The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-04-17 00:00:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875.

beipg.ltaeff entirely oat-of 4ighlio-aPciikr
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This is effected by means of a port ae in:the roof -I
the tower, through iehiela the lantein is riltili
similarly to a gun on board ship. The lights 9,0.1
present naked-ones, there being no lenticular
ratus used. Whether the light will be continued int ;
present condition or be improved by the addition (); i
lenses similar to those used in lighthouses, or wheel',
the electric light will be substituted for it, will bel '
eided by the House of Commons Upon the vote for t
,e
lighting aha t entiletion of the Houses of Parliameel:
The light on Monday night shone with great VI-
I liancy, and did notia the least interfere with the inu.
11 minated dials of the dock, as did the old light bY ita
' superior brightness. O
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"A BARTHIAN SHAFT."--=VOOk3.I" Now l're 4.
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Leavin' of yer M'um, I may as *ell- Tell yer as ,
Key o' the' Kitching-Door fits your Store-Room l''
Punch.
SiR WILLIAM THOMSON ON TIDES.—In T-
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don, on Friday eeeking in last week, Sir WWI"-
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Thomson, D.C.L.. F.R4S.,- leanred et thi) Itolled
stitution on "Tides." 'He remarked that In
Cxsar's time the War Department had not the
--, of the Admiralty tide-tables, or the accident V'
...d ships caused by a high tide would not have lial!;
pened. The daily rise and fall of the sea were relate;
to the moon, and also to the sun. Much of what la2r.
knew on the subject at the present day had beee
scribed by Strabo. From Jules Ceasar's time
la
Strabo's there seemed to have been no additle° e
knowledge, but subsequently great discoveries gel
the dynamical explanation of the phenomena, and og;
gested subjects for investigation which ild pot a.n
understood without the aid of theory.
the celebrated hypothesis of the 'gust
would suppose the earth eiirroimded by
Equator. He would also suppose there
rise and fall of tide there. He showed
an interesting experiment that when the
a vibrated body is longer than the ,motion
citing body they go opposite ways, and th
hypothetical canal the swinging of the WE
cause high tide at moon-set and low tide a,
height.
MARRIAGE OF A PERSIAN PRINCESS.-
26th of January, at Teheran, one of the daugl,
the Shah was married to a priest, by name
Jumeh. The bride is said to be twenty and her It
band thirty-five. The well-known Persian Bch=
Herr Schindler, writes thus-about the wedding:—.' -'-`",
bride, veiled and covered with what looked ke +
end°
waving mass of molten gold, was taken to her hueb i.e
house at half-past nine, soldiers with candles in ,tb,
muzzles of their plus lined the road, the walls of aib "6
houses were -illuminated with oil lamps, and
princess left her father's Palace guns were fired ae
fireworks let off." Some of-these fireworks, it aPP,
suddenly exploded, injuring Many. With dawn, sal A A'
of artillery thundered out, and shook Teheran, ell' -
day of feasting and exuberant gaiety followed.
COLD WITHOUT. "Gracious Heave?' '
• Doctor! Do you .ineari to tell me that I must do vo -
-out stimulants altogether?"—" Certainly. If by
chance you should feel a sinking between your no L.
I don't object to a—to a--- "Yes !—yes 1-----
" Wineglassful of cold water you know I '--PuNcii. 0 :
A GERMAN BELL.—After the proverbial t:Si
failures,: a third attempt to cast a new national To
worthy.; of the yoliiig German Empire- isYreported if
have donipletelY' succeeded (remarks the Pall
Gazette).., The foundry employed, is. the well-Wove, :
prite- rin-e at Frankenthal, in the Bavarian Paleiv
nate, and-the material entirely the spoils of war lateli -
in the form of French guns captured in 1870. The bte
is to be a gift from the Emperor William to
cathedral at Cologne,, and by -far the. largest in,
empire. It stands very nearly 12 feet high, and tout,
17 in diameter at the mouth, weighing over
rather more than the whole of the rest of the PM -
already` thing. The clapper weighs about 16cwte• *7O
it is calculated that it will take 30. pair of bench; to 0
be
it. Altogether, in strength, weight, and, it inel I,
added, in outward sonorousness, it promises to
typical of the empire to which it is to belongp,',Zl '
phould it not share the fate of many another
pen" and crack in the using, its sound should hail_ ...e °, 0
the enemies of German greatness and unity as strigoe
a moral effect as church bell ever produced.
LETTERS FOR AUSTRIA. The Postmaster; .
General gives notice that, according to the laws.
Austria, the transmission by post of letters containl7, I
any articles of value which are liable to customs dot' I
is forbidden, and that all letters believed to contain sleel I
such article are liable to be detained, and not deliver 0 I
to the addresses until the customs - duties have bee I
paid, • -
DEATH OF' M: RO,YER.—The death is An 1
nounced at Paris of M. Alphonse Royer, formerlY -
director of the French Opera, at the age of 72. Earl/
in life; under the Restoration, he turned his attentio! ,
,to literature, and finally adopted the drama.. He' ;
first Manager' of the Oddon, and afterwards of r... I
Opera. In 1862 he game up that position, and bean
Inspector General of the Fine Arts. He pub/leer, ,
several books and comedies, but was principal :
famous as having furnished the text of operas°,t
which Lucia de Lammermoor appeared in 1839;
Favourite, 1840; Don Pasquale, 1843; Othello, 1844 "
Jerusalem 1847; and Robert Bruce, in the samelean,,
At the fall of the Empire be was deprived of his•nni..
and the loss of his income and his grief at the mielc°l '
tunes of France preyed severely on his mind and en f
feebled his constitution. •-•-. v. • -
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MR. BRIGHT ANi) M. CHEN;Aiittif—ln ain't -
, slon to the banquet which the Liverpool Chamber °
' CoroMerce propose to give to M. Michael Chevalierl'lr
• the 21st instant, Mr. John Bright writes few.,
President :—" I need not say how glad I am that lel'
are about to manifest your esteem for M. Chevalle__,,r'
I think he has done more than any other man oe:„
living to create a perpetual goodwill bet Ween Jai'
country and ours, and as the friend and fe_
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, labourer of Mr. Cobden he merits a heart* weicee'w
iamongst you." ~ - .1.1..: e 44,3 r)... ;
: "Tilt VERY TERM FOR IT. Eating half d .
score of plover's eggsgafter a plate of lobster-salad aes
.a slice or two of pigeon-pie, at one o'clock A.M.,
•be fairly called a work of supper-erogation.—PunC'•
' MURDER AND ROBBERY. —A murder was pet.ll
:petrateda few days since, at Jatlines (Seine-etuMarnek
In a retired house resided alone a widow • woreent
named Sage, 75 years of age. A neighbour enterir‘
the _dwelling to find out why she had not been kir'
some time, found her lifeless on the floor. A r
'examination showed that she bad, been st,
blows in the face,and that, in order to'
belief that she had committed suicide.
'afterwards hanged. As she was of ver
her assailant must have hung on to thel
that 'the cord broke, after having dee,
into the flesh. Robbery was evidently
the crime, as the place had been ransac
haa been arrested on suspicion of having IA- _
derer.
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WA_LKING AS AA- EXERCISE. —l. '1
muscle, remarks Dr. Bowditch, in the Sanitary BA
in the body is gently and uniformly brought
action by the swing of the legs and arms, and (3.
sequently of the trunk in a vertical direction. T..
undulations made by the head, chest, and abdomen'
a vertical plane are thus not only according
i` Hogarth's line of beauty," but else in that tenclier",
to perfect health. Every internal organ is gently stingy
lated to more robust action. The circulation gee°
more freely and uniformly. 2. Never, in a comrao
walk, does a person breathe twice the same airi
because he is constantly changing his position. Thie
fact alone is of incalculable advantage. Some
..cers contend that the re-breathing of air onee
lartially used is one of the most fertile causes of con
umption. The most favourable time for walldeg.,_
3 undoubtedly about , mid-day in winter, and in we'
iorning and towards evening in the summer. •
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A VALUABLE DfscovEßY. After the &BS
fumphant performance of Mozart's opera Don Juan,
Munich, the theatre was deserted by all except one
an. Alois Sennefelder had still-arnach to do. After '
.eeing carefully round the, stage ,that no sparks Ii
ignited about the theatre, lie retired to his little roar"'
tn stamp the theatre tickets for the following day. -A-11
he entered the room he had three things in his hand---.-
a tolished whetstone ftir razor's, which he had pile
chased, a ticket stamp moistened with printers' inky .
and a cheque on the theatre treasury for his weal/
iay. He placed the cheque on the'table, when a goo
wind took it, swept it, high up.bi his room for a
qment, and then deposited it in a basin filled with
ater. Sennefelder took the wet` pap' er dried it al
ell as he could, and then, to make sure of it, weighted
4 down with the whetstone, on which he-,had hefor?
Vilessly placed ' the printing-staMP ''' Returning "
tismroom on the following- Morn*, he was surprise
O Seethe letters of the stamp printed with remarkaibi
curacy upon the damp paper. - He gazed long at tbs
halue; A' sudden thought flashed through his brain'i
p wondered if by some sildh nleans`he could not Beira/
inlselrtliet*eary trduble he continuil/y",had of copY'
-•tliii'se.rigs of the demi.' Thatvery morning h .
..-At Viit and purchased h larger stone-, and coin'
aienced to make experiments, and finally succeeded
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..x. Lcelia.in harbour that on the 18th Niiieiaber„B S.
AI the south end of the Island of Aitrora' New A
brides Group, 'while CaPtain F. King was trading.
ith the natives, and while in the act of stoopinete4
.:ake trade out of tEe'ehest, the boat was rushed hi I
the natives, and Captain King was clubbed, and the
beat's crew took to the water, and made for the second-,40
boat, which was some thirty yards off. Patrick Joy,.
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who was in the next boat, then ordered his crew to pull ..
in shore, but they refused to pull in or out, and seemed
paralysed. Joy then opened fire on the shore natives, .1
but after his ammunition, was expended, the murl
derers made a fresh raid on the boat, m Ated the.
captain, smashed up the boat, dragged the ' body,
into the bush, and stole all the -
directed his boat to the Lceli, w'
two miles. A. consultation then
the crew,' and it was decided that r
dead, they were too few- to av
therefore made sail. After varicq
arrived off Fiji, only distant some
sthey fell in with the gale of the 7tl
-11eavy weather, followed, during,
away a portion of the bulwarks aim
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