The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-22 00:00:00

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Northi._ ,712 acres. Much of "AS BATHERS AND BUOTS.—There 11F118 perhaps
probably been ~.... out of cultivation on account of something in what the wiseacznAsbo had narrowly
some drawback—its inferior quality, its remoteness escaped drowning meant, when; hnsaid that he would
from the population or its being more costly thou
the never go into the water again until he had learned to
surrounding land to bring into a productive date. swim. By accounts front Lausanne, a man was
TheiniEnissi& estimie ;that there l- in drowned the oth,, y iii Lake Lemma. "lie does
Elan a aid% a not up tic to hay u a swimmer, and wag tempted
oFeom ti , appagutly 111 Iltniu land berwise out of his depth leo e use of an ilrbelt." If bathers
unsuitable for eultisation i—in the North Biding of , who are no swimmers will oaiefully mind to swim
Yorkshire, 200,051 acres ;in the West Eidirc,lol,lBl.: within shallow water until able to swim without cup-
acres; in C'umberland, 100.168 acres; in Westinore- , port, tifeY will then be in case to strike out into deep
land, 111,004 acres; in Tirecon, 120,285 acres • in without fear and without foolishness. Otherwise not.
MontgolnerAhire, 85,918 46.84 in 51orionethsiiircrtLook yon, dear realer, io.journing at the sea-side, now
142,550 as,res ; in Devonshire, 79,835 acres ; in Radnor- i
turning over these pages on the yellow MOOS—and of
shire. 45,955 acres ; in Carmarthenshire, 40,789 acres ; I course not being taken out of your depth there- never
in Lancashire, 45,333 acres; in Druhant, 30,001 acres; I go out of it into the waves until you are able to swini
in Denbighshire, 38,155 acres; in Northumberland. like porpoises, and dispense with buoys. It is as easy
33,502 acres; in Glamorganshirs; 30,717 acres; in Car- 'i to learnsawinuaing in four feet of water as in ten—and
digatashire, 2'7,o97—neres ; in Carnarvanshire, 23,300 , much safer. Respect this I—Pun...h.
&vireo ;in Cornwall, 22,803 acres. Much .4 this land.l
is probably eapable,cf improvement for pasture : hut T
the figures show arroximately the distdbutsion of tite ~, • 1 THE COMING PILGRIMAGE.—Preaching on this
subject in the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, on Sunday
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land still held in common. Classed as suitable or not e ening'
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As for the " cheap philosophy" that miracles were
impossible, because of the natural laws of time and
space, his answer was that thal was above all law,
and he referred in proof of this to the numerous
miracles recorded by the Fathers of the Church.
The preacher announced that next Sunday he would
deal more particularly with the coming pilgrimage
of English Roman Catholics to Pontigny.
A PLEASITHE EXCURSION—" FIRST-CLASS" ! !
—Esc ernon let " Rough .• Don't like the 'armony,
Guy'nor.! Why we're two hoursbe-ind time, and it
'ard if we mayn't enjoy ourselves !"—M idille•Ag.ed
Gentlennin : "Enjoy yourselves! Do you know I m
a Director, sir? "
—Rough : "Director be blow 'd !
Directors know too jolly well wot 'a wot to trust their-
selves in a 'scursion train !!"—Pasch.
PRINS-E BISMARK'S THANKS.—The following
letter appears in the official Gazette of the German Em-
pire :—• Berlin, Aug. 14, 1874.—1 n reference to the
attempt on my life, frustrated by God's gracious Pro-
vidence, on the 13th of July last. I have received many
important tokens of sympathy from all parts of Ger-
many, and from foreign countries. I should have been
glad if, immediately on my return from Kissingen. I
could have rendered my thanks to all these, especially
the distinguished corporate bodies and official per-
sonages who had honoured me with their expressions
of goodwill, whether sent by telegraph or in writing;
but the injunctions of my physicians, and the large
number of these letters and telegrams, amounting in
all to nearly 2,000, did not permit this being done, and
I now pray all who have sent me their friendly greet-
ings, and to whom I can only make this public acknow-
ledgment. to accept the assurance how heartily I ap-
preciate the expression of their sympathy.—VON
BISMARK."

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SONG FOR THE TOWN-TIED SPORTSMAN.—
"How happy could I be with brother.' "—Pit nch.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CONVICT. —A convict at
the Portsea prison, named Watersou, under a sentence
of ten years' penal servitude, was last week carrying a
basketful of tools from the shoemakers ahop to the
yard, when, in descending a flight of stairs from 16 to
18 feet long, his foot slipped, and he fell headlong from
the top to the bottom, striking his head twice. He
was stunned, but apparently recovered in about three
minutes, and made no complaint. The next morning,
however, he was found insensible in his cell, and on
Thursday he died. The postmortem examination
showed that he had sustained a fracture of the skull.
The jury at the inquest, on Friday night, returned a
verdict of "Accidental death."
AMERICAN TRAMWAYS.—The propulsion of
tram-cars by steam has been already realised in
Chicago. Ihe system used is as follows :—The boiler
on the car is supplied with steam from a stationary
boiler, the charge being sufficient for a run of three
miles an hour, a speed of twenty miles an hour being
attainable. In San Francisco a very novel mode of
propelling street cars has been adopted. An endless
steel cable is laid underneath the track, to which the
car is attached by means of clamps. The cable is kept
in motion by a stationary engine, and the speed at-
tained exceeds that of cars drawn by horses. When
the car is to be stopped the clamps are released and
the brakes applied, the cable moving on. A similar
arrangement was used many years since on the London
and Blackwall Railway.
TliE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. When the
Roses sweetly breathe a Dew.—Puneh.
GERMAN WINES.—The Cologne Chamber of
Commerce, in its yearly report just issued, complains
of the adulteration, or rectification, as it is called, of
German wines. This, it says. assumed alarming pro-
portions last year among nearly all the vineyard pro
prietors of the Moselle, and among many of the makers
of the Palatinate. Unsugared natural wines are now
scarcely to be met with in the Moselle districts, and
the addition of sugar goes hand in hand with liberal
dilutions of water and the usual ingredients of spirits.
The mixture is fermented with grape husks ; it is then
styled wine. Last season 18,000 centners of common
potato sugar were despatched from Coblentz up the
Moselle, and considerable quantities were sent to the
Upper Rhine, so that many cellars now contain more
1873 wine than the vineyards actually produced. Only
an abundant crop can check this practice, and potato
sugar should be subjected to the same tax as grape
sugar.