The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-02-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

AFTER A FRESCII DEBATE.—Though the English House of Commons presents occasionally an exciting scene during debate, the orators can scarcely be said to work themselves up to that pitch of fervour which distinguishes some mentbers of the French Corps iregiala tif. These gentlemen get no hot and excited . . •  that, on finishing their speeches, they rush off to wash and change in the dressing-rooms. The following good anecdote apropos of this is told of M. Rouher fh:e day last week he had been snaking a tons and enhaustiag speech, and at its close he vivid oif to Ids private ,alressibg ruem, sad found that his enlet had left "no change for " he then tried the dressing-reoins of the other ininiders, but all " blank," till he come to the ••Interier,. where he found clothes for the exterior, for: getting that they ;;ere those of little It. Pinsid, who, though a giant in debate, is very "limited" in ths flesh. M. linard's turn clime to speak, and, lupin got into a fearful state of pi' rshlration lihnself, he, too, needed i " change," snit went off to suck it. Imagine his horror on discovering that M. Rouher, who in something of a giant; had just forged ilgunel waistcoat and torn his sh:rt in two ! Report doeg not say how they finally arranged matters. A FATAL MISTAKE !—The inquest on the body of the young man who threw himself from the Crystal Palace tower the other night (reported in the papers last week) was held before Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, on Friday. The name of the deceased was Edward Thomas Lea. He was only seventeen years of age. The circumstances which led to the suicide were very distressing. The deceased . . . . . _  youth was a. draper's as'sistant,. and had been fer  some time out of LI situation. At length he got one, and entered upon his duties, but on inquiry being made of the person whom he named for reference, a former employer, hereceived such a had character that he was told he could not remain.. ThAureighed upon  . - ... of an amusing episode that occurred in a place of his mind, and there was no doubt led him to dcstroy worship in the neighbourhood the other Sunday himself. Upon inquiry being made it was found that evening. It appears that the minister of the chapel there hail been two young men in the employ of the was holding forth to a respectable congregation, and person who gave the character named Lea, and it was being rather long in his sermon some of his hearers of the other, and not of the deceased, that he intended began to get impatient, when, to the great surprise of to speak. There was no doubt that the latter had all present, an elderly matron sitting in the body of borne an irreproachable character. The jury found the chapel called out in a clear, shrill voice, "Cut it , I that he was temporarily insane. On the part of the short, Mr.--; it only wants five minutes to eight." 1 Crystal Palace authorities it was stated that no perGreat difficulty was experienced by those prerpt in I ill be allowed to - -aid the' - till a rail. . . . .. • , ... . , . .. ly prevent  son woui • had b  to ascen4 whi  le tower effeetnall2  ing been erecteu ...den woulu persons throwing themselves down. AN UNLUCKY PAUSE !—Most readers must have observed this phenomenon among the thousand and one vagaries of talk, that it will sometimes cease  in one moment and without the slightest warning, • very tempest of voices dropping suddenly, and a dead silence snpervening ; and this sometimes at the very moment when sonic unhappy person is in the act of delivering himself of a phrase or sentiment which is  not in tie least calculated for publicity. As an instance of this the writer (in Cornhil 1 Magazine) may mention that he was once present when a sudden ',awe of this kind took place without warning, just when a certain young man was in the act of informing the lady who was seated beside him that the expression of her countenance indicated a strong musical capacity. "And yet there is music in your face," he WAS saying just at the moment when the accompaniment of voices ceased. The words were littered by the young gentleman in a lowl key, in order that they might be audible to his partner above the general din, and were consequently heard by everybody present, to the extreme confusion of the speaker and -of the lady to whom the sentence was addressed.