The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-16 00:00:00

'SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1880.

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Bohemia send the pheasant; •Scotland, Spain, anA
Algeria, the red or Guernsey partridge; EgYptaß..
especially Italy, the quail ; Russia sends the heat
cock, the hazel-hen, the lagopede and the bustardi2,s
rare bird in the French capital ; Corsica the ed•nle
ousel, and Italy, the titlark and twater-rail, teal, iriLd duck and wild swan, come
he white SnfroiPer;
Holland and Italy. Your or five bears are on an averatgee
sent up to Paris every y
Bernese Alps. Deer usualic come from England a
or from the Pyrenees or nn,
Germany. Hares of a superiol•
by Austria, whilst Sweden and yussia, send wialte
hares a`nd even reindeer. quality are f lirnis.h.ect„
4" -fanners
COUNTING THE COST.—After, the
are counting their expenses, and find them ca,2lv.-
tively light (says the Graphic). The total can
cutting. tying, stacking, and thatching wheat 130
generally been about 15s. per acre, with machines,
and sometimes it has been less. The waste from grn
shaken out has not been as large as usual, and there .
has not been much loss of labour through weather in-
terruption, The harvest, despite a few late districts, `
has been a rapid one. These favouring facts go sorae
way, • though by no means the whole way, toward!
mitigating the 'disappointment experienced
low prices already prevail. An additional cause for
i complaint exists n the poor result of many recent
threshings. Although dry and in fair condition, the
total bulk does not make up the average. The wheat
crop of 1880 is, of course, a good deal—a great deTI:
—better than the crop of 1879, but it does not ream'
even the moderate mean of 1878.
THE APPLE CROPS IN AMERICA.—The account"
from America tell of an abundant crop, estimated te
amount to 200,000,000 barrels, the orchards of the
couritry having not less than 125,000,000 trees in beg'
ing. In New York State the trees are laden to the
ground with fruit, and the soil underneath the trees if!'
knee-deep with fallen fruit, for which there is ad
market. The crop, it is expected, will realise iron
60,000,000 dols. to 70,000,000 dols.
A CURRY-OES IDEA.—Honey in the honeycomb je
delicious ; why not try curry in the currycomb
Funny Folks.
Folks. .
STATISTICS OF A PARIS TAHEATRE. —A cunious rePory
has been issued by the managers of the Folies-BerArd.
Theatre as to the number of novelties put before the
public during the year between September 16, 187 g,
and September 15, 1880. There were 364 represents.
tions, in the course of which 212 fresh performers ap-
peared, bane- at the rate of about two novelties evert
three days. 'The following are the details—viz.,
ballets, 8 pantomimes, 1 marionette theatre, •-
American rifleman (Dr. Carver), 1 sleight-of•hanl''
performer, 1 dislocated man, 1 manipulator 01
"epileptic plates," 1 crocodile charmer, 1 instaiv
taneous portrait painter, 10 soloists an different instrw.
ments, 1 Zulu company, 2. Japanese jugglers,
stuffed orang-outangs, 1 company of comic gnomes, n`
dancing troupes, 8 equilibrists, 9 gymnasts, 3 veloci,
pedists, 1 spiral ascensionist, 1 rink skater, 5 troupe!
of performing animals, including a learned cow;
clown dancers, 2 athletes, 10 symphony marches, '74„
fantasias, 9 quadrilles, 31 overtures, 23 waltzes, a
galops, 11 olkas, 7 mazurkas, 2 fanfares, 1 gipsy band,
1 company Spanish students.
What v_ggetables do lovers most like ?—C'resses, of
course.- Fanny Folks.

THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN FOOD SUPPLY.—
arrivals of live stock and fresh meat from the United
States and Canada last week, at Liverpool, sve.re
gi eatly below those of the precedinc, week, but quit°
up to those of recent weeks, the total importation
being 21,391 cattle, 529 sheep, 465 pigs, 2,610 quarter°,
of beef, 482 carcases of mutton, and 215 carcases di
pigs.
A SAD ACCIDENT.--In London, on Monday, gr'
Payne, the City coroner, held an inquest at St. Bar;
tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mr. Corley, di
Stratford, who met his death by a fall from a Windov,
on the second floor of the Positive Life Oftce,
Cannon-street. The deceased gentleman, who Wa°
the manager of the Positive Life Office, came to bug-
ness in his usual health and spirits on Thursday in last,
week. During the morning he incidentally mentioned
to the office messenger his objection to certain hook°,
which, on the removal of an advertisement board*
were left projecting outside the second floor waiting'
room window. Later in the day he was seen fallin4
from the window in question, and, striking his head
on the pavement, received a compound fracture of the
skull, from which he died in a few hours at St. Bat:
tholomew's Hospital. The jury returned a verdic'
of "Accidental Death."
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.—The folic/
ing are the average prices of British corn for the•wee
ending Oct. 9, as received from the inspectors afl
officers of Excise :—Wheat, 41s. Od. ; barley, 345. 2d.,:
oats, 20s. 10d. per imperial qr. Corresponding wee"'
last year .—Wheat, 48s. Bd.; barley, 40s. 9d. ; oate,
225. 2d.

THE PATENT OFFICE.—A return issued from the
Treasury Office to the House of Commons gives sane
interesting statistics relating to tne Patent Offiee;
The total receipts of the office in 1868 were 2121,31-'
10s. 10d., the total expenditure £40,251 Bs.
leaving a balance of £81,060 2s. In 1879 the to
receipts were £179,875 Hs. 6d., the total expenditure
£10,109 75., leaving a balance of £139,766 7s. 6d. The
grand total of the receipts for the twelve years frolv
1868 to 1879 inclusive amounts to £1,779,891 16s. 4de
of the expenditure to £504,322 ss. 2d.; leaving al
a total excess of receipts over expenditure ° a,
£1,275,569 lie. 2d.
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RED INDIAN VISITORS.—The svteamer Lfaye...e,
which is expected at St. Nazaire on the 15th, hae‘?,ll
board a party of about a dozen Red Indians of L
great Sioux Sioux tribe, who, after visiting the prineS
American cities, are about to niake the tour of Earnr:,.
commencing by Paris. They are all chiefs who Wl'
made their submission to the American Governraen.,
and the principal of them brings with him his daughter,
a copper-coloured beauty of 17, who answers to the
name of Flower of the Savannah.
A PLEA FOR BALDNESS.—A great change has takes
place of late years with regard to the estimation 1r
which baldness is held (says the .E cening Standardfr
Fifty years ago it was viewed as a serious infliction,l
misfortune to be concealed by a wig or velvet Bltiwa
cap. In some cases, no doubt, the wig was intenae
to deceive, and to give a juvenile appearance to its
wearer. In the majority of cases, however, ti1,,,6
covering was so plainly artificial that it was clearu
adopted not from a motive of vanity, but simply
hide an unpleasant object from the'eyes of the wor!°'
Of late years, however, partly, it would apPess'
from the habit of wearing beards having come ioa
fashion, baldness is far
.more common than it useb
to be. It may be that Nature furnishes to eee.
human being a sufficiency of what may be called hel
ointment to support an average quantity of hair, se
that when men allow their beards to grow they do a
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to the detriment of the natural covering of the sealli.','
Certain it is that a large proportion of men ic"::
beards begin to grow bald at an abnormally early
Hitherto, however, they have, when questioned, bee°
willing to allow that they regarded the lack of hair Dis_sel
drawback to their personal appearance. They will nO7,
be inclined to take higher Found, for the Brit's"
Medical Journal tells us that in a lecture on Raldnes° -
Professor Fournier says "There is nothing ridioulone
or malformed about it, and it confers upon OS .
phyiognomy an expression of wisdom, experience, se.
venerability. It adapts itself marvellously to certaine
heads which would be deformed by a wig, and is thh,
severe beauty represented in sculpture by the nhos„.„'
head of iEschylus:" This is:consolation indeed. frenrt ,
forth let man bow before the severely beautiful; 'e,i 1
there be an end of the use of ungtients and oils, Ow
let depilatories take their place upon the toilet table.
Let the thoughtless and giddy keep the hair on their
heads, but let all who value the possession of
severe beauty of schylus get their heads as bald
a billiard ball without an instant's delay.
THE LAST INVENTION.—An American who, to
his own words, wishes "to emancipate humanity fr'''''
the tyranny of railway companies," presents societ/0
with a new invention, the advantage of which.
(always according to the inventor) that everyone vf .
for the future be enabled to possess his own locomotiv°
and to travel when he likes, at the rate he chooses 4
without being under the necessity of consulting iP,
thne-tables or conforming to the regulations laid doss?
by different companies, which are very often irksoni.
His " locomotive " consists of a tricycle, worked
compressed air contained in an iron reservoir, whihe,
serves at the same time for the traveller's seat. "1,,,
tricycle, it is stated, can do forty miles an hour
and its ingenious inventor purposes establishT,
reservoirs of compressed air in several . tosi
and districts, by AIM' means travellers will rc
able conveniently to renew their stock of pneurnst.i,,
force when necessary at a trifling cost. It is perTeli.o
sible to doubt, however, whether society wishes
emancipate itself from the tyranny of railways ev`io
in free America; and, moreover, were this so, it 18
feared the American's pneumatic innovation NO 0,
hardly insure the public the conrfort to be found fri.°
,
I
railway compartment. There may be somethry
seductive in the notion of getting over forty n' ;0':
n,
an hour perched o one's own locomotive; lint 'or ,
inclement weather, under the rays of a July sun,.
when the snow lay thick on the ground, one
clined to fancy that most people would prefer conn°:d
and " tyranny" in the shape of a corner in a cover'r,
railway carriage to emancipation and discomfort °
an unprotected tricycle.—E renting Standard.
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COUNTING THE CHICKENS.—The Danbury News
says that "the reason people count their chicker;
before they are hatched is because it is easier. ,f
Benson, on Grafton-street, found a dead hen bael` -e
his barn Saturday mottling. He suspected it was 10
of his fowls, but he was not .certain, and the we'l;eb
ascertain he thought, was to count his flock, svP:tii
numbered sixteen. He gathered them together Wio,ti
a few flakes of cold pancakes, and then comnleve'o")
counting : 'One, two, three—four, five—six—se,
—. One--two, three, four, five—, six—
two,o.. three, four—, five, six, seven, eight—, rn";.,,
4
ten-----, elevenpshaw ! One, two, three, foil' e
four —four— —goodness gracious! One,twa--thrfe;
four--five, six—seven—seven—seven--thunue
and lightning! One, two, three—one, two, threrl'
four, five, six—six, seven—eight—nine---4,,e '
eleven—elev—hang it, stand still! One, tic'
0 Ye
two—two—three, four four—four—four--
will, will ye? ye will, ye will, ye will? he sudded
screamed, choking with passion, and jumpinguPt)ye
down in a perfect ecstacy of rage. Then he c", 01
after a clothes-pole and bore down on the frightel'r,l
and fleeing Ilene like a whirlwind, scattering the gof
with feathers and filling the air with the sbrie 01
the crazed bipeds; and never ceased the attack illet
every hen was out of sight. He don't knon- )
whether that hen is his.
, .y,anl
AGNES AND JOANNA RAILITZ.—Among tne .- be
London suburban residences Mich are about to_o,
brought soon under the auctioneer's hammer is Bnlwef
house, Hampstead, for many years the residengere
two famous sisters—Agnes and Joanna Baillie. sir
they entertained their literary friends including' -
Walter Scott, Rogers, Lucy Aikin, Aim 'Jae.'
Charles Lamb, Keat, &c.; and here they
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Joanna in 1851, in her 90th year; and Agnes in .14-P,„g
1861, in her 100th year. The house and the adjoin,7t
residences were formerly called "Ostend," for 'o7_,Poi
reas,on is no longer known, and the rising groun.W,,,-,
which they stand is still called "the Windinill-
The house itself appears to have been built about ,
date of the death of George 11. or the acceBi°ll
George 111,

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THE CESSION OF DULCIGNO.
Under date Constantinople, a Reuteur's telegram
894's :--" The Note announcing the surrender of Dul-
- eigno has been drawn up by the Council of Ministers,
and aivaits the Wuhan's sanction."

Cerorn Tuesday's Daily News.)
~" ROME, Monday, Midnight.-- Last night Assam Pasha in-
!Ahiatecl to the Ambassadors at Constantinople that the Porte
Yfas willing to cede Dulcigno. The Ambassadors received
the announcement
iounceDmg ent very coldly, replying that acts not words
th ir designs ; er. deter the Powers from the execution of
nevertheless, Turkey's tendered submission
:0194 the pledges to be demanded of her form the subject of
ull)l,9llalqic Intercourse among the Cabinets.
6" Austria's refusal to take part in the blockade was, I
Qualified by the proposal, intended as evidence of the
l'neeritY of her approval, to the effect that the receipts
7 evied in Asia Minor should be divided between the holders
Turkish bonds and the Montenegrin Government, to in-
the latter for the delay and the cost of its arms-
;tient.
Contrary to what is generally stated, I am informed that
Gladstone's proposal. was not what, in diplomatic par-
4anse, is termed a pacific blockade, which "Would have
lavolved the suspension of trade between the countries
"gaged in it and Turkey, but a blockade new to inter-
hational law, limited in its effects to the country against
Which it was undertaken."

_ The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the
liFherne for sequestrating the port of Smyrna put forward by
Lae English Government was, after some laborious negotia-
on the point of being carried out. It had been
o"l2oned in principle by the six Powers, but only three of
111 were disposed to co-operate in its execution. The
btuerB Would have remained passive spectators unless the
-uench Government had ultimately departed from its pre-
4ent teserve,

.114 Pall 21all Gazette remarks :—"Why did the Sultan
MD:llse to cede Dulcigno uaconditionally on Saturday? He
Krt Deremntorily refused to surrender it on the, previous
bl°lloaY. This sudden change of front naturally excites
zurmises—some manifestly absurd, others plausible
uhfounded. To the discussion which has arisen on this
irettion it is worth while to make an importtant contribu-
-4n of fact. Down to Friday night the Sultan had shown
thets of yielding. On Saturday morning he learned for
t time that the English Government had proposed to
" owers the occupation of Smyrna That was the only
element in the diplomatic situation. On Saturday
Wht he sent his solemn promise to hand over Dulcigno to
noatenegro. Without indulging in a poet hoc propter hoc
lunent, the inference is not only fair, but obvious and
:4Mistakable that the promise he made at night, whatever it
VA/h morning.
be e wprth, w"as elicited by the intimation he had received

(From Wednesday's Times.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12.
Th
oPorte e hasar declaring
that-l 3 WlTlwriliingamteeliaatergeivthe ylnestArulacl:
4:848 for a transfer of Duleigno to the Montenegrin authori-
A_The following is the text of the .4Noto communicated to-
't43' to the Ambassadors of the Powers.
"La Sublime Porte, voulant 'do,nner une nouvelle
I/I'6lllre de sa loyaute et de son bon vouloir, declare
clu'elle cede Dulcigno et qu'elle donnera immediate-
tent des instructions categoriques aux autorites
locales pour in cession de cette localite tux autorites
l'iontenegrines par des moyens pacifiques. Une Con-
vention devra, intervenir pour regler les conditions de
eette cession. Le Gouvernement Ottoman, qui ne fait
,?! sacrifice que dans le but d'ecarter in Demonstration
4aval.e, espere que par cette mesure in dite demonstra-
tion sera completement mise de cote."