The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-28 00:00:00

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tell me, did you take a drop of anything that day !*
"Why, your honour, I took my share of • pint of
spirits. ' Your share of it? Now, between our-
selves., wasn't your share of it all hut the pewter? "
"Why then, dear knows but that's true for you,
and poor Darby recognised in the lutist of laughter
! that arose, that he had committed himself end his
1 kiends.—From 'The Book of Modern Aneed,otes,"
A SUBMARINE RAILWAY. —The American
papers date that the railroad bridge which is to ex' eud
acmes the harbour of San•Fraucisco hem the main-
land to Goat Island, and to which the citizens have
been opposed, is to be somewhat of an architecteral
aovelty. It is to ran through animmeiase tube of boiler
Iron, which supports itself by its own buoyancy, and is
held 30 feet below the surface by a complicated ey,teen
of cables, anchors, and buoys. The tube is 20 feet in
diameter, and is strengthened by an internal frniee-
work of iron beams. The prinoipal problem with the
enlieer was to havethe buoyancy of the tubes egnal the
we ht of strain of cars, so wit° require the min eof
one °rage or support. Should the bridge proven 6lleCeSS
submarine railroad tubes may be used where regular tun-
nels would be impracticable, or at least very eel .es E.,1
RAISINS AND Fins—Among what are c.tin-
Mercially known as dried fruits, the leading posiCon
Is occupied by Valencia raisins (says a writer in the
Daly Telegraph). From time immemorial they have
been the favourite of English housewives; but the
trade has undergone serious changes during the pre,ent
generation. Valenciae take their name from the
panieh province in which they grow—not, as is often
grimoPwP°.es nor from
rte roxpttheththemw.n oTfheVcahlieenfejash'ipwphinicg place
hit
Denis, on the East coaet of Spain, and labea has
neither
exports
lately acquired a considerable position among the
secondary ports. The growers are farmers and
peasants—mon of them with very small holdings.
Sometimes fifty boxes will be the extent of a mans
production. Qualities vary with the skill and ap-
pliances peed in drying the fruit. The general rule in
Valencia is to prepare a lye of burnt vine-stalks, and
dip the fruit in it before exposing it to the sun. It
Is taken out in a parboiled condition, and Nature
finis' hes the process. This, though simple in debcrip-
tion, Is difficult enough in practice, as other producers
know who vainly attempt to rival the successful
manipulation of the Valencian farmers.—" In the
name of the prophet, Figs ! " is a pions eitionlatien
which might be sincerely echoed in St. Botolph'elatiet
The dried fruit merchants would discover a fine hole
in their returns were figs to go out of fashion. Turkey,
which is their most approved source of supply, can
fstrnish them with 10,000 tons pet annum. These are
tat Elemes, which, in small boxes of from one to a
dozen pounds, assist so effectively in the decoration of
grocers' windows.
Ecoicomien. I:7sit OF COAL.-5001. having
been placed at the disposal of the Council of the
Society of Arts, for promoting, by means of prime or
otherwise, economy in the use of coal for domestic pm,
poses, the Council have decided to offer prizes, in, Ind.
nag the Society's Gold Medal and £5O, for each of the
following objects :-1. For a new and improvtd
system of grate suitable to existing chimneys as
generally constructed, which shall with the least
amount of coal answer best for warming and
ventilating a room; 2. For a new and improved
system of grate' suitable to existing chimneys as
generally constructed, which shall with the Pate
amount of coal best answer for cooking food, cem-
blued with warming and ventilating the room; 3. For
the best new and improved system of apparatus which
shall, by meanie of gas, most efficiently and economib
rally warm and ventilate a room • 4. For the best
new and improved system of apparAns which shall, by'
means of gas, be beet adapted for cooking, combined
with warming gad ventilating the room; 5. For any
new and improved system or arrangements not in-
cluded in the foregoing, which shall efficiently and
economically meet domestic requirements.
LORD DERBY ON LIBER&TED DONVIOTS.—The
other day Lord Derby presided at the annual meeting
of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, held at
Manchester. He said that without some agency of
that kind, the general rule would be, once a convict
always a convict Imprisonment must be penal in the
first instance, reformatory only in the second, not the
result on the prisoner only, but the deterring effect on
others having to be considered. The reformatory
agency of a gaol at best must be imperfect, and very
little good would come of it if prejudice shut the doors
of all honed men against the released prisoner. The
law gave him a right to live, and it was better he
should be getting a living for himself than preying
upon society, and being maintained in gaol when de-
tected. His lordship alluded to the decrease both in
commitments of juvenile off endere, and of sentences of
penal servitude, and though some part of the decrease
was attributable to the demand for labour, no doubt
reformatory agencies were powerfully, though
contributing to the diminution of crime. Lord Derby,
in acknowle,lging a vote of thanks to him for presiding,
expressed his opinion that sentences for very abort
terms of imprisonment were, as regards; ref winatory
influence, altegether useless; still the diffi ulty re-
mained, what punishment to inflict for comparative,y
offences, which nevathelese cannot be over-
rored altogether where the offender was, from his
ary position, entirely incapable of paying a fine.
pecuniary
had also been made to the Increase of
drunkenness. If he thought there was any real in-
crease of drunkenness, he should take a min Ii less
hopeful view of our proimects. But he really thought
that the explanation of the present state of things, cooe n-
victions for dritske.sinese, era. the incr....ea vigilance of
the police, and the increased attention paid to th e matter.
Our. Oorrntrirtsr. NETOHllol7ll.B.—England
Is compelled to witnese, and cannot but measure by
her own homely standard, the eccentricities and mis-
haps of her Continental neighbours (remarks The
Times in a leader). The comparative sobriety of her
Own demeanour and its very substantial results justify
her in tendering the advice which is illustrated Icy ex-
ample. Why cannot France and Spain .deecend from
the high region of politic& invention and conetitn-
'Ronal creation and empl7 themselves In the every-day
eintiee of progressive legislation and honed adminis-
tration Nations as well as individuals can languibh

saddle from fever and sleeplessness; from the pre-
occupation of passions and ideas- from more than
mortal ambition and straining after objects out if
place and time. Both France and Spain are u'id
eountries, with long histories, glorious dynasties. ro-
ITHE WORKINO-CLASSEB OF BERLIN. mantic episodes, and catastrophes that have their
, warning, and might even be remembered with plsa-
From the returnsforlB7o it appears that 52 per cent ' sure if they could be contrasted with present tran-
of the total population of Berlin belong to the working I quility. Neither country would like to be told that it
classes, about one third of whom are attached to the had not yet attained to maturity of power, sense and
varicrie factories In and around the city. "The badly action. Yet both are engaced in objects which arc
ventilated workshops and dwellings of these people," proper, indeed, to the youth of nations, bet which in
says Dr. Schwabe, "are fatal to their health, and I'M- old nations mark dotage. Every time a life has its
pit something gloomy and reserved to thsir characters. ' proper action, and that which is not proper to it can.
Their situation IS, moreover aggravates by the state of not but be morbid. Of course, neither France nor her
extreme dependency in which they are placed by the inis strangely imitative neighbour can be expected to retrace
possibility of improving it, and the smallness of their her steps arid place herself just as he was ten, or thirty
salaries. One has always remarked among these or a hundred years ago. But both nations can sit down
workmen a particular propensity for sensuality; more- ,to make the boat of things as they are. Thsy cannot
over, wherever riots break out they are certain to be help growth and material improvedieut. The face of
wrongly represented' and the socialists find the state faith comitries is changing so rapidly that a very foe
of Berlin so favorable to their projects that Herr years show a difference to the leost observant visitor.
Haeenclever, president of the general society of In spite of political changes and dirquietudes, enter.
German workmen, notified that the committee had. I prate, capital, knowledge, and, perhaps, above all the
by an immense majority, decided to hold its annual aaatuph, and happy contagion of this country, force
congress this year in the Premien capital, owing their way, and show what the people can do in epite of
to its having become the centre of the socialist popular idols. Even after a war without precedent for
movement throughout Germany." At one of the ruin and exhaustion, France is paying an indemnity
me-tinge of the society, says the Gazette d'Augskurg fey ind the conception a old financiers. There is
(February 15, 1872), several speaker!, after declaring, no country exeept ours in which money is mere shun-
amidst universal applause, that marriage IVIIM • cal- dint and available for any profitable or urom,r-ing
pable monopoly, demanded the community of women obits'. 80, too, Spain opens out her pone, her
as a right of the working claws who, said they, will metallic resources, and her rivers, aid is now one f the
be contented until they have got rid of a the countries every tourist must have visited. It is but a
absurd frivolitits of religion. few years aline she was almost as unapproachable and
Inhospitable as Turkey or our own neighbours across
the Straits. It is not imtsirieffile she may one day
dual. shassoal. anthracite, brlckdses, Is rad that experiments with pure water, saw- ka.
the
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sad kztares, showed ussi freaks of revolution mattered nothing. They do
su....lptheedansodezitrotvalta
equally well. matter • good deal, but less than people suppose. Just
The Netherlands Association for the Promotion of as • man may be monomaniac, a fool on one point or
labour and Endures, has awarded • gold medal to !Wile. another, an eccentric character, a profligate, or a brute,
Wise van Calcar, a wellknown Dutch authoress, for her and yet be a good man of business and thrive accord-
s:dull= of the following prize question r—c How should
addictio political pe
lmey, ao these coantriee flourish hardly the less for their
Mlle be eterht sad (Idea as (Ideated se to enable marriedWllll,ll to earn an Independent livelihood, and the mulled
toring prosperity and happiness to their respective matisianeettri=in
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