The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-13 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

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ICELANDERS IN Govenood
having sst apart a land reserve in the neighbouctoi-
of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Iceland,ie
grants, sixty families of these, containing 21-u 7, A
arrived there about the middle of last mont"'..,ol.
hundred and fifty Icelanders who settled in the 'Po%
time province of Nova Scotia during the present
express themselves well satisfied with the cc'eD
and 500 more are expected to arrive next year.
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AMERICAN COTTONS AT MANCHESTER.-
amusement has been created at Manchester hiof
notice taken elsewhere of a recent exporta, Iltbstt
American cloth which was sold at lower PrlceliTo the
could be quoted for articles of a similar
produce of Lancashire mills (remarks The
The fact governing all calculations of this stibr, I
the existence in America of a very high proqb#
tariff to keep Manchester manufacturers out of to
country. As long as this is the case it is obvioul/
some very exceptional reason must account f°ro
body's ability to dispose of American made cotto
England. The depression of American trade 0
resit. va
have gone so far in some quarters as to --Asir
expedient to undersell Lancashire as a last rese.,,..in
disposing of goods on hand. This:is simply oell7oeff
stock "at a sacrifice,” and such bargains are 0°,4
likely to be often repeated than the French itorc-00.
unbleached printing-cloth to England during the 10,
famine, or an importation of Russian cotton Yarn II
was made in the same emergency.
THE LARGEST-SIZED TURKEY SPONG,-'"
Sultan.— Punch. - f

THE CHINESE ARMY. —Had England's dilzybo,
with China resulted in war, the military contslio
of the Cologne Gazette warns us that our trecPs
have to encounter a foe very unlike and far bug. I
ably superior to the one opposed to them in, wii7s
Anglo-Chinese war. The Chinese army o',
altogether different from that of 1860 and
system of army reform was initiated as earl,'
In 1864 the first Chinese arsenal was construtea
the American model. Since then several es7„l
ments of the same kind have been added. UP
Englishmen, Americans, and Frenchmen we'nd
ployed promiscuously as military instructora_ala.
spectors of arsenals and military workshops
like. Since 1868, however, the English and Arfl:o
officials have been carefully weeded out of the s
and the monopoly has been given to the French..., A

" THERE,ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVIN 4711)'
EARTH," &C.—Affable Parson (in Yorkshire thr;St.
"And what race-horse do you think will win,
Leger Stakes Stakes to-day, Sir ? "—Bookmaker. `-.„'''';boo„'
I know !—'wish I did. 'Think Legrange
pull it off. I can accommodate you to a ponP, '`ll
like, y' know. But" (seeing no chance of a oe",4101
mayn't be bad business to flutter a bit on the;pre
Foreigners, and to take the odds to a quid °lst I/
against the Fyfield pick, and Bates's best, wtifes
place I !"—[Clerical Gent "gives it ,up," and
behind his '6 Times."]—PUNCH. f
MARITIME DISASTERS.—The direction .(:), itt
Bureau Veratis has just published the follovini,toste
tistics of maritime disasters, reported during theg3ilhig
of September, 1875, concerning all flags.
vessels reported lost :-53 vessels English, nine LW.*
six French, six Norwegian, four American, four Watch,
three Danish, three Russian, three Swedish, tw,.°,
one Sparish, and two of which the nationsiol, fon'
known—total 96. In this number are include.,,to
sailing vessels reported missing. Steamers rempreir
lost :—Six steamers English, two Swedish, one UP
can, and one Spanish—total 10. In this nunihe'
eluded one steamer reported missing. ;
GARDEN Rußsism—The rubbish which .BclooB
in the fields, in the orchards, gardens, &c., o.thtesenv
of the season, furnishes hiding places for a 05'800
her of vermin. Eggs, larvve of destructive
and other pests find a safe refuge wherein to regfiesw
winter in husks, stalks, &c., and upon or
pieces of bark, chips, weeds, loose boards, leree,
corners of out-buildings.. If the rubbish is gii"Aslih
raked up, and burned, and buildings whitoW,es
myriads of vermin would be destroyed and Prelose"A
from propagating. As soon as the fields are,, OOP'
from crops, and work in the gardens and °rod 00
ceases, a general clearing up should be made, tore."
protection given to vermin of any kind or
The Garden.
Garden. I fel'
L'ExTENTE CORDIALE. —The delighthi-
pathy between England and France has another 1110;
tration in the all but contemporaneous loss of th.,„ecisl'
guard and the Magenta. What charming recillis.."
Let both countries rejoice until the bills are
Punch. °f
CATTLE DISEASE. During the—ra°l' vie°
October 256 animals imported from scheduled oljeria
were found on arrival at British ports to be
from foot-and-mouth disease, and 7 from sheelie
The whole of these were slaughtered under
structions of the Privy Council, together wittj
healthy animals brought in the same vessel' there
diseased animals. From unscheduled countriest.ol.
were imported 2,118 animals affected with f°c'rehese,
mouth disease, and 3 with pleuro-pneumonia- the
together with 39,803 healthy animals brought tione,
same vessels, were slaughtered under the instruhpc
of the Privy Council. By far the larger
them came came from Rotterdam. err
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VEGETABLE SUSCEPTIBILITY. —ln the Er: i 0
houses of Kew we may see that a leaf can C1a,°1,130
response to a proper stimulus, as promptlY,Zo
2 lOg
human fingersthemselves • and while there Dr.l-11 fit
will tell us of the wondrous fiy-catching, *"„n seY
devouring power of the Dionma. No man CL"-A bi,
that the feelffigs of the animal are not repreSen'— P
a drowsier consciousness in the vegetable World. tbe
all events, no line has evei. been drawn betweetible
conscious and the =conscious.; for the vegtfo,t
shades into the animal by such flue gradatione,
is impossible to say where the one ends and tbe 400,
begins.—Professor Tyndall, in the FortnightlY fiet
A HAPPY THOUGHT THAT NEVER 00 vsilsP.;
—Mother (in continuation). "And so the -fa be
Pharaoh ordered that all the Baby-Boys ehetinicliil
Killed—"--Madeleine. "But, Mamma, I
„'"cji,
any of their Mothers say they was Girls ? -cot
COUNTY COURTS. There were last ',id
865,040 plaints entered for the recovery of dø 263
655 oases from the Superior Courts, egainilt °v.:ll°e
and 643 in the previous year, making nearly the,
in each year-865,695 in 1874 and 865,906 in 1873'
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A LOVE OF A BONNET —An extraollll:slo,L
bonnet has just been exhibited in one of the fashbLio
millinery establishments in Boston. It was 1037,41
dark green velvet and 4cru silk—two of the ey
colours for the coming season. On the back
bonnet, resting partly on the crown and partly °— the
brim, was an elaborate wreath of leaves.
ed
circlet, which answered for a nest, were inlYcliDath
birds of the size of sparrows. They were moull tpt,
wires so as to move easily with the motion efA.
wearer, or to swing lightly in the breath of the bre, the
Ten wings formed the trimming on one side ..h0"
bonnet, and a larger wing was intermingled "717
bandeau of velvet and silk on the other. The
large and flaring, was filled in with a mass of e4',,
flowers, loots, and twists of velvet and silk, ADD 5,113141,,,
ditional wing. A yard and a half of velvet ant 'OO et,
the quantity of silk was required for the comPletl,irde,
this monstrosity of feminine headgear. Twelve 0001
wings, six whole birds, masses of &were, leave°, eowreaths, velvet, and silk in unlimited quantity', t..
tered into the composition of this "love of a boa°
Or°
INCOME-TAX. —An Inland Revenue Re, 00
states that the amount charged with Income-ta10
x oe
financial year 1873 74 shows, under every sched° bet
increase over the amount in the preceding Yea,re;dalt
the largest increase is, as w-ual, in the trade ecD et or'
The amount assessed under Schedule A, in reePe 010
the year's value of lands, tenements, &C., el%
£150,008,849, being an increase of more tl3O der
millions over the preceding year. The amount
Schedule B, in respect of the occupation of 100
was £38,609,024, an increase of £482,600. The erril
under Schedule C, in respect of public annuitiee, ' ,
dends, &c., was £41,819,280, an increase of 21,2891,..
The amount under Schedule P. in respect of irlijoi
from professions, trades, employment s, railways, ra or
ironworks, &c., reached £224,577,73e, an increlgole
no leas than £18,857,964. The amount under Sc b„
E, in respect of public offices, was 22,5,987,1it4' ed
increase of £125,649. Thus the total amount cbl7,Bor.
to Income-tax, in the United Kingdom in the JO
1873-74 was £881,002,064, which is moreby £27,54
than in the year 1872-73.
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CONDITIONAL Co,—What class of Officu--
the British Army will the Turkish Bondholder° '
like? Those oil half-pay—if they get it.—Paiacil-
REMITTANCES HOME. Post-Office Aie
orders were issued in Australia and New &slap" le
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the year 1874 to the amounts of £198,436, par,, tllB ,
United Kingdom; but only £36,187 was sent frolbT
United Kingdom to Australia and New Zell's° ei
post-office orders. The year's remittanees
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British America to this country by post-office
amounted to £135,603; the sum sent thither. 'lit'
hence by such orders was but £38,252. The rof,ot4
tancee from the United States to this country by r
office orders were £240,886 and only £60,330 s'ilrliere
sent thither from thence. In the West Indies o ,
for £107,338 were issued payable hero, but °
£3,552 was thus sent there from this couutry.
"Six TO ONE AND HALF.A-DOZEN TOtbe
OrHER."—The Sultan has now promised halt
interest on his debts. No doubt his Word will P'"
as good as his Bonds.—Punch.
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DESIGNATING THE YOUNG MEN OF FASHIO,-•
FRANCE —A writer furnishes a list of the names cce.
to young men of fashion at different epochs in Fr!reed,
It appears that. under Henri 111. they were °'-fieo
Mignons (evidently the origin of the term ,°13,001° '
darlings") and Muguets under Henri IV. arid ,
XIII. They become Ron& under the Regencr'
the companions of the Regent Philippe and hove ot
known speech that they all deserved to be r° c;00°
broken on the wheel. Under Louis XVI. they 'oder
Freluquets, Muscadins (or musk-periumed ones)
coil.
the Terror, and Incroyables under the Dire_ itest°-
They were turned into Petits Maitres under the_, joto
ration, and afterwards to Merveilleux, changivnt
Ehigante under Charles X. During
bitohnes etrie;;
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Louis Philippe they were dandies, fas cod %-
They became Gandins (from the Brnfrm 3
thio
their favourite lounge) in the first Yea—C(oo°
I Empire, being afterwards chistene uepoblie
:etas Crbves. Now, under the Third „toe Ogg!
they are called Gommenx, a more absurd 13
any.