The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-28 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,

INTERNATIONAL COURTESY !—American papers
state that the new money-order system between Canada
and the United States was inaugurated on the 4th
inst., by the Postal Superintendent at Washington
sending to the head of the money-order department at
Ottawa a remittance of $l, with a request to spend it
as he thought fit.
A NOVEL SUGGESTION. A man was com-
plaining to some bystanders that he did not know what
was the matter,with his horses. He had tried every-
thing he could hear of—Condition Powder and all
other specifics—but to no purpose. They would not
improve in flesh. A stable-boy of Irish extraction,
whose sympathies were arouse I by the story, compre-
hended the situation, and modestly asked, "Did yes
iver try corn?"

A REMARKABLE BARBEL—Springfield, Mass.,
has quite a remarkable coloured resident, who was born
in Maryland in 1798. The first forty years of his life
were spent in slavery, but, learning the carpenter's and
barber's trades, and saving little by little by working
evenings, he finally purchased his freedom for 2,000
dols. After becoming a free man he determined to
liberate from slavery his nine children, which, after
years of hard work and frugality, he succeeded in
doing, paying 400 dols. apiece for them. At the age
of 65 he joined the Union Army, and served two years
in a coloured regiment. He has been married three
times and has seventeen children. He has lately
opened a barber's shop in Springfield, and is assisted
by his step-daughter.
AUSTRALIAN CANNIBALS. The Brisbane
Courier of June 12states that a mob of blacks attacked
a party of Chinamen at work on the left hand branch of
the Palmer, on the 3rd of that month. They plundered
the tents and captured goods and one man. A party
of four followed the blacks, and, coming up to their
camp, found the remains of the captured man cut up
and partially cooked and eaten. The blacks were in
force too strong for the party to attaok them. A
miner's shovel had been used for cutting up the body.

TAXATION OF STRONG DRINK —The Finance
Accounts for the year ending on the 31st of March,
1875, show that in that year the Excise duty on home-
made spirits produced £14,895,768; the Customs duty
on foreign and colonial spirits imported into the United
Kingdom produced- £5,718,957; the Excise duty on
malt £7,746,740; the Customs duty on foreign and
colonial wine imported, £1,718,544, and on beer im-
ported, £3,3-,9 ; the duty on licences taken out by
manufacturers and sellers of these articles, £1,834,481.
The total is £31,917,849, an increase of nearly £600,000
over the amount in the preceding year. If we add
£7,507,032, the year's produce of the tax on tobacco
and snuff, and on the licences of the dealers, the total
is £39,424,881, which is upwards of £700,000 more than
in the preceding year, and considerably more th,
half the entire public income of the United Kingdom,
THE NE W LAW ON THE -SALE OP FOOD.—
The important statute to repeal the Adulteration of
Food Acts and to make better provision for the sale of
food and drugs in a pure state, has been printed. The
amendments, which will take effect on the Ist October,
are both numerous and of interest. There are pro-
visions to prohibit the mixing of injurious ingredients
and of selling the same both as to food and drugs. No
pei.son is to sell any compound article which is not in
accordance with the demand of the customer. Analysts
are to be everywhere appointed, and a purchaser can
have an article analysed for lOs 6d. Certain officers
can purchase articles, and for refusing to-sell the same
a penalty of £lO can be imposed. A defendant and.
his wife are capable of being examined. The most
important provision .is that a defendant is to be dis-
charged if he proves that he bought the article in the
same state as he sold it with a warranty. The Act
is to apply to the United Kingdom, and will effect
some beneficial alterations in the law of adulteration.

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THE ELECTRI LIGHT FOR LOCOMOTIVES.—
Experiments with th E electric light as a head light for
locomotives have recently been made in Russia on the
railroad from Moscow to Kursk, with successful
results. The apparatus consisted in a battery of 48
couples, which produced sufficient illumination to light
up the track for a distance of from 1,5001 t. to I,Booft.
ahead. A correspondent of Les Mondes suggests that
a small electric machine would serve the purpose much
better than a galvanic battery, liable to injury by agi-
tation. It is proposed to connect the mechanism
directly with the front axle, the revolution of which
will set the former in operation. The chances of
danger usually augment with the speed; but arranged
as above described, the intensity of the light would in-
crease in like ratio up to certain limits. In running
slowly the illumination would be comparatively feeble;
but in such case the bell, whistle, and other signals
would afford warning in ample time.
HORSE DISEASE IN LONDON.—The Secretary
of the London General Omnibus Company informs
the Daily Telegraph, that the report of a strange epi-
demic and consequent excessive mortality among the
horses belonging to that company is erroneous. .It is
true, he says, that the sudden advent of very hot
weather affected some of the company's horses in the
West-end of London; it is always so every year, with
all horses employed in hard service. Mr. Church gives
an explicit denial Withe statement that as many as
twenty valuable animals lay dead in the sameatableat
one time towards the end of last week. It is in the
south-western district only, and not on the Paddington
and Kilburn line of the omnibuses, that the losses
have been above the average, but this excess is put
down by Mr. Church as costing the company not more
than £320, which loss, he. observes, is comparatively
trivial in .the risks of an establishment employing
B,oooihorses.
AN EXCITING CHASE.—On .the afternoon of
the 4th instant, as the steamer Maria Wilkens was on
her way from Freeport to Kalama, she sighted a:'deer
in the river about a mile below the latter'place. When
first seen he was about one-third of the way across,
and striking out boldly for the Oregbn shore. The
steamer was headed for him with all haste, and there
being no firearms on board except a Small pobket
pistol, it was decided to try and capture him alive. A
noose was made in a rope and thrown the boat ap-
proached, but missed the game. The dEior- whirled
and made for the Washington Territory side, which I
was the nearest, but Captain Huntingdon turned the i
little steamer in fine style and headed him off. The
chase now became exciting. A second time the ropes
were thrown unsuccessfully, and the deer, though
making prodigious efforts to reach the shore, was a
third time overhauled. This time both ropes caught
on his horns, and after a desperate struggle he was
hauled on board ai.d securely fastened, but one horn',
was brokea off in the struggle. He proved to be a '
four-year old buck, and in fine condition.

SOMETHING ABOUT " SALAMANDERS.7'—A Cor-
respondent writes in the Live Stock Journal and
Fancier's Gazette. - •
From a youth up, f must not say hrie long now, I have
been fond of and kept pets of all kinds, and amongst the rest
the animal your correspondent (AN.) inqnires about, called
the Salamander (Salamandra maculosa). It is an amphibious
reptile of lizard like shape, in colour black with light yellow
spots. I kept a pair for a long time in an inverted glass,
such as is used for covering glass: an inch and &half deep
of water f,rmed their bath and nursery, and a few stones
and some moss formed a pleasant retreat for them when they
wished to bask in the surcJ. Thfeale. brings forth her
young after the manner of the-frog, and it is very interesting
to watch the little tadpole assume gradutily the shape of
the perfect animal. The adult Creature is very sluggish in
its movements. I fed mine upon small worms, which they
devoured in a very deliberate manner. It exudes from the
pores of its skin an acrid liquid, which it
.is said to have a
poisonous effect upon the animals it feeds upon. It was once
thought to have the power of going *rough fire as well
water, but we are informed by the Rev. J. G. Wood,
In his Nat. list. (Vol. 111., p. 177), that Flinty tried the ex-
periment\ and found, much to his astonishment, that "it
burned to a powder."
A TURKEY STORY. —The Canton (U.S.) Times,
says :—Lucius Tuttle, of this towii ,t tells a queer iyarn
about a turkey, and asserts that he Can prove it .by
oaths of nine unimpeachable witrlel3ses: ''or the pur:
pose of multiplying and replenishing. thd 'earth with
turkeys, Lucius_ sat his turkey upon seventeen eggs.
At the expiration of thAsual period of incubation, he
'And that -Oki tilikelr-liad produced the requisite
number of young turkeys, but was surprised to find
twenty-seven eggs still under her. She had evidently
egii every day, besides doing the hatching busi-
iieSs. tut the wonder of the thing is that the turkey
still continues to sit there, hatches one chicken and lays
one egg per diem regularly. The fowl is of the " rotary "
species, and for the art which she has discovered and
perfected in herself deserves a niche, be itlever so small,
in the wall of fame.

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THE NEW MILITIA ACT.—The law relating
to the Miiitia has, by an Act passed in the present
month (38 and 39 Vie. c. CO), been consolidated and
amended. It contains as many as 99 sections, and a
schedule t,f some 7 Acts affecting the Militia in Eng-
land. Ireland, and Scw land, which are now wholly. or
partly repealed. The new Act treats of the appoint-
ments and powers of Lord Lieutenants and Deputy
Lieutenants, the formation of regiments, appointment
of officers, the raising of the men, their discharge, as
also as to drill. The Act contains provisions as to the
embodiment of the Militia, and as to their enlisting in
the Regular Forces or entering the Navy. The new
law is now set forth, and the extent of the statutes re-
pealed is mentioned.

RELICS OF NELSON.—An important addition
has just been made to the Trafalgar curiosities on
board the old Victory, Nelson's famous flagship, at
Portsmouth. It may be remembered that while
rummaging in a remote loft at Chatham some old
canvas, consisting of a maintop sail, a foretopgallant
sail, and a foretopsail were discovered. The relicts
were in a somewhat decayed condition; but on turn-
ing them over for examination some memoranda were
discovered which conferred upon them great historical
value. On the bonnet of one of the sails an inscription
"Miller, contractor, Portsmouth, 1805," was found,
and fastened to the stops of another was a label on
which was written, "H. M. S. Victory, 1805."
These memorials of a gallant action were received at
Portsmouth on Thursday in last week, and have been
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placed in the court-martial room of the old flagship
itself for public inspection. The foretopsail has sixty
shot holes and the maintopsail over ninety, and which
are believed to have been made on the memorable noon
of the 21st of October, 1805, when Nelson bore down
upon Villeneuve and Gravina.
THE DROWSY ONE !—The Boston Traveller
publishes the following: "A celebrated divine, from
a sister city, who preached at one of the South End
churches on Sunday last, employed the following
language to illustrate a certain point: 'How do we
know that we exist, save by our thought, our con-
sciousness,' &c., 'and how does the man in that pew
know whether the one next to him is awake or
asleep?' pointing in the direction of a drowsy mortal
who was nodding at a furious rate in a pew not far
from the front, while the occupants of the adjoining
slips looked at one another and smiled appreciation.
No friend was nigh to nudge the poor man into
waking ccnsciousness ; so in blissful ignorance he
nodded on till the end of the chapter."

WORK AND WAGES. —The Bulletin of the
American Iron and Steel Association announces a
forthcoming book on Labour in Europe and America,
prepared by Dr. Edward Young, Chief of the United
States' Bureau of Statistics. It is in the form of a
report to be submitted to Congress on the rates of
wages, the cost of subsistence, and the condition of the
working people in Great Britain, France, and other
countries of Europe and in the United States and
British America. The book appears, from the table
of contents, to be 'comprehensive, beginning with
the origin of slavery and development of wages and
labour, and ending with tables of wages, cost of living,
&c., in different countries from 1867 to 1872, and in
some cases to 1874.

IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN CATTLE.—Consi-
derable interest was created one day last week at the
Metropolitan Cattle Market at Islington amongst the
dealers as well as the buyers of stock by the exhibition
of the first importation into London of a number of
American cattle. They consisted of a lot of 37 very
superior oxen, regarded as equal in quality to some
Scotch breeds, and met with ready purchasers. The
known diminution of the supply and the high price of
meat having been some few weeks back telegraphed to
some of the principal graziers on the other side of the
Atlantic, recently several lots of these cattle have
arrived at Liverpool and other ports, and it is stated
that in no single instance has any symptom of foot-
and-mouth disease or any other ailment been detected
amongst the herds. It is also stated that, provided
cattle from America are allowed to be imported upon
the same terms as Irish and Scotch cattle, further
large and continuous supplies may be expected.
FLIES AS CONVEYERS OF CONTAGION. —Amidst
the different methods of conveying contagion the feet
of flies and their probosces must not be under-esti-
mated, especially at this season when flies are begin-
ning to be numerous (say the Sanitary Record). The
sublime indifference to consequences exhibited by flies
in passing from the surface of the most odious sub-
stances to that of material for human consumption is
complete. But if the flies themselves are uninjured
by contact with putrefying matter, the next article of
, food they rest upon may be influenced by the previous
' contact, and may be thus either induced to undergo
, putrefactive changes more readily, or may even be-
come a
,carrier of material of an eminently septic
character. Not only that, but flies pass quickly from
surfaoes on one organism to another, and it is highly
probable that the communication of septic poisons by
their agency is not by any means rare. That flies are
scavengers most persons who have studied the matter
will admit; but even, if thus useful, they may, never-
theless, in virtue of that very function, be sources of
danger.
NEW CRIMINAL ACT.— One of the last Acts
(38 and 39 Vic., cap. 91) was to amend the laws relating
to offences against the person. It is now enacted that
persons convicted for abusing a girl under 12 years of
age is to liable of imprisonment not exceeding two
years or to penal servitude for life, and for abusing a
girl above 12 and under 13, whether with or without
her consent, to an imprisonment not exceeding two
years, with or without hard labour.
PORCINE WARRIORS !—Out of Paradise Valley,
Nevada, an approaching invasion of crickets recently
caused considerable alarm among the farmers, who
resolved, rather than let their crops be devoured by
the ravenous insects, to give battle to them. For the
purpose they marshalled together some four hundred
hogs, placing them at the points the bugs first made
their appearance, and right gallantly did these porcine
warriors meet the enemy. For an hour they fought
bravely, each of them devouring crickets at the rate
of twenty or more a minute. They then withdrew to
water, and, after wallowing a short time, voluntarily
rene:s ed the battle, which was carried on far into the
night. In a few days not a vestige of the invading
army was to be seen, and the condition of the hogs
improved materially. It is thought the hogs destroyed,
on an average, a thousand crickets a day each, and
if within easy distance of water, a few hundred of
them are capaple of killing any number of crickets as
fast as they advance.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.
—As some workmen were excavating at the Bishops.
gate corner of Houndsditeh, London, preparatory to
the erection of new premises, have made an interesting
discovery. About eight feet from the surface, and in
a corner near the passage leading from Devonshire
House (the Friends' Institute) to the meeting-house,
they came upon a human skull and with care got out
nearly a whole human skeleton in a remarkably
good state of preservation. The face was downwards.
Close by were the molar teeth and a portion of jaw of
some large animal, and several copper coins very much
corroded, but with one or two letters still visible.

A CAT SCARED BY BIRDS.—The Troy Times
(American) says :—" While a short distance from the
city yesterday we heard robins chirping in the leafy
top of a tall elm. A large cat from a neighbouring
house stood under the tree gazing aloft and watching
the feathered songsters as they flitted hither and
thither. Her eye was eager and gamy, and she evi-
dently longed for some tender bird's meat. The robins,
it appears, had a nest of young ones, and the mother
bird, observing the crouching attitude of the cat far
below, was filled with anxiety for the safety of her
little ones. She set up a loud chattering cry, and for
a moment both parent birds flew about the nest wildly
and noisily. Fnally, they swept down straight towards
the cat, their fluttering wings•and impetuosity driving
her away on a run. As she neared the gateway of a
house, and was about to enter, one of the robins
swooped down and gave the cat a sharp clip on the
back with its beak. The cat rushed into the door-
way, and up the robins rose and sought the neat of the
brood."

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. —The Civil Listpensions
granted during the present reign, and still payable,
amounted in the last financial year to £20,964. These
pensions are granted annually to the extent of £1,200.
By the Civil List Act of 1837 they are to be granted
"to such persons only as have just claims on the Royal
beneficence, or who, by their personal service to the
Crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or
by their useful discoveries in science and attainments
in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious
consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitudr of
their county.' A

QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.-:-The annual account
of this great trust fund shows that in the year 1874 the
income amounted to £134,937, of which sum £10,119
was frenic.first fruits and tenths, and £ll9,BlBlrem
interest and dividends on prbperty. The interest
and dividends paid to the clergy ainounted to
£105,993, being nearly £14,000 less than the above item
of receipt from property; and the charges of manage-
men were .£6,051. The Governors state that their aim
for years past has been that a good income should be
paid to incumbents, and yet that the original annual
revenue of first fruits and tenths should be kept free
from diminution for expenses of management, and re-
main applicable to the augmentation of poor benefices
hi_ conjunction with benefactions ; and this result has
lieen attained by investing the capital at a rate of in-
terest slightly higher than that paid to incumbents.
Some of the clergy were recently receiving only 3 per
cent. interest. The Board have lately resolved te pay
3i per cent. interest on all capital sums of money held
by them for the augmentation of the income of incum-
bents. The Governors have again to record the.
liberal generosity of benefactors to poor benefices, and
give a list of 87 to which they assigned grants in 1874
to meet private benefactions. The balance-sheet
shows that at the end of the year 1874 the property
vested in the Governors—stock, securities, and money
lent on mortgage—amounted to no less than £3,475,654.
A SUDDEN GA.—La Crosse, Wis., was
visited lately by a severe rain storm. At the time a
circus was performing in the outskirts of the town,
,and a gale came upon them with but a moment's warn-
ing. A general stampede among the people and tear-
ing down of tents ensued, and in a few moments all
was tumult and confusion. The'shrieks of the women
and children, who were knocked down and trodden
under foot by the wild and uncontrollable crowd, were
heartrending. Many frenzy-stricken people, who
thought of nothing but getting out, jumped 'from the
top seats into the crowd, and rushed pell-mell for the
entrance. Many were seriously injured. The
managers were apparently labouring under temporary
insanity, as all actions on their part were simply
personal. No aid or words of encouragement
were given to the audience. The canvas was imme-
diately lower( d, poles broken down, and the lights
were extinguished, leaving a large portion of the crowd
Inside the tent in utter darkness, npt knowicg; which
way to turn, and expecting every moment for the
canvas to close in and suffocate them. The tinimaltEi
we howling fiercely, .and,nciaidse 'all the &waged
animals and horses were on a stampede, which greatly
endangered the lives of those who had succeeded in
getting outside the tent. One man was struck on the
head by a falling pole, and is reported fatally injured.
Several others are slightly and a few seriously injured.
Friends and families were separated, and search for
the missing continued r,..`" late hour.

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The
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES. ru
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annual return of this order had just been issuedkfi4
which it appears that the order has a menabersh p.:,
28,932, exclusive of 939 honorary members. Then;d ,
bsr of members who had been sick was 2,77°P locl
1;7,115 lls. 9A. had beeh paid for sicknem hered tbe
died 150 members, and 62 members' wives,_ an 2j, il4
J.2t 808
amounts paid for funerals had been £1,557
The amount of the sick fund was at present Otina
is. 4d., and of the district fuueral and contingent
£33,635 9s. The order is described as being ,O 1
flourishing and rapidly-increasing state throughout,.
187 districts into which it is divided. There are, no
these figures, 6,415 juvenile members' with
amounting to £3,816 18s. 5d., and the deaths
the year had been only 12 in number.
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A LIBERAL OFFER DECLINED.—A
short
since Mr. Deputy Harris, the then Master a the $
dlers' Company, offered a prize of 100 guineas be -
Military saddle for cavalry purposes that Inig:ltese
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considered superior to the present regulation P,
(says The Times). The competition was proposed ta
limited to the sergeant saddlers of the various osirlv.i.'
regiments, provided it was found in accordance,.
the Army regulations to use the materials fr°wasa
Government stores. The Duke of Cambridge
however, been constrained to decline the DePo
liberal Offer—first, because regimental saddlers
no means of manufacturing saddles at their,,,,°
expense, and to enable them fairly to compete I‘4ol,
prize a Government grant would be necessall; be
secondly, because it appears that no record °,,lliftest s
trated of money having been authorisedto be P• st
the public funds to assist military artificers in ("ia,
jug in a trial of this nature, and the financial ,k
ties, taking into consideration that there is no PreeBo
demand for a change in the pattern of the Pro%
regulation saddle, do not feel justified in antinrreor
an outlay which might prove an inconvenieov '
dent.
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THE VALUE OF PERSONAL EXPERIEN- thei
POULTRY BREEDING.—Go to your pets—whatellst°
are—and study them in all their peculiarities. „jogai
them as they grow, tracing by degrees which C, beot
makes the best fowl, which parent has bred tl
offspring, and so on. What you learn in this scdl
will never forget; and, moreover, you will so°1:09,0-
tbat even what you read or hear acquires a newiligible
ing, and what appeared obscure or nisinteogr
becomes lucid and clear, by the light of this eesli
ledge of your own. There is no other way ;,no °lee' Ile
teach unless there is determination and capacitY t°'4oll
Nearly all we know about fowls was learnt ifl
garden some 67 by 35 feet, where every bird litteit
sight, and our Brahma pullets would stand sti,„l"
ground to be stroked like cats, never dreaw:;llo
running away. We have a bigger place neW, ofe
every pen has almost as much as that • and weth for '
more fowls, and no doubt things are that;
them and for us; but for all that we are not
feel the interest in them we did in the old day:st
every bird was a pet, and every feather on ittejto
almost as familiar to us as a face that rarely ft': oil
meet us at the door.—From the "Live Stock •iti
and Fancier's Gazette.
HORROR 'UPON HORRORS !—A rein— go.
series of accidents occurred in lowa a few dB37ildren,
In a certain family there were three small oho el
the oldest being five years, two of whom Wer'tfotle'
barn to find hens' nests. They found one and c.dt.°
to it, and one of them then thrust his hand forw7,big
to get the eggs, when he quickly withdrew it, V ,
the old hen had bitten him. •The other said he eel
afraid and thrust his hand forward, when be, t3o'egb/,
bitten. Both then screamed, which quicklY thiP
their mother to the spot, when it was discovere
as o''et
they had been bitten by a rattlesnake which
in the nest. The mother seized the little W 611,004
arms, and hastened to the house, when a new. At
met her gaze. In her haste to secure the NIL. in
barn, she had set down a boiler of hot w's,'hon'
which the babe had fallen. In less than
all her children were dead.
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THE POWER OF ELOQUENCE. A M
North Carolina who was saved from a conviolvdtel
horse-stealing by the powerful plea of his
his acquittal by the jury, was asked by the Igoe'
"Honour bright nOw, Bill, you did steal that
didn't you?" "Now look a-here, judge,
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reply, ' I allers did think that I stole that o°ol ,r
since I beam your speech to that 'ere jai'
dogoned if I ain't got my doubts about it." '
THE NEW ACT ON PARLIAMENTARY 01 we
—The Act to regulate the expenses and to cows elev
charges of returning officers at Parliamentarla tile
tions was issued last week, and will take effect -bly
Ist October next. This statute will consider° to
duce the expenses of candidates. Accordl'go
charges to be allowed as set forth in the
oeo e 5
returning officer may require a deposit as..,'',ot_fob
and he is not to be entitled to payment for
services or expenses. Within 24 days-after ths,a
the returning officer is to send in his accounts P. 6104,
same may be taxed in the county courts, 80- %hie 't
against a returning officer are to be made °
days of return, or to be barred. The ballot'll tor
municipal elections and School Board electioooal
used. The statute is not to apply to the 1-Tal/00V
or to Scotland, and is to continue in force Spoon
October to the 31st December, 1880. Coriv
DETECTIVE POLICE.—The report of tloe worl:
missioner of Police of the metropolis shows t,l4lAteolild
done in the year 1874 by the officers of the "fl-Tis Ig"3
department. They apprehended 160 Perfs: "9
various offences; 90 of them have been conv'effeee,
discharged; the others were charged with ciottic;
committed elsewhere than in the metropolit° Are ,
28 being extradition cases and the result°BB rlig
scei;cl
known. The detective officers attended at tor'
They conducted nearly 1,100 inquiries of 9irg pero
nature relating to offences committed, to Ivissso, •
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s.ns, incendiary fires. cases of suspicion,
were inquiries made for Government departmres'ae
242 for foreigi Governments and police. foto'
sional detectives employed in the metropolis firif doe;
of great service; their presence deters 5% benm
because the movements of these officers cann°" eri
culated upon, as is possible with regard to the 13a
uniform.
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SHOCKING DEATH OF A' CHILD.--A atotiee
San Francisco lately died under peculiar cire1131,010,,,'1
It seems that the mother observed her chi"' eall'ei
through the aperture in the board fence. .Afterootb
her several times and receiving no answer, the et
went to the fence and was horrified to discl9l;aer0i
the unfortunate child was dead, having been ;We'd'
strangled. It appears that the-child got on °,„rgage
board to look through the fence, and, while so
the unstable support slipped, leaving her hattgleil• S,
çe
the aperture with her toes barely touching the,g_
In this position she must have been strangled Ter
minutes, as that time had hardly elapsed froraPcieew
parture from the house to the discovery ef /ler •
by the horrified mother.
MESSRS. MOODY AND SANKEY•S )3hi oi'
0000
SHEET. —The publication of a balance-
sheet
treasurer of "Messrs. Moody and Sankey'.
re OA
Mission" shows that the expenses incurrea
operations of those gentlemen in the raetroP°,,os,
£28,396. The expenses are allotted thosi2,Sileci
northern division (Agricultural, Szc., arr,,c'he
western (Opera House), £6,452; eastern
Hall), 7,104; southern (Camberwell, &c.), R 62"," 1;0.
general expenses are set down at £5,993, anal *"e
dude £B5O paid to "ministers and evange`:,
assisted Mr. Moody," £320 for " distributPN
Christian among ministers and others," and 'rrii
chairs, which has since been sold for
public have have already contributed £28,238 tos'
total required, mainly in the form of dOna
which £2,578 have been received in sums :
6d. to £550. The result is that a balance
still wanted.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS IN LONDON.
the last week or two the Council of th
Society have procured and deposited in th
a fine specimen of the Chimpanzee. It h 0
arrived from Western Africa, having bee!! Pik
by Captain Lees, the Governor of Lagos. ,;‘,"a
and about five years old; it is playful and ratTott
in disposition, and especially alarmed at the 87:,,iti,d
horse and cart. It was for some time in caP"ow
Africa before being shipped for this county/. oa
up and drinks out of a cup or from a sp9on,
learnt to fold its hands and to box in a quiet Iv
its keeper, who can also make it laugh after 9
of its own when pleased and caressed. Thit;al
panzee is the fourth specimen of the kind-w,,1.
been exhibited in these gardens. The first, "II
shown here in 1836 and lived but a short time,
subject of a mock heroic ode by Theodore
appeared in one of the magazines of the
second, a male specimen, known as "Joey',
known to visitors to the gardens; he was 102.-„
and stronger than the new Chimpanzee ;
remembered that he died about a year ag°
effects of a cold. A third, but far less i°"".;
specimen, from Mr. Ja,narach's collection,
gardens for a few weeks early in the present $'
but it was withdrawn.
"THE WAY "WE LIVE NOT." —3160.71 r
her Eldest SY,n).. "My dear George, where
Manners? You should always, say, ` Thr
when anything is handed to you! '—Ge,
bother having to say Thanks I ' every dive,
Can't a Fellow have a Season-Ticket ?"—PUOL
P.ROWESS OF A HEN.—At six o'clock
day morning, on the premises Na. 139, On
a hen, with a dependent brood of little at,-,
searching diligently for the proverbial worm L'
Chicago Times). Under the sidewalk shim'
house was concealed a full grown rat, who -
playing the early bird, and had his eyes intent 'J
movements of the innocent baby-hens and '
One little chick was almost within his grasp ,I•°'
watchful mother -discovered the danger. '4l
lightning she caught the rat with her beak an'
him upon the sidewalk, where she furiously r
his head. The commotion among the chi
the futile squealingof the rat, brought the f
I,were seated at breakfast, to the door. The la'
'house grasped a stick, and rushed to the -
the valiant hen, who was still striking incessas-
deadly blows, and the man found it was imtg'sl
aid her without danger to herself. In les°
minute the brave old hen had succeeded in desP(''
the rat, and, with a modest but satisfactory her,
started heroine gathered her family about he"
started again in pursuit of the worm.
ra'
AMERICAN LADY TRAVELLERS. —A laAv.w tdsl
ler has com e to the conclusion, founded on impar7
servat ion, that no women are universally more -.10
of their dress or neater in their persons
Americans. They make excellent travellers, too,
invariably good-natured and ready to laugh Oft
the mishaps they may chance to encounter.
dress and appointments are generally tastes'
, appropriately selected—nothing showing the_pa
thoroughly as this latter fact. English wow"
astonithed at the costumes worn by the
ladies travelling, the material striking thera
and,d,ark ;in
_conaparison, with their own, but
point which we beg; to dispute upon the s.
Ee9theilega 1u pp father- ; The .eye,i4.bfft
nv4iii4 delicate fabrics amid the dirt and
travel. To be sure their freshness can be reneteri• c'y
all traces of dust easily obliterated; but 4 l'of Itegi•
prefer to see their women ready for all kill°Ve POI
them, heat ()mold, and dressed according to
.t
nests of their surroundings. Were it not for tAeoltov
of wearing expensive and showy jewellerYwin
ling, their travelling costume would be Paw'

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441 PA.TAL COLLISION WITH THE
ROYAL YACHT.
sinTll,e Coroner's inquest on the bay of Thomas
lin'el? aged 73, the captain of the Mistletoe schooner,
4:4_414 to Mr. E. S. Heywood, banker, of Man
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(4,"e 7`er, which was sunk by the collision with the
tea's yacht Alberta on Wednesday evening, was
ried at Gosport, before Mr. E. J. Harvey, on
nuradaY afternoon in last week.
"Lriace Leiningen Captain of the Victoria and Albert,
Staff• Captain Welch (Commander of the Alberta),
bnPresent during the proceedings, and Mr. G. P.
}Tina, barrister-at-law, was in attendance to watch
eaBe on behalf of the Admiralty. A number of
ptdr naval officers, among whom was Commander
h_erton, were also present.
The Coroner, in opening the proceedings, told the
;,lISY they had
'met to investigate one of the most
ripfui occurrences that he had certainly ever had
faquire into, and a more scrious one than had
come before he coroner of the county. The
ae
of the case would probably come out in evi-
:_', and they had doubtless most of them read the
(limnin the newspapers, which he briefly detailed.
! llooe so, he said he was sure they would
to from their minds, as he beseeched them
mo, all th.at they had read and all that they had
etirarl. TheY were perfectly aware that when any oc-
tune,,,s,.llce of this kind took place rumours and counter
hSraixs a,r°Be—some of them, doubtless, true, to a
befeel'ent, and some of them false. Her Majesty,
laer travelsl"d% for
taanY years had been very fortunate in
e_ood fer not meeting with any accident, but that
Ide remindedie Was interrupted on this fatal. evening.
Capta• them that the verdict rested with them.
whiehtWelch had been employed in the service in
.
e was now engaged for twenty-eight yearsi,
known act_,er, kindliness, and former career were we.l
broth ' anu he was held in universal esteem by his
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gh. Prince Leinin en. although on board
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Captain Welch
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Zcertain if there was any blame they
11 they attach blame to those who eilitlictrein°llteall w
iaeld those who ought to be responsible,
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service Its. There might be an official inquiry n the
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