The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-29 00:00:00

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DINNER AND DESSERT. —For a cut of cold
Mutton, choose the Saddle.—Eat a good Bit, but
Bridle your thirst.—The best Nuts to crack on a Race-
course are Cobnuts.—Puncle. • - -
ROYAL INSTITUTION IN, LONDON.— On Tuesday
afternoon professor -Gladstone F.IL.S. continued his
course of lectures at this Institution. Vhe subject was
"The Chemical Force and its Transformations." The!
lecturer'exhibited some of the phenomena connected
with the reciprocal decomposition of salts, using espe-,
daily for the purpose the deep red sulphocyanide of
iron, and he showed that in some instances the redis-
tribution of acids and bases occupies not only an
appreciable time but even hours. It was explained
that the chemical force, while 'it alters profoundly
the properties of matter,.. does not destroy it nele
affect its weight; herice'the balance is the special
instrument of the chemist. . The balances of Cavendig
and Young were exhibited,-as well as the latest im-
proved form now useditethe laboratory of the Institu-
tion. It was further shown. that the chemical force is
capable of transformation into other forces, that it
will produce heat as in living organisnas or kthe
oxy-hydrogen blowpipe light, as in the glow oxida-
tion of phosphorus, or in. the most brilliant of' flames
—mechanical force and sound, as in the explosion of
gunpowder, electricity and magnetism as in the Voltaic
cell, and the forces thus called into existence may be
employed ter reproduce the, action from which
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they originated.
DEATH OF A " GREAT " WOMAN.— A great
weman has just departed this life. inifeimerica. She
was net distinguished for' painting or Music, as far as
can be judged; nor does the Philadelphia Times, which
records her demise, so much as hint that she was a dis-
tinguished politician (says the Daily Telegraph).
Indeed, of the qualities of her mind we are ignorant;
her grandeur was not mental, but bodily; in other
words, she weighed, we are told, upwards of 6001 b. For
thirteen 'years this remarkable lady had been bed-
ridden, being unable to move about on account of her
extreme obe-ity, and when she at length died a
number of strong men had to be specially sent
for to remove her body from the upper room
she had so long tenanted to the coffin which awaited it
below, and which, we learn, was not one iota smaller
than a cart. Fully appreciating the honour which
attaches to the possession of such a marvel, the in-
habitants of the Pennsylvanian capital thronged the
house till they were turned out by the police. The
newspaper that reports the incident remarks that there
is reason to believe death was a welcome relief to Mrs.
Ford. On that point it is probably impossible to
speak satisfactorily. But the life of a lady weighing
six hundred pounds, passed in the upper room of an
' American dwelling-house, is scarcely the kind of
existence which enthusiastic poets are wont to dilate
'upon. .:" •?•,
i A PIANOVdIiTt DESCRIBED.—It is said that
one of the Siamese Ambassadors, on going home from
I his European visits, made an elaborate report on all he
Ihad seen, including the music he bad heard in the West.
. He was very little impressed by the music, save and ex-
cept that which he said was ' produced by a great
trunk set upon legs.' "A woman," he wrote, " sits
in front of this, and tickling a sort of tail it has with
her toe, produces a variety of sounds by beating
rapidly with her fingers on a number of little bits of
ivory in front of it ! ' Such is the Siamese description
id our pianoforte. - ei e is.
1 DEATH-RATE IN GREAT TowNs,.—The Regis-
trar-General states the death-rate in elf year 1874 in
:21 great towns of the United Kingdom as follows : 1
London, 225 deaths per 1,000 persons living; Ports-
mouth, 20•4 per 1,000 ; Bristol, 22.1 • Sunderland,
23•4 ; Norwich, 23g; Edinburgh, g 3.6 ; !Wolverhamp-
ton, 23 9.; Leicester, 241; Nottingham, 248; Hull,
25.5; Dublin, 26; Birmingham, 268; Sheffield, 269;
Bradford, 27; Leeds, 287; Newcastle-upon-Type,
292 ; Oldham, 29.7 ; Salford, 290 ; Manchester,
3004 ; Glasgow, 31.1 ; Liverpool, 32 per 1,000. In each
case the population is estimated for the middle of the
year. The Registrar-General is able also, from returns
supplied by municipal authorities, to state the death-
rate in 1874 in 16 other great cities of the world, as
follows :—Philadelphia, 19.3 per 1,000 persons; Paris,
224; ,Brussels, 239; Bombay. 239; Brooklyn, 244;
Vienna, 24•6 • The Hague, 265; Amsterdam, 261;
Turin, 261 ; ilamburg (State) 27; Copenhagen, 272;
Rome, 27-5 ; New York, 275; Calcutta, 283; Berlin,
32.9 • Madras, 37 per 1,090 persons. The death-rates
of these sixteen cities are calculated upon the following
as the enumerated or estimated population :—Amster-
dam, 282,000 persons; Berlin, 828,000; 'Bombay,
644,405; Brooklyn, 450,000 ; Brussels, 185,000; Cal-
cutta, 447,600; Copenhagen, 200,000; The Hague,
94,895; Hamburg (State), 357,453; Madras, 397,552;'
New York, 1,040,000 e Paris 1,851,792; Philadelphia, unboune , satisfak .ion. I °thing was gem eel, ee
witty b those the secret than to placdhis apparen''"
775,000; Rome, 24,8,307; Tulin, 214,4241 and Vienna, y in
644,356 persons. , harmlessinstrument on the back of some unsuepectiiis
AN EXPENSIVE BELLE.—On a certain day, on native and touch the spring. In an instant twelve lancet!,
would plunge into the swarthy flesh. Then would fc"f
a renniylvania railroad, a belle of a thriving Pennsyl- low a long-drawn cry, scarcely audible amidst peals .%
vania town the daughter of,a wealthy lumber merchant, laughter Worn' the bystanders. As'iioele as the nativ
was travelling in the same car with a shrewd old had recovered from the alarm consequent on:
citizen of her native town and an agreeable gentleman ness of this.attack he would ask to have t' api
from the West, who tells the story. The latter had tion repeated perhaps some five or six times.
been talking to the belle, but, as the night drew on reason of this request was not very evident at 1
and the young lady grew drowsy, he gave up his seat but I found bye-and-by that the operation was i
to her, and placed himself beside the somewhat cynical sidered a wholesome one, and also that the regula
rennsylvanian. The latter began conservation by of the marks left on the skin was much admired.
pointing 'to a •high mountain, past which they
vehave known a native come several times to have 1,1
ere whirling, and said, "You see that mountain?
marks cut on his arm, and on one occasion, on the
Six or eight years ago it was covered with as fine coast, I succeeded in procuring an opportune 1
a forest as ever grew, and worth ten thousand of food by means of this instrument. It was at ..
dollars. Now, without a tree, covered with stumps, of great scarcity, and the natives, who had not
the land is scarcely worth a cent. The nett produce of for themselves, refused to sell any food. In this di f',
that mountain lies over there in that seat," and he culty I bethought me of the sacrifier, and by the
pointed to the recumbent belle. "It has just absorbed simple expedienttif of 'exacting a taroot from eacil '
all of that lumber which her father owned to raise and person who wished to be operated on succeede ;
educate that girl, pay' for her clothes and jewellery, in collecting enough supplies to complete the journeY' .1
bring her out in society and maintain her there. Some Two Years in Fiji.
of you young men, if you were given your choice
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the nett produce on that seet, would take the nett pro-
old woman in Skye, and this old woman's pussy
, duce but as ';' b fore i ne* gseernethe stumps." 84 pussies love to be. And to 1 one night the old woteo
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1 in the silence of night dreamed a dreame - She thou'
, SETTLING IT COMFORTABLY ! The elder i that the
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and see."
said to ~
Dimas is the text for many.iin amusing tale of itifiV
- .i Arise, mistress, come and see." That she folio. ,
vertence Which is rising up in- respect of rad,pliz., My at once. That pussy led her to the barn. TOP'
mattere. The following is the latest. He was it the,.
ere she found, cuddled together, in a ;heap npoo ,
railway-station, just starting to rejiain. hie 'richt, at' 1 sisoW.iiii -less than five .teitoiseshell Toms. • $ll
Marseilles. Several friends had accoinpanieor Min to eamt besides that she sold the got for £l,OOO eite
say good-bye. Suddenly he was informed thatlee had, d boug.ht a carriage and four right off the reel, a
m c,Ol
151) kilogrames'exciess.ef Itiggage-a 'Mere bligatelre- up for a lady of fashion on the spot. Anxiously did
when it is remembered that on foreie lines nearly all e old woman watch for her cattle's accouchment, but i
liiggai,e is charged, for. "Ho, he,
~criech
,Dneeas,s, cilt be leezedidaptiointinent they all had white about 1
ial` How Many kilogrammes are 'allowed'?" ' Thirty, r. Next time that plum was in the same way, tier
etor each person," was th ' e reply.- tress tress had an old taiterseihell•comb nailed up above
menial calculation, and. then' in a: esenefofiteiumph bed. Even this didn't do, lo—for by this time the
It ade his secrBtarylake places for five, ~`
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In, Wt. 4ent dame had eortoiseshell Tom on the, brain—sbe ,
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way," he explained, "we shall have:nh'excege*
1 WORKING IVIP:N AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.— OOn4eu.:"net' ine 'a d t
rntlereeioit procure
of fully sixteen miles,
a live tortoise as a plar
'iSSaturday afternoon a numerous party of operative, te -for her net. Pussy never took much to 01
' belonging to the Workmen's Clubs of the metropolis l toise ; all she did was to sit and watch it se;
l'evere afforded-an opportunity - of' inspecting West- snever it protruded its scaly head, the cat smacked
lithineter Abbey, under the guidance of Dean Stanley. a again.. This might have been the reason why bet
At .tlie. end of the visit, in acknowledging a vote of ;ens all had white about them the third time. It"
-thaWss, Dean Stanley said it was always a, pleasing woman didn't despair, however; she took
ends seiseeble duty to hied to show the Abbey to those ; and 'praYed in English, and prayed in ,
'rho vegan interest in its history. It was his Wish'
he told ,rue seriously that she never do,
eat (ILfibee should be marle as useful ariclasinstruc. ' lihitt ffs'r 'Prayers wohld one day he awe,
mre'Ate Poesi b le. We ins en xit are for Atei preeervati on, she added, it was for her good. I didn't doubt •
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4e4wee equally desirous that its ntionninehts ehould not er, but Tom never ,sine asheere as tone as I all
'beileitideu frAn public inspection. He liflld ' that the he idea, iieiiieleavas the old sereatetre's setiff-In
more persons were permitted to see theAbbeY, (he les empty.—From "2'/14 ltivd Stock Journal -or
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The report speaks of 18 steam
mills, at work in. the Bombay F „aidenc,
ing 4,500100m5, 405,000 spindles, and 10.
ing out dailyl9o,ooolb. of yarn. Thew'
of cotton is described as 1,500 bales
crease largely. There are also man.
tories in other parts of India.
spec tor of Factories in the United _h-
tion to "the common report that
India is carried on by factories makin.
and expresses a hope that the nati.
may be spared the ordeal which our c.
went through in former days, and that the
ture may step in while the industry is so r
"by wise and moderate regulations stop the gro
habits of long hours and of the employment of ei.'"
labour.
GETTING OVER A DIFFICULTY !—lt ;
-6astom in Mexico for the clergy'to req.-111re a foreiP
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wishing to marry a native to bring proof that he i° /Its
411 ready a married man. An American, abont,,,
Marry a senorita of very good family, was requireaL
Amish the proof of his being a bachelor. Not fincl
'My of his countrymen who knew him sufficientlYWdo
JP testify to this fact, he determined to supplY
deficiency with the oath of a native. Meeting
Mexican in the street, whom he had never 010
before, our countryman proposed to him theit
should swear to his being unmarried for the consiee,w,
tion of five dollars. The senor, after a moment's stni_-:;7ci
said to the Yankee, "Get down on your handelr;tg
knees, and creep about." Not exactly understseo
what he was at, our friend obeyed, much to the nfbeo •
ment of his unmentionables. The other partY „At
told him that he was all right, that he would Eno
that the American had not been married eincie •
knew him, and that was since the time he erawlen•
THE LATE ROYAL JOURNEY TO LEEDS.
is understood that a letter has been addressed to 74 ,
Board of DirecLors of the Great Northern
Company by direction of the Duke Of Edinh.n•Tbe,
expressing the thanks of his Royal Highness ,for
admirable arrangements made for conveying thji?4-0? ,
from London to Leeds and back upon the eFc3:ho
of the recent opening of the Arts Exhibition in
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busy manufacturing town. The special train in °is.
his Royal Highness travelled accomplished the oin
tance between London and Leeds-187 •
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three hours and fifty minutes. The maintainaitk
of this 'rate of speed over so long a diiatance serir
remarkable 'ease and steadiness in the runni;
stated to be the most perfect example of trn',
working that has ever been achieved in this 0r,4
other country, and it is satisfactory to learn ,it43o ;
obtained a special tribute of admiration from ;
Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by a liheTt
recognition of the careful services of the engineteo
and guards employed in the running of the train ee
occasion.
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PORTUGUESE ART.—A curious and vaaue,
hunting knife, from the atelier of Senor Estevas „
Souza, jeweller to the King of Portugal, was lost
the recent wreck of the Cadiz off Ushant. The shetlig
and handle was composed of the heads of wild anireV
and hounds, modelled and chased in silver, and acco •
rately representing the lordly stag, the bear, the er"ifi;
the wild boar, and other ferm natuim still founcVor.
Luisitanian forests. It was the work of §,ePii'
Raphael Zacharias da Costa, who was occuped 1010 '
execution for a period of 11 years, from June l
1863, b
engt
May, 1874. The knife was 63 centimetres in
and was sent from Lisbon by the Cadiz to be plceecelig
view at the Portuguese Legation, Gloucester•Pla,ooo
Portman-square. Unfortunately the model was tn,)yl
as well as the knife itself, but the photographs
were taken of it, show that there is no falling off fl.°A.;,r
the well-earned renown of the Portuguese as artipia
workers in the precious metals. The hunting-knife "11
sheath were insured for £7,000.
CAPTAIN BOYTON.—The Mayor of -
has writteda letter to Captain Boyton ea.
great satisfaction at the experiments with his, if
ming dress in the Mersey. He concludes
remark: "I trust ere long we shall find
saving apparatus forming a necessary pori
equipment of every vessel that sails from English,
flu his reply Mr. Boyton says that he has re
many suggestions on the subject of saving life at
"Were it possible," he adds, "to collect the a,
innumerable suggestions. hints, and propositions
come to me every day, there could be no doubt (
profound interest awakened in the public mind,
how easy it will be to bring an all-powerful press'
bear upon those whom the higher law, if not the
pf the land, holds responsible for the many live-
ally thrown away in the common highw-
It may be presumptions in one not an Etsig..-
tread on this ground; but, as a with a
feelings, I trust I shall be pardoned if my sv-
more pointed than politic."
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