The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-20 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

GEO. HALL'S, Stockton Street, West Hartlepool. Have you tried HALL'S Fruit Coffee ?—Adet. WATCHES thoroughly cleaned, 6d; new mainspring, is 6d ; brotx,h pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 rsonths.—J. M. CROZIER, 76, Lynn Street, West Hartleponl. —Adel  Author of "Too Curious," "Paid in Hi .v Own Coin," " His Other Self," " Hobson's Hoard," "The Only IVitness," dsc.  There were last year 47,823 certificated and 23,508 assistant teachers in the elementaey schools of England and Wales. In one week last month we paid for 177,053 hundred imported eggs, against 167,657 in the col, responding week of 1891. The timber imports into this country so far this year is much above those of the past year, the increase being over 600,000 loads. Ada Jane Bachelor, a single young woman, was so intently gazing at the " harvest moon " that she fell out of her window at Ham;iton Terrace, Twickenham, and has died from her injuries. Dr. Adami, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, formerly of Owens College and of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, has been appointed Professor of Pathology in the University of Montreal, Canada. Great sickness prevails among the men and boys belonging to the Royal Navy at Devonport, more especially among the training ships' boys, a large number of whom are suffering from mumps and measles.  Samoa is said to be fast becoming a popular resort for Europeans. Nnmerons travellers are making the islands a place of call; and among the latest visitors at Apia are numbered Lady Jersey, her son, Lord Villiers, and her daughter, Lady Margaret Villiers. Mr Brooks, the American astronomer, has announced a new comet. It is approaching both the sun and the earth rapidly, but it is not yet known if it will be visible to the naked eye. As it is high above the northern horizon, it will be observed with ease in our hemisphere. Lord and Lady Hastings a-rived at Seaton Delaval Hall on Saturday evening. Lady Hastings will remain in the north with ter children for a time, but his lordship will leave his north-country seat this (Tuesday) morning for the Leicester Meeting, and return again to Seaton Delaval on Thursday. "Aunt Martha," or Mrs. Ricks, who recently visited England in order to see the Queen and the English people, and who has now arrived at her little farm at Monrovia, West Africa, has written a letter thanking her Majesty and the British people for the great kindness she experienced at their hands. A good deal of excitement has been caused at Lye, near Stourbridge, by the state of affairs of the Lye Co.operative Society (Limited), leading to the necessity for winding it up. The shares of the society were .£1 each, but every member was required to hold at least five, and a capital of £3,000 was raised. A company with a capital of 100 million francs is to be formed for the conversion of Mondorf, a small but picturesque inland watering-place, into a northern Monte Carlo. Mondorf is situate in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and is within one hour's journey or less from the French, German, and Belgian frontiers. According to the preliminary estimate of the French Ministry of Agriculture, the total production of wheat in France this year is 109,261,420 hectolitres, or 37,559,000 qr. This is fully 9,000,000 qr. more than last year's crop, and the excess, at the average price current in France last week, is worth £18,000,000. An ingenious American has patented an nnstealable umbrella. It is made like the ordinary umbrella, except that the handle may be unscrewed and placed in the pocket. In the act of unscrewing it, however, the ribs are automatically locked together, and cannot he re-opened until the handle is once more screwed in place.  On Sunday afternoon, a fatal boating accident occurred in Howth Harbour. Five boys were rowing in a punt when it upset. 'Novo gained the shore, and a man named Rooney, of Dublin, succeeded in bringing the other three ashore in an exhausted state. Two died within a few minutes, and the third is in a dangerous condition.  At a quarter to two yesterday morning a fire was discovered in Old Street, Shorediteh, upon premises used as a coffee-shop. Several of the inmates were asleep when the alarm was given, and four persons were rescued from the second floor by means of the fire-escape, smoke and fire preventing the use of the ordinary exit. A hydrant was used to subdue the flames. Herr Max Rogaty, who was lost for many weeks, has been found, according to a telegram from Vienna, wandering in a ragged, half-famished condition in the forests of Bohemia, where he had fed, as he said, solely on fruit and tints. His mental faculties seemed somewhat deranged, but his friends hope that he will return completely reestablished in health. The American Vice-Consul at Nice pro,e;aled on Saturday to Monaco for the special pu-pose of inquiring into the alleged suicide of a Miss Jane Armstrong. He has now retarned, and announces that the whole story, both with regard to the reported losses and the suicide, is false. There has been no person of that name at Monaco, and the news was a pure fabrication originally taken from the Italian journals. At the South-West London Police Court yesterday, a slatternly-looking woman named Spredbury was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for neglecting her three children, a boy and two girls, aged seven, five and three years. All three children had very little clothing on, and were suffering from a shocking disease. The magistrate said it was the most sickening case he had ever heard. The annual Harveian commemoration in memory of William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, will take place on Tuesday, October 18th, at the Royal College of Physicians. Harvey made it a condition of the bequest that the orator should exhort the Fellows of the college "to search out and study the secrets of nature by way of experiment, and also for the honour of the profession to continue mutual love and affection among themselves."