The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-06 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1872.

• SPLITTERINGS FROM et JUDY'S" PEN
VANE LOORB—SOBIRE which Way the wind blows !
THE Oxford would, no doubt, have woe the race, had not
so much depended on the' Whether."
IN consequence of the TICHRORNE Lets being "off,' thou-
sands of pairs of gloves will remain 'ox" the hands et the
hosiers, instead of going on to those of the ladies.
AN elderly lady states that, when she was a girl, she
itsked a gentleman to Amp her cloak. lie did fin—luid its
contents at the same time.
THE Oxford is said to owe Its loss to having the "Blues,'
—the "dark blues" being more malignant than the "light."
A SOLlaf oft-GENERAL—A poor beggar.
A FREMIATE.—Au inquisitive wife.
ANOTHER Prime-eight—The Cambridge boatmen.
MEN.—The Keeper of the Great Seals lives in Greenland.
A SHAREHOLDER—A ploughman.
A QUICKSET 'edge—The mige of a rune
THE Literati of the Turf—Bookquakers.
WOMEN'S Rights—Children.
TIOME LeCLUTRE,
FOUL Flay—Cockfighting.
THE Ned Suitable Address for a Small Provision Dealer—
Bracer (Grow, sir). —Judy.

Peruvian railways have ladies' smoking cars.
Id. de Bismarck is about creating large paper-1e
on his domain of Lauenburg, similar to those already at work
oil his Varzin estate.
The felae..iites of women's riLdits are making great
preparations for the coming campaign. Meetings ars being
organised in various parts of the kingdom.
The following brief colloquy occurred at an Insii
railroad .Itet ion :—Passenger : 'how long will the nest train
be ? " Porter: " Alieut six sanitises, your honour, ma. he,
to far as I knows, and we engine by course."
Ought women to preach is the question which is at
prowent agitating the Presbyterian Church he America.
St. laid, in his epiztles to the Corinthians and Timothy
prohibite Women preaching.
A fourth contribution of £I,OOO has been forwarded
to the bankers of the Royal London Ophthalmic [Wanda!,
Moorilelds, by an unknown benefactor, under the labials

A Paris judge recently asked a counterfeiter why he
coined base mourry, and was Rosner red- t' Because the Prlis-
editial have taken all the good !"
The following curious fact may be attributed to the
irony of chance. Ala recent grand conceit in Pars, give.
in aid of the I und for paying the German troops out of PriutZe,
every piece was by a German composer.
Xearly all New York young gentlemen have their
overesats made with is pocket on one side, lined with llannef
or fur, in which a lady may slap her hand when walking
a cold winter's evening.
The let of July is fixed for the opening of the Exhi-
bition at Lyons. A quasi-political character is to be given to
the event ; the Republicans preparing to hold a "strung
but peaceable" demonstration in favour of their principles.
Six hundred artisans and labourers have been dis-
charged from WooDeich Arsenal during the past few Any..
A considerable proportion of the former will at Once pro.
geed to the North of England, where the ironworks arc now
busy.
Crlashier, the airronaut, reports that a woman's voice
is audible in a balloon at the height of two miles, while that
of a man has never reached higher titans mile. What mun-
dane and matrimonial theory is visibly connected with this
statement
The King of Siam, who recently visited the Viceroy
of India, is a very small, placid'? joking man who dresses in
European fashion, with snee-breeches ant stockings, and
lives like a European in all respects—barring that he has got
a lot of wives.
Easter Sunday was a dull day iu Paris, the dismal
weather being only varied by a thunderstorm. line churches,
however, were attended at this high festival by con.
gregations that have been uPprecedented in recent
years.
It was stated in a recent telegram that the only re-
maining Protestant place of worship in Madrid had just been
closed. This news in, it seems, incorrect, for a Madrid
Correspondent, inn special telegram, states that there are no
fewer thus seven Protestant churches in the city, attended
by about 4,000 persons, lir sides moor Protestant day sellouts
and Sunday schools.
Two out of' three young men, capsized in a pleasure
boat on the Thames, near Kew, ou Sunday, were drowned
in the presence of those on board two steamers and three
pleasure boats, none of whom appeared to attempts rescue.
Three lads in a boat managed, by a vieorons Ore, to rescue
the third young man, who was err the point of sinking tor
the last time.
The other evening, at a concert in T.onelon, an old
gentleman was nines annoyed by the constant coughing of a
lady who sat In the seat behind him. His patience giving
out at last, he turned round and said severely, "That's a
very bad cold of yours, marlam ; " to which the lady demurely
replier?, "1 know it, sir, and i'm very sorry for it, but it's the
best Yee got." The old gentleman was silencer?.
The following neat reply has been Made to a school
board examiner, who said, •• What is the difference, little
boys--now you have heard all about missionaries and their
good works from your kind preceptor—between a Chrotisn
and a cannibal s" A boy of ten, noted tor his good appetite
and the consequent love of fun which always accompanies
it, said, with a grin, "Why, master, I'll tell per; Pone enjoys
hisself, and Pother enjoys Pother people." .
Some ti.ne since two young ladies were bothered by
, an old gipsy to have their fortunes told, who at length
stimulated their curiosity by promising for half-a-crown to
show them their future husbands' faces in a pail of water.
The water being procured they were told to look. They did
BO ; when, discovering nothing strange, they exclaimed they
saw only their own faces. "Well," replied the gipsy, "these
will be your husbands' face? when you are married."
A most scientific thing was said by a physician to a
young gentleman who was very much about town, and at
length eame to him to ask the reason of the unnatural rush
ef blood to the head. It is quite natural," was the reply;
"don't alarm yourself. Nature abhors a vacintin." "Oh
yea, I see. What shall fluke, Mr.—er—er ? " Take a book
daily, sir," said the modern Abernethy. But on rental con-
sideration he wrote out a mild prescription of water
peppermint for the uncomprehending patient.
The promoters of the scheme for the formation of a
tunnel under the English Channel were received on Sunday
last by the Ptesident of the Republic, to whom they read
their " project." M. Thiers listened to them with much
affability, and assured them that the idea of forming a corn'
municatiou between France and targland by means of a
tunnel would meet with no opposition but added that be
could camera no opinion on the possibility of realizing such
an idea, and that the enterprise, like ail private enterprises,
must be carried out in the ordinary manner.
The New York Tribroe begins a minor editorial
article aa follows It is related of a quarrelsome gentle.
Man In Pike County that having been ignominioualy cuffed
and kicker? by a rival bruiser, he explained Its defeat by
saying -' tie came at me no sudden, I dirle't have time to
git mad.' The advantages of a prolonged nursing of wrath
are seen in the recent robust exhibitiou of rage by site
Einglish cousins. There has never been seen a more deli?.
rate ',asst.." The Tritatne may take it that for mice it hal
hit the »ail of truth on the head with a true arid well-anted
blow, and driven it horns into its readers.
"Cousin Jonathan has been begun to annex tun At
least Ile has begun to occupy London in force, which is the
nig step towards annexations. One of the great New York
journals has located itself in Fleet-street, or at ftast has
opened a brauch olliee there, for the receipt of advertise-
ments, and is advertising itself. No doubt the Herald will
speedily follow suit. These American papers will he welcome
in a laud where uo one is afraid of competition, and the best
wins. American journalism is energetic and smart, and can
teach oldJuhn somethilig."—Court Journal.
The quarterly revenue returns were published on
Saturday night (March 30'. During the past three unearths a
sum of 4.26,004,234 had been paid into the Exchequer. a net in-
crease of £2,499,203 upon the total in the correspondieg period
oLlast year. The receipts lathe twelve monthshave amounted
to £74,708,314, and this was more by £4,763,094 than the
receipts of the previous Bulimia' year. There wane 'Anhw-
ei! in taxes, Postofliee, and crown Lands, but an hscreaee
In all other sources of revenue, the income-tax having pro.
duced more by £2,731,000.
A special meeting of the London Trades Council was
convened on Tuesday night at the "Bell" Inv, Olii Bailey,
several trades being represented. After the adoption of an
addresa, convening a delegate meeting of the London trades,
the following resolution was unanimously carried : " That
this meeting considers the present movement of the agricul-
tural labourers to be one of vital and unprecedented im-
portance to all working men, and with the view to help the
operatives in their righteous struggle, resolves to eall a re-
presentative meeting at the "Sonnet" lloteL BoUVerie-
street, Fleetstreet, on Tuesday next, April 9, at eight
o'clock."
Mr. Disraeli arrived at Manchester on Monday.
About thirty thousand people had assembled to welcome
him, and his appearance was greeted wills deafening cheers.
Mr. Calleuder, jun., the Chairman of the Manchester COn-
servative Association, was in waiting to receive him. The
horses were taken by the people out of his carriage; and
when the right lion, gentleman had taken his seat therein
It was drawn by about thirty men to Mr. Callender's resi-
dence at Victoria-park, amid the enthusiastic cheers of the
assembled thousands. on arriving at the house Mr. Disraeli,
In acknowlerlmneet of the warm reception accorded to him,
said he and Viscountess Beacenslield would never forget it.
Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
20 other large towns of the Colter' Kingdom was at thereto
of 29 deaths annually to every 1,0(10 persons estimated to be
living. In the metropolis 2,250 births and 1,641 deaths wera
registered, the former having been 228, and the latter 83
below the average numbers in the correspondiug period of
the last ten years. Fifty-00e persons died from small-pox,
03 from measles, 22 from scarlet fever, four from diphtheria,
118 irons whoepiug-cough, 26 from different forms of fever
of which three were certified as typhus, 16 as enteric or
typhoid, and seven as simple continued fever), and nine from
diarrhma The remsrkably long period of 97 day a warm
weather, during which the daily mean temperatere showed
an average excess of five degrees, ended on the 19th ultimo,
and was succeeded by eight days of unseasonably cold
weather, which averaged a deficiency of 7.3 dogs. Warm
weather set in again on Wednesday, the 27th, and the mean
temperature showed a considerable excess on the three last
days of the week.
" Mr. Disraeli has been received with enthueiatun at
alancheater. Twenty years ago this announcement might
have appeared in a bundle of paradexes by Punch. Had
the Opposition leader then visited the mkropnlis of Lan'
shire, a little knot of Conservatives, socially strong,
might have awaited his arrival, but there certainly
would have been no thousands of holiday folk to cheer
his arrival, no melding populace to unharness the
horses of his carriage, and draw him, in a kiml of
impromptu triumph, through the streets Whet is the
cause of the change r 11u Mr. Disraeli cultivated
popularty and "gone in for" the favour of "the
mob "? (If that we see little trace. During his career, as
now be has been, of all our leaning politicians, the least
willing to make himself generally agreeable. While other
statesmen of Cabinet rank are ever ready to preside at
popular festivals or address public meeting all over the
land, Mr. Disraeli confinea his courtesy to two spheres—
Parliament and Lucks. lie refuses irritations form the
greatest towns, an I prefers accepting oratorical burthens
imposed by sonic of the smallest villages near his conutry
Sortie, lie acts, as n rifle, BB If be only recognised two
functions in his lift—to lead his party in Parlament, and to
repreaent the county of Buckingliamshire."—Leader is Daily
Telegraph.

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