The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-03 00:00:00

Weakness, Lanystor, and Debility.

Thou famous Pill. will inimediately reannve all av
Wan of debility, languor, mai •eaknees, no mail... the
cause, as they quickly eject ail 'mutant., IWU the
ayetem, give to.. and energy Ur U. rt. tlO, • ,
aud brae: AU ll' renglUt U I.r Li., VI,. •yr.. isi I. .1 be
wended, maner.

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The liidneyi—Their literznyenient mi (:ure.
111 K isati Pills be need according to the printed oirecto n
eel the Ointment rubbed over the regnin of the Mane., •
ter at least half an hoer at bed time, im bait form IILO
neat, it will penetrate tic kidneys ni.ll correct any .
'augment. Should the affliction be stars or gravel, I
is perticularly recommended that the Unit— mt, in sub
.be seed night and morning. es by its judicious ei-
plieatioa the most &WA:III64K cure. niay be lerfornied.

The Pi and Ointment •re sold at Professor flou-o-
VAT'S c,tit`fisbmsnt, 533, Oxford-st., London; also by
nearly eiisvy respectable Vendor of Medicmethroughont
the Gmliserl World, is bores and Puts, at ls led, 2.94,
Is 6d, 11., 22., nod if 34 each. Tim smallest lior of
Pills ermtains fuer dozen ; and the smallest Pot of Oint-
ment one oases. _ _ _ _

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Pall piloted dtreettona are affixed to eaeh Box and Pot
sad sas tta bad a aaylaaguage, even to Turkish, Arabic.
Arsoestiaa, Paraiaa or Chinos*

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We deem it right to state that we do net at an tm...4 I
Identify earselvea with our Corneaeleienrs apittlees
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the people cl the metroe km* how uliwy
llv. wwerir mident inched on ?Boxing Day.' I
I . not follew e stereotyped. on and 7
o Bank Ho ' ' wan ever so is 9 ,
o . I have that In a geed y ,
incri the pa 1 Sir Jo Lubbock' t, ,
ave no don at we shall t come across it ,
again. But there are special circumstances associated
with Boxing Day which render its obeervance more
univereal than either Easter Mondoy, Whit Mtoldsy,
or the fold Monday in August. The very fast that it ,
follows so closely upon Christmas Day 'Rapine why
this should be so. There appears ttbe an atto.revalent
disinclination for attendiog to ordinary *Atlas, and if '
work of soy kind turns up, no much the worse for the
work. A very remarkable ilitt3tration of tlibeas quoted
by Mr. Gladstone during the seesion oh 18721 We i I ,
remember how much we heard week aftor week of tle I
bidixect Claims made by the United States Governinglit 1
on amount of the A /a .cAnict depredations, and come ruw.
plaint was made against the Ministry that these 1
claims were not placed before the public at an earlier
date than they actually were. Amongst the reasons 1
given by the Premier one wee that the American ,
deapatchee were received on the 26th December, "the
very worst day in the year on which the Foreign office
printers could be got together to work." I fancy that
foreign office printers are not singular in this respect,
aad that Mr. Gladstone would find very few depart-
meats of industry In which it would be possible to in-
duce men to work on Boxing-day. True, the London
daily papers come out as usual, and thaw employed
upon them, Christman- eve, Christmee-day, or Boxing.
day maim no dilfereace. But they !re very melancholy
productions at such times, and their dreary columns
truly enough reflect the depression of those who have
to leave their family circles to minieter to the wants of
an unsympathetic public. The mass of the popula-
tion, however, turn out with the determination to
enjoy themselves, and no one who takes a journey
through any of the principal streets can have the
slightest doubt that they succeed in their object. It is
true that here and there an exuberant person may be
seen, incoherent as to speech and unsteady ea to gait,
bat these are exceptions. The majority of the people
who are abroad at each a time represent varioue
classes, and go their respective ways in peace and
cheerrfulnees. It in idle for cynics to tell us that
Christmas is wholly given up to the worship of the
table and the bottle. Let any one watch the patience
with which thousands wait in the bleak December
atmosphere round the entrances to the places of amuse-
ment and recreation, and mark the trouble which
people will take with their children to explain the
points in the entertainment, and he will be convinced
that there are many other pleasures in life at Christmas
time besides those which flow from the public house
bar.

There are few who will not rejoice at the foundation
of • National Training School for music, the first stone
of which has just been laid by the Duke of Edin-
burgh. It will be a welcome addition to the public
buildings of South Kensington. The English have
long loved the art of music, and there appears no reason
why it should not be systematically cultivated. There
are, indeed, some objectors who have urged that music
was scarcely a suitable pursuit for • people who lived
under drizzling clouds and weeping skies, and
who were so often enveloped in an atmosphere
of melancholy fog. But, say the advocates
of music as a part of education, all the more reason
why it should be regularly taught In our schools. It
Is certain that in DO other conatry of Europe do mast.
clans and singers find their skill appreciated as in
England, and this Is a powerful fact showing how
much the art is admired amongst us. True we can
boast of no such great composers as Germany has pro-
duced, bet it has been fully proved that we can reward
musical talent when we find it in our midst, and which
a future generation will value even more highly•be-
cause it will better understand it.

The preparations for the new street between Charing
Crams and the Thames Embarkment are h ting rapidly
pushed on. Street-making in London lea very different
thing from the cutting of a country road. Indeed
It has become quite • work of art. Formerly our tho-
roughfares were liable to be torn up for the repairs
of gas, water, and drains, but this is so no longer. Let
me take, for instance, Queen Victorhostreet, running
from the Mansion House to Illackfriarobridge. It is
constructed upon subterranean arches, and in the
numerous subways are found pneumatic tubes, sewer.,
gas pipes, water mains, and te'egraphic wirea. At
~ions pointe there are trap-doors, through which
rknien descend into the vaults, and pass along the
arches for thy purpose of attending to the elaborate
machinery which, although it lies many feet beneath
the tramp of busy multitudes, and notwithstanding the
Its existence in the vaulted arches is little dreamed of,
yet plays such an important part in contributing to
the convenience of the people.
Those who have come to London by the different
lines of rail must have noticed the palatial hotels which
adjoin most of our great termini. Look at the splendid
building known as the " G'reat Western" Hotel at
Paddington ; the "Midland," at St. Pancras ; the
"Great Northern," at King's.cross ; the "Grosvenor,"
at Victoria; the " City Terminus," at London Bridge;
the "Charing Cross," and the "Cannon Street," at
the stations of those names. These places are an
Immense convenience to travellers, and most of them
which are connected with the railway. have turned out
profitable speculations. The fortunate shareholders in
the "Great Western" Hotel have actually received
dividends at the rate of 50 per cent, per annum. There
is • saying in the City that a concern which yields
more than 5 per cent. interest is unsafe, but this can
hardly apply to the metropolitan railway hotels.
Municipal elections at Christmas may seem
rather incongruous in those boroughs which are
accustomed to such contests on the first of
November. The City of London is the only muni-
civility in the king tom which is an exception to
the rule laid down by the Municipal Corporation Re-
form Act of 1853, and still continues to choose It. Town
Councillor. on St. Thomas's Day. The City is divided
Into twenty-six wards, and the Court of Common
Commit consista of 236 members. Each ward elects •11
Alderman for life, the (senior Alderman, as a rule, pre-
siding over the ward of Bridge Without, which, having
no constituency, imposes no onerous duties upon ite re-
presentative. The Common Council room is a com-
pact and well-proportioned apartment, and here also
the School Board for London meets by permission
of the Corporation. The middle part is formed
Into a square by four Tuscan arches, sustaining
a cupola, by which the light is admitted. The
room sontains a varied collection of paintings,
as well as some statuary. The Aldermen, like
the Common Councillors, are elected by the house-
holders of the various wards. The two wards with
the lowest number of representatives are Baasiaahaw
and Lime-street, each of these sending only four mem-
bers to the City Parliament, while those with the
highest are Farriugdon Within and Farringdon With-
out, the one possessing 16 and the other 17 members.
The meetings of the C trulvil are held under the pre-
sidency of the Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen have
also the right of being present.
Some quaint gifts are distributed at Christmas and
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at the New Year, and amongst them is that of the Iron.
mongers' Company, which regularly presents eight
quarters of beef and 40 down of bread to the prisons
of London, S outhwark, and Westminster. Iron-
mongers' Hall, which is in Fencidirch Street, has
within the loot few years been renovated
thr mgliout, and is now as oomplete and comfortable
• building as can he imagined, although not pretending
to any gorgeousness of decoration or magnificence of
architecture. The Company's records are very inter
weting, as illustrating many points of history oonnected
with the City of London. One of these tells us that
the Ironmongers were espe,dally bold in resisting
Royal slenrande for taxation. They furnished only
three men to Elizabeth at the time of one of the in.
vision panics, and refused to pay more than a small
portion of the contribution leviee hy Charles I. for the
defence of London, Cromwell, however, coxpellel
them to give very much larger sums towards the
cause of the Parliament ; and to meet this demond
they had to sell almost the whole of their plate.
These, with other cause,., sorely depreciated the Com-
pany's funds, and for eome time it became an object
to avoid rather than to court connection with it. Its
revival was, however, a rapid one, and its charities, as
well as its possessions are now very considerable.
In the extreme east of the borough of Hackney Is a
tiiitrict called liomerton, which, a generation ago
was a hamlet containing • cumber of well-built, red
brick manarone, with large gardens, and for the most
part occupied by wealthy merchants. The needs of In-
creasing accommodation have converted it into a place
with streets, lanes, courts, and passages which stand
out in striking contrast with the model dwer into
erected by the Peabody trustees and the Corporation
of London. Many of the houses have no rear, and
contain but two rooms, one below and one above. It
Is in such districts as these that the School Board In.
Spector@ find the greatest difficulty in enforcing
the provisions of the Act of 1670. Numbers
of parents use every stratagem to keep their girls and
boys from school so as to secure the children's earnings.
Still, there can be no question that the School Board Is
gradually, although silently and unobtrusively, carry-
ing on &great work amongstthe lower daises of London.
Complaints are often made that the School Board

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