The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-12-12 00:00:00

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A.)1101tliA111140 EMIGRATION MON Lc.. IL. TITE ARCTIC EINEM aotive_pre -
—The returns of the emigration front Liverpool, time are Icing made at ths ictoria Victu
compiled 1.-.,' the Government officials. show that Yard, Dept!ord, for pro* at:ships which are
during' the past month thci e sailed under the Emicra- be 'smog din the forth Oso _ Atte expedition. For
tion Act front Liverpool ;22 ships for tlist United tido purpose 15,000 in. of beef are being preserved in a
States, with 5,113 emigrants. and two to Nova Scotia, peculiar roamer. It is 'wholly lama, taken Irons the
with 73 paNeneer.. Be:hies these there sailed not middle of the round, and 'ant in stalks, when it its tett
' under the Act" six ship. to the rniteal States, with I over a fire and dried, then packed into canisters !mid.
472 passengers ; one to -Victoria, with 30; two to lug about filb, each, covered with boiled suet run in,
China, with 20; two t, the East Indies, with 32; five and then hermetically sealed. Most of the British
to the West Indies, with 30; and five to South Arctic expeditions have sailed from the Thames, and
America, with 113; making a total of 5,893, or it is expected that the ship. selected for this service
5,1521 "under the Act" and 706 not 'Wider the Act." will also come op tte river to receive their stores.
There is a decrease of 1,8;18 in comparison with Tea AN TI-_1 NCOVE TAX AC ITATION.—A meet-
November. 187. i, and there is a decrease of 0i,900 on .
the 11 months of this year compared with the aree in of the Anti-Income Tax Leagne was held en Mon-
dgy t the London Oces Charine-cross at which the
perhal of last year. , fell.. wing, ffiwing, among other ;daces, were represented :
Britt/EL OP MILLWORICERS.—A great strike London, Westminster, Leeds, Hull, Bristol, Bath,
ipccurred in Dundee on. Monday. Recently the mill- Worcester Wolverhampton, Sevenoakst Tiverton,
owners, in consequence of bad trade, reslved to reduce Exeter, irundel—at which it MA unanimously re-
the wages by II) per cent. Notice to talooffea haring Volved r• .. .
item generally given, the workpeople in almost every •, That the League again cce floe the provhwiel :associations
factory and mill left their wank; to .the number of from to renew their most strenuous efforts for the repeal of the
20,00.) to 30.000, and paraded the principal streets. Income tax, and, while reminding them that their united
They state that they will not return unless the old labours have already materially reduced the am glut of this
. rates are contin,ted, and they assert that as one firm tax, and attttellneic.hucctliec.,vee.x:treion
rfonop
it it Pr"e a's4ohnes rroreatthe'r
has attreed to this, there is no reason why the whole u
effort to finally alv,liih a li,cal machniery called into °sis-
al. Aid not. The employers, on the other hand, say truce to meet the exigencies of war, and the continuation of
that they reduced the pay rather than stop the 'Ouch, in times of peace, is discreditably OtrOnSiVe awl bur-
machinery, said lithe new rates are ootaccepted they densome to the nation." •
will simply run short time. No strike has occurred The Executive Committee of the Leave was elected,
at Itlee•irs. Baxter's great works. There is as yet no and the desirability of holding public meetings th rough-
indication of a settlement. At a meeting of male out the country discussed. Probably public nit etings
operatives thrown idle by the strike, it was agreed to will shortly be held at Exeter and elsewhere.
THE WONDERS OF THE TELEGRAPH—The
represent to the employers that as they could not help
what had happened, and as they were quite willing to
continue at work, they should not he deprived of their Times, in a leader on President Grant's Al essage, says
wages. that the celerity of the despatch and arrival of it is so
startling that it forces itself noon our attention before
A °BANOS FOR THE BETFER.—GreengroN . we can turn to the substance of General Grant's com-
" Want a Penn'orth o' Coals, do yer. ? Yon won't be munication to Congress Washington is five hours and
able to have a Penn'orth mach longer. They 're a more behind London, and when the clock has struck
piing up. Coals is Coals now, I can tell yer ! "—Boy. two at Greenwich it i.not yet &Ile at the Federal
" Ah, well, Mother Ille glad o' that, 'cause she says capital. yet the summary of the President's message
the last Coale she had o' you waa all Slates ! !" waq printed and circulated in our second edition at
Pooch. . the hour we have tamed. It may. of course be sug-
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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Bie is one of
those mixed characters which it is difficult to praise
or blame without the risk of doing them more or
less than justice. He has talents which the event
has proved to be sufficient to make him second
(and, now that Napoleon has gone, the first) general
of the age, but which could not make him a
tolerable Minister. Confident, presumptuous, and
dictatorial, but frank, open, and good humoured, he
contrived to rule in the Cabinet without morti-
fying his colleagues, and he ban brought it to rule
without forfeiting their regard. Choosing with a
very slender stock of knowledge to take upon himself
the sole direction of every department of Government,
he completely sank under the burden. Originally im•
hued with the principles of Lord Castlereagh and the
Holy Alliance he brought all those predilections with
him into office. Incapable of foreseeing the mighty
events with which the future was big, and of
comprehending the prodigious alteration which the
moral character of Europe had undergone, he pitted
himself against Canning in Cabinet, and stood up as
the assertor of maxims both of foreign and domestic
policy which that great statesman saw were no longer
fitted for the times we live in—The Greril le Memoir&
HANDSOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT.— What shall
we say of the four magnificent volumes of "Nat inal
homage to England, presented the other day at
Windsor, on behalf of France, by M. d'Agiout and
the Comte Serrurier, to the Queen? That we are
delighted to find ourselves, for once, in the French
good books.— Punch.
CURIOUS CHINESE ETIQUETTE.—The Peking
Gazette contains an application on the part of a
brevet-general named Teng Telen-shOng to be allowed
to change the last two characters of his name to ring-
chung, having found, on drawing up a new edition of
his family genealogical register, that he now infringes
upon the denomination of one of his remote ancestors.
A oertitleate in proper form has been given by a
brigadier-general, attesting that the applicant has
never been the subject of a Rescript forbidding his
further promotion, nor of prohibition against his re-
purchasing his rank in consequence of any offence
committed, nor of sentence of perpetual dismissal
from the public service. These facts being eetabliebed,
it is requested that the application be admitted. The
application was granted.
THE SOURCE OF ATTAR OF RosEs.—The
Garden says that at a recent meeting of the Linneau
Society Mr. D. Hanbury exhibited dried specimens
of a rose raised from seed received direct from the
country where the attar of roses is produced, ai the
species troll' whieh this perfume is obtained. 'Mr.
13aker prmionneed it to be roes gallica var.
,tiamastna,
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belong-1g to the centifolia group, thus confirmingiire:
vious conjecture on this point. It appears, however,
that several varieties are cultivated for this purpose.
A FATAL VOYAGIL—The Bombay Gazette of
Nov. 16 says :
The troopship Malabar arrived in barbonr on Friday at
noon. Her voyage from Portsmouth, which she left oa the
7th October, was rather an eventful one, as fourteen lianas
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took place in board—twelve children, one nolli. r who was
killed by the fall of some luggage capon him, and the Com-
mander, Captain Nutt, It N. At Malta Captain Nott took
ill, and .lie stuck to his arduous teak of guiding the voyage
of the troopship instead of taking to his bed, symptoms of
pleurisy set in, and when the Suer Canal was Is big mewed
through the disease had got such a hold upon him that he
suciainibed. Mr. Evans, the Brst lieutenant, took charge of
the Malabar, and puts at lamella, where Captain Nott's re-
main, were interred with full naval ceremonies.
EDUCATED WILD DUCKS.—The Wyandotte
(Mich.) Courier says that W. R. Jardine, who has
charge of NV 0. Hall's shooting dentense at Point
Mouliere, has educated five wild ducks to an extra-
ordinary degree. They are allowed to roam at will,
and will come et the call of their teacher when Mils ready
to start for the shooting-igronnds, either riding on the
bow of the boat or swiftly gliding at ita side. Arrived
at the marshes they are ported as decoy s, while the
hunters conceal themselves in the "monitor,' or
otherwise get out of sight. Then commences the fun.
A single passing duck, or a greater number, as the
case May be, attracted by the industrionS motions of
the decoys, come tumbling down to join in the splaebing
and receive the fire of the hunters. If successful,
every one of the five stands up duck fashion in the
water, shakes its wings and with its " cah-cali-cah"
testifies its appreciation of the sport. At the con.
elusion of the my 's sport, they fly homeward, or fide
on the bow of the skiff; as directed by Mr. Jardine.
He has been offered fabulous sums for "Dick "and
the four feminine decoys, but money cannot buy them.
A HINT ABOUT INSTRUCTION AND EDUCATION.
—" A Schoolmaster" writes to The Times,--
Sir—Having seen something of school-life from the inside,
I cannot value very highly the small quantities of "history,
geography," k,. which are taken up as extra subjects in our
elementary schools But what I value for niore is the
Interest in tasks which almost all children acquire if suit-
able looks are put within their reach. One of the great ob-
jects of literary instruction should be to get the child, elm to
use books for themselves but in many of our elementary
scheols there is no lending library, and the reading books
are only used in school hours. Thus the children inloW
nothing of books except in connexion with "lessons," which
they escape from and forget as soon as possible.
Jourro WITH A CORONER.—Recently an ex-
cited individual, with his hat standing on hairs ap-
parently il hi fretful porcupine rushed into the office
of Coroner Holmes, New York. The coroner is by
profession a dentist, and his first thought, as lie
glanced at the man, was that he was well nigh dis-
tracted with the toothache. He was soon undeceived,
however, as the frenzied individual cried out as soon
as be oonld catch his breath after running upstairs—
" Been a man umrdered !" "A man muidered r
cried the coroner. " How ? Where ?" "In a
garffing, I believe, with a club or rock." "How long
ago ? cried the coroner, seizing his hat and cane.
"Been done a good while, and no police nor conetables
hasn't done nothin' about it. Never been no coroner
set on the body, nor within' of the kind; sun verdick."
"What's the dead man's name? WM. was he?" cried
the coroner. "His name was Abel." " Abel ? Abel
who?" "Don't know, never heercl nothin' but his
first name." "Well, what is the name of the mall who
killed him ? Do they know? anyone suspected ?"
" I heard that a feller named Cain put out his
light. Cain was t e brother of Abel, and —"
Coroner, flourishing his cane, cries, "You get down
them stair', toy tine fellow. Vanish, and don't show
yomself here again !" The feilow went downstairs
three steps at a time, the coroner calling after hitu,
"How dare you tiifie with an officer in this way, sir ?"
TALKERS AND WRITERS.—Many literary men
are ;ser talkers compared with their power MS writers
(says the Piet riot IVorld). Ininte was either taciturn
or satirical. Butler was sullen or biting. Gray seldom
talked or smiled. Ilogarth was absentminded in
company. Dryden's conversation was dry and sffiw,
his humour sat irnine and reserved. Corneille in con-
versation was no insipid that he never failed wearyihg;
he did not even speak coma Ale that language of which
he was such a master. Ben jonson used to sit silent
and suck his wines and their humours. Southey was
stiff, sedate, and wrapped up in ascetic:him. Addis in
was good in company with his intimate friends, but in
mitred company he preserved his dignity by a stiff and
reserved silence. Fox in conversation never flagged;
his animation and variety were inexhaustible. Dr.
Bentley was loquacious ;so also was Grotius. Gold-
smith "wrote like an angel, and talked like poor I NAL"
Leigh Hunt "was like a pheasant stream "in conversa-
tim. Carlyle doubts, objects, and conitantly demure.

grated that an early copy—something to which the
name of "advanced sheets" is given in America—
found its way into the bawls of the telegraphic
operators before the missive itself was taken up the
long avenue that leads from the White House to the
Capitol; but, even if we assume the correctness of this
hypothesis, the several agents ooncerned in despatch-
ing the message to England deserve great credit. In
the first place, the pith had to be taken out of the mes-
sage -an operation requiring some time and care—and
when this was completed the abstract that remained to
be telegraphed we, an spite of condensation, a docu-
ment of many hundred words, exceeding in length an
average Royal speech at the opening of a Seesion."
SPORTH or YE OLDEN TIME.—ln The Times
of Oct. 3, 1798. together with the news of the great
victory of the Nile, there may be seen a long adver
tisenient of the graceful and dignified Pleasures of the
Period, to be exhibited on' the 20th September, at
Maiden Castle, near Dorchester, in honour of the
birthday of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Wur-
ternberg, and to which 'all persons of jovial, friendly,
and loyal dispositions" are freely invited. Among
there "spurts," each of which is to secure a prize to
the winner, there is Diving for a Michaelmas Goose,
Cudgelling fer a Hat, Grinning for a Pound of
Tobacco, and Wrestling fcr a Good Hat. A prize of
a Pig is to be riven to whosoever shall catch him by
the greasy Tail, and a Cheese and a barrel of Beer to
those who stop these articles rolling down-hill. The
boy who catches in his mouth a suspended Roll dipped
in Treacle is to have a handsome Cap, and the rider
of an ass which wins the best of three heats by coming
in last is to have half-a-guinea. Finally there is to be
a grand race of 100 yards by men tied up in sacks, and
the victor is to be refreshed by a leg of mutton and a
gallon of porter.—Pittornil World.
To A CORRESPONDENT. —You are quite right
in your supposition that executions in ancient Babylon
to-4 place in its famous " Hanging " Gardens.--
Punch.
A LaoAL Sniscrax.—The first fruits of the
recommendations of the judicature Commission have
just been realised. A short time since the tipetaff of
the Court of Exchequer died, and the Lord Chief
Baron, acting upon the recommendation of the Com-
missioners that the office should be abolished, has
decided not to appoint any one to the vacancy. It
appears that only once during two years were the
services of the tipstaff called into requisition, and then
there was no substantial reason why the performance
of the pseudo-functior, ef the offioe should not have
Ileen relegated to the chief usher, as they henceforth
are be be.
ARTIFICIAL TERICATION.—M. Yard is the

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I.lexua ENEMIES.—Mr. Cooper, British Act-
ing Consul at the Chinese treaty port of Chefoo. states
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in his report to the Foreign office this y-ee that
foreigners who have of late been travelling through the
Province speak highly of increased givility and grow.
ing confidence on the part of the people, and he can
himself testify to their kindiiness in the neighbourhood
of the port, and knows of only two places where this
good feeling does not prevail. The one is at the hot
Ppriugs of Aishan, where some years ago an English.
man wantonly dropped a mangy cur into the public
bath. The people took peat offence at this act, and
to this day refuse to afford a foreigner any accommo-
dation in their village, or even to exchange a word
with him. The other instance is at Chi-mei, 130
miles from Chefoo, and arises from a fear, on the part
of the gentry, of foreign religious proselytism.

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A FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest has been
held at the Foreign Office, in London, respecting the
death of Charles Coxbessl, aged 18, a clerk in the
librarian's department, a son of Ur. George Coxhead,
the chief office keeper. The evidence of George Mason,
librarian's messenger, and of Messrs. Brant and
Crawley, clerks, showed that about one o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon in last week the deceased pro-
ceeded to one of the tipper floors to fetch some books which
he would in the ordinary course have sent down in the
lift, which is for the express purpose of carrying books
and papers only, the clerks being strictly prohibited
from riding down upon it. As he did not again Lake
his appearance, Mr. Brant went to look for hid), and
ultimately discovered him lying upon the top of the
lift quite dead, he having apparently fallen down the
shaft, a distance of 451 t. There seemed to be no doubt
that, having placed the books on the lift and Pent it
down the shaft he had fallen into the opening, the
place being, exceedingly dark. The jury returned a
verdict of 'Accidental death," and appended a rider
recommending "that a guard should be placed round
the opening of the shaft, that a man should be specially
employed to work the lift, that additional light should
be provided, and that thoprohibition as to the cleiske
riding dbwn fife lift ilitinM lit wiry rigidly enforral

first discoverer of a method of doing without rain—he
has solved the problem of artificial irrigation, says the
Piedorial World. lie is known as a successful chemist
and investor. He is a pupil of the College of France,
and a fellow-associate with Professor Schiitzenberger.
NI. Paraf knew that the air is full f moisture, and he
knew that chloride of calcium would attract and
condense it. He. has applied this chloride on sand-
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hills, on grass, on all sorts of soil, successfully, and has
ascertained that it will produce the irrigation of land
more cheaply and efficiently than any other artificial
methods. One of M. Parade applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture fix three days, when the
same amount of water introduced by ordinary methods
will evaporate in one hoer. M. Paraf states that his
preparation is less expensive than canal irrigation.
BROTHERS IN ART. —Playfid hA. (to his
Afrid, who has beat arpatiating on the dignity of the
Working Man): "I am pleased to perceive, Jakes,
that you are content with your humble condition, and
du Oat envy the lot of the superior classes l"—Jakes:
Henry 'ern 1 Why, bless yer, them as belongs to them
classes as you alludes to ain't 'alt so much to be henvied
as them as belongs to the class as me and you belongs
to."—Punek.
FOUNDER'S DAY AT Evost.—The 433rd anni-
versary of the foundation of Eton College was cele-
brated with the usual honours, on Monday. In the
evening the Provost, the Rev. Dr. C. 0. Goodford and
the Fellows entertained a large number of gooks,
covers being laid in the ancient hall for 73. The tables
were tastefully decorated, and the buffet was net out
with the splendid collection of plate presented from
time to time to the College. The array was crowned
by the handsome silver gilt model of the chapel. The
loyal Maas were duly honoured, while that of "In
piam memoriam" of the Royal founder was drunk
with due solemnity. Eton College, under the style of
" The College of the Blessed Marie of Eton beside
Wyndesore," was founded by King Henry VI. in 1111
the charter being confirmed by Act of Parliament on
May 4, 1441. The number now beipg educated at
Eton exceeds that of any year since its foundations.
MILKING BY MACHINERY—At the October
fair at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphian ex-
hibited cow-milking tubes ruade of silver two inches
long, and about the size of a wheat straw. Half an
inch from one end is a shoulder or ring, to prevent the
tube from passing too far up the teat. The opening in
the tube is on the side near the tsp. The person
milking inserts the long end of the tube into the orifice
of the teat, and immediately the milk begins to flow in
a constant stream. Tubes are inserted in all the teats
at the same time. Mr. Thomas Palmer, Strawley,
Somerset, has had one of these machines in constant
use for the last eight months. One great advantage is
cleanliness. Ihe dust and hairs which mix with the
milk in the ordinary way of milking are not disturbed
by the machine. Four and a half minutes is the
average time taken by the machine to milk a cow.
THE SPREAD OF RAILWAYS.— The Times of
Tuesday, in a leader, remarked It will perhaps
surprise some of our readers to observe in our outer
sheet of this morning that no fewer than 132 new Rail-
way and Tramway Bills will come before Parliament
in the course of the approaching Session. It might be
supposed from the very appearance of an English
railway map, from the vast 'system of main lines
and branch lines and junction lines connecting almost
all parts of the country, that our railway system
was far too nearly complete already to need,
or even to admit of, such extensive additions as
it is now propomil to make to it. The fact, of
course, is not only that a great many distrists are
still, in spite of all that hags been done, most imper-
fectly supplied with the means of communication
with their neighbours, not only that existing lines
may be no combined as to become a great deal more
useful than they are, and that new powers are thus
necessary fig the double purpose of addition and im-
provement. but that, besidts this. the work in con.
tirmally growing under our hands. As Railways
spread, new districts rise into importance, new towns
spring up and grow apace, allot theist with new wants
and new demands of their own, not perhaps always
reasonable, and certainly by no means easy to keep
pace with. If a first glance, therefore, suggests to any
one that no new Railways can be necessary, a second
and a thinl glanos will lead him rather to the contrary
idea, and he will wonder, not that so much is to be
dons, but rether that the wants of the country sea be
satisfied with so little."