The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03 00:00:00

Antoine Bar-ye the sculptor of the lions decorating
the entrance to the'Taileries and of other well-known works,
died on Saturday night of heart disease, at the age of 80.
A copy of the original edition of Burns'
printed in Kilmarnock, has just been sold in London reins,
the largest price yet obtained for any copy of the now rare
Kilmarnock edition
A lady having been ordered by her physician to a
warmer climate, her husband remarked that if there was a
warmer climate than he had been living in since his mare,
he was not aware of it. She responded mildly yet signifi-
cantly, that he was only preparing for another world. •
A gentleman visiting in a Highland district called
upon a young couple and inquired of the guidwife hew her
husband was getting on with his garden. "Garden," quo'
she, "my fegs, he has something else to dae noo ; he's making
a philosphy," "A philosophy! dear me, what do you • ,
mean " Ane o' the things that rins on twa wheels." '
It was stated to the Select Committee on the Ge-
neral Carriers Act that representatives of the various rail- Will
way companies met last week, and agreed to try the Ann
experiment suggested by Mr. Allport (of the Midland) as to
making a uniform charge of Is. per cent, for the insurance
of the greater part of the goods coming under the present
Act.
The Berlin News states that during the month. of 1
April 32,258 Prussian soldiers entered the military hospitals 34.1,
—that is to say, Bto 9 per cent. of the effective. Of tiles° 11r,
20,556 came out cured, 144 died, and the rest continued
under treatment. One-half of the diseases arose* from
diseases of the chest Outside the hospitals 35 deaths
occurred, 16 of which were suicides. iiPl
A large locomotive, whioh was standing on a siding flirt
near Do worth Station, about two miles from Barnaley, on
Saturday suddenly exploded. The engine-driver and stoker gru
were on the engine at the time, and the station-master at ua
Dodworth was standing close by, but none of the three were .
latf/i
hurt beyond a few alight cuts. Portions of the engine were ,
hurled a distance of six hundred yards.
Dr, Falk, the Minister of Public 'Worship in
Prussia, arrived at Cologne on Saturday evening, and was
received by the principal authorities. A torchlight procession.
in which three thousand persons took part, was afterwards
held in his honour. A deputation then waited upon him and
presented an address. In reply the Minister thanked the
inhabitants for the reception accorded to him. On the pre-
vious night there was a torchlight procession in his honour at
Bonn. Many students and citizens took part in the demon-
stration, and 1,000 torches were carried.
Lord Salisbury on Tuesday received an influential
deputation, which pointed out the importance and necessity
Of increasing the episcopate in India. His lordship admitted
that a more extended system of Church work was requisite.
At the same time he did not counsel an appeal to the Legis-
lature. As far as he had been able to ascertain, he thought
It possible, under the existing state of the law, to afford the
relief asked for, but would not pledge himself to the exact
mode in which it could be done.
Several thousand persons assembled at Elurlingham
on Saturday to witness a tiatch at polo between officers of
the Horse Guards and the 12th Lancers for w.cup presented
by the Prince of Wales, who, with the Princess and Princes =
Albert Victor and George, was among the company present. •
The Horse Guards team won the prize, and her Royal High-
ness handed it to the Honourable Charles Fitzwilliam.
The workmen employed in repairing the donjon-
keep of the building at B-ouen, called the Tower of Joan of
Arc, recently found the escutcheon of France carved on
the soffit of the vaulted roof, in a perfect state of preserva-
tion. This coat-of-arms is, to all appearance, of the time of -•
Philip-Augustus, the founder of the castle, of which that
tower is the last remnant.
'The French are bent on improving their traffic.
The cabmen of Paris are to have their tickets setting forth
the conditions of hiring, and which they are bound to give
to every passenger, printed in five languages ; and a
montbly line of fast steamers is to be established between
Marseilles and Bombay. The French trade with India, It
appears, is greater than the tonnage of French ships ea.
gaged in it
The Lord Mayor presided at a conference at the
Mansion House in London, last week, when a committee
was appointed to make arrangements for the forthcoming
public meeting in connection with the proposed national
training school for music. Sir H. Cole stated that it was con-
templated that there should be 300 scholarships of £4O a
year, each to be tenable for five years, though they would
probably require to be content with 50 or 100 scholarships
for the first twelve months.
The Queen of the Netherlands visited the Houses of
Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, and was conducted
through the building by Colonel Forester, the Assistant
Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms. Her Majesty displayed ranch -
interest in the magnificent frescoes which adorn the corri-
dors. Her Majesty subsequently entered the House of Lords,
and was provided with a seat near the railings around the
throne, where she entered into conversation with the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Carnarvon,
the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Skelmersdale, Earl Sydney,
and other noble lords.
It is announced that an ingenious idea is soon to be
put into execution in Paris. A speculative individual pro- •
poses to place in all the tobacco shops umbrellas to be hired .
out at a modest price—a small sum being required as a
deposit, until the umbrella be returned. In fact about the
same system will be pursued as is at present carried out in
theatres and other places of amusement by persons who let
opera-glasses. The umbrella idea will doubtless be drily
aPnreciated during the wet days of autumn and winter.
It is shown in the Registrar -General's report that
last week 2,370 births and 1,413 deaths were registered in
London, the former having been 172 and the latter 72 above
the average. The deaths included 2 from small-pox, 25 from
measles, 62 from scarlet fever, 12 from diphtheria, 62 from
whooping-cough, 27 from different forms of fever, and 77
from diarrhcea ; thus to the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class 267 deaths were referred, against 224 and 221
in the two preceding weeks. ESPeCia attention is drawn to
the fact that the fatality of diarrhcea begins to show more
than its accustomed increase at this period of the year, not-
withstanding the recent low temperature.
On Monday morning, at half-past six o'clock, the
Czar arrived at Eger, in Bohemia. He WAS received at the
station by the Emperor of Austria, who was awaiting him.
The two monarchs embraced and kissed each other most
cordially. A meeting between the Emperors of Austria and
Germany is shortly to take place at IschL The North
German Gazette, referring to this proposed meeting, says
that when the European public is accustomed to regard the
alliance of the three Emperors as firmly established, it
will cease to ask for fresh confirmation of the fact, and to
attribute to every fresh interview any other signification
than that explained by personal friendship, and the need
of neighbourly relations.