The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-10-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEATH OF THE HON. FRANCIS STUART ORTLEY.  The death is announced of the Hon. Francis Dudley Montagu Stuart Wortley, only surviving brother of the Earl of Wharncliffe, which occurred en Friday, at Scarborough, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. Born in 1829, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1854. He was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding. the North Riding, London, and Middlesex. For about five years he acted as chairman of the West Riding Quarter Sessions, held in Sheffield.. At one time he was lieutenant in the let West York Yeomanry Cavalry. Fond of travelling, he went round the world twice and had an extensive knowledge of our colonies and dependencies. In politics he was a staunch Conservative. He married in 1855 Maria Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. IVilliam Bennet Martin, of Worsborough Hall, Barnsley; she died in 1891. Mr. Francis Stuart Wortley was heir-presumptive to the earldom of Mharncliffe. His eldest son, who now becomes heir-presumptive to the earldom, Is Francis John, of Meadowside, Downton, Salisbury, who was born in 1856. He retired from the navy in 1889. His second son is Major Edward James Stuart Wortley, who was in the Nile Expedition, and went up to Khartoum with Lord Charles Beresford.  The beet thing f—A conflagration. Why is summer the pride of the year P—Why, because it goeth before a fall. If brevity is the soul of wit, all we who ire .abort" ought to be very jolly.  Watery expressions.—The Englishman: "A reservoir!" The Frenchman: "Tanks!"  If you want to make sure your advice will be taken, have it engr ved on your umbreUa handle. Vabsley : "Well, what's the latest in the racing line?" judge: "The horse I bet on, usually." Why is every teacher of music necessarily a good teacher ?—Because he is a sound instructor. Advice, received from Rio Grande announce coat an encounter has token place between the Insurgents and the Brazilian National Forces at Ibicuy, in which the latter were defeated. It is reported that 1,000 men were killed. A blacksmith, named Darley, committed suicide in Liverpool, on Saturday, by hanging himself. It is stated that the man had lost a sovereign, and after searching for it unsuccessfully he threatened that if he could not find the coin he would commit suicide. He appears to have carried out his intention without delay, having strangled himself with his muffler.  An American gentleman, 83 years of age, stopping temporarily in Paris, has just been the victim of a terrible accident. He was paying a visit to a house in the Avenue Montaigne, and in ascending the staircase he, by a mistake, opened the door of the elevator shaft, and stepped in. He fell to the bottom. When taken to the hospital it was found that both his arms and legs were broken, and that se was also suffering from severe internal injuries. The bouna volume ot toe uaninet Yortrait winery, which Messrs. Cassell publish, serves to remind 111., says the Daily Chronicle, of the unvarying excellence of Messrs. Downey s photographs, which have bell appearing monthly. There is not one moor the thirty-six which is not an excellent portrait, al.d tile biographical sketches are written with far mole knowledge of style than is customary with public.-thins of this class. The photographs of the ladies as might he expected, are the best, and those of It. Misses Dens, Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Col Campbell, and Miss Elizabeth Robins, are admirabi specimens of photoeranhic nortraiture  According to a report received from Tati, lohannesburg,:the Matabele chief wbo has arrivec at the former place with Mr. Dawson is Lobeoril, 'a brother, who was accompanied by two inch....s. rhey subsequently made an attempt to escape, but the two indunas were shot and Lobengula's brother was captured. A despatch from Fort Victoria states that a party of fdashonas have arrived there with a large number of cattle captured from the Matabele in the recent figbting. The natives report that their scouts killed 36 Matabele. They also state that the Matobele chief Indaima was not attacked by the columns, because he surrendered.  A'friend once met the Bev. Sydney Smith at Brighton, where he had gone to reduce himself by the use of certein baths in vogue in those da:s. He was struck by the decrease of Sydney's size, and said, You are certainly thinner than when I saw you last." "Yes," said he, "I have only been ten days here, but they have scraped enough off me already to make a curate." Dolliver: "Young Purseful seems to have quite a reputation as a wit." Heavywaite (dryly): -I have noticed it.- Dolliver: "All the club men roar all his jokes, while I fail to see a spark of fun in anything he says." Heavywaite (as before): You forget that you have not borrowed any money from him."  A blighted romance.—Draper's assistant: "Can it be possible Mis-, Coupon, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Margate last summer? How I ,ng—' Miss Coupon: "Thr e yin., is, please." A king chaffing one of his ambassadors upon his size told him that he looked like an ox. "I know not how that may be," replied he, 'but I have often had the honour of representing your majesty."  _ Druggist: "I'm going to discharge that clerk. He's too careless." Friend: "What has he door?" Druggiat: "Ibis morning he sold a wild-eyed woman a dose of poison and trusted her for the money."  "We had to write about George Washington to-day," said an American schiolboy to his mother. "1 hope you didn't fors, tto tell about the cherry-tree ?'' "Oh, no! I said he sawed it down." "Sawed it down! He chopped it down with his hatchet." "Yes, I know; but I couldn't spell 'hatchet.'"  Discouraginrz logic.—Johnnie: -Ma, I want a hicyclo." Mother, “Johnnie, you should not desire anything ton eagerly in this world." Johnnie (hedging): "But I don't want it very badly." Mother decidedly): "Well, I can't encourage every little passing whim. Yon can't have it." , ~,Load and Irate; lectures the Royal personages thue: Our Royalties all speak with • German Accent, the Priuce of Wales least of all, the Duke Edinburgh moat of all. With the fleirrApparent the Teutonic complaint is periodic, like the ague. 74 Duke And Dueluso of York have much to learn They lookeadly bored at public ceremonies, and .have yet to acquire that m sk of kindly merest Which is Royalty's best attribute.