The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

The Daily Lyre in the name of a new paper which ie
about to be issued. Its professed mission Is to tell the truth.
A Penneylvania farmer states that he cured him
daughter of the Grecian bend by pouring water on her, and
holding her out in the sun until she warped back again.
The cruelty of a Chicago man in forbidding his wife'.
Joining the ballet troupe has enabled her to get a divorce and
another protector.

The I-Auties Emancipation Society luta offered a prize
for the solution of the following question in a serious way
'flow long does a widow mourn? The answer clearly is,
" For a second."
A reporter for one of the New York daily paperz, in
speaking of a young lady lecturer, any,—" Her floating
skirls of whiteness and lightness, her tiny pinched waist,
her pretty little white kidded feet, her pink roses, her
bail hands, and her fizzles were not unpleasant to the eye."
Some in-ople are alwaya talking about "dying in
harness." Toey seem to have some faint glimmering of UN-
pleion as to the place they no creditably fill in the animal
kingdom.

The following is reported an a conversation between
two Wall-street men (live the devil his due." " What
do you say? Yes, that sounds very well in the proverb, but
what would income of you and me if that arrangement was
carried out r

An Englishman arrived at Chicago at night, and
found the place so full that he could not get a lodging any-
whtre. lie lay down in a couifortablospot and slept soundly
on waking up he found he was in the cellar. A house had
been built over him in the night—such I. the fastness of life
ih that quarter.

A foreigner, who heard of the Yankee propensity for
bragging thought that he would heat the natives at their
own game, and seeing some very large water-melons on a
market-woman's atand, be exclaimea, What !don't you raise
larger apples than these In America?" The quick-witted
woman immediately replied, " Apples ! anybody might know
you are • foreigner; thenis gooseberries !"
Chicago has a new church—the First Congregational
—which haa just been finished at • cost of 180,000 dollar,.
A pemliarity of this church is that the reading desk, or
pulpit, Is provided with a copper speaking trampet, which Is
connectml with eleven pews, where, with rubber hose and
cup attached, the deaf may enjoy a sermon as well as those
001 54, unfortunate.

"That', a good gun of yours, stranger; but Uncle
Dave has one that bears it." "Ah ! How tar will it kill a
hawk with No. 6 shot r. I don't use shot or ball either,"
answered Uncle Dave for himself. "Then what do you
use, I note "I shoot salt altogether. I kill my game
so far with my gun that without salt the game would spoil
before I could get It."
A young lady of seventeen of the sweetest summery,
her rearing having been almost like bee-feeding, resolved re-
cently to entrust the remainder of her career to an old deary
of seventy. The approaching marriage was duly announced,
and the white-heeded boy, as a right, put his head one day
on her soft shoulder, but on looking up out of the corner of
his left eye he saw the young one laughing. "55 hat are you
doing that for, Minnie?" "Why, you angel," she replied,
" I was just thinking that for once there was an old head
upon young shoulders." lie opened the other eye to the left,
got cooler, and broke oil there end then, seeing things wide ,
awake at last.