The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-01-26 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CONCIIIO.—WP have in type neenio. whAtleegthy report of thie excellent concert, wh.oh was given in the Priniitive Slethoelet School Roc, on Tenlity evening. nis our spaces no too limiterl for thc appeorence of the whole of net reporters criti pm, we bold it over until our twat iew.w, wises it will tidily appose :n ealsnao,  Atcorrespondent of the Elliikomi Chronic states :but upwards of .112fild4)0 wild have been distributed during the past two weeks in dividends in connection with the various co-operative stores in that town. The describatien of such a 'dirge sum of monepover a wide area must do a visit amount good, and iIl be espietWilly weleamdc in these -days of..i:topressed, trade. The total receipts hers revenue pain into the National! Exchewper from the lot of s..pril to the 111th instant werwlisei374l,sBB. In the corresponding period of last yeas they were .01/8.468,6de. The. expenditure IRV .04,367,C IS, against £63.54.563 last year. The balance in the Bank of England on stitarcisy last was £e11tt3,059, and in thscßank of BrAuted/364,073.  On,Saturdayrafterseon, Mr. G. A. abarnley, de,puty coroner for Racks, held an Argued at the Manor Hotel, Date/set, on the body of Sophia Praseh, aged t9i yews, who was found drowned on the Thames bridge on Friday. Jecessed only a fere years sore held the appointment as head dromer to tker Fria/ems Chi istian, at Cumberland Thejtury returned a veialati that deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporarai, insanity. It is stated tliat Hia RoyaL Highness has boom! severely taken to task by * camber of corresponkents in :inspect of his choosing Sunday for his Arrival at Hamilton. The Crigagow Work'eg :Men's Fintestant Associatibn miemoralised his !Royal IlseiMess to change the day of his arrival, "so that a violation of the Lord's Day migho he avoide& and that the excelent example of your illustrieas and regretted father will be followed by yoa as a patron and rapporter of all means of maintaining inviolate the April's Day." Timough his private socrvtary, hialltoyal Highness replied that as he would arrive wiry early at his destination, and as he proposed to pass the tke day quietly and in retirement, it could hardly be conceived, he conter.ded. that he was trealviag the I Sabbath.  Sincerity is one of the most beautiful words in the English languags, and, like many other words, it has a history. It comes from two Latin words, sine and cern, withoist oement, and its osigin was in this wise. In the golden days of Boman prosperity, when her merchants were affluent, and dwelt in their marble palaces on the banks of the Tiber, there was a very natural sort of emulation in the grandeur and artistic adornments of their dwellings. Their successful wars had made many of the gems ot Grecian art the possessions og the Boman people. A taste for sculpture had been awakened, and the none of Rome set to work themselves in the school of design. Good sculptures were quickly drawn up. But dodges sometimes took place then, as now : for instance, if the sculptor came upon a Raw in the marble, or if his chisel missed its aim, he had a carefully constructed cement with which he filled in the chink, and so cleverly fined it as to be imperceptible. In time, however, and after the purchase had long been completed, heat or damp, or accident would affect the cement, and it would reveal its presence there. The consequence was that when new contracts came to be signed for commissioned works of art, there wits a clause put in that they were to he sin. tem or without cement. What a picture story in a word! What a moral meaning in it, via., that true characters should be sincere, or without cement.—Calmil's New Popular Educator.