is now complete, and bears the fol-
lowing inscription, suggested by Lieutenant-Colonel
Pemberton himself ; —"in memory of the many cheery
guards we have had together."
AMERICAN EXPI,CrATIONS.—The Paris Corres-
pondent of the Neie York Times sends the following to
that journal :
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"Tile flag of the United States of Europe flu already been
designed, and floats prematurely from a shop window in the
late Rue de Dix I.XcenOre, for a week Rue tiu Quatro Sep•
teinhre, and to day Rue Mac-Mahon. The above national
du hn on a plain red ground the blue cornier borrowed
from our national banner, with as many eters as there are
nationalities on the European Continent."

THE DERIVATIOS 'Jr THE TERM " EAVESDROP-
PER "-A contemporary gives the following account of
its origin : "At the revival of masonry in 1717, a
curious punishment was inflicted upon a man svho
I s%ened at the door of a masonic meeting in order to
hear its secrete. He was summarily sentenced "to
be placed under the eaves of an outhouse while it was
raining hard, till the water ran in under the collar of
his coat and out at his shoes." The penalty was in-
flicted on the spot and the name has been perpetuated
ever since."