The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-10-25 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

I'6, ladies; of Paris have beg= to wane thelleammig
on their with.

be;ringi-

Wii-v is the City of Bath like the celebrated Dr.
If you can't coax a fish to bite, try your permissive boson i—liscause It has =own its likkg for a good lliayte;_
towers upon a cr. dog, and you will be sure to succeed. p.,,ch.
A button on the jacket of Mrs. Harkins, of Port- The declared value of foreign poultry and game Ins.
lon', say.d her life when her husband affectionately fired • ported In the list nine mouths was £13b,211, which was a
pistol at her. large Increase on the previous year. OsSeud rabbite are In.
Four young ladies have entere I for the cooking eluded, and the importation is considerable.
match at the State Fair. Georgia. They are of the best In the last nine months the value of eggs itaported
families The prize Is not stated—perhaps a husband. w. £1,W2,791. which was • large increase on titestwo fanner
Minnesota gives out that she has a plague of frogs; years. in 1172 the value was £1,426,021, and in the prorrioas
but this is probably only an advertising dodge to induce the Y..' £988.462.
French to come and colonise there. The stamp duty on patent medicines In She yew
It is reported that a home-sick San Franciscan' who ended the klet of ilarch last, according to the ad&
Is visiting his friends in a distant land, finds occasional relief Mal sconunte published on Wednesday, amounted 10
by hgring sand squirted in his face and down his back will £95,012 lila Yid.
a bellows, somewhat as the wind does it in San Francisco. A telegraph operator recently summoned • doctor
A "honeymoon car" is now run on the Pacific thus :—c.orie at once to see procession of Carlo Smear's
Railroad for the accommodation of bridal parties. The menagerie" Tb" meilene. when 'repeated," read—"ool.l
wheels are grassed with honey, instead of the ordinary grease atonce with prescription case of crerebro-spinal mis.
of every-day life. Lingitis."
An American paper Faye that the grase-hoppers re- Miss Nightingale complains that, according to the
good
gently ate up halt-an-acre of tobacco for a 111(132 down Soutn, present system then has become a lucrative profession, and
and when the orner went up to look at it they sat on the • prison is a reward, not a deterrent, to the 1144 She
fence and squirted tobacco 'juice at him, trusts that the United Metes, which are foremast in many.
ments, will take the Initiative in this master.
Georgia man being asked if he thoughts certain prove
I
politician in the State would steal, replied :—"Steel ! Why, I A German purchased a querter-ticket in the Kea-
by Jove, if he was parsheed sod hamstrung, I wouldn't trust , tacky Library. Thirking afterwards that if the ticket should
him by himself in the middle of the Desert of Sahara, with . draw a prize he would have to divide it with others, tie
the biggest anchor of the Great Eastern. Steal.! I should chased the other throe-quarters and deetroyed them 1
think he would." , turned up • prize. .

f ,b.on

"Woman—ehe'm a link between heaven and earth !"
the American peat laureate Smith recently exclaimed at a
temperance party, when he gave a tout. Veil, Schmidt,"
replied the local professor of logic, who was • German Marty,
"dat la der troodth, and no it Ia laid a ussidge throod into
xe air."

The C-Itic-ago Times contains this :—" Be it known
that I shameluhy treated my wife, and was the awe el hew
leaving me, whereas she was a good wife U she will rebore,
I will be all a husband can be.—Wrirr." He mime Ole mrs.
whit-
Prince Metternich has Jost sold the lszgast and float
- - - Johanalabutat

The American poet laureate Smith has done th
advertisement from an original thought :

ask of wine In his cellars albs Outle o- aislt
evormous flgure—ln tact the highest Woe_ ever paid the
_ . .
This wins la the east le de

My pretty Jane, my dearest Jane,
Oh, never look so thy,
But come with me my darling,
And new carpets we will buy.
The spring is waning fast, my love,
The summer's ho; as a nen hot place,
Bo let us get our carpets love,
From imr Mends Plum and Belt
A lady in Oehkneh, Win, attires herself so modestly,
and conducts herself with such propriety, when she think. It
Days to do so, that she—we may even say she whir all hearts.
day a ago she wag driving out to her own conveyance,
ano at a ebliplce from town she met • couple of disconsolate
clergymen whose horse had run away They were glad to
accept her Invitation to ride home in her carriage, and on
the road she charmed them with her quiet and winning
raga When she reached the main street of the town, how-
ever, she evidently had • visitation of the old boy himself.
"Putting her feet on the dasher with great abandon, and
lighting • cigar," we are told, "she put the lash to the
horse, and drove upend down the street at • tearing pace,
treating the crowd that came out to see the fun to a sight.
Four timea she drove through the street, and since then the
parsons have beto busy to explaiutng how it came about.

Bhinegan. .aw only rernaining _
famous vintage of MAL The purchaser la Mr. Coned Banes,
at Moscow, and the price agreed on forth. cask, imatelatog
1,400 bottles, Is 2,000 florlos—about Al Lee Id. per bottle.
"Some one now doubts the authenticity of the block
shown us in the Tower of London upon which we find the
marts of the one that beheaded Lady Jane Grey sad Royal
others Ile believe. this Is the family block that was said
I' -r the common world. Otis. sc-plical age, and no rename
upon the old romances is permitted."—Gourt Journa
The grand jury at the Birmingham amnions on Tues-
day presented • memorial to the presiding judge ex
pre
strong opinion that, to large towns and (lianas itir
justice was administered by stipendiary magistrates, the
grand Jury, as an lostitution, had been practically super-
seded, and might well cease to Witt
A New York railroad company has recently Insti-
tuted a system of paying lie employee with in
cheque., called "savings hank coequal." AU:7th to
cheque are four coupons, one payable at the aid of sash
quarter, the Interest being at the rate of eight per ant., and
the ultimate payment being guaranteed by • special deposit
of ihs company 'a first mortgage bonds.
Sir C. B. Adderley. M.l'., speaking at the annual
meeting of the tialtley Reformatory on Tuesday, expressed
hi. satisfaction at the undoubted e Iminution of mime In this
country. Ile did not attribute the decrease to any change
In our system of secondary punishment., hut to the gradual
spread of education and enlightenment, more especially
amongst the lower classes.
From April Ist to the 18th inst. the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £31,e91,094. as compared with
£30,910,695 in the corresponding pried of lut yea. The
expendtture has been £45,660,591. On Saturday last the
balance in the Bank of England was £904,496.
The Viceroy of India has been on a shooting a:eureka
from Simla into the interior. A sad accident cast a cloud
over the plessare ; Captain Beynardson, one of Lord North.
brook's sidea-de.cainp, having had the misfortune to Shale •
native beater.
A valuable discovery has been made by • Coldwater
fishing smack of an oyster bed, some miles la extent, ell
Portland. Several tons of oysters have been caught in
wane and fetched good prices at the London markets.
Telegraphic advice, from Calcutta state that a severe
famine over the whole the Behar, including Ilrhorst, Is
dreaded should the rain continue to hold off, and that earth,
Is certain exoept in the eastern dialects.
The recent death of Mr. Wade, the American
Idieloier at Pato, in satisfactorily accounted for by the
Chinese as remitting Lola "the inexprwaible emotion width
he experleaced at seeing the august face of the Emperoe•
[Very likely I)
'the Bev. Dr. Candlish, Principal of New College,
Edinburgh, and miulder and one of toe leaders since laa of
the Free Church, died at Edinburgh on Sunday night, aged
63. Ile was an able preacher, author of several theological
works, and had been Principal of New College for the pest
eleven years.
A printing-office has been opened in connection with
the Vanua Institute for the Blind. The whole eat of MY
nudertatiee was defrayed by the lo penal Government
Printing Office Dr Frusta!, the superintendent, believes
that by special tufaon his pupil, will be enabled to leans the
rrt of proallog, so as to equal In dexterity those not SO
The German expedition for the exploration ef the
Libyan desert is expected to start from Europe about the end
of November, and from Egypt early in Dectember, and it Is
thought that the first reports may accordingly be looked for-
ward to about Christmas. The leader of the expedition Is
Dr. Gerhard
Mr. Thomas Miller, the author of the "Gideon
the 11 per," Godfrey Malvern," a volume of poems,
eon othor wore., li at to age of CO very UI, •n 1 alma* ea-
tirely eithout meal s. A subscription hot for hi. benefit has
been cloned, and beaded by the Right Hon. W E. post.,
with • donatiou of lea ; one Mears. Sempon Low, Fleet..
strict, London, the Rev. T. Sake., Relate. Rectory, Beet ;
and the Legion and C..daty Bank, Newegton, have urge
seated to receive subscriptions.
When Horace Greeley visited Yosemite he picked up
to the trail • horseshoe and hung it on the knot of an oth
tree for whoever might choose to use it. No one took its, sad
in era the knot grew over the horseshoe, and recently the
portion of the tree containing it was cut oat and sent
San Francisco as • memento of Mr. Greeley's economy.
The Queen visited Braemar on Saturday, reaching
the village at one o'clock in the at ansoon, to an open car-
riage drawn by a pole of greys and preceded by an outrider.
leer Majesty wu accompanied by Princess Beatrice sad
he Collates. of Errol. The Royal party returned to Banana
n the oValtitig.
A fire brake out on Monday morning about three
o'clock on the premises of Mr. Pollack, • refreshment-house
keeper, in Great Wlndmlll.street, fleyroarket, London.
Several of the people in the house were rescued by • fire-escape,
but after the ere had been put but, the dead body of • young
man named Henry Iletheridge, • lodger In the house, wee
found in a back room on the third floor.
The Zouave, the Lord Chief Justice's yacht, is lying
in Portsmouth Harbour. She goes to sea every Friday even-
ing or Saturday morning with the leaned judge for • cruise
of about forty-eight ha ere this giving his lordship time to be
in London on Monday morning for the Tichborne tet.i. The
Chief Justice, when on board, is engaged almost the whole
time in writing.
The Government be. at length completed the put.
chase of twenty acres a f land at Balliugdon. near Oxford,
the property of Miss Hurst, for the military data about
to be founded there. Porsession has been given to the War
Office, and an engineer sent down preparatory to the erection
of the necessary buildinge The price of the land was, it Is
stated, £l2O per acre.
"Von Bismarck possesses a large pocket-knife 0011-
tithing a tortoiseshell loot measure, paperknife, bradawl,
tweezers, saw, sal and corn knife, and some twenty pointed,
spiky, spiny, spurred, denticulated, slurped edged tooth
with which a hardy workman would be in raptures. The
true kindness of 13 smack's natant is shown ht the tact thee
ho never allows soy one accideutally tont upon it When it Is
all open."—Court Journal.
The Journe of the Franklin Institute gives the
following as • simple means of determining the presence of
eatable matter la potable water. A half plat of the waiter
should be placed In • perfectly dean eolouriees gleam bathe s
• few grains of the best white sugar should be added to it,
and freely exposei to daylight In the window of a warm tooth
If the water becomes turbid, sewage cuutandastion may be
suspected.
On Saturday, in the Glasgow Sheriff Court, a decree
of ricu.i, ea, granted against 47 mitten. The defendant@
are on strike, and by the rules of the work. the non are
bound to cease occupancy on their houses at soon as they stop
connection with the colliery. A meeting of the miners was
held after the court adjourned, and It was resolved that the
men should leave their houses before Wednesday, the thy on
which the decree takes affect.
The expenses of the unsuccessful candidates at the
recent Dundee Parliamentary Election are published. Those
of Mr. Feel onus Stephen, Q C., amount to £665 6.. 11d. ; OM
personal expenses, se33 10t. 13. Mr. Jenktns's expense. ere
£955 0.5. Id. ; his person.! expenees, £l4 9c RI. By all three
gadiemen who contested the burgh, £40213,. 61. A portion
of the retarang officer's charges LI depated, anoint arrange-
meat bee been made as yet remade* it.
On Monday there took place at Colchester the civic
meeting coiled the Greer Feast. Although the mayor in the
host, the oysters, width are the staple food on the occasion,
are the sift of the Collie Fishery Company, who hold from
tne corporatien the property which produce. the celebrated
" Colchottor native., It in, therefore, a tort of present from
tenant to landlord. On Monday the Colue Company sup-
plied a sp'endid tut of the bivalves, averaging between three
and fear dozen for each guest.
The 18th instant, being the anniversary of the battle
of Leipzig, in which Presidents and Austrian. fought to-
gether In the same ranks agehult the first Napoleon. the Em-
peror Frames Joseph on that day c-stoned the honorary
loneley ed the loth mono nt of leisure, loe,nerly held by
Kate Frederick William ill., upon his sou the Emperor
Wiliam, whose name it is henceforth to bear.
I "It is rumoured in Paris that the Council of
Minist-rs has deteralli eat to convoke the National Assembly
on toe nth lost , a weee earlier than the normal period of
meseita. The ertslr, lii fact, Can no longer he postponed.
It Is true ,a. M. John Lemobtoe sale, the beginning of an
end.' Ot,ty a few days ago, the prospects of tionarctucal
Restoration were wrapped in gloom. But In France. more
than any where else, it is'the unit reeen that always happens,'
and critical e yenta are decided as much by opportune bold-
nein in action st. by the development of natural forced"—
Leader in The Sidra
On -Friday in last week, the silver wedding of the
Marquis and 3isechioneas of Exeter was celebrated at
Burghley It ,use, Stamford. leo lordship gave a ball to the
servants of his establishment on a most liberal and sumptuous
wale the fine banqueting hall wan splendidly and artistically
decent,o'd with evergreens end banner.. Dining the evening
the novena and unarehionese, Lord Burghley, Lord William
Cecil, Lady Isabella Cecil, and other memben of the family,
entered the room and jutted In the dancing, which wee kept
up with spirit till morning.
The committee of the Durham Miners' Association
met on Saturday to consider the adverse decision of the coal
owners on the application of the miners for an ...mot 20
per ',tilt There was a very large attendance of delegates.
A resolution was passel to the effect that the miners me
tetrad the nround• of refusal as fallacious, for the reasons
that the present price of coal would afford the advance; that
the w•gee were lower than those of other miner.; and that
the advance already er mad sae merely nominal; agreeing
to send back the matter for farther consladatiou, 11
determlnlug to appeal to arbitration should the advance not
be conceded.

A dispatch, dated Denver, Col. dated September
e 9, says two third' of the flomrlahing mining town of
Fairplay. Col, were destroyed by nos on the night of the
lath. The fire originated in the Fairplay House, and spread
rapidly in evory directiou. All the stores, printing °Woes
the United Sestet Lend Office, poet-office, Exprem Oflloo.
hotels, and other bruin.. places, with two or three za
noise were entirely destroyed. Much sorterhag will
as the season is too far advanced for rebuilding, end %be
weather is extremely cold.
At the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Birmingham, On
Friday night, Mr. Charles Calvert publicly thanked the people
of Birmingham during the representation of Henry the Pink
for their sympathy and encosurageeneut. He said the sheens
of the pleas in Matosheeder, and still greater IropoMionMl
success In Birmingham, gave a contradiction those who
maid the some Shakespeare spelt either •• bankruptcy • 00
"ruin." In a month they had taken £2OOO, although hi ha
me amongst them a comparative stranger, and bad order-
innately broken down on the first night of the rePZ....16-
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The Silesian Press announces that in consefltl...we mui
the Increasing chine.', of a Monarchical reetoration tr francs
which Ls suspected to signify an early war of r•••"*. °idlfl
have been even by the German military authorities, for am-
pleting the proposed armaments with greekVelird than we.
orleinsily contain Witted lietwees four and ,27._
adapted
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df Clue the osaufacture so much as possible.r.r ib.lamae.
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