The Northern Guardian. — 1894-12-01 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.  WHOLESALE. IMMENSE STOCK OF XMAS ANT) FANCY JCODS.  THE Cheapest House in Paper Bags, Glasqware, Scales and Weights, Uutlery. Sinal'wares, Stationery, &e.--Try L.SAERICies, 66, Whitby Street, West Hartlepool.  gar Telephone No., 4153. lEal  same time, if in the hour of triumph the Japanese should show themselves intractable and not amenable to reasonable representations on the part of the Western Powers, we shall have the doubtful satisfacfaction of realising that, by the industrious propagation of European ideas in the Land of ; the Rising Sun, we have created a Frankenstein which cannot be conveniently got rid of. It is reported that through the friendly offices of the American Government terms-of peace have been all but arranged, -but this statement may he accepted with more than the proverbial grain of salt. The end of the struggle ought to be at hand, but it still seem* some distance off.  Has beau ushered in with  December glorious sunshine and frost, and it is probable that we shall have several days of cold, dry weather. November has been a very wet month in the south, but this has just been reversed in the northern parts of England and Ireland, as well as the east of Scotland. At Aberdeen and York the rainfall has been only half the average, and very little more than a fifth of the normal downfall has occurred at Shields.  It has been asserted in Trial by Jury. our own favoured land that " wretches hang that jurymen may dine." This is a libel upon our jury system only excusable on the ground of poetic licence. But here is a story front the Rhineland, which seems to show that German ju-ymen an not too particular shout th ir methods of p-oceduie. A trial for murder took place at Dusseldorf the other day, and the jury, after being locked up together, made their escape through a window and went to a "bier lokal," where they held their deliberations over their pipes and their tank.ards of beer. Having come to the conclusion that theprisonerwas guilty, they returned to thecourt and gave t ietr verdi t. Th.: prisoner's counsel, having obtained infortnation of this eccentric proceeding, is now taking measures to have tie verdict set wide on the ground of informality.  It is interesting to learn Money in stamps. in these hard times that there is one pursuit that seems to yield a satisfactory profit. We refer to the dealing in foreign stamps. At the four days' sale just concluded by Messrs Ventom, Bull, & Cooper, the principal prices realised were :—France, first issue, 20c, blue (error), £7; Zurich, four rappen., black, £l6 15s; British Guiana, 1862, pro%isional, 4e, blue £7; Canada, 6d, dark grey perforated, £7; 'New Brunswick, the "Connell," £2O ; Nova Scotia, is, violet, £ll : Grove Hill, sc, black on white, £5O; New South Wales, Sydney View, 2d, blue (error), ift 10e ; South Australia, /od, wmk, Crown and S.A.' £l6 16s: Victoria, (beaded oval), 6d, orangt. £6; and Western Australia, first issue, 2d, brown on red, £7 10s.  Our medical contemporThe Telephone. ary, the liogpitfd, tells ot a novel privilege which is to be introduced for the use of the inmates of the Dewsbury Infirmary. The Vicar and Churchwardens of St. Mark's Church have offered as an experiment to institute telephonic communication between the church and the infirmary, whereby 20 or more inmates will be able to listen to the services. The experiment is a most novel departure, and it will be interesting to learn whether the patients derive much enjoyment from it.  The largest cargo of wheal A Record Cargo. ever cleared from so Francisco has just been shipped there this week on board the ship Somali for Liverpool. It consists of 6,124 tons.