The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-21 00:00:00

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IRISH IDKAL OF THEMIS.—Bitb/y (to Po
cha,ge aLout a thfficuity): "-Never fear, Pet! Share
y'av e Rot an uprignt Judge to Thry ye ! "—Pat:'Al.
Biddy Darlin', the Divil an Upright Jidge I mitt!
'Tin wane that'il /ant a little ! ! "—Punch.

THE NATIONAL MONDAY LEAGUE.—The first
excureion in connection with the National Moeda,
Leugue took plate in London, on Monday.
ustob4 re of peonle were conve) ed from the difft,tr
stations on the London, Chatham, td Diver Ibulert;
to Herne Bay, Ktrgate, and Ram gate at rtdarel
fares. This society has been establiened for the iv.
pose of running a eeries of excursion trains on the Mop.
day at reduced fares, sod if possible decrease the traffic
and labour on railways on the Sunday.

BLESS THE BANK !—The Chancellor of the
Exchequer has obtained leave to bring in alßill author.
Ming the Bank of England, in certain evente, to it
an extraordinary amount of notes in exchange for
securitits. How much the Old Lady of Treadneed r.
street will reiemble Patti and Miens, and Chriqus,
Nilsson Blees her old heart. More poser to her
larynx. May her ability to utter notes abide tor
ever; may her voice never crack: mar De length pi
yearn impair her utterances rae to trrinannte the ilia.
note Iron a soprano to a falactio.—Pusch.
A WONDERFUL AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.
Our enterprising American cousins are not content
with muchinee riesigned to perform ordinary operations
In agriculture, but they demseextraordinary operation.,
and then proceed to invent machines to cony then
out. In this country we are satisfied to wait awhile
after reaping before we begin to plough for another
crop (says the Iron). At St. Louis, Illinois, a machine
is being bnilt which is designed to cut and take up
grain, and at tne same time to plough and seed the
ground. Surely the ingenuity of agricultural machinist,
cannot transcend We,.

SCIENTIFIC RESULT OF SMOKING.— A German
physiologist bas discovered that tobacco smelting by
boy. "interforee with the molecular changee coincident
with development of tiesues, and makes the blood.
corpuscles oval, and irregular at the edge." Any perste
can thus ascertain if his boy smokes by merely Wang
out a handful of his blood corptuicles and °beefs*
their edges!

STB...i-WBERRY GROWING BY SOLDIERS.
Amongst the industries in which soldiers employ their
leieure in France not the least is " strawberry unities
tion." At Bagnolet, near Paris, 300 soldiers from the
forts of Roeny and Romainville are daily occupied
for six hours M watering the strawberries. The fruit
is picked from each plant eight times in • year, the
second gathering taking place four days after the
first, the four next at intervals of three days, and
the two next in ten days. In a good season the
growers gather at one time five baskets per DO
yards, or 600 per hectare (a trifle over two acres.)
AS each basket is sold at Is. 3d., the eight gather.
lugs bring in about £260 per hectare. The grower, how.
ever, spends full £l4O on the cultivation of his ground,
his clear profit being about £l2O.

RATHER NlCE.—Algernon Elthe,tred : What
do you think of my New Portrait? They have =dew
precious Ugly, haven't they ?—Constantia Lavinia:
Yce, tl.ey have, very; but it is a Splendid Likenew,
—Judy.
THE EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENT RILL
Mr. Foster's Elementary Education Act (1870) Amend.
ment Bill has been printed. It consists of twenty.
seven clauses and four schedules. To. first two datum
are preliminary, Claims land 4 contain the provisions
respecting the payment of the school fees of poor
children which it is proposed to substitute for Denison'.
Act and the 25th clause of the Education Act; closes
5 to 9 refer to the mode of election of school
boards; and the remaining clauses contain a number
of miscellaneous amendments of the original act. The
rules laid down by the Education Department forth.
election of the London School Board, and the general
regulations for the first elections of school boards in
boroughs are incorponted in the Act, and aro to con.
tinue in force until revoked by any order made under
the Kok i•iuni of the At. It is a s provided thst
any pull at a school-board election "shall, so far se
circumstances admit, be conducted in like master is
which the poll at a contested municipal election is
directed by the Ballot Act, 1872, to be conducted.'

"Tug Moms is Philosophers,
who never know anything, are making a great few
over the above Discovery. as they are pleased—eery
much pleased—to call it. Dear readers of Punch, who
are therefore also readers of the other great posts, how
you muet smile at the Philosophers ! Row wise von
are never to take any notice of your so-called it.
strustore, and to stick to the Poets, who, as Mr.
Carlyle says, are the real Doers. The Moon is hot!
That is a discovery for you, who bays your Shelley by
heart :
" not oil if maiden:, with Whit.. lire ladoo,