The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I clasped her
beauteous form: I vowed to shield her from the wind, and
from the world's cold storm. She set her beauteous eyes on
mine, her tears did wildly flow and with her tiny lips, she
said,—" You stupid I let me go."
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A New Haven paper observes that two establish-
ments in Boston turn out sixty barrels of paste each day;
and yet there is a good deal of original matter in the Boston
papers.
Instead of saving space aud composition by simply
saying a man died, a Boston paper said--" HA passed the
boundary which limits our knowledge uf the duration of in-
dividual consciousness."

Some of the facetious writers refers to the death ol
Barnum's fat woman as a heavy loss.

Jones says his wife is the most thrifty woman he
ever knew. " Why, sir," he says," she has made ten bed-
sprea,ds during the last two years ; made the: herself, sir,
put of the samples she collected in her shopping tours during
that time "

A rainy day kept over 60,000 lotva voters away
from the polls. When a man in that State gets wet, it takes
three weeks to dry him out and get rid of all the wrinkles.

The meanest man on record has been unearthed.
The story is that while a deaf, dumb and blind hand-organist
was sleeping on the post-office corner the wretch stole his
instrument and substituted a new-fangled churn therefor;
and when the organist awoke he seized the handles of the
churn and ground away for dear life, and when the "shades
of night were falling fast." that meanest man in the world
came around, took his churn, restored the organ to its
owner and carried hpme four pounds of creamy butter.

They grow some rather tall women beyond the
Mississippi. An occidental poet writes that he " kissed the
clouds from her sweet, fair face." It seemed almost in-
credible that he could, just by standing upon her face, kiss
the clouds; but truth and poetry are inseparable, and we
are bound to believe him.
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A Kansas hunter cured himself of an attack of
indigestion by swallowing some muddy gravelly water, lie
got the idea from a wild goose, in whose crop he found some
gravel stones. Wild geese sometimes know more than the
doctors.
It was a Boston girl who asked, "Why is it that
two souls, mated in the impenetrable mystery of their
nativity, float by each other on the ocean currents of exis-
tence without being instinctively drawn together, blended
and beautified in the assimilated alembic of eternal love 4"
That is an easy one. it is because butteris forty-five cents.
a pound and a good seal-skin moque costs as high as 500
dols. The necessaries of life must experience a fall in price
before two souls will readily blend in the assimilated
alembic and so forth.—Norristown Herald.

A San Francisco paper says A young lady who
recently sent us a poem entitled, Murmurings from the
Outer ITlterness,' is informed that any pecuniary assistance
she can send to the widow of the man to whom we gave it
to read will be gratefully received by that lady."
A traveller arrived late at an hotel and asked for
some spirits. "Stranger," said the landlord, "you forget, I
guess, you're in the State of Maine. We've no spirits here,
but we have some line lemonade." The lemonade was ac-
ceded to, brought and tasted. The lemonade was half
whiskey and half water. "This is rather poweiful lembnade,"
said our friend. "Why, yes, it is," said the landlord; "but
you see, stranger, the weather is hot, and to keep our
lemonade, we are obliged to make it cruel strong."

At Hoosie Falls, N. Y., the other day, the head of
an unknown man was found at the end of the railroad
bridge. There was blood on the track. A search was made
and tke body was found in the river with one hand and one
leg missing. It is thought that the man was murdered and
placed upon the track.

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FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

TRADE OF THE CAPE COLONY.--riltS following is a
comparative statement of the total value a the im-
ports and exports of the Cape Colony for the quarter 3
ending September aP, 1880, and 1881 respectively :
Imports (quarter endihg cptember 30, 1880),
£1,866,309; ditto, quarter ending Serit.smber 30, 1881,
2,l27,l4o—increase, £260,831; exports, nOt intluding
diamonds (*tarter ending September 30, 1: 'I),
£1,111,538; ditto (quartt..± eliding September 36, 1:: ),
£l,l66,247—increase, £54,709.
SERVE HIM RIGHT, TOO !—The man whc Made a
motintdfi a molehill had to engage a guide in ()Ott
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to get to the top d
A BLACKFOOT BELLE'S POl;i.M.7o7.—The Toronto
Globe's correspondent out West with the Marquis of
Lorne gives this description of the costume of a Mach-
foot belle ;—"The upper portion of her face, includ-
ing forehead, eyes and cheeks, was painted in bright
chrome yrello*; the lower portion of her face was
scarlet, she wore a 6tltrlet blanket thrown loosely over
her shoulder, and tinder this was a long, loose blouse
made out of a dark navy bite blatiket and trimmed
with pipings of scarlet and white. This biome was
fastened at the waist with a leather belt hilly eig-ht
inches broad and literally covered with large bosses of
polished brass. On her neck was a string of brass
beads as large as cherries. One of her bracelets con-
sisted of a coil of heavy brass wire that would weigh
not less than a pound and a half, while the other,
which was nearly the same weight, was made of large
brass beads; several of her fingers were nearly covered
with coils of brass wire and beads."

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAR. Pew people
realize what a wonderfully delicate structure the
human ear really is. That which we ordinarily de-
signate so, is after all only the mere outer porch of a
series of winding passages, which, like the lobbies of
a great building, lead from the outer air into the inner
chambers. Certain of these passages are full
liquid, and there membrances are stretched, like
parchment curtains, across the corridors at different
places, and can be thrown into vibration or made to
tremble as the head of a drum or the surface of the
tambourine does when struck with a stiek or the
fingers. Between two of these parchment-like ciir-
tains, a chain of very small bones extends, which
serves to tighten or relax these membrances, and to
communicate vibrations to them. In the innermost
place of all, rows of fine thread, called nerves, stretch,
like the string of a piano, to the last point which the
tremblings or thrilings reach, and pass inward to the
brain. If these nervesi are destroyed the power of
hearing certainly departs, as the power to give ott
sounds is lost by a piano or violin when its strings are
broken.—Philadelphia Times.
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.—The following
are the average prices of British corn for the week
ending Nov. 19, as received from the inspectors and
officers of Excise :—Wheat, 455. 6d. ; barley, 345. 6d.;
oats, 20s. 2d. per imperial qr. Corresponding week
last year :—Wheat, 445. id.; barley, 335. 9d.; oats,
20s. 41
ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN GREECE.—The
researches undertaken for a few months at Epidaurus
by the Greek Archological Society have been suc-
cessful. One of the most celebrated theatres of
antiquity, that of .zEsculapius, has been discovered. It
is constructed of Pentelic marble, and was capable of
holding at least 30,000 spectators. The theatre is
built under a bill, the summit of which was covered
with a sacred grove. In form it is a hemicycle ; the
steps are divided into two parts—the upper, measur-
ing on the lowest level about 233 yards in length, con-
sists of 20 rows of seats traversed by 24 staircases,
which enabled spectators to gain their places with
ease. The lower part, separated from the upper by an
esplanade several yards wide, contained three rows of
seats and 32 of steps, to which access was given by
twelve staircases. Several statues were unearthed,
*all, however, unfortunately, in a mutilated condition.
SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About four o'clock
on Saturday morning the passengers travelling by
what is called the Scotch auxilary mail to London
were greatly startled on passing Winsford by the loud
report of an explosion and the train coming to an
almost sudden standstill. On several of the pas-
sengers alighting to see what was the matter it was
found that the connecting rod of the engine had
broken and that one or both ends of this rod had been
driven forcibly into the boilers, causing a great escape
of steam. The fireman, James Leech, of Preston, wa§
found severely cut and injured about the head and
parts of the body, as well as dreadfully scalded. The
driver, John Wilkinson, who also lives at Preston, had a
most miraculous escape, having been blown backwards
into the tender. He was, however, -only slightly
scalded about the lower parts of the body and con-
tused about the chest and arms. Both men were taken
at once to the hospital. After some delay another
engine was obtained, and the train was safely worked
to London.
COMPANION TO THE LAP OF LUXURY.—The apron
of industry.—Moonshine.
A CURIOUS STORY.—The Correspondent of The
Times says that the following curious story has just
come to hand :—A certain Siberian merchant named
Khramoff recently arrived in St. Petersburg, and
asked to be allowed to deliver an important packet of
papers personally into the hands of the Czar. He said
that the
packet had been confided to him by an old
man who had died in his, Khramoff's, house in Tomsk
in the year 1864, with the request that it should at
some time or other be given into the Emperor's own
hands. The mysterious personage, moreover, had ex-
pired with the firm impression that he was Alexander
1., who, Russian history says, died in a humble cottage
at Taganrcg of erysipelas in December, 1825, while on
a tour of inspection. Although at first laughed at, it is
said that he was at last admitted to the Czar and de-
livered the packet, which was found to contain im-
portant documents concerning the Imperial family.
flow they came into the possession of the mysterious
deceased the bearer had never been able to discover.
MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTIONS.—The annual summary
.of British contributions to missionary societies has
just been completed by Canon Scott Robertson, of
Sittingbourne. It shows an increase in the total sum
contributed. The separate details for each of the 74
societies form a small pamphlet, but the summary of
the whole is as follows : Church of England foreign
missions, £465,816 ; joint societies of Churchmen and
Nonconformists, £161,074; English and Welsh Non-
conformist societies, £304,313; Scotch and Irish Pres-
byterian societies, £170,975; Roman Catholic societies,
£6,772 ; total British contributions for 1880, £1,108,950.
This amount does not include interest on investments,
nor balances in hand at the beginning of the year, nor
any foreign contributions.
WEATHER GUIDES.—An American paper says it is
easy enough to predict the weather if you only follow
the right rules. Here are some of them. An intensely
blue sky indicates a tornado. When the sun rises
behind a bank of clouds, and the clouds hang low all
around the horizon and all over the sky, and the air
feels damp, and there is a fine drizzling mist blowing,
the indications are there will be rain somewhere in the
United States or Canada. When it begins to thunder
look out for lightning. To see the head of the
family feeling in his right hand pocket, then in all his
vest pockets, then in his coat pockets, and then whist-
ling at the ceiling indicates "no change." If he sud-
denly stops whistling at the ceiling, and expands his
face into a broad grimace of delight, it moans "unex-
pected change."
THE CZAR'S BILL OF FARE.—His dinner is always
preceded by the national "zukuska," which forms
the preface or the introduction, as it were, to the gas-
tronomic occupation. The " zukuska " consists only
of caviar, herring, smoked salmon, sardines, smoked
goose, saucisses, cheese, bread and butter; raw beets,
steeped in brandy, a dish imported from Scandinavia
and added to the reportoire of the impe :Lai bill of
fare by the Czarina, are frequently joined unto the
foregoing savory ingredients. The whole of which
pot-pourri, yclept the little zukuska, served on gold'
enameled plates, is displayed on quite a number of
small tables in divers nooks and corners of the
dining-saloon. These miniature buffets are ap-
proached by the guests with perfect freedom
and applied to at pleasure. Long rows
.or
rather whole batteries of bottles render a choice
between the national wodka, bitters, kummel,
cognac, cordials and English gin more than difficult.
After having taken both freely and sufficiently of the
appetite-provoking zukuska, the company take their
seats at the table, whereupon the soup is served, the
most prized and declared favourite of all Russian soup,
being prepared from the sterlet, a fish aught in the
Volga. The soup of all others, however, preferred by
the Czar and his family is the " shtshi " the quint-
essence of all the national soups, and .flex Ito brandy,
the most savory liquid for every thorough Russian.
How the shtshi is prepared and how it tastes, it is
difficult to describe; the recipe is a precious heirloom,
and as such carefully preserved.
THE LABOUR MARKET.—A careful review of the
various staple industries throughout the country
shows that trade on the whole keeps fairly good.
Inquiries for all kind of iron have been numerous
during the week, and prices have been well main-
tained. In the finished iron market the business is
very good Consumers'on all the rivers are busy with
good prospects, shipbuilders being especially brisk,
with orders in hand for some months. In ninny dis-
tricts the coal trade, although active, is very un-
settled on account of the agitation for increased
wages. Business in the cotton industry varies. At
Manch(ster it is, if anything, stronger. Reports have
induced manufacturers and sellers to advance their
quotations, which has rather checked business. The
home trade is hardly so good this week as last, busi-
ness being limited by the firmness with which quota-
tions are adhered to. Business in the foreign depart-
ment of the Macclesfield silk trade during the week
has been of a limited character. In the home trade
there has been more done than for some weeks past.
The orders in hand continue to employ a large amount
of labour, and the prospects for the future are con-
sidered favourable. The turnover. in the Leeds cloth
market is somewhat lower. This is only thought to
be of a temporary character, as manufacturers are
well off for spring trade, and do not care to take
further orders at present. In the wool market at
Bradford and other toyvns liere is an active inquiry,
and a steady business is being done. Prices are firM,
and the prospects for spring are very encouraging. The
flannel market at Rochdale shows
.some improvement,
and manufacturers, are laying in. a stock of wool,
expecting a further
.increase in business. In Belfast
the linen trade is fairly good, and a healthy tone pre-
vails with regard to the future.
DON'T' FORGET YOUR GIRLS. "When I lived
among the Choctaw: Indians," says a traveller, "I
held a consultation with one of their chiefs respecting
the successive stages of their progress in the arts of
civilised life, and among other things he informed me
that at their start they in ide a great mistake—they
only sent boys to school. These boys came home in-
telligent nTri, but they married uneducated and un-
civilised wives; and the uniform result was, the
children were all like their mothers. The father soon
lost all his interest both in wife and children. And
now,' said he. 'if we would educate but one class of
our children, we shoufd choose the girls, for when they
become mothers, they educate their sons.' This is the
point, and it is true. No nation can become fully
enlightened when mothers are not qualified to dis-
charge the duties of the home work of education.
Parente I give your daughters as well as your eons the
but education in your power."

RAILWAYS IN FRANCE.—The statistics of the work-
ing of the French railways for 1880 have just been
published. They show that in 1880 and the first half
of 1881 the receipts amounted to 1,028 millions of
francs, against 914 millions in 1879. For the first six
months of the present year the receipts were 497 mil-
lions. On some of the lines there has been a slight
diminution; but of the twenty-one State railways'
elgerteen show an increase in the total receipts, from
8,953,204 francs to 10,598,510. The length of line
opened is '24,4'.45 kilometres, or rather more than
15,000 miles, which is an increase of 1,500 kilometres
over the previous year.
THE AMER.ICAN OYSTER TRADE.—There are an-
'mall/ taken from the Chesapeake Bay and its tribu-
taries over 1\ 000,000,000 oysters, or about 60 for each
inhabitant of the 'United States. In the handling of
this trade nearly 10,000 vessels and over 40,000 people
are employed, while the total amount of capital in-
vested reaches 7,606,976 dols., and the amount of
wages earned 6,956,444 dols.
AN IMMENSE HAMMER.— The largest steam hammer
in the United States went into operation at Pitts-
burgh the °thee slay. It weighs seventeen tons, while
the anvil-block unaer it weighs 160 tons. With a full
head of steam it will strike a blow of ninety tons, but,
as this tremendous weight is not always necessary in
hammering, it can be made to strike as light as de-
sired. It has a thirty-eight inch cylinder and nine-
foot st:oke, The ponderous blows made the earth
quake for a radius of nearly 200 yards. The big
hammer is for forging steamboat shafts and other
heavy work.
LAND IN NEW COUNTRITS.—What Will be thought
by a future generation of the eagerness of new coun-
tries to get rid of their surplus lands? (asks Land).
In some of the British ColOnsiese, and in America,
lard, as every one knows, is to be bad almost for the
asking, and the difficulty seems to be to get rid of it
with sufficient rapidity. We learn that in the United
States, during the last fiscal year, 10,g00,000 acres
were disposed of, 1,500,000 acres more thars were sold
during the preceding year. Half a million aceos were
sold in Michigan alone; and the increase the
Southern States exceeded even that large total.
Afi ENCOURAGING REFORT.—The Head Constable
-
of Birkenhead, in his annual report on the state of
crime in the borough, makes the announcement that.
drunkenness is gradually decreasing. It is true that
last year the number of charges was only 134 less than
in the preceding twelve months; but taking the
statistics for the past seven years, the decrease is very
marked. There were, in fact, fewer cases of drunken-
ness this last year in a population of 82,216 than in
1867 in a population of 55,553. While the average
used to be one drunken person in every 40 of the
population, it is now reduced to one in 60.
AN ILLOGICAL CONCLUSION.—To be drunk 011 the
Premises.—Punch.
GOING A-HEAD I—A mushroom city has sprung up
in Dakota, "U.S., in a silver region, not far from Dead-
wood. In the middle of August, according to the San
Francisco News Letter, a number of miners fixed on the
site, planned the town, drew lots for the different
pieces of ground, arranged the rules of government,
and named the place "West Virginia City." In forty-
eight hours the town contained 1,000 inhabitants, and
nine drinking saloons were started; on the third day
restaurants and two faro banks were opened • and on
he fourth the first daily newspaper appeared'. Fifty
buildings were erected in a week, and as much as £lOO
was paid for building lots.
DEATH OF SIR EDWARD HARRIS GREAT-MD.--
The death is announced in his seventieth year of
General Sir Edward Harris Greathed,
Colonel of the 108th Foot. He served at the siege of
Delhi in 1857, commanded the 3rd Brigade of the
army under Lord Clyde, and took part in the opera-
tine for the relief of the garrison of Lucknow. He
was also at Cawnpore, ana received the Companion-.
ship of the Bath, for distinguished service in the field.
He was appointed to the colonelcy of the 108th Foot.
in January, 1880, and in the July following advanced
to the rank of general. Sir Edward Greathed, who
was created a K.C.B. in 1865, was three times mar-
ried—first, in 1854, to Louisa Frances, daughter of
the Venerable Archdeacon Hartwell; secondly, in
1860, to Ellen Mary, daughter of the Reverend George
Tufnel; and thirdly, in 1869, to Charlotte, daughter
of Sir George Robert Osborn.
ronMWARNING.—The following cable message
has been received at the London office of the New York:
Herald, from the Herald Weather Bureau, New
York :—" A storm crossing, nerth forty-five; will
arrive on the British and :Norwegian coasts between
the 23rd and 25th, attended by south, veering west,
gales or strong winds; another follows quickly, pro-
bably attended by snow and winds veering north-west.
Stormy weather will prevail in the Atlantic."
A BANQUET IN A BOILER.—A banquet in a stenm
boiler was lately given by a German manufacturer 'in.
the Duchy of Baden to celsbrate the completion of one
of the largest steam boilers in the world. Inside the
boiler a scaffolding was erected containing a table for
thirty guests, while racks for the cookery and witness
were arranged along the sides. The only defect was.
the entrance, as the guests had to slip in through at
three-foot opening in the lid.
DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON.—As a body of men
were engaged in removing some earth in connexion
with the erection of a new mansion for Mr. Alfred
de Rothschild, at Halton, near Aylesbury, they came
upon a burr an skeleton. It lay about a foot beneath
the surface, and the base of the skull had been
struck by Berne instrument, probably a ploughshare.
A weapon, bearing resemblance to either a dagger
or the head of a spear, was found fixed in the
breast. The skeleton was in a perfect state of pre-
servation.
CHARITY OF THE RAT.—The following circumstance
was witnessed in 1757, by Mr. Purdew a surgeon's
mate on board the Lancaster. Lying awalce one even-
ing in his berth, he saw a rat enter, look cautiously
round, and retire. He soon returned, leading a second
rat by the ear, and which appeared to be blind. A
third rat joined them shortly afterwards, and assisted
the original conductor in picking up fragments of
biscuit and placing them before their infirm parente as
the blind old patriarch was supposed to be.
REMINDED HIM OF HOME.—How sweet must S.
familiar voice from home sound to a traveller in Elr
foreign land. A pathetic story comes to us of a New
Orleans man who while in London, found a mosquito
inside a paper which was sent him from his own city
(says the Detroit Free Press). The cheerful little fellow
at once started to buzz and bite in the most natural
and social manner, and awakened in the mind of the
Southern gentleman such tender recollections of home
that at each familiar buzz of the insect the tears fell
from his cheeks like rain. He became tired of the
recollections and the buzaings after a while, and by a
skilful and well-directed blow mashed the little
insect' but the emotions awakened in his heart will
hang to him for weeks.
AN ANCIENT DWARF.—A correspondent of the
Louisville Courier Jovrnal, writing from Monterey,
Ky, says: "I opened an Indian mound near here Ems
time ago. It was about four feet high, and contained
a great many large stones. Apparently they had been
carried a great way up a steep hill. At the bottom I
found the remains of a strange being, just four feet
high. His bones were very sound; his forehead was
not an inch high, but was very broad. He was put
away very carefully between flat rocks, and covered
with charcoal. On the mound there was a very large
rotten stump, which looks as if it might have been a
white oak three and a half feet in diameter. In the
grave I found a spear seven inches long, of red flint;
also very curious flints of smaller size, and at his feet
a sinaular speckled flint with a fine edge to it. The
bones are not red like an Indian's, but of a dark, ashy'
colour. The teeth are perfect, and seem to have been
used a long time, which proves that he was old,
although only four feet high. There are other mounds
similar to this one here, and very different from the
common Indian graves, which are full of bones of dif-
ferent colour, being red, and all thrown in care-
lessly."
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.—AIgy : "They want
2,6,000 for the lease, Maria. It runs for eighty-nine
years."—Maria : "Oh, don't buy it, Algy. OnlY
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NEAR-SIGHT IN GERMANY.—A Saxon oculist beds
published the results of a long series of careful experi-
ments which he carried out with some 600 scholars of
the Royal school at Chemnitz, for the purpose of deter-
mining the proportion of normal eye- sight to near-sight-
edness. In the sixth, or lowest, class he found that 90
per cent, of the scholars possessed normalsight ; in the
fifth, 83 per cent. ; in the fourth, 80 per cent.; in the
lover third, 75 per cent. ; in the upper third, 65 per
cent. • in the lower second, 56 per cent.; in the upper
second and upper first, else 56 per cent. ; and in the
lower first, actually only 36 per cent. of the scholars
were not near-sighted. The continuous and rapid
increase of short-sightedness from the lower to the
upper classes is highly suggestive. Of all the scholars
in this school over 23 per cent. were near-sighted, and
1 per cent. far-sighted.
A FLOATING MENAGERIE.—An Italian vessel
arrived from the coast of Africa the other day, and is
si
row lying m the wharves in South Brooklyn (says a
New York paper) having for a cargo several lions, one
or two tigers, a number of other wild and ferocious
animals, about a hundred monkeys, and at least two
thousand rare and curious birds. The vessel is
perfect floating menagerie, and the rparine and bellow-
ing of the animals, the chattering of the monkeys, and
the warbling and shrill whistling of the birds makes
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efficient
CURIOUS STATISTICS.—The New York Fire Depart- '-
ment has discovered that more alarms occur on
Thursday than on any other day in the week • that
July is the unluckiest month ; and the fourth days of
the month averaged the hottest for underwriters.
These phenomena are based on the record of 16 years'
experience.
THE PUBLIC PARK FOR LANCASTER.—A special
meeting of the Lancaster Town Council was held ou
Monday to receive a communication from Mr. James
Williamson, ' Ryelands Lancaster, handing over lb
public park for the use of the town. The late Alderman
Williamson, of Parkfield, Lancaster, undertook to
expend £lO,OOO in forrn ing a part of Lancaster Moor into
a park, and in providing a maintenance fund, but he died
before anything had been done to carry out his inten-
tion. The work, however, has been carried out by hie
son, and the park was formally handed over to the
Mayor on Monday. The cost of formation has cons
siderably exceeded the original estimate, being
£13,230 10s. 4d. and in his letter to the
Council, Mr. Williamson offered to provide
maintenance fund of £lO,OOO, to be invested in
the Corporation as Trustees for the town. The total
cost of the park will, therefore, be £23,230. The park
has been named the Williamson's Park. It is about
forty acres in extent, and is situated on elevated
ground on the east side of the town, commanding
extensive views of Morecombe Bay, the Furness di*. •
trict, and the Lake Mountains. The land WAS Veil
rugged and undulating, having been quarried for 9
great number of years, and the special advantages it
afforded for the formation of a beautiful park hays
been turned to good account. The Council accepted
Mr. Williamson's offer, and thanked hir's •
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