The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18 00:00:00

Nisallantons ntettigarti,

NOME, FOREIGN, AND CFLONII.I4

A PATHETIC APPEAL !—Here ISa most affect-
ing appeal to the ladies of New York :
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.11 the mnjority of women who go on Broadway win
paint and powder, let them do it ertistieally. lithe thing is
worth doing at all, let it be so well done as to defy detect lin.
The world may be • stage, hut that Is no re•son why the
women In It sheuld always be rouged as though ready for
the footlights No Man, scarcely • noy, is deceived by these
heterogeneous applications of lily-white and oriental MIMI,
rouge-vinsfgre and- tonsorial tinctures. Ladles and gentle-
men! If we cannot suppress the Vice. let us regulate It; and
since many genuine specimens of female beauty most be
looked for on Broadway in vain, let us entreat that the
efforts to approximate it may be made with • reasonable
degree of skill."
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Klee Corroar !—ln the year 1872 there were
exported from the United Kingdom 3,535,157,576 yards
of cotton pieta, goods. Tele gives an average of 5,488
miles of cottou piece goods sent abroad every day in
the year.

HONEY MINE.—The English public has
been startled of late by sensational projects of mining
for the precious metals and precious stones in the Pacific
regions of the United States of America, but these
marvellous tales have bees cast into the shade by other
alleged discoveries. One of these is called a soap
mine, another a paint ruins, and—the latest of which
we have hoard—a honey mine, discovered in a cleft of
rock to an incredible depth! The inhabitants, how-
ever, the natural fabricators of the treasure, refuse to
be dislodged, and have in vast numbers resiated the
invaders.

A BOY PRINCE'S LETTER.—Arnong the docu-
ments examined fee phot graphic entire for the Record
Office, is the celebrated llentnylne Collection, belong-
ing to the Advocates'•Lihrary in Edinbuigh, and made
up of correspondence between King James VI. and
different members of his family. Among them is a
letter to King James from bin grandson little Prince
Freierict Henry, eldest son of Elisabeth of Bohemia,
who was afterwarde drowned near Amsterdam in the
beginning oi January, 1629, and it ran thus: -
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_
Mose your baud. I would fain nee yor. Majestie.
I can say nomin4tive Mc Mee, hoc, and all 5 declensions and
apart of pronomen and a part verbtim. I have two horses
alive, that can koe U toy Metres. • black horse and a chesbut
horse I pray God to Mess your Majestic. Yor. Majesties
obedient Grandchild, FREDERICK GERRY."

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PRIZ6 COTTON.—Mr. Yeiser, of Jackson,
Misaisdpui, was the fortunate grower of the bale of
cotton which took the eweepetekes premium of 1,000
dole, at the St. Louis late fair. This bale W/11 then emit to
Memphis. and won the sweepstakis there. It was then
sent to Jackson, and won the sweep-itakes there. Thus
this bale of cotton has been three times adjudged to be
the best bale of cotton on exhibition, and each time by
a totally different set of judger. After the Jackson
Fair was over its owners shipped the bale back to :al.
Louis for sale. They cold it for 35 cents per lb to
a gentleman who will ship it to the great world's exhibi-
tion at Vienna.

A TURFAT FROM BERLIF.—The Daily Nei'.
publishas the following telegram from 13, ran :—The
New Prussian (CrosB) Coulte, which I now the
iniateri..l organ, has a lung and bittsr article against
England. It epeaks of the invaaion of I(hiva, Ed the
Geroan ncgot'ations for the acquisition of Deloba Bay,
and the Ann rican movement fur the anuextion%f the
Sandwith Islands as combined attacks on En di-oh
prestige. The ardcle flatters Rusaia and the United
Sta. es, says they are, with Germany, the three great
Powers, and hints that they might divide the world
between them.

RELIGIOUS TEACHING rs BOARD SCHOOLS.
The London Nonconformist Committee have passed a
resolution ex oreseive of the very etrong disap trobation
with which they regard the proposal of Canon Barry,
that the London School Board ehould inspect the re-
ligious instruction of the echo is under its authority.
Such a course wilt, in the judgment of Nonconformists,
involve the apilication of dogmatic taste, be a gra-
tuitous interference with the freedom of the teacher.,
and obviously lead to the furtherance of sectarianism
in education. On these grounds, therefore, the com-
mittee earnestly hope that the proposal will be met
with strenuous and succeseful resistance.

SPISCULATION AND SANSKRIT.—The new trans-
lation of an ancient work whi h Professor Max Muller
is bringinr out comtitutei a theme of interett in com-
mercial circles. Gtntlemen on the Stock Exchange,
eepecially, are anxious to know whether acquaintance
with the Big Veda hymns will help anybody to rig the
market.—Punth.

NAPOLEON AND ma Jaws. The Jewish
Chronicle say.:—

"The intelligence of the death of the Emperor Napoleon
HI. is • sobJect of deep regri-t to the Jewish commuutty.
The late Emperor and his d)nasty have always been favour-
ably dung:wed towrds the moue of religious freedom and
the political interests of the Jewa both in France and duo-
where. The Jews were emancipated in France first among
all European countries. There have been instances of the
kindly feeling entertained by the Emperor and his govern.
merit toreros our race. A gent ref sentiment of regret will
assuredly be felt throughout tins country, which can only
manifest itself ii. ynop ,tily with tie widow and fatherless
Prince on whom the terrible blow has fallen."

SPIRITUALISM AND SMARM- RARE. —ln a letter
to Prince Henry, the Divine Williams makes Falatoff
sign himself "Jail Falstaff, with uny familiars."
Souae commentators aril hence, perhaps, infer that
Sbakspeare was a Spiritualist —Punch.

THE CONING LOCAL TAXATION BILL. —A
correspondent of the Lirerpool Poat writes :
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The bill to regulate the incidence of local taxation is to be
the great bill of the coming session. It is already drawn and
in the banda of the printer, and next week a copy sill be de-
Beeped to every member of the Cabinet. It does not merely
regulate the Incidence of local taxation. It also takes from
the moiety magistrates the management of the expenditure,
and transfers it to an assembly elected by the ratepayers.
It does not realise Sir Massey Lopes' ideal, nor does it adopt
all Mr. Goshen's alarming proposals. It will be mentioned
in the Queen's Speech, and will be introduced very soon
after the opening of the session. On the 10th of April, 1570,
Sir Massey Lopes moved • resolution on the incidence of
taxation, and carried It against the Government by a ma-
jority 01 100 in. House of 418. This was • challenge to the
Government, and this bill la the answer. It will probably
relieve the farmers to ii,me small extent of the direct pres-
sure of local taxation; but It will also relieve them from the
Irresponsible administrators of the taxes, which is certainly
more than Sir Massey Lopes asked for.
A Luese RECOGNITION Thiers in his
" Consulat et Empire" tells an interesting anecdote
concerning the family of M Paul CdrBsole, just elected
President of the Swiis Confederation, Aftet Jena,
when Napoleon was riding through a forsst on his way
to Potalani, he was oveit kin by a storm and isought
shelter in a ahooting hog, where he found several ladies.
He was much annoyed at being recognized by one of
them, and asked abruptly, "How do yen know me
"Sire,' was the reply, "I was with your Majesty in
Egypt, and my husband was killed m your eervice."
The lady then explained that having been unable to
procure a pension she had been under the names ty of
+eoting the situati+ in of governess. the Emperor
prcinised hi have her provided for, and to see to the
eilu• ation of her son, who was of course sent to a
military college. Napoleon signed the requisit papers
the same evening, said said, laughing, "that th s was
the firet adventure that had ever happened to him in a
forest after a tempest." Young Ceresole, not liking
the profession of arms, soon left La Fieche and went
to Switzerland, where he became a pastor, married,
and hag+ seven children, of whom the President of the
Confederation is one.
GA iH s RING UP THE FRAGMENTS.—LaIit Week
Meisra. Hutchinson and Dixon sold off, at the cob
lierii s, Wiehaw, which belonged to the late Mr.
Archibal I Ruotell, an ironn, flue quantity of coal droia
which hail been allowed to accumulate for want of
sale at a time when the material said millers' wages
were at a different figure+. Numerous owners of public
works and dialers appeared, and the result was •
speedy clearance at prices ratigiog fr• in 24. 71. to
4s. 81. per ton—average, about 4,,.—the buyers over
and ab 'ye the price taking • the delivery of the same
at their own expense. Within the last two years the
auctioneers had a difficulty in ceilings better &Akio
at eightpence a ton.

SIR/010d MEMORIALS OF WAR.—The in.
vasion of France by the Germans has had a curious
influence on the flora of the former country (remarks
the G10,,e). A large number of foreign plants chiefly
from the South of Europe, the seeds of which were
brought by the invading army along with forage and
by other means, have sprung up in the neighbourhood
of P .ris, and establish,' themselvee either temporarily
or per mosneetly. Two brench botanists have published
a Florida Obsidionalii, or flora of the two sieges, in-
cluding lflO species hithert • unknown to the district.
Nearly the whole of them b long to fatuities of plants
employed for forage or other commissariat purposes,
58 being species of the lecuminosre, or pea and clover
tribe, 34 compositie, and 32 craws, the remaining 66
belonging to other orders. 'the greater number of the
plants were found on the left bank of the Seine, though
several were met with at Neuilly, the Bois de Boulogne,
and Ranelagh, on the right bank ; beyond the line of
German investment scarcely sty were found. The
majority of thew, denizens will probably disappear in
one or two if...aeons, while others will ne doubt stand
their ground long after the soil of France has been
purged from its human invaders. The Paris flora at
present includes at least one plant which 1•83 introduced
by the Russ' ens in 1815.

A Puokuttr.—ls it emeivfont for man' who
Jr .fee..,k to lie a Teetotaller, to think no email beer of
himself ? Punch.

AUTOGRAPHS Or LITERARY CELEBRITIES.—
The New York Trilndte, in describing a beanti'ul album
of pictirres and of autographs of people of genius, be-
gun by New York ladies as a contribution in aid .4
the French sufferers by the war, but the proceeds of
which will now be applied to the establishment in
Paris of an onsectarian girls' school on the American
plan, has the followiog remarks on the chirographic
portion of the collection :—" Tennyson's autograph
is neat and small, Prescott's and Cooper's most
minute' Theodore Parker's too; Henn Taine,
s Saintßeuve, and George Eliot all make very pretty,
little, legible MS. De To,queville's chirography
is screwy and crooked, General Scott's indescribably
awful; George Sand's is masculine, Halleck's spidery,
Emerson's flue and long ; D. G. Itosetti's is large and
careless, Jean Ingelow's thoroughly ladylike, Victor
Hugo's scrapi.iy and hurried, almost like shorthand,
Carlyle's a mere scratch, Ruskin's little and crabbed,
Webster's ugly and not neat, Refuel Cboate's the utterly
' unreadable. Included in the collection are original
musical MSS. by distinguished composers, Verdi
among the rest. Various poets have given poems, ori-
ginal and selected, the oddest being one of Joaquin
Miller's."