The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-22 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A notice of a New York novel says. "The style is
so brilliant that the printer, with the copy before him, can
set up the type without any other light in the darkest
night.'

There is said to be a Milwaukee champion-marrying
Justice. There is nobody to equal the neatness and despatch
with which he ties the knot. This is the way he does it:
"Have'er ?" "Yes." " Havelm 7" "Yea." "Married;
two dollars."
Just as the State is emerging from an unparalled
season of business depression a New London man threatens
to publish a poem six hundred pages in length.—Danbwry
Yews.
A good story is told by a teacher of one of the
Sunday schools in the centre of the city of New York. A
Sunday or two ago she asked her class of little girls who
went Into the ark with Noah. Nona of them seemed to
know, but one girl thought she must say something, and,
not knowing, she used her natural-born right of guessing,
and, to the amusement of the teacher, replied: "His sisters
and his cousins and his aunts."
That is a clever devioe, reported from the West, of
a hotel-keeper who could find no painter in town to Place
the numbers on the rooms, and who accordingly distin-
guished them by pasting a pack of cards on the several
doors. He could of course pay no more delicate compliment
to a lady than to label her "queen of hearts," nor better
tickle the pride of a wealthy patron than to dub him "king
of diamonds." Then, too, the supercilious night clerk could
send any person he did not like to the "deuce."
"Prisoner at the bar," said the judge of a Western
court, "Is there anything you wish to say before sentence
is passed upon you?" The prisoner looked wistfully to-
ward the door, and remarked that he would like to say
"OM evening," it It would be agreeable So She company.

DEATH OF A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR.
The Geneva Corresponde_nt of The Ti7Thes writes :
"Herr Peter Jenny, who 'died last week at Schwan.
den, in Glarus, at the comparatively early age of 54,
was both a remarkable man and a typical Switzer of
the old stamp. He belonged to a peasant family in
poor circumstances, but by the kindness and liberality
of a distant kinsman he received a good education and
an appeintment as clerk in a mercantile house in
Manila, whither he went after finishing his schooling.
A few years thereafter he began business on his own
account, founded the firm of Jenny and Co., now
one of the most important in the Philippine Islands,
and became the Coneular representative there of
the Swiss Confederation. Twenty years ago Herr
Jenny returned to his native canton and bought an
estate at Schwanden and built himself a house.
Elected by his fellow-citizens to several public offices,
he fitted them all to the general satisfaction and
spared neither his purse nor his person in the service
of his country. He was successively president of his
commune, member of the local Legislature and of the
National Assembly, and president of the Commission
on Commerce and Manufacturers. He was an ener-
getic and influential advocate of the law for limiting
the hours of labour in factories and a warm friend of
education. During the last two years of his life the
state of his health compelled him to withdraw from
all public duties, and his death, though not unex-
pected, is regarded throughout Switzerland as a
national misfortune."

N=AD,A,Y, NOV. 22, 1879.