The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-16 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

As You WERE. —Shopman : "Yee, you'll find
them's the best boots as ever was."—Customer
(slyly) : "Ah ! when you say that you mean wear."
—Fun.

THE DUKE or LEEDS.—On Monday the Duke of
Leeds completed his 51st year, having been born in
Paris on August 11, 1828. His grace (George Godol-
phin Osborne) is the eldest son of the eighth Duke of
Leeds, by his marriage with Mies Harriette Arundel
Stewart. He succeeded to the dukedom on the death
of his father, which took place in 1872. He is de-
scended from Sir Edward Osborne, knight, who was
Lord Mayor of London in 1582, and who married
Annie, daughter and heir of Sir William Hewitt, one
of the city “Enerchant princes," the life of whose only
child (his future wife) young Osborne had saved in in-
fancy, when she fell from an open window in her
father's house on London bridge into the Thames.

ECONOMIOAL.—Young wife (shopping). "I'm giving
a small dinner to-morrow, and I shall want some
lamb."—Butcher. " 1708'1:11. Fore-quarter o' lamb,
'm ? "—Young wife. "Well, I think three quarters will
be enough I "—Punch.
Mn. GLADSTONE ON THE GENERAL ELECTION.—Mr.
Gladstone, replying to a resolution from a public
meeting at Cambusnethan, writes that he is gratified
to know the Liberals of the country are on the alert.
The moment of the dissolution of Parliament may not
be certain, but the time will soon come when con-
stituencies will have to consider carefully whether
they are or are not content with the mode in
_which the
government of the country is at present carried on.

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AN ALPINE ACCIDENT.—The ZuppitFe, the highest
of the Bavarian Alps, rising to an elevationof 9,840 ft.,
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lua andlfiyat uaell tdperrine accident.teh ed guide,
who had himself made the ascent 250 times. When
they were coming down, " snow storm caught them
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One of the ladies became ill and was carried by Roger
a considerable distance. While thus engaged, he
stumbled and fell. Both his arms was broken, and
his head coming in contact with a rock was badly cut.
The ladies hurried down the mountain and procured
help. But he was then unconscious from loss of blood,
and after a few hours expired. He leaves a wife and
four children.

FEMALE TELEGRAPH CLEREs.--There are only 81
female telegraph clerks employed in the Imperial
telegraph service of Germany, and they are all in the
Grand Duchy of Baden, where they were "taken
over" with the telegraphs when, a few years ago,
these were purchased by the Empire. Their salaries
average from 750 to 1,050 marks (237 to £52) a year,
besides an allowance for lodging. But it has been de-
termined by the authorities that any vacancies which
may occur shall be filled by male clerks, not by
females. Even in the private telegraph service of the
railway companies, female clerks are "few and far
between."
A NEW VOCATION FOR WOMEN.—A writer suggehts
in Macmillan a new vocation for women, namely, that
women ought to be gardeners. At a time when agri-
culture is decaying and fruit seems to be the last
resort of some districts, while women are feeling most
deeply their exclusion from the ordinary walks of life,
why should they not take up a profession to which
there is no barred door, and which is suited to their
ease? The idea is not a bad one, and those who
organize such movements might do worse than pay
some attention to it. —Court Journal.

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Cunt GRANO Saus.—The poet tells us to "Drink
deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring." From this it
may be inferred that it must be disagreeable, for we
know that the way to take a nauseous done of physic
is to swallow it down very quickly. Perhaps the
Pierian spring tastes something like sea-water from
having "Attic salt" in it.—Fun.
LANDLORDS AND FARM BRUM:NOS.—The Graphic
says :--" A correspondent points out that the spread
of high farming within the last quarter of a century
has been such that even on mail farms the barns no
longer suffice to hold the crops or the sheds the,cattle.
As to implements, they suffer much injury by being
left uncovered. He suggests that landlords should
take upon themselves the general enlargement and r•-
construction of their barns and sheds, should offer
where possible the use or loan of machines, and some-
times the gift of manures. By doing so our corres-
pondent thinks the landlord would succeed in obtain-
ing full rents, while securing to the benefit of the pro-
perty an amount of money equal to that reduction on
the rent over which, once made, the landlord has no
control to cee that it is put to farming uses.",