The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28 00:00:00

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1101Q.0, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

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ODD. in an advertisement for places as
Milliners, the advertisers sizpn es themselves as ready
to cut out and take orders." This sound, like an
offer for duties tionnething between an Errand Boy and
a Curate, and means neither—Punch.
A WARNING TO THI FOOLISH—Mr. George
Harley, of 25, Harley etreet, Cavendish-equare. Lon-
don, has sent the following to The Times
"A, forewarned is forearmed. I venture to toll the follow.
leg tale. On Friday at lunch time, when the eervsnt waa
laying the cloth, a "lady " called and asked to nee me
Beieg engaged to my study with • gentleman at the time,
she was .how" Into the diningamonn, which Is next the study.
The servant preeeeded downstairs loge, norceihlng, and on
returning in lees than five nitwitsn he m..t the ' troy" lathe
hall, who to the mildest tone of v. ice and the moat polite
msriner informed tint that, KB she had a call to mate in
Cavenillei -•quare, and I was engaged, she would at once go
there and return in a few minutes. She went, and with her,
also ! went mere than t2O worth of my sliver. On returning
to finish the laying of the tank, the servant found all the
altv, he ha, already placed there—even the children'.
mugs—undisturlied , tut on looking at the plat Antalret, It
was void of contents—spoon sett fork, were all gone, and
neither the lady nor they have as yet returned."
The writer concludes his letter by say;ng that the
same trick was Euccearfully played a few months ago
in the same street, and within • few door!' of his own
house—and given a description of the 'lady." who was '
fashionably dressed.
WOHill'S DISABILITIIii RCMOVaL BILL.—The
following very short Bill to remove the electoral dies.
hiff ties of women hae been brought in by Mr. Forsyth,
Sir R. Anstruther, Mr. Russell Gurney, and Mr.
Stansfeld :
Ho It enacted by the WOW/ most Excellent Mefsely, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lorda Spiritual and
Temporal and Commons In thin present Parliament assem-
bled, and by the anthotity of the same as follows That
in all Acts relating to the quallflcalon and reglairstlon of
voters or persons entitled or claiming to be registered and
to vote lathe election of Members of Parliament, wh
words occur which import the masculine gender, the same
shall be hold to la dude females for all purposes connected
with and hairier refer. nee to the right to be registered as
voters and to vote in such election. any law or mutes to the
c.mtrary notwithstanding. Prowl 'ad that no married woman
shall ha entitled to vote in such election.'
POLITICAL HilloHl3l.—Vs'e are glad to be 111.8•
gored, by fully competent authoritiee, tune most of the 1
who Lott their kerits at the Eiection, have
borne their diearpointment in an ex -M. P.lari manner.
—Punch.
Twice POIdONING. —The new plum of killing
tigers by strychnine in Madras has been found to be
attended with ahnost as mach danget as if the tiger
was allowed to continue his ravage. unArturbed. Some
ot the people in the neighbourhood where the poisoned
compotes are placed are quite 54 ready to eat them as
the tiger for whom they are intended; so, to prevent
acectilents, an order has been ineued that the corcas'.
is in every case to be burnt the next morniog after
it has been put out as a poi:lolled bait for the
ANCIZNT FAHINZ SUBSCRIPTION LIeT. —The
Prince of Wales lately presented to the British Museum
a marble pillar with along GI& k inscription. Great
&Areas having arisen in the town of Rhodes, it was
resolved at a I uoiio meeting ta raise • subscription for
the relief It the sufferers, and to inscribe the names of
donors, with the sum given by each, on there pillarn in
pubic places. It is one of those pillars which the
Prince has given to the Museum. The list is al mg
one, and the turns in moat edge see consi,leratrie.
When the Knights of St. John built their church In
Rhodes they used this pillar as a paving stone. The
aeurch afterwards b,came a mosque, and the ward-,
under it were need for • powder-magazine. The powder
exploded in 18.56, and the pillar was .battered into
many pieces. A few were lost; ths red were presented
by the Paella to the Primed Wales.

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Birrint.—Dixontrneed Cabby (to Lodi., who,
wishing to get rat of their matt Change, have ten lend
him one fourpenny piee, two threepenny d,tto, one
penny, one ha( fpniny, and two farthings—the slim total
amounting to Ms proper fare). " Well I 'ow long
might yer both a' been 111 Ssvin' up for this little
Treat t"—Punch.

Esc Anso FROM CUBA.—A Cuban gentleman,
who arrived at New York on the 28th of February,
states that he and 13 others, being drsughted for see.
vice In the Spanish army, got themselves smuggled out
of Havannah by the captain of a vessel, who put each
of them in en empty barrel, and placed the barrels
under a number of others which were filled with
oranges. An examination made by officers in harbour
vs. confined to a few of these upper barrels. When
released outside the port some of the Ingttivee were.,
cramped that they could not stand uprigirt tor several
dsye.
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AN AMETSIYO INCIDANT OP IRS ASHANTIII
ExpzurnoN.—Oue result in the fording of the Dab
was a laughable incident next morning—one, indeed,
which it may sa'ely be asserted has never before oc-
curred in the British army. It was quite dark before
the laaa party wire over, and the natives packing up
the clothing did not notice those of one of the men who
had undressed at the foot of a tree. Consequently he
had to pass the ahht —a very wet one—in his blat-ket,
and absolutely paraded with ho regiment in the morn
leg in nothing but his helmet and tile—a second
Ai:bides in Hyde Park, minus his shield. The incident
caused immense laughter, and happily the clothes were
soon afterwards fount and brought over.
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THE MAIN Poirir.—A Southern (United
States) paper relates that dnrirg the war one of the
coloured troops rsn away from a ttght, and was
severely reprimanded by a lieutenant, who asked him,
sneeringly, tt he thought the company would hays
mtraed tom much had between killed. Sambo promptly
answered, 'Not much, hoes; dev4 nit miss de waits
folks, much lees a poor nigger. But den 1 would halt
miss myself—and date de point yid me."
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EARLY STR•WRICRRIIB. -- The Charteatort
(South Carolina) News says that the steamship Maw.
horrors, which left that port for New York February 25,
had on board the firet new strawberries of the soa:on:1
being a lot of about 100 quarts ; ehe also took a p
of Low green peas, both tieing among the earliest ship-
ments known. Ttey were the growth of Florida. and
indicete that the semi-trapical climate if that State is
Wile to furnish fresh fruits and vegetation nearly II
the year round.
C 0 ItRICTIONS CoRRI C 11. D. The Times on
Monday says-- 'A reference to the Atone List shows
that our Portsmouth correspondent was right in saying
that Sir Archibald Alison bet his arm 'ln India.' rho
correction which appearei in our issue of Saturday
was, therefore, • no,stake.—Varions corroepondents who
write to us to corrsct 'E. M.'s' attempt to correct the
Bishop of Manche.ter'd quotation from Rood. The
passage steads thus
Evil wrought for want of thought
A. well as want of haul '
Not, se ' E. M.' stated :

'As well as by want ot heart."
MOITo FOR MINISTERS (FT a Scotto), Licensed
Vsetualler).—Beer and forebeer.—Purich.
FOR 7HE RELIEF OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED
IN Spits—We (Pall Mall Gazette) have been asked to
mention that a committee has been formed in Loudon
for the purpose of organizing an Auxiliary Aid Society
to raise contributions in money, apparel, and hoepital
comforts and store, for the relief of the sick and
wounded of the war now tieing waged in the north of
Spain. It is propoeed that the society shall as el *Kay
as possible conform to the principles and course of con-
duct pursued by the National So-iety for the Relief of
the Slck and Wounded in the War, founded in this
country in 1870 ; and therefore it will observe the same
absolute neutrality and impartiality as between the
belligerents as that moiety did between the French
and German armies. A number of noblemen and
gentlemen have signified their willingness to serve on
the general committee, among them the Duke of
Norfolk, the Archbishop if Westminster, Cl.llOll
Liddon, Monsignor Capel, &c. Lord Beaumont will
act as honorary secretary of the committee. An
account has been opened with Meeere. Martin and Co.,
bankere, of 68, Lombard-street, E.C., for the receipt
of iuhecriptione. The list is headed by Messrs. C. a.
Murrieta and Co. with a donation of £l,OOO. A ladies'
committee has also been formed, in accordance with
the precedent of the ational Society of 1870, for the
purpose mainly oi collec sing contributions of linen,
lint, wearing apparel, n ehospital stores.