The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28 00:00:00

AMERICAN HUMOUR.

An Indiana editor makes a patbetic appeal to his
readers, saying, "If there is anything you know, that is
worth knowing, that we ought to know, and you know that
we don't know, please let us know it."
A wretched husband, out West, advertises for the
recovery of his wife, " A taul woman, with gray eyes, and it
small bable jot beginniu' to wauk " who have been appro-
priated by "a taul pok markt feller:, with red hare."

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Bangs invested -in a dog, young in months, to propel
the family churn, but after fishing him out from the churn
twice in one hour he swapped him off for an old 'musket to
shoot the man who advised him into the transaction.

Such is the depression, and even bankruptcy, of the
newe-paper business, in some parts of the United States, that
an American paper suggests that next year, instead of asking
whether "the editor is in ? " visitors will ask, as a matter of
course, whether "the Sheriff is out?'

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The first piece of silver ore in Nevada, the Albany
Sunday Press says was picked up by a woman, in order to
throw at her husband, and its unusual weight attracted her
attention. That little domestic difference has been worth
Z 10,000,000 to the country,

A New York lady, whose husband has an unpleasant
habit of railing at her, has hit upon the plan of calling in her
servants when he begins to let out his temper, and then tun-
ing to him, and saying sweetly, "Now, ray dear, please go on
with your remarks." He doesn't go on, at least not as he
began. _

"Where do you hail from ?" asked a Yankee of a
stranger.—" Where do you rain from?" was the counter.
question —"Rain !" said the Yankee; "I don't rain from
anywhere."—" Neither do I hall," said the stranger; " so
Just see if you can't acquire a competency by minding your
own bu.siness '

A seedy and unhappy-looking man, entering a
revival meeting in Mississippi, took a seat near the pulpit.
The Clergyman noticing his forlorn appearance, stepped up
to him and asked him it he was a Christian, "No ," said he;
"I am the editor of the village paper."

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A man in Indiana, on returning home from A
business Journey recently, found that his wife daring Itil
absence, had raffled all the furniture and departed, and the
sheriff arrested him for allowing gambling on his pzemuses.

The editor of a paper in the Far West gave notice
that subscribers "who intend to pay their subscriptions in
flre•wood will do well to bring the same before the 20th ot
December, as we shall positively take no more on subscription
after that date"

A Western preacher discoursed from the text, " How
old art thou ?" and the next day about one•third of the
women of the congregation called to tell him it was none of
his businer s.

The New York confectioner, who a few years ago
taught his parrot to say "pretty creature" to every lady who
entered his store, is now very rich.
As a New York judge was delivering his cleci?ion in
a case, the other day, he was interrupted by the vociferous
braying of a donkey under one of the windows of the court-
room. "What is that?" testily asked the judge; where-
upon the lawyer against whom he was deciding the case twos.°
and remarked, "It is merely the echo of the court, your
honour."