The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-05 00:00:00

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HONE, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,

RZADY AliflWZß.. Uncle. " Now , how did
the mother of Moms hide hini."—Neice. " With a
'Usk, Uccle."—Prout.

SHUNS OP &MINIMS'S AT SHIMPIELD.—
Nearly the whole of the men employed in the engineer-
ing trades at Sheffield came out on strike on Monday
morning. A month ago they asked for a minimum
advance of 2s. weekly upon their resent wares, to-
gether with extra pay for overtime and out work. A
few days age the master, met a deputation of the men,
and the former suggested that thequeetion of increasing
the wages should be referred to the arbitration of Mr.
Rupert Kettle, the marten, being willing to concede
the other demands. A mass meeting of the men war
held on the following day, when it was decided to re-
ject the offer of arbitration and go out on strike. Ac-
cordingly on Monday the engineer+ employed at all the
principal works, with two exceptions—in which the
men leave work next Saturday—turned out. In con-
sequence of the strike the masters held a meeting on
Monday afternoon, and, after mature consideration,
expressed a unanimous opinion that in the present
state of trade they could not advance the wages of the
men beyond their present rate. Nearly 1,000 men are
on strike, and it is expected to be of considerable dura-
tion. If it Lists many weeks the results will be most
serious, as the large works will have to suspend opera-
tions, many thousands of these workmen in different
departments being dependent on the engineers for the
forwarding of some of their work.

TCI7RIBTS BY WHOLESILS.—SOMe time since
a party of professors and teachers connected with col-
leges and schools throughout the United States was
organized by Marrs. Thomas Cook and Son to vibit
all NMl:thief places of interest in Europe, including
hfunieh, Vienna, and Paris. One hundred and fifty
of them left New York on Saturday, the 214, ult., at
twelve o'clock, the screw steamer Victoria, *Mob
reharterethhootheitortrogo They
arrived at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning at Mori
and landed to see the Giant's Causeway. They will
SZedfrom Ireland to Glasgow, and theme to Lon-
where they will arrive on Tuesday next.

Tlll Six or tax Sur.—Shum hui departure
and during his absence from "the land of the Raa,
and" the clime of the sun," the Shah has instil uted
new Order bearing the name of that lumlnerv. I.
Order of the Sun is for ladies only. The institution ef
this; Order is a remarkable step on the part of an
Eastern potentate. It is a symbolical A 8404.60,2 of f e
Rights of Woman, and sometaing more. Hitherto the
Sun and Moon, respectively, have been oonsidered
celestial representatives of the two se:ea—the 340n1,
corresponding to the soften sex. In creating the Ordsr
of the Son for that Sex exclusively, the Simi has te
the extent of bin authority, put it in theplace of ihe
other. When he gets back will he put it in theotheA
habiliments? Wall he promote the inmates of tbe
atederome to knickerbockers ?—Paisch.

A PARIS ',DUSTILY. —There is in Paris au
aged woman who has for the last 50 years rapportti
hermit by as Industry of white, Iroi believe, afro ajoy4
a complete monopoly (remarks the Echo). Sh•
the Garden of Aoclimtisation ha Paris with fold kith,
which food «insists entirely of ante en,
—...easkesallsons in the woods around Paris, and n.
eaves about 12f. for the quantity she beings beck from
each of her foraging expeditions. These generally la•t
three or four days, during which she sleeps on the tell
of action, in order to watch the insects at dawn, and
to find her way to their treasures. She is almost de.
roared by the ants, an inconvenience of which she
takes little notice, but at the end of her harvest lin.
which lasts from the month of June to the end of Sep'
tember, her whole body is in a truly pitiable conditlor
Her services are, of course, highly valued, for, es sh.,s
is at present no competition in this line of industry, it
would be difficult to supply her place.

I=it: wale.

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UN•0000111TA3LI 01111810 W.-11 great deal that
is neither eery entertaining nor instructive has el hie
been said and written about Local Bads'. In
course of it all no allusion whataoerw bee been seadl
to the celebrity for Rating once penalise in locality
Billingsgate.—Punch.

Tan Pope—On Sunday (the 29th), the bast
of Saint Peter and Paul—the Archbishop of W.L.
Inkster preached at St Peter's Church, Hatton Gard,:,,
London, the subject of his discourse Meg the offi,o
oommitted to Peter, which is perpstosted into tie
Holy See. In the course of his reisierke. the getischir
said he was redacted by this hadval that the sec
minor of Peter was morally be prima, though the
world might SIT that, as nobody hulked the door, at
did he not go out In oity cd Ramo. Maley thir.ii
(mid the preacher) that if a Foreign Priam bed bH
shed his sovereignty in London, our grodons Savory, gu
world drive out into the streetn of this say as uo
usurper were here? Whosoever could think so no t
be heartless and brainlessl No Englishmen who Imre
the truths be the date of Rome at the present memo. t
would wish that Pius IX. ehould expe. himself to tho
impiety written opus wane, to the y end iota
nese with which the streets of Rome are Ott l'oo
IX. was morally a prisoner for this reason :that
lan indignation againot wrong, Injustice, and hopia,
make it his duty not to pout his foot over the thrieLoki
of the house which is still pure and snored to God, to
go out into the streets of a city which are deluged Ida

FJIOIII TIM STOCK XXCHABGIL Said Robinson
to Joon, M moat exhibition, "Oar inland Browny
sketches, I nee, ere most of them lii Seplo." "Why
yes, of ocouse," said Jame, "it ii the fittest medium
for histplinat ottempo."—Ponch.

A BILL TOR HAPOlllril AD BOILIIO.—Tha
following singular bill for hanging and boiling • frise
Ii extracted from an old document. Of course a irk
ought not to hare been boiled; this we may prembe
with, but it is extracted from an old document:—
"Account of the hanging and parboiling of Frisakese,
at Canterbury, in 1539.—Paid for half • tee of that.
to make a pair of gallows for to hang Friar Star,
2s. 6d.; to a carpenter, for making the seine gallows,
and the dray. Is. 4d.; to • labourer that dined the
hole, 3d.; akar exposes, of setting up the WOG, sad
carriage of the timber from 13 catenate to the D
ls. ; for a hurdle, for • load of wood, &IV.!' •
horse to draw him to the D 2s. 3d.; paid two
men that sat at the kettle and parboiled hlni, li.; to
three men, that carried his quarters to the gates, sad
sat them up, is.; for halters to bang him, and Seed.
wick oord, and for mews, is.; for a woman that
scoured the kettle, 23. ; to him that did 'recut*
3c Bd. ; total, 14c Bd. It will be Men in these d.sys
of high-priced labour how much cheaper they worked
In those days.

REALLY trarruz. Eilmar-RArrizra Az. Luz.—
A Spirit that will beat you at Moak at any tiaw
The Metro-Gnome I—Paiwis.

IYPOST 01 CORN. —The Board of Trade Re.
turns state the import of corn into the United Bing.
dom from harvest to harvest—that is to say, in the
twelve months commencing on the let of September.
In the first three quarters of that current twelvemonth,
the Dine months ending the 31st of May, 1873, the In.
port' of corn into tkie country have reached the fol.
lowinr large quantities : —Wheat and wheg Boor,
39,285,493 cwt., equivalent to 9,354,615 quartos;
barley, 11,905,411 cwt., or 3,333,515 quact.rs ; oats,
7726.331 cwt., or 2,809,764 quarters • Indimi
t. cora,
15,21%387 cut, or 3,549,556 quartere2msko g a total
of 74,130,142 cwt., or 19,047,480 quarters. To tide
may be added 1,093,906 cwt of peas, equivalait to
243,090 quarters; and 2,099,180 out, of beam, a
489,808 quarters.

Tat Bann As ear Aumos.—lt is not generally
known that the Shah is an author, and that, at &NS
siderable personal trouble, he wrote and publnlied •
valuable book for private drculeidon, in erhkh he gave
a fall account of tie only journey he ever undertook
before the premed one, to Karbala and Nejjf, newßagdad, when he made a pilgrimage to the owned
places. This was about three years ago, angepta
nsi obtained • vast amount of oal sad ira
Information, which no me elae eould pcmdby have pro..
cured; • class of facts in which few Orientals take
much interest. Nearly the whole, if not all, of the book
was written with his own hand. Ponies scholars say
that the style is remarkably vigorous and intelligible
The imperial author seta before his readers the mune
of his °Nervations in short, curt sentence., and le
much to be praised for giving his facts in the fewest
words. An English gentleman who has perused it
says that the language is well chosen, and that the
book would be flighty creditable to a well.
writer. What His Majesty *ought to aooompChettilt
was to communicate to the most influential members
of his Court facts onnoerning his journey which be
thought it was most important they should know. At
present he is engaged in writing • book, which he will,
no doubt, have lithographed for very general clistrlbu•
tion, about his tour through Europe, and especially his
visit to England.
GREAT Murata's FLarr.—The North Ger-
man Gazette, writing in reference to the review at
Spithead, says:—

'The culminating point In the programme devised for the
pleinure of the Shah has been beached: he hes ema what
could be witnessed In no other pert of the earth—the
mightiest and !inset fleet In She world. Great Britain hid
ordected • portion of her fleet in one place and presided
them in their best wrap before her vast With Jost OM
might the Mesh peoPie point to thaw asa-glants and sth
' With the alp. here collected Moos could we beet Os
combined foal, of all the world, and yet this le only • pal
of our naval power, which is scattered over all She Sall of
In. globe,'"

MI7I.DIR, ATIIIIPTED MITRDIB, AND 8171DIDN
IN INDIA.—A correspondent of The Times of Indio,
writing from Nagpare, describes the attempt MA& by
a police sower named lahoolab Tewari, to assmante
M. Atkinson, district superintemdent of
Balaghaut. The sower had first brutally murdered
man of whom he was jealous, in the bed of the
Balaghaut river. He thew hastened to Mr. Atkinson's
residence, and informed him of hi. having discovered
the perpetration of a minder in the bed of the river,
and lagged the district superintendent would follow
him to the s me. Mr. Atkinson prepared at onos to do
so, and in turning his back to Ghoolab roman in the
direction of his room, the miscreant fired at him with
a pietol. The ball entered under the left shoulder, and
paring between his heart and lungs made its exit
anteriorly. The murderer then fled for his life. Al.
sistance was soon given to Mr. Atkinson, and the
wounds looked to. Although the pistol had been se
correctly pointed, and the ball had actually pawed
through Mr. Atkinson, yet no vital injury mei
occasioned, and the patient is now out of danger. Jim
mediately after the occurrence, the police were put as
the tract of the fugitive. The pursuit became so
warm that Glioolab Tewari spared his pursuers further
trouble by shooting himself, and thereby saving
the reward of 500 Rs, which had been offered for his
apprehension.

No CONWICTION.—A mongst the recent ad-
ditions to the Zoological Garden, are "two yomig
Persian Hone." Tole looks like a curious ooincideno.,
but we have ascertained that these aocemions to it,
collection in the Regeat's Park, are altogether differtut
from the Persian " lions" that have lately had the run
of London Society.—Pench.

JUDICIAL SATID.Z.—A judge had brought be-
fore him • poor sailor chargd with bigamy. Tbe
sailor pleaded guilty, and, on Wag sakod if he bed
anything to say why the usual sentence should not ho
paned, said, " May it please your lordship, my inf.,
ran away with another man, an] left we with a fac,iiy
of children, whom my dune. se • British tailor haupr
enabled me to take care of without another at.
What ought I to have dose!" "Prisoner," said Li 4
lordship sternly, "I will tell you what 3on ought to
have done. You ought to have employed a pone .4
police to pursue that eloping wife, and to have ed.
blished a case of ann, con. against her; you ought
then to have gone up to the House of Lords, Ind
secured from their Icrdships • divorce, and VIA
married *gain. You may say such • procedure woulil
have coat you £.500 or £6OO, whereas you have not e,
many pence. But, prisoner, that makes no difference.
It is my business, eittiog hers.. an English judge, t,
inform you that this is not • country where them to
one law for the rich and another for the poor."

THZ PINK or Psarscriort.—The tail of tho
Shah's Arab.— Punch.

Bs* &mos.—A correspondent of the Gar
dener's Magazine writes as follow. :—" On the 18th
April last, • young man, employed near bees, had th.,
misfortune of being stung. No remedy befog near st
hand, I remembered Mr. Gordon's note on the sure or
bee stings, at page 481 of the Gardenvos Negating 1-!'
1872. I recommended him to apply the common soil
to the wound, as described by Mr. Gordon, and it
mediately relieved the pain and prevented the sww
ling. Such • receipt is of more value than gold to all
who have anything to do with bees. I formerly %peg
common blue for bee stings, but common moil is prate:.
able."

ADVSKTISING LAWYERS !—As o curious spent-
men of social manners at Rome (says the oorresponoe-t
of the Standard), I send you the following two adver.
tisements sent to the newspapers by two &now,
lawyers both of them members of the Roman bar :
" Desired by sh Advocate, who would undertake at Me
own expLom the whole conduct a • cane tor • mooed:m.
to be spread upon, the direollon at • process of sure result
U weal amused."
"An "V=triDtplitilaillAdillie the provinces to
establish Id Rome, and whom- object In publishing
this advertisement is to meats tor himself • practice qitialilr.
offers his melstaiwie to clients on Mime below those Melt
asked."

What would Om Within of our Inns think 01 that