The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-02-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SHOPPING.—Hrer many ladies, when they go shopping, insist on seeing every-thing with their Eusgers, as it wore! Half the grown people in the world are like children, in that they look—and touch, no Matter how delicate the article exhibited ; and they need like.the two-year-old baby the perpetual reminder, "Don't touch !" What would be thought of a visitor in a private parlour, who, on pretense of seeing, should handle and dmplaco the bronzes, vases, and fragile ornaments, scatter the engravings on the table, and leave the library shelves in confusing disarray? Is no courtesy due to shopkeepers who spend time, skill and taste in attractive displays? But the discourtesy of the shop is by no means all on one side of the counter. Would-be balers are frequently neglected by indolent assistads or spoken to in a curt manner which • "  i; errs' offensive. In some fashionable stores, a shabbily dressed woman is invariably treated with positive incivility. Then there is the officiousness which borders on impertinence. You scarcely step over the threshold when you are pounced upon by someassistantwhodemands, "Whatshalllshow yout" If you chance to want to make a little general survey, before completing your decision for purchases, such inquiries IMO very disconcerting. And then, even when you have decided just what you want, it is surprising how many assistants know so much better Slum you do what are your needs and tastes, and try to persuade yea into purchasing an article you really Jo not care for. Assistants of sucha stamp would soon drive every customer from a aliop. Buyers should be most considerate/about causing needless trouble et the counter:. but sellers have no right to insist upon goods being purchased, much less anger, when articles they offer /or sale are not desired.  The number of emigrants from the liersey last month was 4,347, against 2,462 in January. 1879. The Man compositors are on strike, and some of the papers have had to suspend publication or reduce their size. The Russian official journal gives the number if 'victims of railway accidents in Russia as I to 446,000 passengers, in Prussia a.s Ito 1,367,000, in Belgium as 1 to 933,000, irk Italy as 1 to 039,000, and in France as 1 to 2,490,000.  A noble heart, like the sun, showeth. says Sir rhilip Sidney. its greatest countenance at its lowest eel 10. There is something higher than looking on all sidcs of a question. It is to have the charity to believe that them is anothcr side.  The Wesleyan Thanksgiving Tund now amount to £239,582.  The Irish inhabitants of New York have derided to hold a parade on March 17, St. Patrick's Day. The number of emigrants from the Mersey last month was 4,847, against 2,462 in January, 1879. The Poldionl Correspondence declares that the danger of the Russians occupying Herat is not fax distant.  Another of the band of brigrndo who attached thi Spanish mail train has been arrested Two roen have been killed by a fall of roof in tin in of the Weet Retford Pit, Sheffield.  The Hungarian Ceovernment has issued most strin• gent regulations as to the sale of trines.  News received from Damara Land states that Mr. Charles Savage, a well-ham% trader, Das been murdered.  The annual cost of the Residency in Zululand is sow said to be £2,000, and not £5,300 a year.