The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A young New Yorker has recently wedded him
father's mother-tu-law.

The soft sex when they meet privately in numbers
to chat in America, call the promediags a " yow-yow."

A Ciucionatti lady, agtd- forty•eight, is about to wed
her ninth husband.

A New York paper sap; that a labourer in an ice-
hou‘e down East was killed by a large lump of ice falling on
his head. Verdict of the jury, " bled of hard drink."

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A man in Rhode Island has been sent to gaol for ten
days for sleeping In church. Nothing was done to the clergy-
man who put him to sleep.

Not content with adding to the dictionary the word
"interviewed," the Americans now speak of those who have
received a testimonial as having been " Testimonialised..
A traitorous woman avows the belief that if all the
men were in one country and all the women In another,
with a big river between them, lots of poor women would be
drowned.

The following ix a specimen of advertisements in the
Chicago papers—" Divorces legally obtained without ap-
pearance in court or publication in the papers. A common
article live dollars."

Touching and irresistible was that invitation of the
rustic maiden to her awatu--.Come over and see me; we
have a new lamp at our house that we can turn down, down,
down, until there isn't scarcely a bit of light in the room."

An American editor, in attempting to compliment
General Piliver a, a " battle-scarred veteran," was made by
the typos to call him a " battle-scared veteran." In the
next Mtue the mistake was so tar corrected alto style him a
"bottle-scarred veteran."

How very thoughtful and considerate some editors
are to make such suggestion, as these, in commenting upon
the death of a young Vermont girl from the effects of tight-
lacing "These corsets should be done away with, and it the
girls cent live without being squeezed, we suppose men can
be found who would rather devote three hours a day, with-
met a cent of pay, as a brevet corset, than ace these girls
dying off in that manner. Office hours almost any time'
A remarkable marriage recently took place at Gales-
burg, Illinois. The bridegroom and bride were aged respec-
tively eighty-three and elghty-one years. When they were
eighteen and sixteen they were engaged to each other, but
broke their troth; and since then each has followed two
cempanleus to the grave. Late to life the early love has been
rekindled.

A funny story is told of General S—, Secretary of
the State of—. The General hese sightly person, and knows
it. Behq at the depot in S uniusky a short time ago, walk-
ing the platform, In a plain linen duster, he was rather
loudly accosted by a friend. An old codger, sitting in a Car
near, overheard the salutation, and remarked to a com-
panion that he didn't believe that was the Secretary of State
nohow. " Hello, you," yelled the old codger to the general
"Be yeou the Secretary of State?" " That's what they call
me," said the distinguished indiridual. "Want, then," re-
torte I the old chap, " I owe you an apology." " How so I"
asked the Secretary or State. "Why, peon see, this 'ere
fellow said yeou stas the Secretary of State, and I toil him
I didn't believe it; I stuck to it that you was a hog drover I"
The conversation was abruptly broken off at this point,