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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE BELGIAN ARMY.

An entire division of the Belgian army, provided
with a complete equipment of train ambulances, and
so forth, is this year, for the first time, assembled in
the camp of instruction at Beverloo, the whole force
collected there comprising 12,000 men, 2,000 horses,
24 guns, and 100 waggons. The camp which is said to
have been described by the Prussian Minister of War
as a perfect bijou, is situated in the north-east of Bel-
gium in the middle of the sandy plains of Campine,
and has an area of nearly 12,000 acres. The buildings,
which are now approaching completion, will, when
finished, be capable of accommodating 13,000
infantry, 2,500 cavalry and artillerymen, and 2,000
horses. A permanent hospitql is also being con-
structed, with beds for 400 patients; while a bakery,
which can turn out every day 21,800 rations of lilb. of
bread, a butchery, and extensive store-rooms and
magazines are also provided. Every battalion of
infantry occupies six separate buildings, each accommo-
dating 100 men, which run back at right angles to the
general front of the camp. Immediately in rear of
these are the subalterns and captains' quarters ; behind
these again are the quarters of the superior officers;
while the pasiilion of each general is in rear of the
centre e of
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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THE VOLUNTEERS.

The following General Order, dated the 13th of July, has
been specially issued by his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding in Chief :
" His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Command-
ing in Chief has received the Queen's commands to
convey to the Volunteers of Great Britain Her
Majesty's congratulations on the completion of the
21st year of the existence of the force.
"she Queen has watched with much interest the
steady progress of the force since its formation; and
its present numerical strength, high training, and
discipline have elicited Her Majesty's unqualified
satisfaction. While regretting that it has not been
found possible to hold a review this year, the Queen
hopes that an opportunity may present itself at no
distant period which will enable Her Majesty to
inspect the Volunteers in Windsor Great Park.
"13y command, 0. IL. &Luz,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE BURNING OF AN AMERICAN
STEAMER.

The last mail from the United States brings de-
spatches which show the burning of the steamer Sea-
wauhaka to have been a terrible disaster. She was on
a trip from New York to Glen Cove, Long Island,
with between 400 and 500 passengers, and about four
o'clock in the evening the fire broke out in the engine-
room, and so rapidly did the conflagration spread that
five minutes afterwards the vessel was one mass of
flame. A rush was made for the lockers in which
the life preservers were kept. Most of the men re-
tained presence of mind and helped to supply the
women and children with these articles. Captain
Smith, it is stated, behaved heroically all through the
fearful scene. Seeing that all hope of saving the
vessel was gone, he headed her for the shore of
Randall's Island, but before that place was reached
the frightened and bewildered passengers had to choose
between death in the flames and the chance of drown-
ing. Long before she struck they began to drop over-
board. The scenes that occurrea during the panic are
described as appalling. The flames cut off the people
who were in the aft part of the vessel from the bow,
and the only resource they had was to jump into
deep water. Many perished; others held on by ropes
that hung over the side until they were severed
by the flames, and then dropped off and were
drowned.

Mr. C. A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, and
his son-in-law, were among the passengers. They
jumped into the water together, and being expert
swimmers reached the shore. Mr. Dana stated that
many lives were lost solely because people lost their
with. Those who bad presence of mind enough to get
life-preservers and jump into the water were saved.
Some people jumped off forward and were drawn in
under the wheel and killed. Mr. Dana said he saw
one man, too terrified to jump into the water, stand
at the guard until he was burnt to a great unrecog-
nisable cinder.

Altogether it is estimated that between 40 and
50 passengers were lost, and the general belief is that
that number would have been doubled but for the
prompt and noble conduct of the captain. He stood by his
post to the last. When the flames were actually at-
tacking the pilot house he remained at the wheel,
which became so hot that he could only occasionally
make snatches at the spokes so as to keep the vessel
headed for the island. When she grounded he also
jumped ashore and fell exhausted, and was carried in
an unconscious state to the island hospital. His face
and bands were terribly scorched.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

A STRAY CROCODILE.

Some six weeks ago a lively young crocodile con
trived, one night, to effect its escape from Josepha
Choikowa's travelling menagerie, then exhibiting at
Kuschwarda, and, all the efforts made to discover its
hiding-place in the neighbouring brooks and ponds
proving fruitless, its proprietress, after three days'
search, gave it up as irretrievably lost, and departed
on her further professional rounds. A month later
the smith of Salnau, a village not far from Kusch-
warda, was strolling home towards evening through
the rain, when he suddenly espied, lying in a
huge puddle on the high road, what he at first
took to be a drunken man, prostrate and help-
less. Upon wading into the mud, with the
charitable intention of extricating the recum-
bent one from so miry a bed, he perceived
to his astonishment that the object of his solicitude
was the missing crocodile. Nothing daunted, he
fastened a rope round the saurian's scaly body behind
its shoulders, and led it along until he met a cart, into
which, with the assistance of the driver, he managed
to lift it. The crocodile made no resistance, but fol-
lowed its captor as meekly as though it had been a
tame dog tied tq a string. On subsequent examination
it was found to have increased in size and weight dur-
ing its spell of liberty, and to be, for a crocodile, in
excellent health and spirits. What it had fed upon
while roaming about the country, and how it had kept
out the cold during the chilly nights of May and
June, are still mysteries to its owner, who has joyfully
recovered possession of her truant.—Daily Telegraph.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

The toast was responded to by M. Challemel-Lacour,
who said he had been a member of the Club for ten
years. He alluded to the opposition which their prin-
ciples met with, and expressed his admiration of the
dexterity and courage of the Protectionists. But, in
spite of all resistance, the desires of the Freetraders
in England and France would be attained.
M. de Lesseps, who was loudly cheered, said that
Mr. Cobden, notwithstanding the opposition of all
England, had always been in favour of the Suez
Canal. And with respect to the Panama Canal pro-
ject, he thought it might almost be looked upon as un
fait accompli.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE NATIONAL SCHOOLMASTER IN
PRUSSIA.

From some lately published returns it appears that
great difficulty is, and has for some years past, been
experienced in obtaining the necessary number of pro-
perly qualified instructors in the Prussian national
schools. In 1473 the number of appointments in
these establishments was 52,046, but on the 15th
of June 3,616 of them were vacant. Two years
later on in 1875, the number of appointments
had been increased to 54,496, but 4,508 were
vacant, so that while the number of educational posts
had been augmented by 2,450, the number of vacan-
cies had also increased by 892. Retiirns made in
1877 showed a similar state of things, while at the
present moment there are, it is calculated, 4,581
appointments vacant. When it is remembered that
owing to the great depression in trade and commerce
in Germany, it has notoriously been of late years
extremely difficult for well-educated young men to
obtain even the most poorly-paid clerkships, or other
situations of the kind, it is clear that the calling of
national scheolmaster cannot be a popular one in
Prussia.—St. James's Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

M. ROCHEFORT'S RETURN TO PARIS.
An extraordinary scene was witnessed in Paris on Monday
evening on the return of M. Henri Rochefort to that city.
The scene is thus described by the correspondent of The
Standard :

At five o'clock the long galleries at the Lyons ter-
minus, through which persons arriving by train have
to pass, were blocked. By the time of the arrival of
the train the crowd in the courtyard, which had
increased to fil or six thousand, began to sway vio-
lently to and fro. As M. Rochefort appeared at one
of the doors through which travellers emerge, his
admirers, shouting " Vive Rochefort I" and " Vire
la Republique?" forcibly drove him back. After
trying in vain to gain two or three of the side
entrances he was projected through the central
entrance by pressure from behind. Here he was im-
mediately surrounded by such numbers anxious to
embrace him that he was nearly squeezed to death by
this overpowering demonstration of affection. A
sudden surge of that tumultuous sea of human beings
carried him close to a four-wheeled vehicle, in which
he at length found refuge, with two or three friends.
Even then he would not have been safe from the
unpleasant endearments of the crowd but for
one or two broad-shouldered fellows who cleared
a passage. All this time people kept pressing
to the cab windows, and insisted on shaking
hands with M. Rochefort, and this went on for
fully twenty minutes before the vehicle was allowed
to move off, followed by a good many other cabs, the
people meanwhile shouting " Vive Rochefort 1 " and
" Vive in R6publique !!" Outside the terminus there
was a crowd of some six or seven thousand people, who
followed the cab, singing the Marsellaise " most un-
musically. On the Place de la Bastille the crowd was,
if possible, larger than in the Rue de Lyon, but, owing
to the preparations for the fête, it was more broken
up. Rochefort's cab disappeared in the direction of
the canal, while other vehicles, which went down the
f
Boulevards, were pursued or some distance by
benighted patriots.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

EXCURSIONS TO VESUVIUS.

The Correspondent of The Times writes from Naples,
July s:

"Our excursionists have now added to their list '
of summer trips a visit to the summit of Vesuvius.
Cheap trains have been arranged, and from Rome and
elsewhere crowds come down to run up the cone. On
Saturday night its was brilliantly lit up with electric
liht and dazzled all the Bay, while from the crater, i
which is n a state of partial eruption, flames were
shot up, as if in resentment at the puny efforts
of its rival. The exhibition continued till dawn,
to the delight of the adventurous travellers.
It is expected that these visits will be repeated
during the summer, and, leaving Rome in the middle
of the day of Saturday, much may be done by
the visitors before they get back to business on Mon-
day morning. Vesuvius can be scaled on the night
after their. arrival. Then on Sunday excursion
steamers will take them to Sorrento and on to the
Blue Grotto of Capri for the insignificant price of two
lire, while another steamer will carry off a portion of
the crowd to l!rocida and Ischia, returning in ample
time for the night train to Rome. Thirty, nay, 20
years ..,%cro,
cfrojects no longer, but realities such as
these woul have been ridiculed as dreams. Brilliant
as is the spe i
ctacle of Vesuvius blazing wi▪ th electric
light, and novel and wonderful as it s to see the
trains running up the almost perpendic▪
ular cone
in about nine . minutes, I cannot but exclaim
as I look on It all, 'How are the mighty
fallen!' There are 15 electric lights used for
these night trips, each equal to about 40 gas-
lights and the effulgence is extraordinary, but far
eclipsed by that of the streams of lava, asit onten,
which I have often seen i
and traced as they coursed
madly down the mountain. As you know, there s a
restaurant at the foot of the. cone, and, as you can
our excursionists will often make a
night
tly imagine, atghienree. In fact, to run up Vesuvius is like
takius a 'bus frual the 13aulitellavvetessi-heath, ;Ad

when the jollification is at an end, all that can be
said is, 'We have done it. A thousand objects of
interest which in the olden time have fascinated the
traveller have been missed, but who aares for them?
the mountain has been scaled, and that is enough to
talk about. Vesuvius will, however, some day or
other have the last word."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

CANNONADING OIL TANKS.

The frequency with which, in America, lightning
strikes and sets fire to oil tanks, spite of protecting
rods, is remarkable. (A probable explanation may be
found, perhaps, in the conducting column of vapour
which rises high above the tanks.) One Friday morn-
ing lately, an oil tank at Titusville, Pennsylvania,
was thus struck. The resulting fire raged till Sun-
day night, consuming 200,000 barrels of oil, crude
and refined, and destroying property to the amount
of 1,500,000 dols. The terrible phenomenon of "boil-
ing over" of oil from the burning tanks occurred. To
empty quickly a tank holding 20,000 barrels of
oil, which is on fire, is by no means easy. The
pipes connected with the tanks are utterly inadequate
in the circumstances. A happy thought struck Mr.
Herron, of the Titusville Battery. He brought out
of the Parrott guns of the battery, loaded it with solid
shot, and began firing against the three-eighths iron
sheets of the distant blazing tank. The first shot
glanced, but subsequent volleys pierced the shell, re-
leasing a large quantity of oil that would otherwise
have fed the flames. The battery was then moved to
two cther tanks, also burning. Large rents were
made also in these, and the liberated oil ran harm-
lessly down into a stream. This novel target practice
greatly shortened the duration of the fire at these
tanks, and so drained them that the flames died out
for want of fuel, and no "boiling over" resulted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

CHESS MATCH.

STOURBRIDGE V. BIRMINGHAM.— A match was
played between the above clubs on Wednesday, at
the rooms of the lattir, resulting as follows :
STOURBRIDGE. BIRMINGHAM.

Dr. Boddington......o 0 Mr. J. lialford... 1 1
Mr. C. Pardoe 0 0 0 Mr W.Bridgwater.] 1 1
M. J. Doughty 0 Mr. Walton
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Mr. Franklin . 0 Mr. J. F. Ryder. 1
Mr. White
Mr. H. Freer 0 0 0 Mr. F. P.-Wildman 1 1
Mr. Liberior
Mr. Wilkes Brown 11 1 Mr. Wilkinson 00 0
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

A WISE RESOLVE.

The Daily Telegraph remarks :—"We are glad to
recognise, in the German Government's judicious re-
solve to forego this year all official celebration of the
Sedan anniversary, a fresh and convincing proof of
the improvement that has arisen of late in the rela-
tions between France and Germany. Exactly ten
years have elapsed since the French declaration
of war left Paris for Berlin; and the horrors of
the gigantic struggle to which that proud and angry
defiance led are still too fresh in the public
memory to need recalling. It was, however, by
the reduction of Sedan that the overthrow of France
was mainly achieved; and nothing could be more
natural than that the commemoration of so tremendous
a feat should have assumed the character of a National
Festival throughout the Fatherland. Nevertheless,
although its tenth anniversary may be signalised in
every German town and village by displays of bunting,
processions of military clubs and patriotic associa-
tions, illuminations, and fireworks, it will be allowed
to pass by in the capital unemphasised by the
official ceremonies hitherto performed in honour
of Napoleon's capitulation. The grand parade and
monster tattoo, executed by the combined bands of
the Guard Corps in front of the Royal Palace, will
take place this year, as we are informed, on the 30th of
August instead of the 2nd of September. It is highly
creditable to the German press that this handsome
mark of deference to the susceptibilities of a former
foe, now become a friendly neighbour, should be
greeted by the leading Berlin journals with unani-
mous and unqualified approbation."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.

Mr. J. Boyd Kinnear, writing to the Dailq News,
says the discussion of the question involved in the
Employers' Liability Bill seems to have narrowed
itself to a dispute whether the masters or the work-
men shall pay the cost of insurance. It assumed
that the loss must fall on one or other of these
parties, and each naturally tries to shift it to the
other. He ventures, however, to suggest that
it is really a third party, the public, which is
the most concerned in the matter, because which-
ever way it is decided the public will pay. Ac-
cidents of every sort are a part of the cost of
manufacture. This applies not merely to such as are
inevitable, but even to such as are caused by
i that de-
gree of human carelessness against which it s impos-
sible always to be on guard. It is futile, he argues, to
suppose that any arragement whatever can ultimately
throw the loss from accidents on either master or ser-
vants. For the interest of the public, of the work-
men, and of the masters is obviously alike—that
accidents shall be as rare as science, skill, and caution
can possibly make them. Now, how can we call
these conditions of security into fullest operation?
Obviously by making the primary liability fall on the
masters. For it is they who have the control, it is they
who supply the materials, it is they who select and
who superintend the workmen. Competition would
then urge them in the direction of precaution. For
the master who had fewest accidents would have his
profits least diminished. He would be able to under-
sell his rival who had many accidents. So the bad
and careless masters would be driven out of the field,
and those who remained, though still liable for what
no precaution could prevent, would be able to charge
prices that would cover their outlay. The public
finally would gain in relief from poor rates, and in the
preservation of lives and limbs that daily add to the
national wealth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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THE ANTIQUITY OF THE DENTIST'S

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Dr. Decaisne, in an interesting article he publishes
in the France on molars, wisdom teeth, front teeth,
back teeth, and all the ailments proceeding from the
same with which humanity is afflicted, throws a.
retrospective glance as far back as the times of an-
tiquity to prove that ladies in those days knew the
value of rows of pearls between coral lips, and
that dentists stopped teeth, pulled them out, or
put them in, and puffed their remedies for tooth-
ache, or washes and powders for preserving
teeth much as is done in our modern days.
Solomon complimented the Queen of Sheba
on her teeth, which were "white as a flock of young
sheep freshly shorn." Homer, Euripides, and
Sophocles, extolled the beauty of the milk-white
teeth; and Lucien, in sketching the portrait of a
woman whose faultless face charmed him, remarked
that when she laughed her teeth reflected her heart and
:were the mirror of her beautiful soul. The Romans
instructed maidens to laugh frequently, when by so
doing they could offer the spectacle of rows of pearls;
if, on the contrary, their teeth were irregular,
yellow, or defective in any respect, they were
advised to be chary of smiles, which would place
them at a disadvantage. Artificial teeth were
employed in the time of Martial, who un-
gallantly writes of a lady :—" Dentibus utitur emptis "
—"she wears bought teeth." The Roman law, says
Dr. Decaisne, forbade persons to be interred with any
ornaments of gold about them. An exception, how-
ever, was made when the metal was used to attach
false teeth in the jaw. To Martial we are indebted
for the information that Galla's teeth were not all her
own. He reproaches her with taking them out at
night with the same regularity as she took off her
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stopping, or beautifying the teeth, . amassed
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a proconsul. When Pericles was in the heyday of his
fame, the coquettes of Athens were rarely without. a
branch of myrtle in their hands, which they carried
perpetually to their mouths, the myrtle being reputed
a useful friend to the teeth, gums, and breath. To
ward off toothache the Grecian ladies were in the habit
of chewing mastich of Chio, and St. Clement repri-
mands the maids and matrons of his day for present-
ing themselves at the Temple with the fragrant gum
in their mouths. The ancients, in fact, were as care-
ful of their teeth as we of modern days, who consider
the tooth-brush an indispensable article in the toilette
table.—Evening Standard.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT P

DEAR MR. PuNcH,—lt has come at last, and from
a very great distance. All have heard of it, read of
it, and many of us have dreaded to know more about
it. It has been in print for an indefinite time, but
only within the last few days have certain personages,
and those the highest in the realm, received a proof of
it. Long but a name in thin country, it is now
amongst us, a splendid reality. It has appeared in the
very last place where it might have been expected—
in the Court Circular. To prevent further suspense,
be it known that Her Majesty the Queen, and
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, are at this moment each
the happy possessor of a "White Elephant."

FROM SIAM.

P.S.—Her Majesty and the Prince, after mature
consideration, have decided not to send their White
Elephants to the Zoological Gardens, but to keep
them in boxes, and occasionally to show them in
public. —P unch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

DIED.

SHUTT. On the 10th inst., at The Heath, Stour-
bridge, Helen, wife of Henry Shutt, and sccond
daughter of the late A. B. Cochranc, aged 33
years.

EPPS'S GLYCERINE JUJUBES. CAUTION! Thee
affective and agreeable confections are sold by mos
effemists, by others, however, attempts are often made
Chithstitution, we therefore deem it necessary to cautinn
at. spubiic that they can only be obtained in boxes td
the Is Labelled JAMES EPPS & CO., 110Malopmtbie
and ists, London.—ln Stonrbridge Epps's Mediciaei
A. P. Morris, Chemist. High Street.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

GOLD MINES IN JAPAN.

From a consular report just issued, it appears that
three gold mines are now being worked at Shimo
Aikawa, in the island of Sado. They were first dis-
covered in 1613, since which time they have been
steadily worked by manual labour until 1869, in Which
year machinery was introduced by the Government.
The main shaft is sunk to a depth of about 600 ft.,
and two of the mines are connected by a gallery
3,000 ft. in length. First-class ore contains from 50
to 2,000 yen worth of gold per ton (one yen equals
4s. 2d.). The ore is crushed at the top of the
mine, reduced to powder by stamps, and ground up
with mercury into an amalgam, which is distilled
and afterwards made into gold and silver ingots.
Silver and lead are also obtained from the ore, the
latter being collected into a mass of some twenty tons,
cupelled by a German furnace, and the bullion ex-
tracted and made into ingots. In 1878-9 the amount
of ore reduced was 6,428 tons, yielding 2,1950 z. of
gold and 91,7130 z. of silver, at an expenditure of 85
per cent. Altogether, the Government has spent
334,570 yen in erecting machinery, and the total loss
during the ten years has been 240,126 yen. Upwards
of 1,080 persons are employed, including 120 women
for ore-picking. The daily output is twenty tons, and
about the same quantity is reduced at the works,
which consist of four smelting furnaces, one German
cupelling furnace, six amalgam pans, ten stamps, two
consentratmg presses, two steam engines, one copper
refinery, one assay room, and twelve coke kilns, and
this plant is about to be still further increased by the
present superintendent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

A "TROUBLESOME PREROGATIVE."

The Daily News remarks that "an Act of Parlia-
ment passed more than 550 years ago has been the
means of granting the Crown a troublesome preroga-
tive. The 17th Edward 11., chapter 11, remains un-
repealed, and as in those days statutes were drawn
with commendable brevity, the whole of the text may
be here given: 'The King shall have the wreck of the
sea throughout the realm, whales and great sturgeons
taken in the sea or elsewhere within the realm except
in certain places privileged by the King.' A curious
custom was subsequently grafted upon what seems a
curious enactment. When a sturgecn was captured
it was sent to the Royal Palace for the King's use; the
food was palatable, and the flesh peculiar. Our
ancestors were scarcely very scientific in their cookery,
but from a passage in Shakespeare it is obvious that
they were familiar with 'caviare,' and prized it as a
delicacy. Ordinary people, or as Hamlet called them,
the general,' could not appreciate the flavour of a
dish made from the roe of the sturgeon. And the
reason wa i obvious, because the Royal fish was c&-
sumed in the palace, and did not find its way into the
market. The other fish granted by this Act of
Edward's reign to the King, and his successors
down to the present time was not a fish, being the
whale, but a custom was allowed to creep in and
restrict rights which Edward 11. enjoyed intact.
When a whale was taken on the English coast
the sea-monster was divided; the head was given
to the King and the tail to the Queen. Black-
stone mentions this as an undoubted prerogative of
the Queen Consort, and, with the carefulness of a
studious commentator, gives not only the fact but the
reason. The cause assigned by ancient records for
this whimsical division, he says, was to furnish the
Queen's wardrobe with whalebone, and a more recent
commentator has observed that the reason is more
whimsical than the division, as the whalebone of com-
merce lies in the head and not in the tail, of the
animal. Practically the 17th Edward 11., chapter 11,
remains a dead letter. Very few whales are now
caught in British waters, and the small sturgeon are
plentiful, yet such a fish as that recently sent to
Windsor Castle, weighing over 3 cwt., might be called
a Royal fish from its size as well as from its flesh."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE OLD FASHION AND THE NEW!

The little town of Freiburg, famous for its Uni-
versity, and more famous still for its beautiful cathe-
dral, whose spire almost rivals Strasburg in height, is
at present the scene of a strange crusade (says the
Daily News). It is a struggle to put down an old
fashion and to substitute a new one, and the curious
element in the case is that the innovators are the pro-
fessors of the old University. Every one who knows
the German nation knows their fondness for the
ceremonial of street salutations. The friendly
nod by which an Englishman condenses a great
deal of meaning into a very slight gesture is quite
foreign to the stately salute of two gossips meeting
in a German street. We are content to raise our hats
to ladies and crowned heads, and are a little intolerant
of the deference of Continental usage. The professors
of the Freiburg University are for substituting the
English fashion, or at least for modifying it to German
notions. They propose that in future the military be
substituted for the civil salute, and that tu o fingers
should touch the brow, instead of the whole head being
uncovered when friends happen to Fleet. It seems strange
that of all persons in society University dons should
be the instigators of a movement against what is cared
in University towns "capping." But it is stranger
to learn that the Freiburg professors, bent on carrying
their point, have applied to the municipal council for
support. The Burgomaster has considered the point,
and he and the local doctors, who take a hygienic
view of the question, are resolved that at one town in
Germany, the bonnet should be for its right use,
which, as Hamlet told Osric some centuries ago, is for
the head—not for the hand.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

LORD DALLING ON THE TURKS.

In 1838, Mr. Henry Bulwer, afterwards Lord
Dalling, wrote a letter to Lord Palmerston which may
be read with some advantage to-day
In regard to the Turks themselves, may I venture to ob-
serve that the genius of their manners and oonversation is
that of yielding everything at first? They begin by saying,
" Good--yes ; " but when you come to the matter in ques-
tion, and to its details, you will find all those fine expres-
sions mean nothing. Like all people in a feeble position,
they respect you according to their opinion of your force. If,
however, you wish that force to have a permanent influence,
and to be unaccompanied by dislike, you must blend its exer-
cise with justice ; and if you wish to arrive at a quick result,
through all that ambuscade of intrigues and doubts and fears
and prejudices which will be sure to be secretly formed against
It, you must tell the Turk what he is to do, why he is to do it,
and when he is to do it, and show him that you only ask
quietly and reasonably what you have a right to demand.
In this way, and this way alone, you will do business with
him, and if he sees you act thus he will not only agree with
you but rely upon you. . . . As to all influence which your
Cabinet or that of St. Petersburg may exercise here, I should
tell you frankly that this will always be less in proportion
to any services you may render Turkey than in proportion
to the dread which you or Russia are able to inspire her
with. . . . For the two things which the Turks best under-
stand and most reverence are power and justice. . . . These
observations apply to every affair. With a French and
English fleet ready at hand to act as it might be deemed ex-
pedient, and a just and moderate plan. . . . for acceptance,
by such a day and such an hour—l believe all differences
might be briefly and permanently adjusted. But talking,
and talking through dragomans. ends in nothing but the
Turkish phrase of "To-morrow."

This letter, written forty years ago, might have been
penned yesterday, and fully corroborates Mr. Glad-
stone's words, "that there is not a case upon record
in which, united Europe having made up its mind to
tell the Sultan of Turkey what must be done, the
Sultan of Turkey has not had the good sense to do it."
—Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

A NEW SPORT.

Not to be baulked in their venatorial recreations by
the official edicts that prohibit the slaughter of furred
and feathered game during the summer months, cer-
tain fair votaries of "Le Sport" in the French capital
have taken enthusiastically to frog-shooting. For lack
of leave to slay the "merry brown hare" or the
perky partridge, they war upon the nimble croaker
with deadly weapons specially invented for that pur-
pose. The arm they chiefly affect is a highly ornate
steel cross-bow from which a dart may be discharged
with sufficient force to transfix the most corpulent
and tough-hided of frogs at a range of twenty feet.
By means of a silken cord this missile is attached to
the breech of the crossbow, a contrivance enabling the
i
successful markswoman to dispeme with the services
of araetfrrioevg,ershfoereathne
haul
nwroigf game. Having
shot m to her
very feet, where the duty of " bagging" it naturally
devolves upon her keeper. From five to six brace
constitute a good average bag, and furnish a succulent
dish .of those slender hindlegT, delicately fried in
batter, that find such favour with Parisian gourmets.
Thus does the modern Lutetian Diana enrich the menu
of her breakfast-table with "the captives of her bow
and spear."—Datily Telegraph.

A new halfpenny journal, it is said, is about to b 3
Atarttcl kriuce 13scaparW Paw.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

A FEVER- STRICKEN SHIP.

Early on the morning of the 24th ult. (says a New
York paper) there sailed slowly into the Bay of New
York a vessel that had gone through an awful experi-
ence. It was the Austrian barque Freci Dubrovacici,
from Hayti and bound for Boston. When she left
Port de Paix all her crew of 14 were weli, or seemed
to be so. But when she made her way past Sandy
Hook some of the 14 were dead, and all who were
alive—including the two feeble persons who contrived
to sail the barque into port—were stricken with yellow
fever. When the officers faom quarantine boarded
the Freci Dubrovacki they found the mate in corn-
mand, he and one boy having managed the vessel
for some time alone. The survivors of the
crew were in their bunks, too ill to move. The
captain died of the fever, on the 19th of June, and he
and others who succumbed were buried at sea. One
by one the crew were seized with the fever, and as
proper medical attention could not be had, those who
are still alive are in a very low state, and it is feared
they cannot recover. The ordinary perils of theuea,
the dangers of tempest; fogs, icebergs, collisions With
other ships, are grave enough; but the calamity that
overtook this ill-fated Austrian barque is perhaps
more terrible than either of the others. To see man
after man drop down utterly helpless, and to count
the days as they pass and bring nearer the time when
the ship can no longer be navigated, and thus will
necessarily be left to the mercy of the elements,
must be a strain upon human fortitude and
patience which perhaps has a parallel in no other
conceivable situation. The utter impossibility
of escaping the scourge, and the all but certainty that
it will attack, as in the present case, every soul on
board, must heighten the anguish of so sore a strait to
the limits of possible endurance. In gazing at this
doleful picture one cannot but be struck with the
dogged heroism of the mate of the Freci Dutirovacki
and of the boy who helped him. Both were sick
almost to delirium. Both fully expected to die. Pre-
bably they were as little fit to exert themselves as were
their wretched comrades in their bunks below. Yet
to try and save those comrades and to save the pro-
perty committed to their charge these fever-stricken
sailors bore stiffly up and brought their ship in good
order gallantly into port. There are many acts that
make a greater show than this, perhaps, but there are
few that can be said to display a nobler or more ad-
mirable form of courage.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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LATEST NEWS.

THE CLEVER. ESCAPE OF A CON VIC F.

'CAPTURE THIS DAY.
PORTSMOUTH. Thursday.

Tho convict Ray, undergoing penal servitude for
life who cleverly-escaped from Portc4mouth Dock-
yard a fortnight il;g0, was captured this morning at
Oxfol,l. where he . committed a burglary with the
object of ob aining sustenance. He has several
mes escl Tied from confinement, and one time eluded
a most vigilant search.

A SHIP CAPTAIN HEAVILY FINED.
SOUTH SHIELDS, Thursday.
To-day, Adolph Platt,- master of the German
screw rteamer Henrietle Schlasser was charged be-
fore the North'Shields .magistrates with entering
the town and giving fAse answers to questions
asked him by the Customs authorities. The vessel
had arrived froin-Sehiedam, and' a Customs officer
asked the captain several questions, among them if
all the crew were well, and received an affirmative
answer. It afterwards transpired two of the crew
were saffering;from smallpox. Defendant was fined
£2O and costs, or two months' imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

LAWN TENNIS.

A lawn tennis match wai played on July 10
between the Sinethwick and Stourbridge Club, on
the ground of the latter, and, after a closely-
contested match resulted in a victory of the home
team by three games. Score: Broughton and
Deeley (Smethwick) beat Eagar and Webb 2 setts
to one. Addenbrook and Addenbrook beat Eagar
and Webb 2 setts to love. Gilbanks and Wakeman
beat Addenbrook and Addenbrook 2 setts to love.
Gitanks and Wakeman beat Broughton and Dee aley
2 setts to 1.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

GENERAL GARFIELD'S HOME.

General Garfield is the candidate chosen by the Re-
publican party of the United States as their candidate for
the Presidency. An American paper, describing the
General's home, writes :
Mrs. Garfield knows Greek and Latin and draws
well. She drew for Blackburn, a well-known archi-
tect of Cleveland, the plan of the house he was some
years ago employed to build on Garfield Farm, which
she manages. This country mansion is on the ridge
overlooking the Erie Lake, near Cleveland, and is
Gothic, mingled with other styles. Of course, it has
a veranda, which Mr. Blackburn was charged to do in
the cloistral style. "A. cloister turned inside out,'
was the lady's order. This inverted cloister goes
round three sides of the house, and as stone
tracery and carving would have been too expen-
sive, vines are trained round the arches, within
which at all hours of the day there is a cool sitting.
Garfield farm-house has two high stories and one low
attic. It is roomy, and the hall is hospitably wide
and arranged as a natural history museum, with deer's-
horn hat-racks. A peculiarity of he house is the
number of wall-drawers, the fronts of which are in
polished maple and hickory. The general has a
snuggery on the south side and a library, where he
still continues to study constitutional law, divinity,
and natural history. He is methodic and neat in his
ways, and his big shoulder of mutton hand is as deft
as a woman's. Mrs. Garfield (the mother) occupies
the best rooms, which face the rising sun. Her bed
and sitting-room are done up to make her feel at
home in a cozy and old-fashioned style, and the fire-
places are the widest in the house.