The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-11 00:00:00

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An Indiana statesman is Indignant, at the Govern-
ment "for taking the tax, off 41laiiiriersksufainh we don't use,
and keeping it on rhiskylvhicb,we da,4l
A debating •societir in Michigan had- for its last
question, " When a young lady refuses an offer of marriage,
can she justly be accused of sleight of hand?'

TA: puinber of periodical publicatiotyplialy now.
amO ts-to 1,126,-pf whiehllB7 appear daily
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loWa paper mentions the iodide-zit -shooting of
. dectiar and a lanes,. and has "strong tears of their re-
Ocitery.7
A Yankee politician, in speaking of a contemporary,
says all he wants is a fair -chance and he will make the
meanest man in _Connecticut. .
She was plump and beautiful, ad.-was wildly fond
other. She hated him, but, womanlike, she.stroite to Catch .
him. He was a fiss.—Domsnion Bazaar Exchange.
One of the sweetest things about a young and b-ndding
love is the way inwhich she will smooth the hair so gently off
your broer, and. tin , smile tenderly in your face,: stud show
that about fotligefller back teeth rire gene.
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The SantaTe style is this—" Death," said it Santa
Fe paper, "with fleshless knuckles, rapped at the door of
Mrs. J. N. B's sonl. and obedient to the inexorable call, the
spirit of that laved woman }hated up, leaving her husband,
childfen and Wends to mourn over the mortal casket."
A New York family which is sustained by charity,'
alttost perished from hunger the other night The little
gii who daily Makes the rotthds In quest of food was pre-
vented from going out that morning by losing One of her ear-
rings.
A Georgia paper recently contained the following
Item on its society swell) :—" The amiable and delicious
Miss Pilkington, whose charms of mind and person have
turned the heads ,of our gallants, now does her hair in braids,
and patronises this paper &mind-rely in her personal make-
-111)-74 •fl !AA,"
A young fellow who was recently comthitfed to gaol
In Portland, Maine, for an assault, sent a pathetic appeal to
the judge, in which he said :—" I have onley ben married to -
Months. m I hante had My Honey Moon yet, this is the first
time I ever was in goal or etrested. If you will Consider my
case dr let me of on a fine I will return to My Darling Wife.'
The stern decrees of justice were carried out, n.etertheless.
A man in.. gmcinnati owned a .pet panther. Last
week he went off. with. hhi mita and family for a visit of a
. coupe of days, leaving the pet panther and his mother-In-
law to keep bogie. Op his return, his grief can be tuulgined
,•'on discdvering that it was the-panther that w& dead, and
not. ~he .T 4 old lady had .talked the poor
animist to death. • ' -
A veil Daniel\qt a judge lives in Memphis. He
came to migrant the other day in a case about a goose.
This graceful fowl fell into the first, dta it ras mimed by
a man and brother nigger. who claimed salvdge from its
owner, an Italian. The latter would'nt pay it, and produced
a persuasive pistol, whereupon the coloured person marched
off with the goose and got a warrant for assault. Then did -
the goose's owner take out an answering warrant for the
goose. The judge, perpleted, fined both of them, and kept !
the goose himself. . • . --
A justice of the peace in illinois4, before -whom ar
citirm had prosecuted, his daughter's lover for tj,:oting him.
from his own papiottr the Sunday evening previous, solemnly
decided tlifollOws :—" It 'pears • that this young feller was
cotutite the plaintiff's gal, in plaintiff's parlour, and that
plaintiff intruded, and was put out by defendant. Courtin'
Is a public necesSity,,and must not be Interrnpted. There.
fore, the law of Illinois will hold that a parent has no legal
right in a room where courtin' is afoot, and so the defendant
Is discharged and .plaintiff must pay costs.
The ready-made clothing dealers in Chicago appeal
to-the cupidity of chance customers to get rid of their shop-
worn garthents. They put a fat pocket-book in an inner
pocket, tell the stranger that the "coat was made for one of
our wealthiest citizens, but it being too tight across the
back, he returned it, after wearing it but once." The
customer feels the pocket-book, pays the price asked for the
coat, and hastens away,- being " .a hurry to catch the
train." He probaly catches. the train, as he never comes
back with the stated pocket-book. "