The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

saiiStril):lttaS (..11411itrnte,
UOME, FOREIGN. AND COLONIAL,

TOE Dif TIC LTIFB OF A DEINER ! —The follow-
ing e‘perienee of a hurneurons traveller, who attean ted
to get *dinner at Rochest,r, on the Central hailroad,
is worth reading by all who enjoy a good ',ugh :

" Twenty tomtit,. for .llnner !•• .hnuted the br.iimmen.
we approeched the el•y. Ar.llltl there. I Pllte.4o-1 the
room tool unquiet of the wader. •. tVhat in y. 41 have for
dinner " twenty nitni t eon the :.turled reply. It dd
him I would In heif.a.dozet, nitrites raw. on the half 'hell,
just to Ce how they wept. Ile cur itched his head, trying to
emol•iellend the otd.r, hut finally gave it tip and waited
upon Sr me one else. I approach. it • Moll Who pt../ lie
the door with • roll 01 0000, ii hi. hand. .• Whit do you
have fur Moller r Tfalf-a.dollar," t iv, he. I told hn, twit
I would toke balf.wdullar well Mote : and ashen lain. I: Int
omildn't send t,n lou addith 11 11 11..11...1 to •ket-book stuffed
with greadweks, and time sevetwthirtied garnis et' in lib
postage *tamps amt ren-crbt erupt. Alec. I would Ike
1., wash my dinner down with National Itank Note., on
"draft'

SWALLOWING A SWORD.—When in our youth
brays a writer in Once a Week/ we were taken to see a
juggler abs pet formed the well-known feat of
swallowing a sword, we were taught to believe that
the weapon, instead being „ right rod a metal, was
telescopic, and doubled into itself when it was into.,
rbarnl into the titan's mouth. Thoee Is h., have ch* hilted
that belief, or who have ices-ion now to explain the
trick to their little ones, may I* interested ni bearing
that a fatuous French phi sician lately experimented
upon a Y. Imuse conqu. or, who swallowed a Bal.re
nearly three feet I. and permitted an examination
of his banly ande the blade was in it. living sheath.
Pr. Forrnid, such was the anatomist's name, mai
those who we e with IMt acre thin u4hly satbfied
with th honesty of the uperat 1 hev traced the
point alimg its downward course, and felt it in the
iliac regions, thiity melte* f, in, the .-wallower'n mouth
So we may set &morel and poker swallowing ilowo as
genuine feats of gymnastics. Ling Look alter.. ants
took an egg into he month and appeaernl to swallow
it. Bin gorve sic. searched. and his neck piolani, lot
the ovum could hot he found. The Chinaman swal-
lowed a puff id tohatna -woke, and the eg.; came forth
again. There was Han h diet us-ion as Lo how it wan
ilispoeed of. Dr. Fournid thought that the act of
swallow ing Wa4 not completely petf.Yrneti ; to, in is
eecond erperinti rat, be protire a., I 11, arylignsCope and
dbecteil is poweiful beam of magneeitint light down
the 1-fttii n's throat, when, cure reough, the eg..r was
discovered in a cavity or nest, which Ling 1.0,k had
habituatt d himself by long I ractice to ferns below the
tongue, iu the lsryi gean re.dons.
Mr. Silt, ft,, NEA A D ENCORZA.—Mr Sims
Reeves, who steadily opposes the costa. , in frequently
made aw de ..f the viewn of his audience upon thin
point. Last autumn he undet went comideral h. inioilt
it. Mate- rein Ilecatisr he declimd to ripest a ballad.
He htui yield. dto the tirat ; I.e ris illy repthliated
the second, being tired, and being further alive to the
peril of exerting a throat co smisi'ive as his own. The
MST CITTITaIIS pereiated in the encore: l`Yr. Sims Reev..*
held out with equal iesoltition. He at first de. hiied
'lie compliment ; he Dew eteod cult on the just'ce of
the .-ase. and re•used the demand. The Maneurnans
I roke out into art nprom ; they hissed, they yelled,
they drove front the plaCorni them, eeeding Finger—a
lady—until she retired iit tears ; they ultimately broke
up the concert. Why! solo Th, 1.'1,41,11cm/. Simply
beCanie Mr. Sims he-ac.' objecttd to give them double
what he bad stipulaied by contract to p rforin. lie
hail lairga:neil to sing two son, ; hi+ audience tutted
hair at the -time price. They had the ri hit Li ir.,k
butt they hail not the shadow of x tlithit to enforce the
ebrint„ irt even to feel sit. ieveil if Mr. Reeve., Oeelimed.
You may offer half-pi ice fi r any article of ci.mmerce if
tutu please, Lilt you are not privileged to insult the
ten' or if he bows you out of the shop. 1 at, tray
make the excel'et ce of your baker's last batch, a pre-
text tor aS.ing two loaves at the price of one; but the
hater ia fairly empoweied to &anent loom that ii yr.
Yet to n, quire to,. penny buns for It I ethiC becdusethe
hmis are vo.d. is lAA tlo.lr unreasonable than the prin.
ciple involved in an encore.
E.UPE. siu.ai. CuzT ME I, CoI:NTY COUT:11
At the N 1.4.1 Coon: y Com", hell &ming I 'at rtn.rik,
Mr. Valq ham Williston. the Jtidge, indignantly
proteated againnt tb, ii eve in which the noheitorn
practiei,g tow, re him apl.esr'il. lime Honour
suddenly interrupted a case by remarkin':

It is a rule of the courts that adv.-catee .hall appear In
the c flhifl.P Ch:tli I. proptr 1 r them. It Is a nmet
mheenmina lii g 'or gent Irtoto I elonaiog to the loofogstott
of Ms law to gt,pear, to lii velreteel, coi:t and mouth, In
a Khouting Jukkut. 1 h pa to ate Co further breach of the
rule.

The solicitors thus indicated proceeded to apologize.
pleading ignorance of the rule. At a later stage at the
prneeetlinge. a hen the gentleman in tl e velveteen jacket
applied for hi* lee under cirrminstancen which left the
lwatowal at the durlee'a cption. his Honour lefustal
to sanction the payincit, the applicant mrt wearing a
gown
Comore BurvDtP.—Dr. Dorm foe kat pub-
-11.1,.1 an rimming collection .4 anecdotes. en'i,ied
Sirints and S;nn•rs. tie says that the Prealryteriarci
of Crawtord in Scotland were in the 17th century re-
markable for irreligion and atinginem. "At a kink
collection all that wan finned in the plate after prayer,
sermon, and a christening were tw o had Abiding.* alEtl
a balm." Now this is (minded on an entry m the
Preebvtery :word that a certain orllection in 1693 in-
chided "two had shillings and a babie"—no doubt the
copper coin known air a hawbee
D BY M T,111.P. —An in,!ue•t, has
ham held at Mac,chester on thc body of dames Ileeeley,
an appointor at St. ....hut aho hail come Inc bin death
threngh drinking a draught II ',Mention* con.
t Merl in bottle, which he found in a t ecera in the
'greatly on Sonde?: evenin • last It appeared fr the
evii mum, of the clergyman that the liquid Mel recently
been forwarded to him from Pro-is, ar d had been
recuninneatthd for brightening the ornaments on tLe
Communion table. The rev. gentleman added that,
though a comirlerchle thank:lit appeared to have been
taken from the bottle, he had no reaeon to think tine
apparitor believed that what he was drinking war,
eacrancertal wine. The unfortunate manual ru*tantly
niezed with a fit, and dire] in a few minutes. The
poinonem* element wan prosaic acid. Tine joy returned
a verdict of " Amddental death."
S'rATE TRIAI 8 IN M ADAGA'CAR.—The latest
correepondence from Reunion brings news from
Marlaoscar to the 22nd of May. The Prime Minister
Rainilaiarivony had tiirimphed over his opponents,
and there on every rea.son to believe that owing to his
influence with the new Queen the latter a-ill not
adopt the coume of old Itanavolo. The trial rrf the
persons consprouni*ed inn the riot of the 29th March
was ...minded inn the rril April; and tw enty.eield
were condemned to Jrirr s and to be encloned together
in a sort of tomb. TM* is a punish r cot errnrridered
nv inc ilex. dent h. tvit the whites acre going to lint' r•
•:: In the Pr ,vair I I.,vertlyttettt. atul h,,1..- to nlAtetn
a line nli-vi,tion of 6,6, lur!wro,s tr. Stlllel,t. 'line
teLs (plies rd tine Into f;rieenn fro:: pia e on the 13th
April wi•ln the liS'l3l CereMi nani, ller OnlY SVPII
I:1 it a silver ccein AV tithe c were buried
all the IMO preelLecn rnl jec.s of her sj onto. such as
lear et,wn, her jewels. silk and eivet 111 CAdtM.
WILI llowdrit o• SP:IIITrAL'• lit
1. Pro. to Mr. Gray, weaver, tr. firevitt
affirms thin within n.'oe la 4, twenty year. Spin
has had zo,ll ono) adherent*, an r that there are at.
1., went inn. .te Sitir tall .t in the Wcl ii than amid
rioted:de Scotland seven I Mora over at its prerrent scale
of population. lie aPsertP 'hat Prr. silent Lincoln n-a/.
a Neritna let, aud that Lin:fellow, .3niri:en and
Masco Greely are avowed b li,orie, lie &leo cliima
iu Italy ; the Emperor IN:Tolman, id,l

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Ilotan4 floisot, in France Rtl,l 17M1s-ert—
C aa.bers,tatdciitland. Mr. Hoe itt further remarks:
- '• It 14 confisentiv end that a SI iritualist site on the
throne of them 1%111104 all we know that such do ait on
those of the greatest mations of Europe. We do know
that oiembers of some of the chist dical Louses of
sicotlan I. and of the noble Louses of Ireland and
England, are Spiritaali•ts."
1.4U1T .an I a E aLAND.—WOOIWieh is at
the present time suffering from a visitation of thousands
of mosquitoes, which have been importsal on the rig-
gieg of ammunition vegeta from Bermuda and other
military stations where the unequito abounds. There
is scarcely a ms.n, woman, or child, out of the 8,000
nhabitants id the locality, who has not been bitten and
disfig-ored. 'Their sting pietas* through tidies dresses,
stockings, and other portions of wearing apparel, the
Swelti,tg and irritaZiott lasting four or five days. In
some instanoea the atinoi have been so 11,111mA-tut in
to awe of childien as to endang.v '1 he tomes-ir.
heat being favourable tor their 4:tette:opulent and promo
gation the mosquitoes are daily increasimt in numbers.
d tin eaten to becouie a 10c..1 calamity, which uothitti,
but • change in the weather is likely to remove.

L K .G FOR IT SOM, I IMF. :--Striti. e
come into fortunes 11,lr and then; and sometime.
:wide who have, or tl ink they have, a 'wriest right
titlo t. consider:idle sums ot m-ney, we an us-
candnanly Idng titre in finding it out The following
per p coos and hasiness.like letter, just received
a solicitor hi Belfsst, illustrates this %Youth tful fact
n social history ; and its may perhaps lead
to the disc. wary of a will which tile luckless writer h.
apparently been searching for from forty to aft)
years t

G— July 6,1561. Deer Sly—l wilts them few line. run-
• rru.ng •mi,o ~,,, uey vv.w left by nig fatlu-r'a in ether
IV K— we have [wen looking for it some time heck
hut Incite notillue .out W--- K— wife wovit I— - f—
uer filter was J-- it will be ulemt 40 or 50 yeer.
4lnge this money uhould Lave heel, got but was uegl• clod at
the time if you will he vo kirvl eat, lln,i tie the li., re
it is in belfavt I bad it letter frox by ii imit that
eee.l it in the papere—E-- uear C— Cult:-
bedew].

A IirNTSMAN K,LT: it. Roger Oiii ns, fir t
whip to the Qinirn. wIA ACCidebtANY killed the other
day. The circiamitancei, as spoleti to at the inquest
by Gillard, the huntsman, were thew :--
Ile ,the huntemaW and deceived, with the other whippers
in, J. Gotldsrd, were in Gar,nason Pats with lhe young
ii units, 'hewing them the deer, In in •ler to nest them fiom
running them iii ahoit three luairs they in, nil Inwards
the iodise, with the Inten.lon of returnin: to Quern on
'heir way through the leak demised SAW A lil,llcl 4leer, and
cc. maid aixlons to thai it ill• hood, to he trotted t. ow able
it. The deer ion AW•ly, xi,' deceased atorte'l ilia horse In
order to tut n it in front of the hounds lie ca!led to it cesseil
lii stop, but he appeivett not to hear Min, and WAD t On. .u,l
the deer and his horse came Into will on The deer fell,
and the horse ro,' e I over It a tleways. The deer get up and
ran away, n I deceased was lett w.th hi. left leg unier the
hor e for a few vet,lll 1., when the horse Jumped up, 11,1.1
• ietea•ett's fie t being in the stirrup, he W.la dragged. lint
on!), about twit s ark, when lila hhit Wlt ii/WrAtell They
mheil lino up, hit he wan 4ii.emible. Mr. wood, tof Sheep-
shed a-il afterwards Mr Palmer, of I,..n.lihorough, were
ssnt for, and di I what they e aid for hint, but he never
hems. 0011ACIOUS, and died about six la the evening.

ISO AY M.IRB.A,+, a. Ttl:. toll^ id. red so rec. B-
eery in Bengal to marry girls young that briilegroons
are often feniptsil with a cliiwer. The price V dii
ii.cotding to ipoilificiiiiollll, awl the oorrespoodent of
native paprr received IT hist 1114.1 11114 ditelv receded
the curious fart ti, it the higheid 14 these is * Ciii versify
dive.. The hid who would hive ac epied i.:100. if he
has a decree ilenvoirls £2.50, MIA sways gets it.
Fathers, in fact, nipete with one another, an d the hack y
holder id a diploma is. as it were, put up to auction.
Of course the b idlers are a mod deal influenced IT an
Idea that a candidate for office with la diploma will be
f inured by Government., but tiwie is some, h lig else.
Bengaline reipect intelligence above everything Int
pedigree, and they see in the diploma an honest and
thorough teat id it--sn opinion extremely creditab e to
the University examiners.

AINERTIBF:3II::NTS. The foln sing
advertisements appeared in The I', MCA of Saturday:—

My dear G . Implore 7 ,t 1 to return erlthuut an hour',
delay, or hove no moth, r to We 1,7,4111, you; yo r
ianienne la killing her Fear nothing, all la eettiel. I aha:l
listen for your whistle ;a ulglit ; &lay nut."

Auyther dearest, to ray ant all is unll Getting very
anxious, bt:t toluVy la, h.y Ihitad In for the I,et 0,, tho
Os, wl I try any clan is unlnts 1 Late to the con ray.
Ever fait lifully 3 ''urn, tI W. I, "
" INFELIX —"or niercy's sake, your own Ti, and nll our
Sake., drnw lvtrk ere too tote Wreck not, du, ugh tulstul.en
I Nu. or risy.oo, a lifelong liapirun,s Letter of lath nevtr
meant u hat you hipbone Allowenon ft.r.eelingi ut mnine t
should he male, anal not .o latln. punivlonyrit I. r homy r
nnetierded exprescou Time ant, delimit W--y, to pt
tlilnas right. Will you not yo Co. We luiplore you to, awl
lialinive ?nu eltt T must write. Arrange Ca within tort-
Ood blent you."

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-TOR DOLL OF FASIII•,N. —There Were PO ladies'
journals of fashion in those days, and at each change
of costume two dolls were dressed up at the Hatel
Rambonillet ; called aptly arid wittily enough. the
one, "la .rande Pandore," in "granite tenue .• " the
other, "la petite Painlorc," in morning il•shabille.
The custom of Ilteming up a doll no a model of fashion
originated at Venice, here at the anuual fair in ti a
Piava t. Mark a doll was esp. Yed in • conspicuous
place to set the style of dresses fr the year. Jot,r,
Henry IV. sent Morie de Medicit, before their
marriage, si me such dolls, to show her the rrer oh
fashions ; and ier. in his " Tableau (IP Paris,"
colebralee with emphatic the "pout ate de la rue Saint
Honore." 'Cyst de Paris quo les profendes inv. no
tiuns en modes &moeot lea lii k runivero. La
faint:use pom be, to mannequin p• 6cienx afftiblii des
malts Le phis nouvelles, paose de Paris k bindles btu'
les moos et va ate lk repanure sea grieve dans toute
I'Euril,c. II va all Nord et au 111itli.
Constantinople et It P6tershourc, I tie ph u'a don:NS
tine main frimeaise se r• phte chtz toutes les rat one
humbles Owl saenrr du god tie to rue l'a!lit Honore.
Snoods(' DEATH OF AN OLD Man.—At an
inuuest Lehi in on the hotly of at, old mar',
the following painful facto were elicited :
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The body we identified as that of spoor old man named
Chriatotilis r Reilly, of roc. mile habit., alto lived al no hi a
recta wh-re Le was found. Mrs noon, a neh,libiair,
deposed to having seen limn unlock HP liar Ind I.n into him
r. out at had iSot le,i tic tick oil the i ght ot With erday,
the IIIi hound, and to liavihg he old • el) nh ut cities the
sat, e itiglit, hut of v Melt she did to t Like much notice tit
the time ; however, hot boiling the old man ti ugh t n fl e
following nights. CS tie WOO AChUilit•hd to I's..IIC tot
•h another netehl., or Joseili dl. 1:11 der,
and on their bursting in tlii 4' • Imre bile sight iertiol
Ilislf. Tho WO, was pa, tip ii, i:tl potty ot.t of it it hid
mid I. tue VIA tl.e blue, vi i it 0110eiheilli the
tar 12 11,01 ht DeColiipOilth • had hein unusually
rim hi. and the hotly nit:m.lo,o.le. A medical
.aanditation aboard Ito t 1111414 n if a bilge blood Viiiht tit
the ho. gin had caused death, iti.d the jury rcith bed a eratut
to that tifact.

SII--PICI,rB DEMI:I.—An inquest Was 1).-1,1 at
the focal Free Dolan!, in London, on the body of
John Moon, a seaman, mho died tinder very angular
circutostai oeo. Ou Saturday morning three weeks
ago he left the house of a relative for the put pee .4
joinin,lhis ship, bet rourned in the aiternoon and sail
he had been pOooned I. two tnmes, who had done it
tog. t his jacket and hi i money, one of them Laving
loot h's own jacket. Ile then threw bimoelf mi the
II or and vomited. and he wao taleen to the
lie die I on the 11,11 14 thio Litman from a perfor..tho;
ulcer in the romeh, which the surgeon bald cool t
have heel tinolooe Iby poioon, but Le was f op'ition
that it tad not be n no canoed, Ilia verdict nail
'• Death Loin natural cause,"

TIE Ho,. AND Rot. BAPTI- T W. Net., MA.
—ln accordance uith a resolution which the Rev.
lhiptist Nt.l allllo.therd a twelvemonth ago, to the
effect that he should not continue hie pasttiral connrc-
th in with h the c.ngegatin •if .loho.atrret Chapel,
Bedfordirow, Loudon, beyond the ctimpletion tif Lis
seventieth year, that gentlemsn tat sunday evening.
preach.' Lis farewell sermon to nn audience that
crowded the buiding in every part. Large nunilims of
pl.ple failed ti oi ciii all entrance. Mr. Noel Lail in
the aiterhoon &Elms,' it fas.w. II wishes+ to the
Young connection vitt' his rim.
gre;ation ; Pond it. Lis eseniiii.'s tennis 'mete lii. vsry
fornial allusion to the circumstances under whish to
suet his people. "e adopted as Ids own farewell words
the viir.e (Galatians, vi., 14) in which it.
took his fares' ell of the people 1 Galatia. Deng:rug
the apostolic feeling with Lis own, Mr. Noel pro.
mode.' to give particular reasohs ;shy Le "gloried in
the cross of Christ."

EDING B TTLI 8 is Pr LTAIIENT Lnn-
don oorrempoodent of the / werpool Albion, roust be
reeponeilde for the f..lluseinir :
I ani heivy to ann, once that the gonhy font of Lord Henry
L.nurt to Cows lug its torinal proi.ortiona Thu other Want
%A hen he was managing the nary estimates, In the absence of
Ida clal..f, Mr. Corn, he hail it ell, lit .1 lu en etiornoo,..hoe
and Mel:sive it tllllB,Yr. lie hopped &pont or. tSr,.rthsr
and wile sneakltnt hr elt on ore knee, Ida bent lint, bet g
su; tel on a stretcher $: wit. A crutch ett,port was put to
the back of One of the IP.belieo hi the !louse of Lords for
Lyndhurst during the host ses,lon ; hut a stool in the
Hong. f Connor.. in an Int...mi. et date 110 Liter thou
Monday last. When this support wee not en iplo3 eel ('tilt'
tofu Lord Henry's knee nod hg, Mr. Igsraed mode use of It
to put hie heels • at, and by I:, means was enabied to enjoy
hie evening • tap at nasty full kngth. But really the line
oneht to he drs all 80111ee tint even in the ease of at tilicoa
able for the allinx. Stools may Ls admitted ; hut the Howe
oinlit to protest minuet the ihtrodu, ea' feeding
bottles. lam not &cm:. Mr. Mackinnon made then! role
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-1; hw.e ti. si:en,vg.. Ile ho. thee t btot,e c.thtaicing
the nplk, or it rley miter, ar mlistever •ttier flubt the
refreshment ml; it IlinVt: eoulitatal of. it. the Imes,: 1.-art of
c.mt, an he svr!,,l tir.rh the ordinary hed.dtattner
tube, wht It w w an,i then he lit. ii ao his nation. Toe woe
•• antique spec...ln of whine tuilechliy " In the mouse o
L rds never had beck t•enii to sodirish himself In tnat
lofaia i.e frt•itl..li. What wood Mr. Werlmote's I; fends—
the Art ant, uln,lll he is so aunt ma to see h. the thausa.—ssy
if 11.1 eiw one tem memier speaking from a Mout. Slid
anther snail g a feedlng bottle,
EXT,tAORDINART VAGARIZI 4,1, A WEALTHY
Nfals.—ln the Court of it-lute it wee moved to a t
askle tie will atf the late John Shaw, of N. ingbotn.
SeVel .1 witnesses, including some medical men, who
were examined in opposition to the an ill expreesed a
decided opinion of the aleceaaed's insanity. Valious
instances of hie extravagance were stated. He had
kept a sort of open house, an,l liked to have a number
of his WOlkinen--nowstithes as many as forty or fifty
at a time—eating and chinking at bitt Louse. On one
occasion be made a stew, in which there was a great
deal of whisky, at•al several inn mgruoua ingredients--
" a most abominable compound," as it was described
by one of the witnesses, andtuade them tipsy, at with
he was match pleased. 110 frequently bad sal his work-
men shaved Ity a barber dressel in m Voluntcer unifot

fie ,nce h., a row Lrouidtt into his parlour, and in-
sisted on his footman riding it, or trying to tide it,
round the ram., lie turned a number of pigs and
hr Mt into a fill.' together. is svhtjpsrl theili so as to
tni.ke the louses tian,pl, soure of the jflS to death.
The ("!...urt nullified tie rrji.
A. C N • • T.• MIS —Tto•re 11.1.1. some strange
sts•riestr.,L of those eo moan ilistriei.s around Loran
telivrn vont, set, is run tip lon r blo ks of Lill:dings,
ietfy for the at conanislatioit coup:. s
s a uriter in the / (nub", I v ”). lane harraeks.
as a 1116, ehulV 110 diikisi.nr on ire CVOr hetWeell the
houses. steel t ti ,e ituniber. aid ill it doting the night
ir inthd ohs They AC,, for tuatance. that the tenant
• tone of tho,e boos., a youag Ilosbalal Cf lit!!.- ex.
I it, rience in dornesic erigefi. had otta.h.lllk , xt dead of
Aglit, to fly for a ilisitor. So Ii i-• red was lie in
ret,irnitig ith Lis relent fi,i fritiol, that he omitted to
look at the to titbit- oi the knocked at the
wrong door, dasher! last the person u lio opened it,
tither younit husband, in the ex reiiiitc of undress,
whose wile Larpeued to be quite well,) and did nut diss

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• var his tnistake until be and the doctor had entered
the principnl berlsroom, mud found there instead of r.
lwient, his neighbortr's vr fe. Unfortunately, also, Lilt
neighbour treated the matter an an impertinent joke,
and was for thrashing there both on the spot.
ALL SOIL LOVIC --A young lady of greet beauty
resided w'th her parents outside Pet is. For some days
past she was observed to be low-spirited, caused by her
parents prohibiting her from receiving the addresses
of a gentleman unsuited to make her a good husband.
A fragment of a letter, after she had disappeared, led
her parents to a part of A ,41.1(.d where 11111 one in the
habit of meeting her Laver. On their return she had
arrived before them, said was reproaehed be her mothet
for 51‘ in assignations to the objectionable lover. tihe
denied the charge. Next morning her body wax found
hanging in her Led-room, clothed in wam costume,
with a wreath of orange bleesoms on her Load.
L 1,1cR..1.78 SCEX I S A CII re-
ii.iing in the fashionahle neighbourhood of Ilraenafte
,in a recent very hot Sunday, was so over, ITne by the
fervid heat of the glaring mei idian sun thst she walled
right up to the aisle of one of the churches to her ; ew,
mite unniineliul that she was still bearing aloft above
nor a wide-spread and capacioue umbrella. It flees]
wareely be said that clergyman and conere,:ation were
somewhat startled by th, atrange apparition ; and the
zinc mecione raise of the dietracrion, on discovering
herself tro be the centre on whm all eyes were directed,
in wene confireion hurriedly made the canopy overhead
rollapse to a more porteble
No Losunto A TAx-P.tir.r.. —A Frenchmen
had a pointer called Pordnie. The dog died the other
day, so his owner wrote to the Priliect to disclaim any
furtaer liability for the dog tax :

M le P Ofect,—liy dog Pyrrhun Is dead ; he hns neither
fallen by tie able band, n.. 1 by Ores: large but he .iis
peacefully in his kennel ye.terlay. I.l.rritua having it. en
raise tto the it y vaten,yee by the Lt.,' of May 2. 1K.5
hie no loiter any I lin to the not.our. I thervore Leg that
lea name tom- be erased (rum the hat of rattpayere, and hare
Lilo 11,00111.,"

Ti FRE C,I Vl'Ey.%ims —A tonrist who ha.
paid a ..it to the vineyards in the environs of
..fsc.in gives the must favourable accounts of the ap•
proachiog hal vest. The neighbourhood 14 Brouilly,
among others, holds out the brightest holm.. The
grapes have almost reached their full size, but they
have hardly yet begun to turn colour. The wine.
gr. iwers are in I.ih spirits, and if slight rains, alter.
ra•ing with hot weather. continue to prevail, as for
some time past, there is every reason to expect a
superior yield, both in .mantity and quality, to that of
last year. Advice, from Placti ([Shone) announce that
the famous wine-gr..wing net of Elaut-Beaujnlais
is equally promising; no that we hope to have plenty
of good wise in the market this year at a luw price.
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A F •LL OYER A CLIFF bo tt midnight on
Saturday, a man named Richard Moyne, aleint thirty.
five year. of age, was seen hy 3 pelice-constable walk-
ing along the edge 4 il.e East Cliff, at Rannate, and
when he got beyond the barricading past the Augusta
Waite he suddenly di.appeared. Ile officer concluded
that the !Ilan had fallen over the chit, and at once
made li, way to the iattom. Ile there discoverrd the
man lying t et'ten the cliff and a rails ay passenk,,er
wrig.ion. the poor fellow bad fallen a distance of
at out a el, feet. and come down with such terrific
force ire to break one of the iron etepe atteche. to the
carriage un the we den footboard. Assistance wee
ohtained, and Moyne wan picked imp still alive and
convey.,! ti tie Seamen's Infilmary, when it watt
fiend that he hail bro en all hie ribs on one side and
injrre..l his lungs. Fie is not expected to recover.

I MAY Rm. Pull:lE.—Once a-Week 6%11 a story
to the following tffect :—Last year the Lord Mayor ,4
London presided at the annual dinner of the &With
Hurl gird Inxtitute, and this year the 1 ord Mayor
wax again asked and again consented. Th., dinner
tickets were issued at sx. each. l'lds net his eve;
the risk art rae W.Chei. at the apparent me sinless
of the freer; the civic indignation WM aroused, and
the Secretary of the Horological Institute received the
foliwiug mite from tlie high functionary's private
secretary

I an d.reeteA I.y the Lord Mayor to any ant, to hie att,
yr i e. he jt.t now noticed, hang ng outside the Mansion-
hoome. a piloted bill, atattn.... that the I or.l Mayor would
preatde at the dinner of the nor. dogfeal Institute of London,
ad. the 19,h June, at a5O dinner. Itt. d.dahlp, thlnkng
that ale annennoentent of 20.101 a dlontr ‘‘ as oettahry
derogatory to the yaottlon of chief niagoarate, !tele com-
pelled to tlee:lae att•nding.

So e learn that nue Lord Mayor differeth from
another lord Mayor in his estimate of dignity, mid
that ehiet mazistrate will rather break his promise
th..n beibl Lis back

DOGGI l; A Fe.- lAN INC WitElt—On the blat
thly dining the past week that Cooke, alias William-
-011, was before the magistrate at flow,treet, London,
on a charge of treasomzelz lay, Corydon, the Feni zn
informer, at the comlusiz at of the case drove from the
court, is a cab, accompanied by a detective chatgeil
wiz h "taking care" of him. Immediately ;-„fterwards
a young' man hailed another cab iu Dow-street, and
being entered it, desired the driver to follow the one
in .1116 Corydon was seated. The can' ions detective,
who was the compaz in of the latter, bail not proceeded
far before he per, ei eed his cab mas bring followed.
Ile go.. out without delay, and living szoeped the
other cab, questioz zed, cautioned. and searched theyoung
man, but found I othilig upon him that would joszify his
detention. In the meantime Corythm left his cab, anal
slippla sway, to tie amonishment of the detective.
The whole affair happened so quickly that it attracted
the attention of lea few of the paaserinby.

AIR. Li,NGFELIAM'S Po TX v.—S,,vend poems
which Mr. hongfellw has penned will Lye for genera.
thus, beemeie they have seized 1/11011 Ceitalu stage. of
feeling Mb eieing to the universal man —the man both
of the Ohl W,•11,1 and the New—anil have caused, as
it were, "a light to chute in the darkness," and hope
to so tog in the ii noun of denviir. Of I,epticiem there
is nothing iii his composition—at leant, judging from
him poet; y. The Di, me economy is taken fee.

awl he has simply fulfilled whdt he deems to be Ids
duty in twisting upon P. lle is altw:st childlike in
his simplicity, and shrinks from committing. to paper
anything that would offend the most fdstidions eye.
There are many people who seem to entertain
n:ore reverence for it illiant scepticism than for
Plain orthodoxy. A V.l.:tire be_dta in them more
admiration than a Kirk White. Viewed intellectually,
they are tig,4 ; viewed morally, wrong. Longfellow
himself will take a hiJer rank, because of his decided
stand for pointy and truth ; arid defects of poetry will
sometime.. be pw=c4 iv r in ctrier to ray an inetineire
tribute ti Lie meal utilitarianism. Though we cannot
rise him a high place amongst the recognised examples
of creative genius, we nevertlielemi pasa upon him a
high etilogium when we say that the world is ill have
lien the Letter for Lis living in it. Bentley's
Alio, RIM
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Monn No Mol- 3pys PRFACIIP.PS.— Da Sunday
afternoon two Mot won nsissionaries commenced a
mission in Sheilspank, Liverpool, and one of them beld
1.0,h on the merits of their stet to the :wobbled crowd.
For sign. tint° this dal in.; attempt of proselytism was
borne patiently. Rtia the Mormons as ire robject only
to i cea.ionol wittichnin and ,mall yrapical jokes
At length a well-dressed man came and Nnike to one
of the Ist-three, lust seemi• gly without • ffect, for
having u nited a few minutes. nail finding that the
/isratigue still went on, he faced about. and er3 ing
" Friend, we'll have no Mormons here!" commenced
to hogle the preachers. The flame had evidently
smouldered, for in an inistant the milsalpv pair were
untomalnd lwahootingerowil, who La.tled, bunnetted,
and pelted fhein without mercy. It was with the
pre-teat difficulty that they escaped, and only a!-ter
having had a moat severe handling. Mormonism is
evidently not in the ascendant in Liverpool.
Tiic ST.to COL, or W,M,N R MAIN Y 017,0.
—Without doubt (says a %triter in the &du, doy l elm)
it is a time of trial to all women, more or less painful
aces rdin‘ to individual disposition, when then, first
begin to krow old and lose their kood looks. Youth
and 'toasty make so mucn of thew personal value, so
much of their natural roieus d ere, that when these
are gone many feet use it their whole costar was at an
end, and as if nothing wan left to them now that they
are no hrnger young enough to be loved as girls are
loved, Sr prety eon h to be admired as once they
were admsred. Fur women of a certain i osition have
so little whobssome occupation, and sit little ambition
far anything, save, indeed, that miserable thing called
" getting on in society," that they cannot chat ge ti is
way of life with advancing years ; they do not attempt
to find intcrest ist things uut,iale themselves, and in.
dependent of the mere personal attratt:Yenean which
i • yotith eons hinted thew whole pleasure of existence.
Tins Is essentially the case with fashionable women,
woo have staked their sill on nppearance, and to whom
good lisoks are of more amount than wade deeds ; and
owertlipg'y the struggle to remain young in a fcsntic
one with them, awl 5.8 degrading as it is fnu.t.e.

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WHITE HEAT AND HI.%CIC COATS—Why do
not the members of our profession Set a good example
by clothing themselves in a rational manner during
the ; 1,,.,,,t, eatlier? tanks the Lentil). We learnt
from Franklin a centuiy ago that the solar heat is ab-
mcbtil with greater or less facility according to the
colour of the object exposed to the rays. Every one
remember how he put plectra of cloth, simil sr in
texture and size, but different in colour, upon fresh.
fal en tnloW in the sunlight, and how he found the stew
melted under the pieces of cloth quieuest when the
cloth ulna black, less quickly limier the blue. green,
polite. red. yellow, in fLe onl,r enuinermed, and very
alowly inched under ;1,, E.C.11d43'1,1 eXpeliel.ce
shows us that we do not need to be made of snow in
oi.br to melt rapidly nadir a ilack coat. ‘Vhat We
require for coin:int is of comse a white material, in
llttler that the beat lays may be leflected as much auu
absirhed alb littiO SS possiblii. The material should be
porous—Aoulil inaprieon, that is, large qiiantities of
air in its texture, and serve, therefore. en a very lad
conductor of heat, whilat at the same time facilitating
evaporaton of the nioistiue from the surface of the
body. These qualities are poasessed in the highest
degree by white flannel, and there is no reason that we
can find why this material should not be adopted gene.
rally in place of the atrocious costume which fashion
inflicts upon suffering mankind.
A PLC. ViAIY MUCII WANTED.—There are DIA
OD many employments in the public service open to
men who are nece ',Mated to earn tt em living by the
pursuit of literature. Th.: creation of an offiee for
which skilled authorship would be a qualification is
suggested by the disputes continually occurring on the
ciustruction of Acta of Parliament. The ambiguity
and obscurity of Parliamentary enactments is due to
t'leir not having been propel ly revised and correctee.
To p t the language of a 1 bills into such order SAS to fit
them to becaue lav, Parliament wants an Editor.--
Ps ark.

A 11. T T wrather would be all Tar;
wull in Calcutta, but bele it begins to look r;ther
sell u elOore 1.1 e P ti '._Cite). It has br; II
et ado .11y Let•i h..+ter cc ry day. ao .! ret 0,1-,hve
not yet c.0..e to the hottest part 4 tl e season. Ai -
col ditg to I resent al pearanced e way heal; out or
an August calculated to Otte Englishmen on idea 11
he cot of torniarature in which their count, yauen ill
the Ilaßt ho ta.e;r oori. Alexaday night fnr the first
Cute, in atur opiLiou, thei e was S genuine Lei au
touch about. ti ther—o-11 i,tht to thei rnomete,
ltO,j ati d deg. Fair., aril int Tueaday mondugut tittle
&el; ck it hawked luo deg. to the billl. People who
have cume ;Net. hum New Yank or other tentpeiate
place. fe "a little jr 0h air" lance made a unntake,
auct had butt. r o back a_ain. Al the rain seems to
be falling into the Atlantic. During the p..oiLem of

the Bootk, which arrived on Saturday, nes ly every
lay was we If ere is dance fi r the weatherwiae to
sime forward o ith their et/dal:el ms. In the io&n-
oh
o, tiwre ios metling &aiming i. the sale f halts
rotten fruit about the streets. Jh town kes pa
Ily healthy, consida ring all thing', but if the }swear
neighbourhoods are to be made receptacles for all the
bad fruit and vegetal des thrown out of Covent•garden
market, we shall soon have something worse than a
hot Km to complain of.

AFENI AN At ;Ix. - Reif ,st revers report no
extraordinary Fenian alarm in Paubridge on Thursday
meld iu last week. A report came after rid Inight that
the Feniana were about to destroy a mill at Laurence-
town, in revenge for the dismissal of some Roman
Catholice who had been concerned in counter-demon-
itrati no ai;ainst the Orangerrun on the 121 h. '1 he
town bell uas rung, and the inialitants turned on:,
oiled whateset arms thy had, ot,tairtel more from
'he limslwaie Lops, anti murel.el oat, to tho
peveral hundred, t inert the enemy, firing shots
sa they approached. When near ,the vaiage tiny woe
not by the owner id the mill. who explained that the
rumor was utifouniltd.

Sat GOLISO L j.enfranhwerest rp d
in their chairs in Fl -etratreet or Gwent-garden, sod
relieved by the officers of the Custottla of X recch lace
to which they could not allow a Pa,inraetory title.
Eve,. I.tier., when walking had their flattens cut off
h rade, if supposed to 'he of French manufacture;
alai a i.,Or woman was no Ted with a coartern lot
in her hawk which, when examined, contained £204.
worth of lace inaide the crust. In 1767, an officer of
the Customs seized £4OO w..rth of Flanders lace artfully
conecaleri in the hollow of a chips buoy. Even his
Grace the Duke of Devonsbile was, after death,
poked into at Dover with a at ck, to the disgust of his
srrvants, to make sure that he was real. Forty years,
indeed, before that the body ,4 a deceased clergyman
was found ti have been replaced by a bulk of Flanders
lace of immense value. The tmaiggiers 1n..: cut away
the trunk from the head and hands and f. et, and re-
moved it; and the discovery M this trick caused the
igmeriinhais treatment of the body of the Duke of
Devonshire. Nevertheless the Ilivh sheriff of West-
minster ran comfortably R6,4(0 wor:h of French lace
in the coffin of liishop Atterbury, who di, din Paris,
when lie wan brought over, counting., probably, on a
dead bishop impir ng more awe than a deceased duke
—Quor,!erly Bev no.
STay or a lion LATIT,DI —ln a debate in
the Ilmise of Reivenentatives at Washington, on the
LA List., on the bill appropriating 7,000,1,00 dole, for
the porchase..f Alaska M Stevens (of Pennsylvania),
argotnq that the acquisition would prove very valuable,
maintained that the wealth of the waters is almost iii.
celiLle. Ile stated that a few year, since two
achooners peening into Belo:Mg S•raits found the
herrings pacled one upon tl:e from the bottom
of the ocean to the top. so firmay that het one of them
could move. One of the captaina attempted to tun
them down, and ran his vessrl upon them aid broke
Its back. Some membets laughed, but Mr. Stevens
assured the House that last year he saw one of the
captains, and learnt that this was an actual fact.

SoN Srn t cg.—A orkihg an. ag, d fi:ty. ern-
ployol at the Antwerp docks, was seized a day or two
back, in consequence of the intense heat, m ith insanity.
He jumped on board a vessel in the hal hour, and
climbing to the Ina thead, shouted out, '' I am going
to flv," and at the same moment threw himself off.
In the descent he let los breath and fell into the
wab ras heavily as a stone. Toe unfortunate man
was rescued, and muse) t! to the hospital in a dangerous
state.