The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-27 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITIAN AND FOREIGN.

A vigorous effort to introduce horse•esting in Tuscany
I. being made, singularly enough new end admirable
Society for the Protection of Animate.
A woman who claims to be the granddater of
Napoleon hag taken undimmed possession- of the old Bona.
paste Mansion, near Bordentown, New Jersey.
A South American says there is a " die
hithrnan "In Buenos hyrea Thie is the clown !Vile
rope= skous troupe.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges am
Conscience Money" the receipt of .816 from "7. E. ' for
unclaimed income Tax.
The toast of "The Ladies" infltht have been
at a Meng literary banquet Mae • Woman—the
work In all ereatien. The edition is • large one, sad ao man
should be without a oopy."
In exploring the great Brasilia* mat field in the
neighbourhood of San Jeronymo two more splendid seams
have been discovered. Tue Imperial Brazilian Collieries
I Company, which holds the concession has opened a railway
from Its present pits to the coast.
Tuesday (the 23rd inst.) was observed as a bolyday in
' accordance with tue Jewish Calendar. The New Year began
on Rowley, and the day of atonement will be held on Wed-
nesday, the tat of October. lb. year A. in. NM 84 has now
conunineed.
L A Maori centenarian named Te Muni was baptised
recently In Oanterintry. The old min was once a famous
warrior and twisted. For the remainder of his Ide his name
will be Zara. The few years might more appropriately have
been designated Etcetera
Two trains—a Great Western and • Midland—
which have to enter Bristol Station on the same Ilse, reached
the points simattaneously, and • smash sawed. There wee
no positively killing, but much damage was done both to
pescengers and stock.
The total receipts into the Exchequer from the let
al April to the 20th September amounted to £.18,11.57,762,
against £32,717,100 in the correspondlng period of last year.
Tie expenditure was £38.753,710, and the balances in the
Bank of England and Bank of Ireland on Saturday laM were
It is stated from Geneva that the famous onyx
called the Vase of liantole has at lest been found in
the treasure-chest of the late Duke of Brunswick. It was
enclosed in another vase of Olt metal.
General Garibaldi ha' written a book, which is to be
puha( lied under the title, The Thowand Male). It gives
interesting details of the events of the Italian wan of libera-
tion, and of the adventures of the celebrated thouaand men
of whom he was the leader.
An American contemporary writes that "3 eeterday
afternoon a farmer named Primer was thrown hoot his
waggon about two natios beyond the toll-gate." Instead of
being thrown two miles, Palmer was simply thrown two yards
out upon the road beside Ids waggon.
The news brought by the Biafra confirms the intelli-
gence of all the native tribes to the westward of Cape Coast
having molted and Joined the Ashman's. lii, stated that
one of the revolted tribes the Appoloolans) can themselves
alone bring Into the field as many fighting men as all the
confederated Pantos trims together can do.
It seems that the projected balloon voyage from
New York to Europe is not now likely to take pima. An at-
tempt was made to Inflate the balloon on the 10th, but 11
tailed, owing to a high wind. The attempt was renewed
on the 120; but a rent appeared and the operation 111141
abandoned.
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On Tuesday Sing Victor Emmanuel drove about
Berlin, went to the Zoological Gardens, and Inspected the
public monumente of the city. In the alto moon he visited
the Crown Princess, and afterwards received the Diplomatic
Body. In the evening there was& Mate dinner in his honow
at the Royal Edam, at which many officers of diatinction
were present Much satisfaction continues to be expressed
In Italy at the reception the King has met with in Germany.
The tilmicipality of Rome has thaaked the Mayor of Berlin
for the welcome accorded to his Majesty in that city.
On Tuesday afternoon the Shah returned to Teheran,
accompanied by an immense tr..cosaion. The roads were
lined with the &opt:dation of the capital, and greet demon-
strations of loyally wets made. Oa the preriou 'ay his
Majesty was met at Rand by the Princes and Ministers who
had remained at Teheran during his atomics. fie explained
to them that one of the oh ea. of ha visit to Barone had
been to study Its bathetic ns with a view to the introduction
of a biter system of Governmeot into Persia.
On Tuesday, es "Rornali," the Mexican athlete,
was going through his performances at the Crystal Palace
before a large audience, in one of him aerial flights he missed
catching the tripes, and fell heavily, breaking through the
net stretched beneath on to the floor. Re ley for a few
moments motionless, and was picked upend carried oat, but
after an interval of a quarter of an hour be was able to re-
appear, looking extremely pale. The performance was, of
course, discontinued.
It is shown by returns just printed that last year
803 petitions were filed for dissolution of marriage, andin the
preceding year 193, which with other petitions made MO last
year. The fees In 1878 were £2,621 its against 1.13,018 le the
previous year. Lest year there were 10,147 Probate
and 4,959 administrations. The total amount
issued In London for probate and administration in the year
was £1,748,000, of which £97,,326 wee for use In London
registry, and £7i7,588 in the district settleStiaa
Professor Wilson, State Superintendent of Instruc-
tion in Mammoth, was recently applied to for • female
teacher possessing certain gratifications, which were set
forth with painful elaborateness. U. replied, I know of
no lady who can fill your bill. A good-looking woman who
can teach Greek and Latin, and can run a high school of one
hundred pupils, cannot be found. Good-looking women
never study Gresk,

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The other day, at a Concert in Parie, a gentleman
having pat his hat upon • chair to keep • place, returned to
claim it after a short absence. The hat he found sure enough
where it had ben; left, only there was a stoat lady sitting on
IL "Madame,' said he, "you are sitting on my hat." The
lady blushed a little, turned round, and said In the blandest
manner, Oh, I beg pardon I'm sun I thought It wee my
flathead's."
Rumours age current in Paris that the Comte de
Chambord awaits only the reeognition of his rights by the
Assembly, profaning himself ready, when that is done, to
make all the concessions to Constitutionalism that may than
be necessary. 111, even mid that, alter having received the
boucle of the Amenably, he would resign in favour of the
Comte de Paris. The Prance, however, states that the
Legitimist Prince has declined to made any ooncessiona to
his friends.
On Saturday the grounds of Lambeth Palace were
thrown open by the Archbishop of Canterbury for • lets of
the Rechabites, the oldest beneficial temperance order.
After cricket, other games, and tea, • meeting was held, over
which Mr. Dunn (a candidate for nouthwark) presided, and
addresses were delivered by Mr. John Linton, Mr. John
rearm and others.
A German chemist, named Londeberg, claims to have
I made • disoovery of great importance to persons of weak
sight, and, indeed, to all persons lot actually blind. It Is
understood that the painful eftect produeed on the eyesight
by many of the common forma of &MINIM light Is due to the
great propettion of non-lomiaous and merely calorie rays
which they metals. in sunlight there are tiny per oent, of
sach rays, bat in sarlight there are nearly ninety per sent.,
In the elefsbric light eighty, and in kerosene ninety four per
pant. Londaberg selects that by passing any kind of arti-
ficial light through a thin layer of alum or roles these mimetic
rays are absorbed, while the illuminating power of the true
light rays is undiminished, and becomes mild and pleasant to
the ilea
The number of tourists who have visited Abbotdord.
Melrose, and Dryburgh this year has been unpreceoented.
They have coma from all parts of the world, and have
averaged little short of 600 a week during the summer and
autumn months. More Americans than ever have this year
made pilgrimages to these well known shrines, and fully 1111
many Englishmen and Scotchmen have gone to Abbotsford
this fear. The family allow the principal apartments to be
inspected by visitors from noon until six o'clock in the even
Ins of each day, and little change has been mode in this
respect since the death of Mr. Hope Scott. Mise Hope fioott
will come of age this autumn, but it Is understood that the
abilc will have the same freedom of access to Abbotsford am
hereto! ore.

A zoological item of interest comes from Vicksburgh,
which has an eccentric tonnes& that persists in sitting on •
nest of hen's eggs evidently for the purpose of hatching them,
as he Is meet abeent from his charge, except for the pur-
pose of supplying himself with food At last account', three
of the chickens had broken shell, and were trinity cared for
by their strange protector, who immediately cast the empty
shells out of the nest, and went on with his Incubation.
That a cat should imagine himself to be a hen is one of the
most wonderful instances of monomania on record:
The Rev. Thomas Sale, D. D., vicar of the mother
church of Sheffield, rural Dean and Canon of York, died sud-
denly on Saturday morning, If his residence, Broomhall
Park, Dr. Sale was appointed to the vicuna. In January,
MI, and under his care great progress has been made In
church matters in the town. Several rev and beautiful
church*. have been built mainly through his efforts, and •
majority of them were in his patronage. He had suffered
from • latent ahem* of the heart. At the inquest held on
the holy In the evening • verdict of "Death from natural
causes" was returned. The deoceimed was It years of age.
There is an hotel in Man Francisco under the sole
management of the fall. sex. Prom the proprietress to the
tall girl, from the bar-tender to the bootblack, all connected
with the establishment are women. The portresses are
muscular Germans, who handle the most mammoth Sara.
tope" deftly and easily, while the clerk Is a handsome
brunette, who parts her snort black ringlets on one side, end
snakes bright repartees to the Jokes of the drummers and
saleenien who largely frequent the house. The bartender
can make a cocktail quicker and better than any other in
the State, and drinks herself every time she Is asked I),
which, on an average, is about fifty times a day !
An inquest has been held in London on the body of
Henry Wilson, aged 50 years, coachman to • lobmuter. Oa
the night of Saturday, the fitth of August, the deceased went
' into the hayloft on his employer's premises On deimending
and In pulling the trap-door after him, he dipped, and in
putting out his arm to save himself, his right hand became
jammed between the trap-door and the floating below the
knuckles, in such a manner that be could not relieve bimselL
Notwithstanding his cries and screams for help, no one heard
him, and he hung suspended by his crushed hand tUI halt
Mat seven the next morning, • period of newly eight hours.
He was taken down In an exhausted state and conveyed to
Middlesex Hospital. He died from pyssmla on the 16th. Mr.
Lewis, the house surgeon, stated that there Inis no other
case at morale in the hoapliaL Yerdlel, "Death trosa
scsi-
deatel SIAM"