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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

FISH AND FOWL IN CHINA.

A letter in the New York Times havlng.asked forinforma-
Hon as to Ash culture in China, an answer has been given by
Mr. E H. ColtomSalter, er-Vulted States Consul at Hankow,
700 miles up the Yang.tse Kiang. This gentleman says i—
" On this great river, 3,000 miles long, are found
thousands of nurseries devoted to the artificial produc-
tion of fists. The river is only open for trade with the
Treaty Powers at Ching Taing, Kin Klan, and Honkow,
but I have explored the river as far as Yochow and
the Yung-Tsing Lake, the great lake of the Empire.
The Chinese are pre-eminently a fish-eating people,
and when you consider that the population is estimated
by some geographers at 500,000,000 souls, imagine the
vast demand for fish which can only be supplied by
artificial means. The shad is called by the Chinese
' sam-li ; ' it is of superior flavour and great size. I
can only repeat the information given me on the great
river, that they are produced by artificial means and
conveyed in conga, large vessels made of coarse earthen-
ware, to all parts of the empire. The dense popula-
tion of China has stimulated human ingenuity to the
highest degree so as to provide means of subsistence.
Takesthe subject of artificial incubation, for instance.
How little we know of it in this; country, although we
assume that we know everything ! The traveller in
China may see in every village flocks of tiny chickens,
ducks, and geese—say, 500 at a tinie—led by a mere
boy with a little wand of the familiar bamboo, and all
hatched by the artificial process. As a natural ae
quenee of this system, they are very cheap, and you
can purchase from five to ten good fowls for 1,000
copper cash—say 1 dbL gold. Eggs are equally cheap,
because the people possess secrete to increase the
fecundity of the birds, and you can buy, even in the
cities, five eggs for the equivalent of our cent. Our
people are profoundly ignorant about the resources of
this wonderful country, only twenty days' sail from
, San Francisco by a swift steamer."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

A NEW SHELL

The Arms and Nary Gazette has enumerated on
several occasions the various results of experiments
undertaken by the committee on explosives, with a
view of ascertaining the practical effect of Professor
Abel's proposed plan for the bursting of common shells
filled with water, by means of a detonator, consisting
of dry compressed guncotton enveloping a small cap
of fulminate of mercury. Some months ago the prac•
ticability of explo,,ing 16 pounder common shells in
this manner was satisfactorily established, and the
result of such an arrangement was the bursting of a
shell into 300 fragments, whereas only about 30 pieces
were in slimed by the explosion of an ordinary bursting
charge of gunpowder. The effect of such an explosion
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE AINOS OF JAPAN.

Mr. De Lone, lately United State.' Minister in Japan, made
the following statement in his lecture at Sacramento : -

"The Japanese estimate their population at about
40,000,000. This I think an overestimate by from
10,000,000 to 15.000,000, although their reckoning
is supported by their census returns. There is
found inhabiting the island of Jess° and the Kurile
Islands a race of men called by the Japanese
' or 'hairy men.' This appellation they well
sustain, as they have full, flowing, black beards,
reaching, in many cases, below the middle of the
breast. We are told that they are the aborigines of
Japan, originally occupying all of the islands embraced
in that group ; and Japanese history records the
fact that 'limo° Tenno, the first Japanese Emperor,
with some followers, came from heaven in a boat,
landed at or near Nagasaki, on the Island of Sikoke,
from whom sprang the present Japanese nation; that
gradually they beat back and destroyed the Aino
race, as we have done the Indian, until the nation
attained its present greatness, and the aborigines sank
to their present weak condition. This is all the
Japanese know of their origin and their race.
Nothing interests their leading men more than a
study of their probable origin, as they treat with
levity the legend recorded in their country. The
" Embassy which accompanied me to Washington brought
with them a large collection of stone beads, arrow
heads, and other evidences of the stone age. These
they brought for the purpose of comparing them with
isimilar relics found in our own and other countries.
The Embassy studied with great regard such Indians
as we met, and such relies as could be found at Salt
Lake City and other places. I wakura assured me that
the appearance of our Indians, their I tress, costume,
and weapons were identical with such ornaments-
thin as their geologists had discovered upon rude
images markiag the stone age in Japan, and he further
remarked to me that he would be almost prepared to
believe they were akin but for the circumstance that
our Indians could not be civilized. The Moos form,
in my minel, a curious subject of reflection. They
seem to bear no relation in customs, language, or ap.
pearesice to either the Japanese, Chinese. Nlanchoos,
or other Oriental nations. They are extremely kind,
mild-mannered, skilful as hunters and fishermen, in.
telligent, and brave. Crime is almost unknown among
them, at they are as completely savage or barbarous
that they have no idea of their origin, no mode of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

EXTRAORDINARY PISTOL PRACTICE.

A brilliant display of pistol practice took place the
other day in Washoe, Nevada, and is reported by the
Virginia Cap Enterprise. At a saloon on the Divide
some men were discussing a shooting affray which
occurred the same morning between two brothers-in-
law named Falb:llan and Ward. It WM agreed on all
hands that it was shocking bad shooting, a discredit to
Washoe. At last a Pioche man bantered a Comstock
man, whom he knew to be a good shot with a pistol,
to go out in the back yard with him and do some
shooting, just to show the boys how it should be done.
In the saloon was a box of eggs, and the Piocher pro-
posed that each should shoot two eggs off the bare
head of the other at the distance of ten paces, the one
missing to treat the crowd. The Comstocker was
bound not to be "bluffed" by a man from the other
end of the State, so to the back yard all adjourned.
Each man used his own six-shooter. The Comstocker
first " busted " his egg on the top of the Piocher's
head, which exploit was loudly applauded by all pre-
sent. It was then the Piocher's turn to shoot, but here
a difficulty arose. On the Comstocker removing his
hat there was a general laugh, for the top of his head
was as smooth as a billiard ball. For fully ten minutes
efforts were made to make an egg stand on his head,
but all in vain. The Piocher then began to get
irritable, and taunted the Comstocker with having
gone into the arrangement knowing that he was safe.
The latter told him to set up his egg, and it was all
right- he was there. The Piocher, driven to his wit's
end, at last procured some flour from the saloon, which
he dabbed on the head of the Comstocker;
then, triumphantly planting on his egg, fell back ten
steps, tired, and knocked it off. The Comstocker then
told him to set up his second egg, as he didn't want to
have his head chalked twice during the game. This
was done, and the wreck of a second egg streamed
down the Comstocker's pate. The Piocher now stood
out with his last egg on his head. The Comstocker
raised his pistol and fired. The Piocher bounded a
yard in the air, and the egg bounced whole from his
head "I've list," cried the Comstocker. "Let's all
come up and have a drink. By a slip I've put half
the width of my bullet through the top of his left
ear l" and so it proved upon measurement. —Pall Mall
! liasette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

A SUCCESSFUL CLOCKMAKER.

M. Jean Henry Musser, whose death was recently
recorded at Badenweiler, was (the Conlioesfosf lieruld
observes) an example of that energetic and plodding
spirit which has led so many Swim citizens onward to
more than ordinary success. He was born at &bluff-
hausen in 1800, and was brought up in the saute
industry as his father, that of a watchmaker. At
nineteen years of age he commenced the business of
life as an operative. Gifted with an active spirit, he
started for Russia, where he hoped to find a wider
scope for his enterprising disposition. After passing
some time in Moscow, he went to St. Petersburg, add
there succeeded in founding, without assistance, a
manufacture of horology, which in time developed
into one of the most important establishments of
the Russian Empire. At the end of five-and-twenty
years he returned to his native country, the poseessor
of an immense fortune. But it was not with the object
of leading a life of inaction. He conceived the idea of
utilizing the enormous water-power of the Rhine at

.
Schaffhausen, and he erected the first turbine thetas a
work which was anon followed hy fnrthe. extensions
on the part of the enterplising manufacturer, and that
led to the various succeesful and important establish-
ments for which Sclasuffhatmen is noted. He also rn
terested himself in a number of philanthropic efforts to
relieve the necessities of widows. orphans, and oil
men : 31.1 showed himself invariably one 01 the fore-
most a Ivocates of education, and of instruction in those
arts that would be likely to confer benefits upon the
manufacturing industry of his native land ; while he
liberally encouraged the higher artistic studies by col-
lecting in his tine chateau at Charlottenfels a number
of works of art from the studies of the most deserving
tif Swiss painters. He died somewhat suddenly from
aneurism, leaving a wide circle of friends who mourn
the loss of ose who possessed so many wituiralle
qualities.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

FOR PICTURE FRAMES,

GO to the Practical Maker, where every des.
eription of PICTURE FRAMES, WINDOW
CORNICES, Re., are manufactured on the Premises,
Wholesale and Retail, by
D. LAMBERT,
House Decorator,
Gilder and
Picture Frame,
Manufacturer,
OLDSIVINFORD, Near STOURBRIDGA.
OLD PICTURE FRAMES, CORNICES,
AND MOULDINGS,
Of every description,

CLEANED, REPAIRED, or RE•GILT.
OLD PICTURES, Carefully Cleaned, Lined, and

Restored.

L. having had 20 years practical
• experience ir all the above diffeient Breaches,
bop to inform the Gentry and Public generally that he
has now every facility for executing say order that may
be entrusted to has sere, whieb will meet with hie perso-
nal and prompt attention.
Orden by Letter will meet with stricit attention.
Estimates given and Yea of sash Breach seat is say
port of the country.
Gentlemen may have their Platys Framed Is.M on
their own PT•Malla,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

SEED.

LONDON, Monday, Nov. 9.—There was very little English
Cloverseed offering. Prices of fine red qualities were very
high. Best French was held Is. to 2s. per cwt. over previmni
terms, but the sales were to a limited extent. American is
offered at from 455. to 46. per cwt. for arrival, but not much
business transacted in It White Cloverseed of choice
description was held high. White Ilustardseed was pur.
chased in small lots at full rate.; new brown offers slowly
yet, although prices are moderate Catiarysted was scarce
and vary dear. New Dutch Ilempseed brought high rates.
Winter Tares were sold in small lots at the full tureen :ties of
laat week. Choice black English Rapeseed was 'alembic, on
former terms. Prime English Trefoil was held at pievimm
quotations ; sales were to a limited extent
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

TALLOW.

LoNr,y, Monday, Nov. 9.—P.Y.C. I, inactive at 40. 3d. for
new qualities on the spot. Town tallow Is quoted at 40• 94,
per cwt net cash, and rough fat 2A per alto,
d d
Town Tallow, per cwt. 43 0 Rough Stuff, per cwt... 16 6
Rough rat, per tilhs . . 2 0 Greases 19 0
Melted Stuff, per cwt. 30 0 Good Dregs „ 0
Yellow Russian, new...... 46a Od. per cwt.
Ditto ditto old.. —00 a „
Australian Mutton Tallow. 43a Od. „
Ditto Beef Ditto. 420, Od. „
HAY.

WHITECHAPEL, Saturday, Nov. 9.—With a fair aupply of
hay and straw on sale, trade at this market has been steady,
at late rates. Prime clover, 1001. to 12Is. Inferior, ESS 4.
übs prime meadow hay, 90. to 114 a. ; inferior, Ma to 76.
and straw, 26. to 40.. per Wad
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

OLD HILL.

Sittcsmi to QCIT.-At the Police Court. on Wednes
day, before Messrs. F. W. G. Parra and L. Freer, Joseph
Woodhouse was charged with committing a breach of the
yeace, by fighthig at the Five Ways Inn, Crdhi y 11,ntb.
and refusing to quit nhen request-a, on the 15th at A
young women newel Porter stated that defendant was
fighting with a man in the house. She requested him ti
leave awl be refused to go. Ile was aj• aka three times
and be came back again.—Police-constable Coop., gave
corroborative evidence. Defendant was fined 5s and
costs. .

CHARGE lINDIS THIS Facrosv ACT.—Thomas Weaver,
a collier, wan summoned by Mr. W. 11. Brewer, stibin-
spectur of Fact ides, far uulaafully employing a fetosle
in lila wnck.hop. alter nine o'clock on the night of the
inst Mr. Brewer sail he visited &Lad int's shop
on the night in question, about baifipast nine o'clock, aivi
founds woman named Catheriue Gt bert at work. De-
fendant a id he WM not at home and he had never seen
any rules. Mr. Brewer said he was cot bound to give
them rules. The law was • very good one out nest year
it would be more stringent. Mr. Barra said it was • most
monstrous thing that a human being weld not work after
nine o'clock. His servants worked after that time. Mr.
Brewer said the law w.is made and they would have to
carry it out. It only applied to women in workshops.
Mr. Barra said if it was right they most put it in force,
but it wan, most extraordinary law. He should only in-
flict the slightest possible punishment on defendant. De-
fendant in answer to Mr. Barra said the woman worked
for him. but she worked ond placed when she liked. She
lived at his house, but the iron was his. Mr. Barra:
1 You do employ the woman then. Defendant : Yes, I do.
Mr Barra: You have broken the law, and we must, I
suppose, put it in force. lam astonished at that law.
You will have to be tined, and the least penalty is GI and
coats.

ROBBERY BE A DOMESTIC SERVANT. Eliza Hoaxed
was charged with stealing 18, and other articles, the pro-
perty of John Hadley, at Ramrod Hall Farm, Howley,
on the Ist inst. Mr. Addison defended. Prosecutor
Said the prisoner was in his employ as domestic servant.
The money and other articles were missed, and prisoner
acknowledged stealing them. She was sentenced to three
months imprisonment.
Alila LILTING • WOMAN.—John Hampton was fined Sis
and coats; in default one month, for assaulting Ann
Smith.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE IMPORTANCE OF READING WELL.

There is one accomplishment in particular, which I
would earnestly recommend to all girls on "leaving
school," as I am in the habit of doing to all your ex.
Cultivate assiduously the ability to read well. I stop
to particularise this, because it is a thing so very
much neglected, land because it is so very elegant,
charming, and lady-like an accomplishment. Vhere
one person is really interested by MUSIC, twenty are
pleased with good reading. Where one person is cap-
able of becoming a skilful musician, twenty may
become good readers. Where there is one occasion
suitable for the exercise of musical talent, there are
twenty for that of reading. The culture of the voice,
necessary for reading well, gives a delightful charm to
the same voice in conversation. Good reading is the
natural exponent and vehicle of all good things. It is
the most effective of all commentaries upon the works
of genius. It seems to bring dead authors to life
again, and makes us all set down familiarly with the
great and good of all ages. Did you ever notice what
life and power the Holy Scriptures have, when well
read? Have you ever heard of the wonderful effects
produced by Elizabeth Fry among the hardened
criminals of Newgate by simply reading to them the
parable of the Prodigal Son ? Princes and peers of
the realm, it is said, counted it a prit liege to stand in
those dismal corridors, among felons and murderers,
merely to share with them the privilege of witnessing
the marvellous pathos which genius, taste, and culture
could infuse into that simple story. What a fascina-
tion there it in really good reading I . What power it
gives crie ! In the hospital, in the chamber of the in-
valid, in the nursery, in the domestic and the social
circle, among chosen friends and companions, how
it enables you to minister to the amusement, the
comfort, the pleasures of dear ones, as no other art
or accomplishment can ! No instrument of man's
devising can reach the heart as does that most
wonderful instrument, the human voice. It is God's
special gift and endowment to his chosen creatures.
}old it not away in a napkin. If you would double
the value of all your other acquisitions; if you would
add immeasurably to your own enjoyment, and to
your power of promoting the enjoyment of others,
cultivate with incessant care this Divine gift. No
music below the skies is equal to that of pure, silvery
speech, from the lips of a man or woman of high cul-
ture.—Paorassoit 11n ii r.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE WIFE OF MARSHAL BAZLINE.

A Madrid correspondent says—" We are about
to have amongst us a distinguished and charming lady,
who, although not born in Spain, speaks the language
of Harcilasco and Cervantes, and feels a warm attach-
ment to our country. Her discretion, her talents,
her amiability, have won for her the sympathy of all
who know her, as her noble and brave conduct on a
recent occasion has commanded the esteem and admira-
tion of Europe. It will be surmised that lam alluding
to Madame Josefa de la Pena, wife of Marshal
Bazaine, the companion of his sad captivity, and subse-
quently his heroic liberator. The Marechale Bazaine
is a pattern as a woman and as a wife ; possessing
great energy of character and firmness in adver-
sity, she neglected nothing which could soften the
lot of her husband, going with him at first into
his prison, and then devoting herself with inde-
fatigable perseverance to the task of regaining his
liberty for him when she perceived that his imprison-
ment was endangering his life. It is not necessary to
relate over again what was clone by this brave Mexican
lady to deliver him from the fortress of Ste. Marguerite.
No one has forgotten it, and it will never be for-
gotten, because history will record one of the
most sublime acts of conjugal love and devotion.
Madame Bazaine is young, handsome and
distingui, and will not fail to take rank among
our principal ladies. She is niece of Madame de
Fuentes, and will stay at the house of this lady, 26,
Rue de PArenal, until she finds a domicile suitable for
her family. We await with impatience the arrival of
Madame Bazaine to offer her proofs of the consideration
which are due to her rare qualities, her high order of
virtue, and her undeserved misfortunes."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

PENNY BANKS FOR THE WORKING
CLASSES.

A Penny Bank for Lond in, like that in Yorkshire, I
which holds invested deposits to the extent of £lOO,OOO,
is about to be started (remarks the Globe). It will
facilitate the purchase of Consols in small sums, pro-
mote life insurance, and encourage investments
generally. All friends of the working class must wish
the scheme success ; and it is to be hoped, since thenew
bank will act as a centre to penny banks already in
existence, many more will be formed in connection with
it. The accusation constantly made by foreigners
against English workmen is that they lack thrift. And
the charge is well founded. One has only to compare
I the way in which a French and an English labourer
enjoy a holiday, to see how reckless the latter is in the
expenditure of small sums. The Frenchman gets twice
as much pleasure from his " outing " at half the cost.
Aud we fear the wives of the English workman are not
I models f economy. They are not remarkanle for
tidiness of appearance, yet their dress forms a large
, item in the annual expenditure. Their methods of
cooking, too, involve a far greater outlay than their
Icircumstances warrant, or than the result justifies. So
long as these unthrifty habits continue we can ex-
pect no marked improvement in the outward
circumstances of workmen. The institution of
penny banks is a valuable aid in the cultivation of
economy. They offer a motive for saving the
smallest sums; and by-and-by a considerable amount
is collected, and in vectors obtain the means of
sensibly bettering their position. In carrying on these
banks as little outlay as possible should be incurred.
The grand object must, of course, be to make them
really helpful to the comparatively poor; and this can
be effected only if the profits, as nearly as possible,
fall wholly to investors. Penny banks offer an ad-
mirable opportunity for philanthropic effort. We
know few ways in which business men with leisure
could do more good than by undertaking the manage-
ment of such an institution. Let the banks be started,
and we have no doubt many will come forward and
offer their services.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE RIDE FROM VIENNA TO
PARIS.

Count Zubowitt, the Austrian lieutenant who made
a heavy bet that he would ride from Vienna to Paris
on one horse in fifteen days, arrived at the appointed
goal, the Barri4re do Trone, at twelve minutes to ten
o'clock on Monday morning, being just twelve minutes
within the thrit. Two members of the Jockey
Club rode out to meet him as far as Vincennes, and
escorted him into Paris, riding several yards
behind while he went along at a hand gallop, his
watch telling him that he had the game in his hands.
He wore a loose grey dress, a flexible broad beaver
hat and Hessian boots. He is a good-looking man of
thirty, compactly built, rather under-sized, and with
a neat black beard. His steed, a handsome black
horse, showed no signs of fatigue. At the barrier
several Austrian gentlemen, one of them being a meim
her of the Legation, were waiting to ref-sive him.
There was a group of perhaps 2,000 persons attracted
by the news of tie coming, and some friendly cheers
for Austria and Hungary were raised. The Count got
into a carriage sent by the Austrian Embassy, and
went to the Grande HoteL The bets on the event
exceed, it is said, two hundred thousand pounds.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Grainger, in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. I. liolliuson, Hall,
Homer, Baker, Wood, Thompson, Guest, Oliver,
W. Rollinson, and Fiddian. The minutes of the
last meeting were read and confirmed. Admit-
ted into the house during the week, 12 ; dis-
charged, 13; dead, 1; born, 1; remaining, 314.
Corresponding week last tear, 352. Out door
relief: liingswinford district, 1:22 153 2d;
Stourbridge district, 1:16 153 1011 ; Halesowen
district £l6 Itia ld; non-resident paupers, lie 81,
total ..e57 103 lid; against £5B 16s 8d last year.

In answer to a letter from ;the inhabitants of
Dennis Park, asking them to put in repair Collis-
stre,t and King William-street. The Local Go-
vernment Board had sent a letter to the Guardi-
ans to the elect that they had no authority to
repair the streets in question, and a res.,lation
was passed by the Board to that effect, and tel-
ling them to apply to the Highway authorities,
to request the owners of prupaty to put the
street in repair.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

DRUNKENNESS IN ENGLAND AND
WALES.

The number of persons charged before magistrates
in England and Wales in 1873 with being drunk or
drunk and disorderly—namely, 182,941—is very naarly
double the number so charged in 1863, in which year
it was but 94,745. The increase has been chiefly in the
last AI of the intervening ten years. In 1867 the
number was but 100,357; in 1868 it was 111,465; in
1869, 122,310; in 1870, 131,870; in 1871, 142,343 ; in
1872, 151,084. In 1873, the first year under the new
Intoxicating Liquors Act, instead of a continuance of
the increase of 10,000 or 11,000 in a year, the number
leaped up to 182,941, an increase of nearly 32,000 over
the preceding year. There are no means of distributing
the increase among its causes, whether high wage',
stricter police supervision, or other cause; but
the number is remarkable. It is worth notice, also,
that the increase is more among men than among
women. In 1867 the number proceeded against com-
prised 74,860 men and 25,497 women—three men to one
woman, the women being very little above a fourth of the
whole number; but in 1873 the numbers were 141,232
men and 41,709 women, the women in 1867 being 400
more than a fourth of the whole number, but in 1873
4,000 lens than a fourth of the whole number. It
should be explained that, strictly speaking, the returns
do not show the number of persons proceeded against,
but the number of proceedings taken, so that an
habitual drunkard may be counted more than once in
the same year. It is as well to state, also, that the
" year " in these police returns is from Michaelmas to
Michaelmas; it continues to be one of the peculiarities
of our annual volume of "Judicial Statistics " that
some criminal returns are for a year ending at Michael-
mas, and others are for a year ending on the 31st of
December.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

" Yelping terrier, rusty key,
Was Welter Scott Bret Jediiart fee.

HIS SIMPLE STOCK IN THLDL —ln one of the Eng-
lish colonies, says a traveller, I came across a wander-
ing minstrel who could not even play the oboe or any
other instrument; his stock in trade consisted id a
coarse bass voice, great assurance, and a variety of
expedients for inducing a belief that he had a good
iroice. But he could never persuade people to go and
hear him a second time. This was a serious obstacle
to his success. To overcome it the eccentric basso, at
every place he visited, announced a series of four con-
certs, the tickets for the series being at a considerably
reduced price. By this plan he generally obtained a
handsome sons at starting; but this was not the only
gratifying result; he never had to exert himself twice
for the money. Two or three loungers would drop in
on the second night, to whom the unfortunate vocalist
would gracefully advance, and after dilating upon the
absence of musical taste among the Ene;lish generally,
would conclude by suggesting that his audience of
three had better come and have a cigar. To the third
concert nobody at all went, not even the basso himself
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

[Entered at Stationer's 11340.]—Price Is., or enclosed
post paid from the author for 12 stamps.
MANHOOD. A MEDICAL ESSAY on the
functions and disorders of the reproductive organs
in youth, manhood, and aid age, with observations on the
treatment and cure of NERVOUS EiIIAIbTION. I limit sL
DEBILITY, LOWARSS or SPIRITS AC., being the result of 30
years' successful practice. By 1. L.CURT/S, M.D.( 16. Amin-
-STAMM PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

RIVINWS Or Tee PRESS.
" There Is no member of Society by whom this book will
not be found useful—whether such person hold the relation
of Parent, Preceptor, or Clergyman."—Sus, evening paper.
Cubists or MSNIIOOI3.-77T5 TROVSANO—AbIv written and
plainly describes the source of those dioceses which produce
decline in youth. and more frequently premature old age.—
Daily To/egrepe, 27th March, Iftiti.
Ovens ON MaCflooD should be in the bands of youth and
old age. It is a medical publicaUon, developing the treat-
ment et class of painful malulies, which have too long been
the prey of the illiterate and designing.—nietra Serrier
050.16.
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practice in the treatment of s painful and distressing class
of diseases, will be found to contain plain directions for the
sure of many diseases hitherto abandoned an hopeless.—
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

HOW TO TAKE CARE OF FURS.

Most ladies suppose that care in putting away fun
Is all that is required; they can wear them when and
bow they please, provided they expend a few pence
for camphor in putting them away. Tnis idea should
be corrected. More harm is done to furs by wearing
them for a week after the weather has become warm,
than during a whole cold season. Moreover, when laid
aside they should be brushed the right way with a
soft brush, an old linen handkerchief folded smoothly
over them, and a piece of gum camphor kept in the
box all the time, just as good housekeepers keep a
piece tucked away under the cushion coverings of chairs
or sofas if they are velvet or woollen, and xprinkle it
under the edges of carpets all the year round to keep
the moths away. A cedar closet is a treasure, and
next to that is the comfort of a cedar chest, in which
furs and woollens can be kept; but if neither is avail.
able, the next best thing is to put furs away as early as
possible (using a scarf and lined gloves to break the
force of the later spring east winds), well wrapped in old
cotton or linen, in their own boxes, with a layer of
gum camphor above and a layer of gum camphor
below. This will prove effcctuaL In this climate all
closets and bureau drawers should be emptied of their
contents once in about three mmths, the articles well
shaken and exposed to the open air' the woodwork
(shelves particularly) scrubbed with scalding alum-
water, and powdered with borax. If this were done
we should hear less of the depredations by moths and
other insects.—Pictorial World.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE ASHANTEE WAR.

In the address which was presented to Sir Garnet
Waiteley a short time ago, when the City gave him a
sword for his able conduct of the late Expedition in
West Africa, reference was made to the difficulties
and dangers with which he had to contend in that
campaign.
Few know of the sad havoc which death has made
ainong the small band of officers who were serving
there, but our readers will be able to form an estimate
of the climate of the Gold Coast from the following
list, with which we have been favoured by a corres-
pondent. Out of this heavy death list of 42 officers,
only six died from wounds:—
Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell, Ist West India Regi-
ment • Major Baird, 42nd Regiment; Major Saunders,
Royal Artillery; Captain Thompson. 2nd queen's
Bays; Captain Butler, let West India Regiment;
Captain Hopkins, 2nd West India Regiment: Captain
Buckle, Royal Engineers; Captain Hayshe. Rifle Bri-
gade; Captain Nicol, Adjutant Hants Volunteers;
Lieutenants Dalglish and Warner, 2nd West India,
Regiment; Lieutenants Clough and Burke, let Weet
India Regiment; Lieutenant Eartiley Wilmot, Royal
Artillery; Lieutenant Eyre, 90th Regiment; Leintenant
Gray, Royal Marine Light Infantry; Lieutenant the
Hon. A. Charteris, Grenadier Guards ; Lieutenant John-
son. 22nd Regiment, Lieutenant Roper, Ist West India
Regiment; Lieutenant Toemshend, 16th Regiment;
Lieutenants Elderton, Huntmgford, and Williams.
Ist West India Regiment ; Sub-Lieutenant Cox, 2nd
West India Regiment; Captain Blake, R.N., Staff
Commander Prickett, Lieutenants Wells and flirted,
and Sub-Lieutenants Mundy, Bradshaw, and Ficklin,
Naval Brigade ; Commissaries Marsh and Marsden ;
Assistant Commissaries Reid, Ilarrymount, and
Burke; Surgeons Major Borrows and Kelly ; Sur-
geons Clarke, Bale, and WCarthy ; Captain of ll:order-
lies Dillon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

LEAVES VERSUS FLOWERS.

We should always prefer flowers to leaves if we
Gould obtain them in accordance with the highest re-
quirements of geometric colouring. As a matter of
fact we cannot, and we give preference to the leaves
because they more completely conform to the designs
of the artist, for with him colour in everything, and
there can be nothing more certain than that in this
dsgma he is right. There are districts and departments
of the garden where sentiments may be gratified, and
we sh;mld be sorry to interfere in any way with the
secret rapture of the lover of mere weeds. But
geometric schemes must be richly coloured, and if
leaves will do it better than flowers leaves must have
the preference, and we will without compunction ,
ignore the claims of flowers entirely, and the tenderest
pleas of those who would unwisely vindicate their
claims. The advancement of leaves in bedding dates
from the introduction of Perilla Nankinensis and
Coleus Verschatfelti. It was not the gaiety, but the
unity of the colouring of those plants that ensured
their popularity. A good bed of flowers will always
be enjoyed; but when colour, and colour only, is the
object sought, it matters not what the material con-
sists of; and here, as a rule, and to a certain extent,
the leaves have the advantage. Plants that produce
the effects required of them by means of their flowers
are false to the scheme they play part in at the
beginning and end of their career. In the first
instance, they are green with dots of red, purple,
yellow, or whatever the colours of their flowers may be.
In due time, if the season favours them, they become
solid with flowers, and then leaves are obscured by
the greater glory. But having culminated, they go
down, and as the season ebbs away they become :nom
and more leafy, and when taken up are, generally
speaking, quite flowerless and as rank as cabbages.
On the other hand, the leaf plants produce their
iaroper effects as regards tone of colour on the very
day they are planted, and that continues to the very

last. They change certainly as the season advances,
but not in lone or character; the change is in
intensity or degree. The planting may be com-
Oeted (say) by the first week in June, and will then
he perfect as regards the original intention of the
colourist; but it will be richer in July and August,
and will not seriously decline in September, although,
of course, a.s the temperature declines and the rainfall
increases, the colours of the leaves will be more and
more washed out. But we may, by employing leaves
judiciously, reckon upon three months' display in good
character, eavris paribus, by employing flowers we
cannot reckon more than six weeks' display of a
character equally good -that is to say, good for the
systetn.—Oarcleiters Magaztne.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

THE TERRIBLE TYPHOON IN CHINA.

The Overland China Mail says that the typhoon
which on the night of September 22 swept over Hong
Kong was one of the most fearful ever known in the
colony. Fourteen vessels were sunk in the harbour,
four were driven ashore, and fifteen were dismaeted or
otherwise injured, while six were missing, and a vast
number leaking and require examining. The whole
Freya from the City Hall to the West Point," adds
the Overland China Mad, "is a heap of ruins.
Every pier and jetty, except one, is ahnoet entirely
destroyed. The damage done to property is
fearful. Nearly every house has been more or
less damaged, and the finest trees are blown down.
Several Chinese houses have been levelled. The loss
of native life is appalling. A rough estimate puts it
at 1,000, and some 200 bodies have as yet bees re-
covered, while numbers are still coming to shore. The
Praya is actually offensive from the number of corpses.
Amongst the native craft more than one half nave
been lost. In the height of the tornado, as the
steamers Albay and Leunar were foundering with their
crews and passengers, an alarm of fire added to
the horrors of the night. Happily, the flames
were soon extinguished by the fearful gusts of
wind, or half the native town must have gone.
The water rose four feet over the Praya, and
morning dawned upon a city presenting the
appearance of having suffered bombardment. Over
Canton the storm swept with comparative lightness.
But Macao passed an even more terrible night than
Hong Kong. Nut only was the wreckage by wind and
wave almost as great, but a band of incendiaries set
fire to the town, and a hundred houses, together with
a fine church, fell a prey to the flames. The water
rose there, as here, several feet. The White Cloud and
two men-of-war are total wrecks, and the most beauti-
ful portions of the city are mere ruins."
A letter from Macao says :—" The town is over-
thrown. If the Chinese hordes had been in possession
of it after an assault it would not have been woree,
It is heartrending to see this dire calamity. Every-
where you bear the lamentations of the unfortunate
victims. To give an idea of the extent of the loss in
native shipping I may say that in the Typa Har-
bour in the beginning of the typhoon there were
600 junks, while after it only fourteen were found !
Corpses strew the banks everywhere; wrecks are to
be found in the most extraordinary locations. A junk
was thrust into Mr. Ybele's house, and many junks
are on the hills at Lapa Island. The native villages
near Macao have been swept away. Typa and Colowan
are no more. The loss of life there is considered to
exceed two thousand persons. In Macao it is perhaps
greater."
It is stated in the same letter that two men-of-war
were carried a long distance inland, and one of them
stranded in a rice-field. A new fort was washed
away, with new guns of large calibre.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

STOURBRIDGE CHRISTMAS STOCK
SALE & SHOW OF BEEF & MUTTON,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15th, 1874.

Early Entries solicited.
£ll 11. Od us Prises sill be given at this Bele, for par-
ticulars apply to
H. KIICI, Auctioneer, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

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the Vow Hunting Stsistin,fcr Refreehnituts,itc.

SURGEON DTI.

MR. A. H.

BROADHURST

IT:EGS reapectfully to announce to the
I uliabitaots of E tomb, ge and its rich iiy, that
he may be Consulted every Moral, from 10 S.M. to 5
p.m., at Hr. PACiLTI'S, 138. lilGll-511(LE1 (Next
to the Talbot Hotel), upon all pointa app. rtainimg to
Di ntistry, toth in the Saigical and llechaoical Depart-
ments, and trusts that by strict adheience to Pifodrrate
Charger and the employment of beat Materials and
Workimuiship to merit a chair of their kind patronage
and atiplort.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

KINVER.

A DRCNKEN WOM im.—At the Petty Sessions held on
Monday, t Brierley Hill, before Messrs. Y. Evers and
H. Hall, Ann Nixon, wan charged with being druuk on the
30th ult. Police-begeaut ;Stevens proved the cane. De-
fendant was fined ha and costs.

ScsiooL Bosun PEOSECCTIONS.—The following persons
summond by George Bunker for neglecting to send their
children to school. William Dudley, Thomas Capewell
Henry If naiad, John Dsvies, Mark Waltou, Frcticrick
Williams, and Henry Young. CAnplainant proved all
the cases. Dudley was fined ii; Capeweil, is; Burford,
dismissed ; Davies 5s ; Walton 2s; Wulluuiun, bs aud
Young, ss. . _

_
BuEscn OF THE PEACE —Michael Jarrell and Thomas
Harris, were charged with committing a breach of the
peace by fighting on the 7th iust ant William Alford,
with aiding mad abetting. Police-sergeant Stevens
said that on Sunday morning he was at Sandy Lane,
and saw the two defendants fighting a pitched battle,
Allen was seconding one of the men. Both of the
fighters were stripped. Defendants pleaded guilty.
Each of the defendafits was ordered to tiad one surety
in £5 and themselves in £lO to keep the peace for three
months.

Smoot. Bosen.—The usual fortnightly meeting was
held on Tuesday evening; the Rev. J. Hodgson in the
chair. Replying to a queation, the Clerk stated that
scarlatina which declining in the anti id. A lett, wee
read from the Education Department, acquiescing in the
propoaal of the Board to build a new boy a' school in the
position inditated on the plan.—On the motion of Me.
Jordan, seconded by Mr. Bunn, it was unanimously
resolved, "That the Education Department having cane.
Coned the erection of the boys new school OD the piece
of land offered by Mr. Stevens, the Board do at once
enter into an agreement for the purchase of the beam at
the price at which it has been offered, viz ,£l5O, and that
the Clerk do take all necessary steps to get the purchase
completed with as little delay as possible."—The Clerk
was imarnetesi to request Mr. Thomas Sundt, architect,
to attend the next meeting, and to'receive the directions
ef the Board as to preparing plans for a school to accom-
modate 200 boys.—Several parents were reported as
having been fined fia each for neglecting to send their
children to school.—This was all the public business.
BANQUET—On Tuesday evening last, the annral ban-
quet, given by the Mayor, took place at the White Hart
Hotel. Mr. S Stevens, the Mayor, presided, and Mr.
J. Morris, en-Mayor, occupied the vice-chair. Upwards
of twenty sat down to an excellent spread, provided by
the host. The usual loyal and other toast, were given,
and • convivial evening was spent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

ASIATIC JUGGLING.

The next day there was a tremendous crowd to see
the juggler, who had established himself in an open
spsce in the middle of the bazaar. He was a fine.
looking old fellow, with a long white beard, in a rich
Indian dress; and he looked so slim and graceful, and
so high-bred, among all these rough, common-looking
fellows, that at first I had eyes for nothing else. Then
the juggling began; and very clever it was. I'm quite
used to it now; but thin was my first sight of it, and I
was immensely astonished. First, a little girl came
forward, and played on a kind of tambourine, and
danced to the music. Then the juggler suddenly
began to scold her, till she seemed to get frightened,
and hid herself under a huge basket which he had put
beside, him—but he instantly drew his sword, and
ran it through the basket; there was a loud shriek,
and the sword came back all bloody. Then some of
the people thought he had really killed her, and ran
forward to seize him ; but when they lifted the basket
there was nothing there; and presently the girl came
running out from somewhere or other, perfectly sound.
Then there were great cries of "Yakobi, yakshi "(well
done), and when the girl went round with her tam-
bounne, she got as much money as she could hold.
Then another man who was with him spread a tent,
and the juggler went in. Presently the tent was drawn
away, and there was the of. ellow sitting cross-legged in
the air, with nothing to support him; and the assistant
took a sword and slashed about on all sides of his master,
to show that there was nothing there. Then he took a
largo egg, and, laying it on a board, struck it with his
sabre, without doing it the least harm. Then he told
one of the spectators to pick it up; but although the
man took it as carefully as he could, it broke all to
bits in his fingers. So then there was more applause.
Then he showed us the mango-trick, which, they tell
me, is very common in India too. He planted a
mango-pip in the lard clay, making one of the crowd
water it himself, to show that there was no trick in
that, and then out a cloth over it. Presently he took
it off, and there was the first shoot just above the
earth. The next time he uncovered it, the thing had
shot up some height, and had got a blossom on it. The
third uncovering showed us the fruit just forming;
and at the fourth, it was already ripe, and he gave us
bits of it to tafite.--The Boy Slam in Bokhara.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-11-14

MARK TWAIN ON INSURANCE
COMPANIES.

,1 Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was present
! at a dinner given recently by the insurance men of
Hartford, Connecticut, and in the course of a speech
! said: "Certainly there is no nobler field for human
effort than the insurance line of business—especially
accident insurance. Ever since I have been a director
in an accident insurance company I have felt that I
am a better man.-Life has seemed more precious. Ac-
cidents have assumed a kindlier aspect. Distressing
speelal providences have lost half their horror. I look
upon a cripple now with an affectionate interest—as
an advertisement. Ido not seem to care for poetry
any more. Ido not care for polities ; even agriculture
does not excite me. But to ins now there is a charm
&Lout a railway collision that is unspeakable. Thera
is nothing more beneficent than accident insurance. I
have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and
into affluence by the simple boon eta broken leg. !have
had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their
eyes, to bless the beneficent institution. In all my ex pe-
rience of life I have seen nothings i seraphic as the look
that comes into the freshly-mutilated man's face when he
feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand, and
finds his accident ticket all right. And I have seen
nothing so sari as the look that came into another
splintered customer's face when he found that he
couldn't collect on a wooden leg. I will remark
here by way of an advertisement that that
noble charity which we have named is an institu-
tion which is peculiarly to be depended upon. A
man is bound to prosper who gives it his
rust ma. No man can take out a policy in it and
not get crippled before the year is out. Now therf
was one indigent man who had been disappointed sc
often with other companies that he had grown dix
heartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile
said life was but a weariness. Three weeks ago I got
him to insure with us, and now he is the brightest,
happiest spirit in this land, has a good, steady income,
and a stylish suit of new bandages every day, and
travels around on a shutter.