The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-28 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JUNE :8, I 873,

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Fousios TRADE or AMERICA. Thn New
yo. k Ohimher Of Commerce hal, pal diahed st&stios
of tne fercisn troth of the United Smtes for t. fiood
'roar Via slaw 30, 1872. These show that tin. pjs.
cipol trade of Ameii.ot is with Great Britain. Th.
Americans raceive two-fifths of their imports from this
country, to which they send much more than o f their
exports, riceiving gthsis valued at nearly 241 nallions
of dollars. and sending out produce amounting to
pearly 285 millions. The trade next in
.importance to
this is that with Cub t, the imports belog 66 millions
and the exports 12 millions. The trade with Germany
staials third, America receiving over 45 millions, and
sending out 36 millions ; and Fran, fourh, the
American imports the, ce being 42 millions, ra, I ex.
ores 22 =Bikers. The SATrairat° import. of the
:mtert States in 1672, deducting re-exports, were
(15,569,54)9 dollars, god valustiou, and the exports,
also stated at a gold valuation on the basis of en per
sent. isteraiem, wow. 500.1149,144 dollars, showing sp
CECrAA ot imparts of 117,369,825 dollars.

!poets

DEST ASSIIRANCE. Lady of the Thrfse :
"Wll, Millicent, how do y n like your new hem,
'Roland '?"—Millieent : "0, immensely ! Rat pe
wants a firm band, yt.o know. He'd very aon ins
away with tur, if I gone him a chance; wouido he
Robert ?"—kitrrt (first fOttlin to Matiterit): "Rlll
aW.Y you, if you gave him u charms! By G:arge,
if I can judte of `Ro!au, 'a' feelings by wyown,
I should just think he s.ould /"—Punch.

NEW ROT ON MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. —The
statute which received the Royal assent last week has
been printe I, to extend to suite for uu!lity of marriage
the law with reapeet to the inerventior, of 11,
Majesty's Proctor and other mite in England for (Ili.
solving marriages. Provisione in the Ac', recited in
the echedules are extended to euits for nudity of mer,
nags, to the effect that a detree for divorce is re-
quired in the first instance to be a decree Nisi, and not
to be made absolute until after the expiration of ex
months, unless the Court otherwim direct, and provi.
lion le made for any person showing cruise why the
decree should not be made absolute by reason of the
same having keen obtaiael by collusion, or of material
facts not having been brought before the Court; and
power is given to any person to give information to
Her Majetty's P,octor, whole thereupon authorized to
take such steps WI the Attorney-General may deem
necessary or expedient, and such Proctor, if he sue
pec ts that any parties to the suit are acting in olio-
sin!, for the purpiee of obtaining a divorce contrary to
the justice of the mite is authorized under the direition
of the Attorney-General, and by leave of the Court, ti
intervene in the suit, and otherwhie proceed as thereto
mentioned, and provinion is made for the payment of
hie costa in so acting.

A RKWARD WFIVNI RAN:MU The
County Crop.—Punch.
AN ENIGML SOLVED.—Those who lake an
intereat in the deciphering of cryptographs may pos-
sibly have noticed in the agony column of The Times
of toe second iraitant the following weird advertise.
ment Aowd oe dpi cee wtbefdocojq
Ufecl viz. Tflh w lojs pia zic wfs qaddojq ij coil gobs
ke pewfd di aifm rif dpe upoltfsj. As pwbs rise rfosjte
jia. Lei ke afods kcup di ewy. Epwll lobe pals toddle
lijqsf, Wpswfd-vfimej acre If we follow the well-
known principles of interpretation laid down by Poe
in his Gold Bulk, the cipher in question, if cipher it
is to be called, ields up its key at once. "h' ob.
viouely etande for "E," " ke " for "me," and "dps"
for' the." A little more r. flact ion elbows that " ji"
and "ij " are reeprctireiy "no " and "on," that
" Apwd " is " what," " jia " " now," and " oe" "
llitimately deciphered, the advertisement reads thus:
—What ie the me of adverting? No answers. Cruel
boy. Drop a line how you are getting on. Will give
me he irt to work for the childr-n. We have few
friends now. Let me write. Much to may. Shall
live here little louger. A broken hearted wife.

THE GAIT OF LADIES.—" Art thee in paint
my dear, and can I &milt thee ? " once tenderly in-
quired a simple-minded Quaker lady of • fashionably.
deemed &angel who was making lire way along a
crowded promenade almost bent double in the style
lately de ripueur. One of the journals to which the
ladies look for instruction in the fashion announces a
welcome change in the fashionable gait. It will to
longer be lie emery that beauty ehould assume the
bowed appearance which excited the solicitude of the
good Quakeresa. She may now, after long eclipse, as.
sert herself

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fatr.
But she is still carefully to avoid a perfectly natural
gait. It appears that the skirt of the day is to cling
very closely round the feet, and that to increase this
clinging appearance many ladies are taking to walk as
th..ugh their feet were tied together. This promises to
afford ths jublic some amusement, for, as in the former
case, the fashionable haoit will, no dnibt, spread
through all dasses of society. Now, although a very
fine lady, who enjoys the privilege of being c wetully
supported to her carriage, need scarcely walk at all,
this new device in carriage will be extremely tinfarcur-
-.113 run from a fire or to catch sight of the Shah

Oira Fox His NOB."— Yankee Passe,,,.
"Why on Airth do you put Blinkers on the Horses in
this benighted old Country? We 'ye long given 'em
up in America, I reckun !"—British 'Bua.Driver.
" Well, Ili Tell yer wot it is. If them 'ere 'Osses was
only Jut to catch a Sight of you a Sittin' be'ind
they'd b- that Frightened rhey'l Jus: Smash the 'ole
blessed 'Bus all to Pieces !"—Pum h.

UNINIEN TIONA CANNIB tLIM. A "very
special" correApondent of the Paris Figeiro gives the
following anecdote of Sir Bartle Frere when at Zanzd
bar :

Sir Bare le and his vsn, during an expedition • up country,'
hal trienrudoutiy wandered from their neon and lost their
way. After some time try perceived a in 'e hut, and,
tiri it and hungry, proceeded t claim home ..y. An old
neatness app ared at the door and wave them some ergez
which our envoy at once converted Into an ome'ette, aid
seeing numbers of Ilitle road black bads suspended fr in the
roof and fancying them to be small mushrooms, popped them
Ito the pan utterly dieregarillog the old women's al Mims
' remonstrances. Alter their meal in came the owner of the
cabin, who on learning what hie visitors bad done broke Into
• violent rage. Slleerable strung, s, cried he, 'you have
eaten all my war trophies and, in answer to Sir Bartlel
uniries, inform-d him that what he hail taken for mash.
rooms were 00 leas than the ears of his en-mice whom he
lad killed In battle. "Sit Bartle Frees," adds Figaro,
was it with ludi,eation for for days."

THE MOST NORTHERN. —Tho men from the
Polaris have brought to the United States an
Esquimanx, named Hans Chtistien, with his wife and
four children. He was taken on hoard the Pol.ris
after she reached Diet, with his wife and three
children. While the vessel was in winter quarter. the
fourth chi: d was b tin. The birth having taken place
on a United States vessel, under the national flag, the
child is claimed as an American citizen. It %VW+ born
100 miles further north than any habitations of men
are kni,wn to exist, and with reason, is believed to have
hail its birth place in a higher I atitude than any other
living human being. .

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TKUMP.,.—On the occasion of the Royal no. t.
jog between the Sovereigns of Persia and England,
when the latter received the former in state at Winds
Castle, it was remarked by people addicted to whist
and cribbage that the illustrious guest and hostess
represented two Court Cards—Her Majesty the
Qm en nf Hearts, and the Shah the King of Diamonds.
—Punch.

VERY GOOD B 'matt. —Very good butter, it is
stated, is prepared now by abutter manufactory at New
York, according to the following process :---Agente
are employed to visit slaughter-house., and buy up all
the beef suet. This is carted to the factory, and
cleansed. Then it is put into meat choppers and minced
One. It is afterwards placed in a boiler with as much
water 'n bulk as itself. A steam pipe is introouced
among the particles of suet, and they are melte i. the
refuse of the membrane goes to the bottom of the
water, the oily pubetance floats, and is removed. This
consists of butter matter and stearine. A tempera-
ture of 80 degrees melts the former, and leaved the
stearine at the bottom. The butter matter or cream
is drawn oil; about 13 per cent, of fresh milk is added
and the necessary salt, ond the whole is chume i for 10
or 15 minutes. The result is Orange county butter at
about one half the usual cost. The stearine is sold at
120. a pound to the candle-maker, aid the refuse at
7c, a pound to the manufacturer of food for cattle.

NIAGARA. FALLS.—The Niagara Falls Gazette
announces the destrnetion of the Terrapin Tower,
which was built in 1823 on the narrow ledge of rocks
upon the extreme brink of the Horseshoe Fall, and
which afforl,..l front the summit a magnificent view
of the rapnns above and the rush of waters below.
The tower was pronounced unsafe last auiurno, owing
tithe continued action of the epry and widdl and
frost, and ic was then closed, it hat just been mined
and blown up to make room fur a new iron tower.
The mast in the centre bad become only a shell, the
core havirg almost disappeared in consequence of dry
rot, and there were large Mimeo opened in the
masonry.
BriTTER FROM CONDENSED MILK.— A n
ex-
prrimnt of a very interesting character was made on
Saturday at the International Exhibition at South
Kensington. Butter of very goo] quality was made
from milk condensed and preserved by Mr. Hooker's
process, and kept uncovered ih an open vessel exposed
to all the oxydhing influences of the air for two years.
In this process the expensive vacuum pane hi-herto
need by previous inventers are avoided, and the pre-
paration of the milk can be carried on in any dairy
properly provided with the necessary vessels. The
success of Mr. Hooker's process is sufficiently demon-
strated by the extraordinary test to which it has been
subjected; but the intrinsic value of the experiment
is in the indication it gives of becoming one means of
increasing the importation of wholes due feed for the
requirements of ever increasing communities in porn.
lout countries.

A HioHLAND SENTINEL.—A HiAland regi-
ment was statiuned in India. On a night when " The
Brig o' Perth" wan the watchword, a comparatively
Tao lal was placed as a sentry. After he had paced
backwards and for wards or some Mule, one of his own
regiment came up, and the sentinel challenged him
with.'Who goew there ?" The ecidier answered, "A
friend." "Pe she friend or no friend," repliel the
faithful watch, "gin she dintta bring ta Brig u' Perth
we her, she'll shoot."

DOTiBLY DENTITUTIL—Vagabonds are gen T-
ally creoited with cleverness; it that is the owl., crelit
they get. But street.l eggars exhitot want of origin.
silty at WA as lamer:tat:le as their phyiicat desutn•
tion. They continue to importune you :or a
although copper coin has long heel' superseded by
bronze; and no mendicant asking alms cv. r :liinks of
saying, by way of novelty. "If you please, Sir, would
3ou have the kindness to assist a poor man with
postage stamp ?"—Punck.

• - -
Cori sywrnow or Sexarre.— In the first guar.
ter of the year 1873 duty wav pa;d on 6,877,953 gallons
of Lome-Londe sisrits, for c‘ol.u; opti'm hs beverage in
the United Kingdom, being an increase of 684,051 gal-
lons ogee the quantity in the con ei•ponding period of
the pm."e lir g year, or op ". 'di • 11 per cent. In Eng-
land U. iiantity ;gal 3,7:10,i12 ~allons, an increase of
390,03, ; in S.,otlancr, 1,466,124 gallons, an iu.
cre.v.e of 157,223 gal' no ; hi Ireland, 1.621,117 gallons,
an ii•creass of 139,905 gallons. In the same period
1.325,360 proof gallons e imported rum were entered
for consumption in the United Kingdom, an increase
of 275,236 gallons; 951,163 proof gallons of irupolted
brandy, on increase of 71,814 gallons; and 216,810
proof gallons of other imported spirits, not sweetened
or mixed, being an increase of 70,029 gallons.