The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24 00:00:00

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THE KIDDERMINSTER CARPET WEAVER:I.—AD
interview was held on Tuesday between Messrs.
Brinton and their Brussels weavers at Kidderminster.
The men were called from their looms, and Mr.
Brinton told them the firm resolutely refused to dis-
charge the women tapestry weaver's. Mr. Brinton
pointed out that women had been employed for five
years at Halifax without displeasing men, and this
fact was to be net against any surmise the Kidder-
minster weavers might have. The law of England
recognized the freedom of labour, and the rights of
every man, woman, and child were bound up with
that freedom. War was a two.edged sword, and
although a strike might injute their business, the firm
would not allow their machinery to be idle, and he
would not say what hands might not be put on in the
Brussels trade if masters were driven to an extremity.
If the breach was widened it would he the sorest thing
that had ever happened in the Brussels trade in
Kidderminster, and he hoped, by arbitration, a settle-
ment might be arrived at. The weavers very un-
reservedly expressed their views, and, by a show of
hands, left the decision of the question to the Weavers'
Association.•
WILD SPORTS. The Sportsmen (from, the
Wood): "Hullo, Tonsonby ! you've had a good place.
We've heard you blazing away all the afternoon. How
many have you bagged ! "—Tonsoliby fa Town Men):
'0 bother your tame pheasants. I've treed a magi
nilicent tom cat here, and had splendid sport, but I
can't Lit him. You come and try . "—Punch.
AMERICAN EXPLORATION. Lieutenant
Wheeler and Dr. Yarrow have returned to Denver,
Colorado. The reenits of the expedition are far beyond
the work of previous years. A new pass has been dis-
covered over the main divide, low enough for a railway
to the Gunison Valley, the richest region of the Bray
Mountains. The finest collecti.in of fossil remains ever
found in America has been discovered by Profpesor
,Cope, palieontologiet. On the shore of the 'humid
iocean in New Mexico 47 were found in one day. The
megatheriurn, the maatoilan, and all classes Of saurian
monsters illustrating the gigantic natural wonderi of
extinct Ages are among
.tfietn,,, .
A CLEVER Linnattles. ..tereiniah Buxonis
Just now wonderful stories are being told
of the venerable librarian wif th National-Library at'
Paris, an institution which contains 2,200,940 volumes
'and pr.,o(x) manuscripts. One day a loan asked for
roMance. Ile did nit know the title the author's
paint; he roily Ineiv that it beAln with the %rotas,
r. The marchioness walk.ed alone in the park," and
the ,;la librarian brought it though it WRS Ow pro-
duction of an obscure author ef the eighteenth cen-
tury. If we are to believe relent, the venefalre'
librarian— who must be a walking isikelot. gAnetteer
and dictionary combined - knows precisely how many
letters there are in each of the 2,20 ',IRO volumes, and
.which of the letters are small and which canitaband
the exact number of letters turned upside down by the
printer, and the number of maths to. tinuittiation
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Magazine in Hyde Park ought unquestionably Lobe
each page.--
.. - -removed. There are too many dangerous "sparks '
World. always about in that neighbourhood. —Punch.
AN AID TO •ABTLASWINI.4.-ertle Botafenti Trade EDIBLE FUNGI. There are hundreda of
have ordered an instrument called a " cmlometer,n2 i°- - -"-erlible vegetables that the world disdains to eat,
'vented by Mr. W. 'Marsham Adams, B.A. for the 848 hon-top!, nettles, hedge-raurtard, chickweed,
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purpose of illustrating, elementary antitfafdayrto haul! mici.,:„, fora, ; and if it be to please the eccentric or
placed in their examining department with a view
certaining its value in testing the proficiewi of cam , ~,„&u,5Le, Ltak,the verdict of the world upon such
t;o-,-Inive- one from starvation, any or all of them may be
'sidates. The crelometer received analtthir A' thrrti,-'--. is
.s2und. ". It is, actually cheaper to grow a
Vienna Exhibition, sad hassjpbtsimiti lateitspprAal of ~
some of tale must eminent' astrommerß. An account . go
ethai hunt Ml6° b6dge-rows for table vege-
tables ; so it is with the fungi, Anybodx,.pan enjoy
of It to glivikklahao3ll44alek OgmtalAng 4liemPartat - lig -.ear Agto-c6*-eaticesim and fttnear ally the
the Vienna Exhibition. . . ..
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