The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-03-12 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
Miss Amelia Hobbs has just been made Justice of
the Peace in Jersey County, Moots, by a majority of twenty-
six vote&

The notice of a Western wedding is thus announced:
—" Ito cards. Presents, 6,000 dollars. Special train. Letters
from Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman."

Connecticut is going to surprise the world, and espe-
cially all her sister States. She proposes to enact a law
restricting people from procuring divorces until they have
been married at least two weeks I

A woman in one of the census districts on Long
Island, gave to the enumerator the names of twenty other
children, and then said she believed there were two or three
more, but she couldn't Just then remember their name'.

While the Maine Legislature was vacillating over
the question of attending the Peabody funeral, a respectable
member from the back country said "Mr. Speaker, I am
disgusted with the conduct of this House. This funeral at
Portland is going to be a great affair, but when I see this
House • tetering and see-sawing, as If it dtrEnt know Its own
mind, I declare I wish Mr. Peabody hadn't died.'
It does not pay to set a fashion so odd that nobody
can understand it. Some very fashionable ladies in New
Orleans hung a yellow ribbon on their door knob, New Year's
Day, as an Indication that they would receive calls. The
callers didn't come, and It was afterwards found that the
ribbon had been considered a sign of small-poz.

A young man at Muscatine, lowa, lately crawled
into a boiler to clean it out, but the engineer, being Ignorant
of the fact, closed the door and fired up. The young man
became uncomfortably warm, and to his horror discovered
the boiler filling with water, ilis shrieks were unheard,
but fortunately, the engineer opeued the door and the half-
suffocated prisoner was released. A Yankee editor thinks
it was shameful that the engineer should have spoiled as
good a story by opening the door just when he did.
At a very successful seance in Cincinnati the other
night, a man burst into tears when the medium described
very accurately a tall blue-eyed spirit standing by him with
light side whiskers and his hair parted in the middle. "Do
you know him?" inquired a man at bit side in • sympathetic
whisper. "Know him ! I guess I do," replied the unhappy
man, wiping his eyes. "Do was engaged to my wife. If
he liad'nt a died he P ould have been her husband instead of
ate.' 'Oh, George, George," he muttered in • voice choked
with emotion, "why, why did you peg out?"

"Vie," in the Chicago Trtbune, writing of the
fashions, says :—"The big chignon, which will be a wonder
to our grandchildren, is having it all its own way now. The
natural hair should be tucked out of the way neatly and
artistically, and the chignon pinned on Co accurately that
net a trace of sawdust filling can be observed. After this Is
done, the lady should take a hand.glaes and examine her hair
critically In the hack, giving her whole mind to it. This is
the true success 01 the chignon. The lady who pinned on
her sefa-tx,lden by mistake, and wore it at the opera, would
never have done se if she had been tone to art."

DAN SEROUS AND EXPENSIVE " FREAKS.."—ID an
action for compensation for injuries received in an
accident on the Great Northern Line, the Government
Inspector, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, stated
that in railway accidents the carriages frequently had
"freaks" which it was impossible to explain by
scientific means. A statement like this makes one
ponder whether there is not another, and still more
positive, cause of railway accidents—the "freaks" of
railway management, which it is impoesible to explain
by any means whatever.—Punch.