The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-21 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
Louisville girls eat onion lozenges. to discourage
young men whom they don't care to cultivate.

"General Lee's coachmen" have commenced to die
off. The crop promises to be larger than General
Washington's. ft is thought if they do not die off
faster than at the rate of two a week, there will be a
few left in 1970.

A Boy IN LIFE.--The New York World mentions
that Mr. James Dawson, who began life in the humble
capacity of Speaker in the Mississippi House of Repre-
sentatives, has risen to be police reporter for a New
Orleans newspaper.
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The last poetical contribution to the obituary column
of the l'hiladelphia Ledger runs as follows :
lam going there to meet my mother,
am going there no more to roam,
am just &going over Jordan,
1 am just agoing over home.

THE USE OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE.—A man in
Ohio, while a collection was being taken to aid the
heathen, pocketed all the money in the plate. When
asked to explain his conduct, he replied that he was
the greatest heathen in that part of the country, and
therefore the heathen.

Judge Portly says the liveliest time he ever ex-
perienced eras on issuing the firit number of a news-
paper in e Western town. The people wanted some-
thing stirring. He published the personal history of
the leading politicians as furnished by their friends.
The Judge says that for the first hour they all rushed
for the paper; the second hour they went for hitu.

Of the anti-Mormon people we have never heard of
any an strange as the big-bp Indians of New Caledonia,
A widow of this charming tribe has not only to be
half-roasted on the funeral pile of her dead husband,
but has for three long years to carry about his ashes in
a bag on her back. During this time she is not allowed
to waeh, but at the end of this she is stripped, smeared
with oil, and co imrei with swandown, after which, and
a dance, rite is free to marry again; and, if she again
survive her husband, to be again half-roasted.

A good story is told of Anna Dickinson, which illus-
trates that a woman, however eminent, is a woman
still. When she opened the "Boston Lyceum," she
came promptly to the front of the platform at half
past seven o'clock, and quietly surveyed the audience
without opening her mouth for several minutes. She
did not it down, although a chair had been provided
for her. " Why didn't you sit down r asked
one of the manageis. What answer cave the American
little woman?—" Do you suppose I was going to sit
down in my new dress?"

HARBOURING HUSBANDS.-It has just been decided, I
by the Superior Court in Cincinnati, that a wife has a
vested right in her hmband's society and companion-
ship, and can maintain an action for damages for the
loss thereof. It appears that the husband had an
adopted daughter who was married, and, gradually, he
absented himself from his owu house, until, at last, he
resided permanently with these people. The wife
brought a suit against her husband and the other two
for damages for the biss of his company and scelety.
Upon demurrer, the Court ruled that the action would
not lie as against her husband, but her right of wition
against th, se who drew and harboured her husband was
indi-putable. Persons will, therefore, take notice that,
if they harbour husbands, they are liable to the wives
: for damages.