The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-03-06 00:00:00

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ALENTINE'S DAY.—An
tocratic section of New
that were it a valentine
) would be half inclined to
It of the fun it is to see the
Lnd him at the hall door,
I gladsome spirits. "Not
is it," said the experienced
sat the windows, scanning
) melancholy as I pass on,
. But you should see one
) the stoop and hand them
lich has a semblance at all
They look like grown up
b.ey make me, it makes me

ALIAN TREES.—BaroII roe
st, Victoria, in his last re-
; details of the results of
pper Yarra, Hume River,
forest regions of the Upper
3hes of the Goulburn River,
some of the larger trees
var. regnans, the highest
t, but it is 'believed that
which, however, could not .;
he labour of clearing away
ae line. The magnificent
iscovered in West Gipps-
me districts. This Grass
high, or even as to much
ich soil of the Fern-tree
dons to the genera of Aus-
year numbers fifty. —The

,E). annual account of
mcaster shows that in the
.om rents, royalties, &c.,
the expenses of manage-
and disbursements were
ade for Her Majesty's use,
riv-y Purse, amounted to
than in the preceding year,
hand larger at the end of
The account of the Duchy.
ts in 1874 amounting to ‘•
the estate, disbursements,
)nt, amounted to £19,818.
6,901 were made to the use
Prince of Wales, Duke of
)re than in the preceding - 4
c e in hand larger at the
inning.
)N.— Our very distatit
eginning to find useful ern-
iy. A correspondent of a
that large apes are now
;traits settlements to gather
3 are imported from Acheen
,nd are marched round the
;, who let them out on hire. :1
to each of these peculiar
gent up a tree, where he is
with great discrimination,
and round until it falls to
ve fall of a nut is hailed by
with a chuckle of satisfac-
human natives will like
as the American workman 4%1
heir Chinese brethren. As
lot struck for higher wages.

h
OF SPAlN.—There are ;
;
than four Queens orSpain,
ig Alphonso's approaching
act, there will be the fift
acceeded to the precarious
re :

26th, 1806, married Ferdinand
idow, September 29th, 1833.-
3f Ferdinand VII. and PrinceBo

born October 10th, 1830 ; suc-
death of her father; deposed
Marguerite, wife of Amadeus
ed the Spanish Crown October i

nary 11t11, 1873.—Queen Maria,
) his "Most Sacred Majesty,"

'IK SHOOTING !•—" Speak= 11) ‘
lan old Chesapeake sports- ,
soft and searching way for
>rated, "speaking of shoot-
d of the great storm that
m the bay last year. An
3 so fierce that it drove all
a pond, covering about an
act, so many ducks crowed
d not see a drop of water. '
id got my double-barrelled :
)th barrels right in the midst
ishment, they arose in the f,
ry duck in the pond. It
; as soon as the ducks rose a
le air and commenced to
began to drop, and whether
ked up twenty-nine barrels
• season for ducks, too. You
in so solid in the pond that
d the dead into the air with
3eparated down came the
I ducks.

OF HUMANITY. —" We
little miss (says the Boston
his city, who is eleven years
A sixty pounds, who, when
his world, weigheness than -
3he was the tiniest piece of ,
heard of. The nurse, in 'll
used to lay her in the palm
78 t few days of her life were '
n cotton-wool and placed in
El to keep her warm. Her -
[all-sized tea-cup. Can any ;
tion of humanity' that lived
/ d promising little lady ?" :
3TMAN.—Pity the poor ,
what our local contemporary '
enham, Timer asks us to do.
,
ery much inclined to do it.
, as a rule, a most civil -fl
Tvant. He works hard.; be 14
L, unlike his fellows in great • '
ess knows, have by no means
—he has to be at his post on '
.days. For him there is no
:s one constant round of toil. -'
Lould be; surely if the great
t a Sunday delivery, our
ut one. This delivery it is
7 is endeavouring to vet thefl
ts in which it circulates to
mcc,ess. The thing can be ~
•ee-fourths of the dwellers in 4
rut to send a requisition to "'"'
the present system, and the
-Jet Sunday be a dies non for
orial World.
IN 1875. The recent
railway stocks is, the Finan-
e real position of that vast '
e of solidity about this kind
other industrial enterprise
Lntial increase may be ex-
-3 during the current year,
s a diminution in the ratio •
result will be one on which,*
may well be congratulated.
A may be the outcome of
investor in railways may jA
theis a partner in a great -

BOUR MARKET. The
Association report that at ,
flcl unskilled working men 4
United States are out of
is no work for them to do;
these are iron workers, or
her mechanics and labourerli, ;
ie iron trade for daily bread.
on hunger satiated for the
ke like that of 1872 is an im• '
I the ironworks of the world
resent requirements."

ESTY. The following
~. happened in the City last
; only because it is true. It is
gentleman from the country

ad-hand bookseller in Great
he should have paid ss. ad.
in his pocket, and the book-
_ _ _ _

dealing with' a gentleman,
mderstanding that the 6d.
; visit. Two years elapsed
lan passed the shop, when
aid obtain no tidings of the
en (for 18 years) he inquired
; bookseller or his successor. ,
e, and, not fourteen days '
Lly blind, at considerable
id a son of the old book-
and, on learning of the )0
insisted (it needed pressure j
lation by the ri4ing firm) on
the widow, with a royal in-

gK.—Among the curious
I on the shelves of Messrs.
per room over Temple-bar,
terest. One file of ancient r-
ter alia, several receipts
f Sir Peter Lely, who lived
n. With them was one of
4, which runs as follows : '
of Mr. Child the summe of ')
d yn full of all remedes and
.s. Ellin Gwyn, deceased, I
17 of November, 1688;
00,, 00 .." In the same J,
cknowledgment for the sum .t
Duke of Bolton, signed by t
widow of William, Lord A:.
d in Lincoln's-inn fields in

3 correspondent of the
bes some feats of skill per-
occasion of the Royal mar-
Four small sticks aboul
'e placed perpendicularly on
lad distances, and each man
;peed made four cuts ; Most '
f oranges, and what elicited
me of the Begam's officers '
the five oranges. A sheep
irt of a gibbet, and the men
at it Captain Buller,
al India Horse, divided the
it although nearly 100 cutS
-ase by the men at various
severing it. Captain Buller
ae coup de grace, which he
lower end of the carcase
with his peculiarly shaped
another veri dexterous feat.
aths was performed. This
alar-shaped steel quoits at
throw these quoits with
known to decapitate scores
ithout making the slightest
rw with their lefthand,.and
speed with m straight and

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