The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-25 00:00:00

'Miscellaneous yntelligenre,

ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

‘.‘ nts DAT Qui CM) DAT."—This means that
whr; given nhky is osurilly asked to give again.
Moral.— Take your time, and a g. od deal of somebody
else'n, before yon erant a favour. Eater moral.—Never
grant one—Punch.

THE MATCH TRADE OF SWEDEN. —The manu-
facture of safety matches in Sweden has developed
it Reif during the last two yews in a remarkable manner,
for whereas until lately the town of Jiinkoping stood
alone in this respect, supplying the whole of the Con-
tinent and several of the safety-match makei s in En,g.
lamb there have now sprung up similar. though F m all er,
establishments in many of the provincial capital towns,
which drive every brisk trade, and are scarcely capable
of meeting the ever-increasing demand for this arriele
(remarks the Grocer). The qu intity exporteil to Eng.
land lard year was more than half of the total export
—4,490,0241 b. nut of 8,351,0281 b. If we take that each
box contains lot matches, the latter weighing one
ounce, we find the total exports from Sweden am i dint
to 13,361,644,800 matches, and to England alone
7,184,038.400 matches, and this only from one State.
This would give us. taking our t dal p ipulation at (in
round numbers) 32,000,000, about 225 matches per
annum for every man woman, and child in the country,
ar supplied by Sweden. With our home pro duction
and other imports, we fancy the figures would prove
rather startling.

A TEsT Full THE SPlnlicaLleTB. Before the
discussion on epiritualism is consigned to the obscurity
it deserves, it di worth recording that al' cry fair chance
of proving their avower ins was offered to the spiritual-
ists some serrs ago (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette).
In DM • number of eminent medivne and clair-
voyantes were in Dublin, and practised their arta
before all classes with great success. Even Arch.
bishop Whatelv caule.cended to minutely examine
what was submitted for his consideration, and
vainly attcmpted to find come platform firm enough
to bear an argument. Sir Philip Crampton ad-
mitted 64 he was nnalde to explain the pheno-
mena which his friends assured him they had wit-
nessed, but he proposed a test to prove the truth of the
assertions of the clairvoyantes and others, who main-
tained then, as they maintain still, that they can soe
where ordinary mortal eyes cannot Sir Philip
Crampton enclosed • bank-note in several envsbipes so
acts be quite invisible, and tromised tst give it tir any
person who would tell him the number. The only
etinnlation* he made was that all experiments on his
envelope were to be carrisal on hi h's presence. Several
attempts were made, and it nee I scarcely is said they
failed. It was then rumoured that the par.xlcoutained
no bank rote. Sir Philip Crampton thereupon opened
it in the preen te of witnessers and exhibited a fifty-
pound note, whip& be rush reef to his pocket.
THE LATE EMPEROR. Mr. E. Cobham
Brewer writes from Lavant, Chichester, to Notes and
Queries, with respect to the latrthplace of Napoleon
111.

"In almost all the newspaper blesersphies of the late P.m,
peror of the French, it is said that he was born at the
Tuileries ' The ordinary tea iitton la that, 'of all the
numerous pmeeny of the Bonaparted, the Emperor Napoleon
if, and the " King of lt,rne" were the only two born In the,
Tuileries.' Toe son of Napoleon 1., It lo true, was been
there, bat Inuit Napoleon wive born In the Sus Csrutt
(Witte). Efe himeelf to nay authority for this foot and II
oncht to be made known before the error bee become
hhtorieally est aSllshed."

Atif4ASSINATIoNra IN iIIitTIMORE. —A diepalch
from Baltimore, dated the flrd innt., says r—Mra Mary
Ann Larripley, ',gel seventy two years, wan found
lying in her bonne last nkhc, in the eattern sectlois of
the city, brutally murdered. The murder IV3X
witted Cinrirg the alimence of hfq hut bawl ani daughter
at the theatre, Mitt.. Lampley wan in perfect health
when her family 1.1 t her. It in ntipposi-d that plunder
we. the object of the murderer, tut about twelve hundred
dollars were token from the houoe and the jewellery on
Mrs. Lamplt y's person wan teL n off and carried away.
No further particulars have yet kern obtained—On
Sunday evening last the dal bode of Eugene A. Burt
imppoted to have been a Frenchman, a clock.
cleaner by occupation, wan found in a gully in the 'rids
nity of Howe's store, in Anne Arundel county. Md.,
with marks of yin!, lice upon it which intlicatethatthe
deceased bad been murdered and robbed. Purdell,
when last seen alive, was in canipany with a negro
whom he had engsged to pilot him through the country,
—The Cori-tnera jury in the cane of Mt.. Mary Ann
Leinpl-7 conducted the investiaation this evening with
a vetdmt ti,a, the deccaned came to her death by
vtolnutoe at the handed .one party unknown tit the
jury. Tbe pc, L.niortent exatuitiation held on the de-
ceased failed to oiccover the direct citlt-e of death, as
110 marks of violence wde found upon the 1%0 r„, exetpu
at.., slight beuisee.m the abdomen. 'llO th.qty at-
r4ccedetaeseesedstathe easslis Abet, tla, old hey ersis
Nthoot,o,4l to alr:t'u by a picco of carpet which wcai
loud lying by bet ride, acta that roihery wad after. ,
w&rds paptivitvd.