The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-08-21 00:00:00

isrtilanraits Intelligence.

HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

SUGGESTION. Why not call the new church at
Hawarden "Axminster?"—gunny Folks.

THE CAR OF JUGGERNAITTs-It i 9 stated in the In-
dian papers just received that the famous car of
Juggernaut was not as usual dragged through the
streets of Pun on July 9; and it seems that by religious
custom or law if it be not drawn to the Goachidi
Mandir on the ninth day of the car festival, twelve
years must elapse before it is again used.

EXPECTED FAMINE IN RUSSIA.—The Novae Vreniya
contains a telegram from Saratoff, in East Russia,
that there is a general failure of crops throughout the
province, and that several millions of roubles will be
required to avert a famine. A further telegram from
Samara, in other Russian papers, announces that there
is also a failure in that province, and that a repetition
is feared of the terrible famine of 1873, when several
thousand people perished of starvation. The Novoe
Vreinya, in a special leader, declares that no time
must be lost in preparing for the calamity, and opens
at once a subscription list for the sufferers.

UNFORTUNATE FOR AUTHORS.—OnIy men who can't
write make their mark.—Punch.
ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS ON SUNDAY.—A re-
turn has been made to the House of Commons of all
convictions between Michaelmas, 1876, and Michael-
mas, 1879, of all persons arrested for drunkenness on
Sunday in England and Wales. The return is made
by counties, boroughs, and districts having a separate
police force. In England, with a total population,
according to the last census, of 21,495,131, there were
46,317 persons convicted for drunkenness on Sunday,
of whom 32,447 were bond fide residents in the dis-
tricts where they were arrested, and 13,870 were not
bond fide residents. In Wales the numbers were :
Population, 1,217,135; convictions, 1,084; bond fide
residents, 842; not such residents, 242. Total for
England and Wales :—Population, 22,712,266; con-
vietions, 47,401; bond fide residents, 33,289; not such
residents, 14,112. The numbers in the Metropolitan
Police districts were :—Population, 3,810,744; con-
victions, 12,332; bond fide residents, 7,469; not such
residents, 4,863.
THE WESTERN HlGHLANDS.—Travellers desirous of
seeing the romantic islands of Staffa and lona should
take warning by a friend of ours who, being told that
Oban was the proper place to book from, presented
himself at the Viaduct station, and was informed
that the spot referred to was not the 'Olborn of his
childhood, but a place considerably further north.
Fun.

GAME-KEEPERS.—Billiard-markers.—Funny Folks.
THE REASON WHY !—lt is officially certified by the
Statistical Bureau at Berlin that the emigration from
Germany by way of Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, and
Antwerp has been during the past six months of the
year 50,442 persons, against 16,099 in 1879; 13,844 in
1878; and 12,021 in 1877—that is to say, three times
greater in 1880 than in 1879, and four times greater
than in 1878 or 1877. The clerical newspapers attri-
bute the enlarged exodus to religious persecution ; the
Radical papers to political reaction; the Socialist
papers to the pressure of increased taxation and in-
creased cost of living; the Government papers to a
mere repetition of the figures of 1873, when during the
first six months of the year the emigration was
63,886. An impartial
.observer would rejoin that in
1873 the German people were full of money, and in
the United States there was a clamorous demand for
labourers and artisans at prodigious wages.—Pall Mall
Gazate.

DR. CARVER IN GERMANY.-Dr. Carver, the re-
doubtable Californian rifle expert who astonished
everybody by his marvellous shooting last year at the
Crystal Palace and the Canterbury, recently went to
Germany. He there, as here, shot before royalty,
and, at the special request of the Emperor William,
he gave an exhibition before the court and the royal
family, and his feats were so admired that an adju-
tant was despatched the next day to convey to the
doctor an elegant diamond ring with the inscription
thereon, "From His Majesty the Emperog of Ger
many." Shortly afterward a special invitation came
from the Crown Prince to the effect that Dr. Carver's
exhibition interested the Crown Princess, and it was
hoped that a second performance might be given. The
doctor was conveyed from the depot in the royal car-
riage, and the exhibition, which was given on a grassy
lawn, consisted of shooting at moving and stationary
objects with rifle and shot gun, on foot and on horse-
back ; shooting with the bow and arrow, and throwing
the lasso. Another scarf pin, bearing the monogram
of Frederick and Victoria, was the royal token of
approval.

SUNDAY AT THE SEASIDE.—SiS : "Aren't you coming
to church with us this morning, Herbert? "—Herbert:
"No, an excursion train is just in, so I shall stroll
about on the beach and look at the breakers—the
Sabbath breakers, I mean."—Fun.

AN INTERESTING RELIC.—" E. D.," writing to
Notes and Queries, says :—I have in my possession a
small Bible, sush as is usually carried in a soldier's
kit, printed in Edinburgh in 1784, bound in Russia,
gilt, with a medallion on either side of the cover,
and in most excellent preservation, considering that
it must have travelled over a great part of the habit-
able globe. It was picked up on the battle-field of
Alexandria, after the action, and might prove in-
teresting to the relatives of the persons whose names
are written in it, should any now exist. The first
name inside the cover is evidently written by the
person himself :

.` Lieut. Col. Thos. Digby, 54th, Alexandria,
14th Nov., 1801.
"Found on the night of the 25th August, after the action,
when the French ventured out of their works to attack us,
and were repulsed. This was their last effort."

And on the fly-leaf between the Old and New Testa-
ments is written, probably by the poor fellow to whom
the book belonged, and who was most likely killed in
action :

"Duncan Murray, his book
God gave him grace herein to look;
And not to look but understand
_.

The works of His Almighty hand.
To all concerned, Sept. 29, 1799. Georgestown, Minorca.
Duncan Murray.

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EXTREMES MEET.—A young girl and her lover were
accustomed to meet on an unfrequented half-mile cir-
cular race-course. When questioned as to the reason
for choosing this particular locality, she blushingly
replied, "Oh, sometimes ws are interrupted ; and
then Jokn walks off in one direction and I in the
other, and meet on the opposite side?"

DISCOVERY OF AN ANTEDELIIVIAN RHINOCEROS.—
Germ= archveologists have been exceptionally lucky
this summer in turning up old- world curiosities as well
as relics of the pre-historic ages (says the Daily
Telegraph). Schlesw.i▪ z Holstein only the other day
afforded a copious reld of antique armour, huge and
uncouth weapons of war, and mighty carved drinking
horns • and now we learn from Magdeburg that the
eminent physiologist, Leo Baltzer, who has for some
time past been carryi▪
ng on excavations in the neigh-
bourhood of Nordhausen, has just made a highly in-
teresting discovery in the alluvial stratum of the
Steigerthel, close to the foot of the Schellenberg.
Thtehree .
valley, he came upon the entire skeleton of an
antediluvian rhinoerous, an excellent state of oat a depth of about six feet below the surface
f
pre-
servation. The height of this enormous beast, when
living, must have succeeded that of the tallest guards-
man in our Household Brigade, and his bulk can
scarcely have been less than that of the average
African elephant. The fore and hind legs, spinal
column, ribs and collar-bone, are perfect. Some
deterioration has accrued to the skull through the
fact that it was several feet nearer the surface of the
earth than were the extremities and consequently
suffered from the infiltration of r, ain water. How-
ever, the jaws and twenty-eight of the teeth are quite
uninjured. Dr. Baltzer is at present busily engaged
in setting up the huge skeleton, which he intends, as
soon as his task shall be completed, to present to the
High School of Magdeburg.

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fault—it's those other boys."—Punch.
THE MEMOIR Or KLINDWORTH.—The Revue tie
France publishes several curious extracts from the
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obstruction
memoirs of Klindworth, well known in the political
world from his long connection with Talleyrand,
Wellington, Metternich, and Guizot (says the Paris
Correspondent of the Standard). The most interesting
passage relates to an incident in which Marie
Antoinette plays a part, namely, the mission en-
trusted by Robespierre to M. Grandidier in 1793, the
object of which was to separate Austria from the anti.
French coalition. This brings out the fact not gene-
rally known, that the hapless Qneen might have got'
back to her native country, and so escaped her tragic
end, but for her own devotion and heroism. An agree-
ment in the sense desired was all but concluded
by M. Grandidier with the Austrian Government
on the condition, assented to by Robespierre, that
Marie Antoinette and her daughter should be restored
to their family. The Queen's consent to the plan
could not, however, be obtained. On M. Grandidier
submitting the matter to her Majesty at an interview
in the prison she said :—" Please thank the Emperor
and Empress for their kind consideration for me, but
tell them that I desire to die in France like my hus-
band, and I am impatiently looking forward to the
moment when I shall be united to him for ever."
" She is right," remarked Robespierre, on her words
being repeated to him, "What has that woman to
do among the living?" Thus Austria remained one
of the adversaries of the French Government, and
Marie Antoinette went to the scaffold.

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