The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-04-04 00:00:00

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antiquities

to be pre.

is jtleulat-tal tii produce a strange and

singular effect upon a thoughtful and sentimental
mind. In the Museum he looks upon olsjeot.s ighich
were gazed at three thousand years ago, in those jar.
4-aktnee *horse we rept, in'tlie *tuber books of the
Ofhl 11.AlitheuX Yet the stadeot is within only a fess
yards of crowded high kfultarn anti Oxfordatreet,
with their hurrying throngs whiels tell of the life, and
bustle, and ouitenamt

One evening last week a meeting was held at the
rooms of the Society of Arts, at which Dr. Lyon
Playfair, Pesti...Ater-General iii the late Government,
made some observations relative to technical education
which were of considerable interest. The right hon.
gentleman regretted that more than liten-diiids of our
Workiln; populathei were satialied with giving to their
children simple instruction in reading, writing, and
arithmetic, which he rather facetiously termed the
knife, fork, and spoon of education without the meat.
He believed that, as long as this syi.tem continued, we
should find onrselvem drifting behind other nations in
the path of industrial progress. Dr. Playfair gave
sonic partieulare of a visit which he lately paid to a
remote village in Switzerland, where the work of
manufacturing and dyeing cotton was carried on with
such success by this scientifically educated people, that
the products of their skill found their way even to the
United States, where they fetched good prices. It was
hie firm conviction that hi Ireland splendid opportunities
were being hot of turning science to a good account.
In that country the population was, unquestionably,
more abundant than was demanded by the neceesities
of the land, in an agricultural point of view; yet the
surplus portion of the people could be neither induced
nor taught to devote their energies to manufactures.
This branch of industry, he thought, would be remu-
nerative, for the island is near the great coal hearts of
England, and all its important towns are easy of access
to the sea.

The Boat-race on Saturday and the Review of the
Aslaantee troupe on Monday were witnessed by
immense cavwds, and this remark applies more edpe-
cially to the first of the two events. There are those
who declare that the public interest in the University
Boat Race is on the decline, but I think it must be a
microacopic eye that would detect it, either in the
numbere of people who line the banks of the river, the
sale of blue (as ours in the shops and in the streets, the
general eagerness to ascertain the result, and the space
devoted to it by the daily papers. As to the Review,
it WWI rather a disappointment to Londoners that it
was held at Windsor, for although only twenty Innen
away, the enormous traffic on such an occasion often
renders the journey an exceedingly tedious one. Both
Race and Review were favoured with tine weather.
The gathering of Royalty at Windsor was one of the
most complete which has been witnesaed for many
years, the Duchess of Teck only being absent. Sir
Garnet Wolseley, who was in command f the force
' which he had led through the almost impenetiable
bush of a tropical climate, looked well, and was very
heartily cheered by the multitude, who evidently felt
that never were the distinctions of K.C. B. and the
Grand Cross of the order of St. Michael and St. George
better deserved than by this gallant officer.

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