The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-30 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

An Alabama newspaper speaks of a oolonred orator
there havius " dislocated his shoulder in • peroration."
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A leading New York oculist recently charged a
wealthy patient 1,04.00 dollars for taking out an eye.

A Saratoga belle, who dressed nineteen times a day,
ha. gone Into a decline. ao has her tether. Be decline* to
pay his note..

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Alcohol was first invented and u•ed to stain the
eheeks of the ladies of Arabia, 920 yeara aaio. It still
reddens portions of the hw-nan face.

A Brooklyn mother advised her daughter to oil her
hair, and fainted list away when that eandid damsel replied,
•• Oh, 11(1:111w, it sisdis the gentlemen's vests !"

A tailor in New York Lao jug invented a new-
fashioned coat it has neither seam oior opening. Ti' get
into it you hare to crawl out of your trousers

A member it Congress bas been tried for I,4ramy.
Ile is probably Innocent it is not likely there are two
women who would marry a member of Congress, knowing
him to be snob.

A Verunlnter hail invented a new and cheap plan for
boardinu. tine id 1116 haunters mesmerises the rest, and
then eats a hearty meal, the ruesincrise.l being satisfied Irons
sympathy.

fiightful punster of the Ntle York World inn,t
look to his listings. The _V.,. fort- G/oae remarks; "
of the Son, seems determined to take advantage of every
pretext to give Grant a deeming. Let him beware—. The way
of ;rantsl &ewer la hard.'"

Judge .ll'Kean, of the United States District Court,
In the salt Lake city, has instructed the grand jury to indict
polygamists on the charge of adultery. Brigham Voung and
fourteen of Ina uives have been suptenaed u witnesses in
toil case The Mormons are buying arms and ammunition in
great quantities.

"TI-o
yo east things here?" inquired a Yankee the
other day, as he aauntered Into a foundry and addressed the
proprietor. •• You cast all kinds of things in iron, eh ?" wan
the neat query " Certainly—don't you ace that It is our
business?" tb! well, cast a shadow, frill you?" He ane
east out, and referred to • brass foundry.
The last tiling out hi newspaper obituary notieee in
the Philadalphia Led9e, is where the parent, of a three.
year-uld boy lament that—.

" All within this home is lonely,
Every one la sad today,
For our darling little toady
Ilea for ever paaw,l away."

young liusbanil in Baltimore is in
a nice pickle. From some cause, he concluded his sit, dlii
not love bin, as she should, and lie determined to test that
element. Therefore he wrote a note, telling her that he nan
gutty, to drown himself in the canal, and that before vibe rood
the contents of that note his spirit would lie hovering over
her, observing how she took his death. The would-be suicide
intrusted the note to a small Loy, but the Loy mistook the
direction, and untried the note to a nest-dooriimghboor of his
wife. Not liking to communicate the dreadful intelligence
to the unlucky woman, the lady handed the note to an
tacit with instructions, if possible, to prevent the rash
act. The officer hurried off, mid, sure enough, f mud the
man ou the bank of the canal. hushing up, the officer
seized the unlucky husband, and marched hina oil to the
station-house, notwithstanding his protestations that he did
not blend to commit suicide, Sc. After the incavemtion of
the husband the note was handed to the wife, with the in-
formation that lie lied been saved. After upraiiiing the
cancer for not "letting the precious fool drown hitueelf," the
wife made a charge of lunacy against hits, and he barely
escaped being placed in an as 3

H Happiness has commonly a good appetite. --W. D.
, wear.
Now Orleans among its other attractions shows a
beautiful girl with hair live feet tea iochos long.
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The Revolution haa given a wonderful impetus to
the book trade in Spain.

Mrs. Max Muller has received from the Emperor of
Oermany 'the Cross of Merit for Ladies."

For good English grammars we must go to Germany.
—A thslktUal.

We learn from the Court Cireubtr that her Majesty
is recovering trein her late severe attack, but au slowly that
she is still unabk to leave the room.

Advice" twelve.' at New York horn Tortola atate
that 7,000 persona have been rendered houseless 11 an earth-
quake.

According to the Notiona! Zeilang of Berlin,
French Government has undertaken to protect the Germans
at Lyons.
A sponge paper has been patented in France. It
made by uniting tinely divided sponge w rth ordinary paper
pulp. It absorbs water with avidity, and retain it tor a
considerable time.

A general conference of NonconformiAt4 is to he
held at Nlanchester in the middle of ne,einher, to consider
the educational policy Of the i;overmitent. and the general
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relati 111 l s of Nonconformists t. the littoral party.
The Globe says a tradesman of London lout received
front his Ben a valuable diamond from tho African fields.
with an intimation that another of a larger size is on its way. ,
The son writes of one diamond weighing 127 carats, whish is
nevertheless, only a chip front a large stone.

It ia stated that engineerr are now engaged in mak-
ing the necessary surreys for the enction of a number of
forts to be piaci,' in echelon en both sides of the Seine from
Paris to Ravre. in order to secure the rem:nailing at the
city in ease of a future siege.
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The Prime Minister, in detlining an invitation to
Glasgow, 11 rites to gay that he intends to visit his constituents
at tireenuich this autumn, and that he does not proporie to
go ebtewhere for the purpose of any public manifestation or
reception.
It is stet.' that amongst the papers shit+ were
found at the Elyse., is a petition, dated IMO, from a pension.
hunter to Louis Napoleon, then President of the Republic,
who is prayed by the petitioner to " continue to me the
pension which I have received for the last ten yean from
the infamous and execrable Louis Philippe"

The landlord of the hotel at the foot of Ben Nevia
tells a story of an Englishman stumbling int 4 a bog between.
the mountain and the inn, and sinking in to his armpits. Its
danger of his life, he called out In a tall Ilighlasider aho was
passing IT, "(low can I get out id this?" To which the
gcoteltumn replied, I dinnne think ye can," and walked on.
Mr. James Jackson, engineer of the turret ship
Prim.* Albert. on Friday last b.& a tiolle corrosive sub-
limate. and four hours afterws..., ....Immo. U.
was rescued by the gunner of the shill and taken to the Naval
Hospital, Statehouse, where he admitted he had taken a tan-
spoonful id the poison. The usual remedies were editing..
toed, but he died on Sunday.
A gentleman, engaged in commercial pursuits, wishes
to correspond with a lady aith a view to matrimony-, she
must 11,106131. MI income of at least £lOO per annum, or be
engaged In a lucrative business, of good education and ap-
pearance : as this Is bona Ilde, all replies will he treated gs
strictly private if accompanied IT c. d. v,—Addresa, „
Advertisement in Manclie•ter Examiner.,
The Dail yNi states that the Empemr of Germany •
has bestoweil the noncombatant medal Mr the caNigignin
la:e-71 ins, Mr. Hilary Skinner of the Northern Circuit, who.
as one of the special correspondents of the Daily New, Was
attached to the head-quarters of the Crown Prince of Prussia
during the whole of the late war.
The Mornino Pwit records the death of Mr. Trivia
Lewis Wines, tat the age of lifty-two) who, under the nous
de plume of " Argus," has during a period of twenty-nve
: years written a series of sporting and racing propheiles hi
! that journal. The Post says : •• The keen foresight and just •
appreciation of racing transactions which were charac-
teristics of our lamented contributor gained all additional
chorus front the wit and knowledge of the world whit%
marked his writing."
There is at the present time in Castleoitreet, Conway,
an old inn, which was built solar back as the year ThoU, the date
being painted on a piece of wood, which is plaeed in front
of the house. I tinier the date are the initials those '
of the then rector, IT whom the house was built, not as an
tun, hut as the vicarage the parish. The inn is slightly s
polished up in front, but its internal arrangements renmin
the same as when it WAii first erected. 'Lite walls are of LH- •
usual thickness, as compared with modern houses, and Uno.
rafters which are of isdid oak, are very MIMI,.
Mr. Cowper-Temple was present at the opening of a •
Working lens' Club at homily the other evening, and spoke
at smile length on the advantages of such clubs. He at • •
tended that to render them succes.sful twee should he pro-
vided for those I,lllliriug it, though e vet-mahout,' not be per-
mitted, and any member habitually breaking the ride should
be expelled. Ile agreed with teetotallers that It u-as not lib-
solutely necessary for health to drink any spirituals or in-
toxicating liquors ; but on the ground of frn eilom he could
not give in to the proposal that beer should not be allowed
in that club.

To the en ntributioni to the ea ptifin Fielief runa
already in the hands of the COW Inn tee. II ieto• has jliSt inn%
Added a sum amounting to Mere then Lee.. Itilleh hits -
been collected hy sir William Mitchell, the proprietor of
the :qt. piritay Gazelle. ell tile evillit 01 an Al mai made to the
merchant lielV ice through the columns it that piper, end
which has been plactst at the disposal if the committee
through the lard Mayor. The reason for the delay in dosing
this special final will be recognized When it is mentioned
that subscriptions have been received train Singapore, Amoy.
Mangalore, Moulmein, ltassein, ISnihijiatatu, Lisbon.
Gibraltar, Algoa Bay, the naliamas. st. Michael's, Akyah. .
Ike., and that from many if the distant ports the contribu.
thous have only recently conic to hand.
Sir Massey Lopes, in fuldressing a meeting of agri-
culturists at Plymouth, pointed at that there was not a
sitazte mall or w villain in the muutry who was nil in a large
degree interested in preventing, If possible. a reentrance if
those rattle diseases which were new raging tbs.:limit tho
country. It was A serious fact that the I. s.t and mouth •
disease at this na 1111 l uit tlilited ill no h.i I MAI
elnlntieit, Wei he hild heen Merlins! olthially that at the
present time there were 25,000 cattle suffering from it. This
was a very SeliOUS matter, and required that the most careful
Attelltilin should he hail to it. They all knew that pleuro•
pneumonia and the footnial-mouth disease bad been too
pOried WO this COMMIT by foreign cattle, and he was ot
001.11011 that every bead id cattle impirted into this country
should be slaughtered at the port of entry.
Last week the aggregate modality in Lointon mbl
to other large towm iu the United Kingdom was at the rate
id 27 deaths annually to every I,ooe persens eastimsted hu • •
living. In the thetrop.4ix 2,101 births and 1,411 deaths were.
registered, the former having heels 120 Indiftvloirf the 'titter,
71 above the average in the corresponding week in ten year.. •
There were SO deaths from small-imx, 2:1 from measles, '27
Irons scarlet fever, 7 from diptlieria. 24 front whooping-
cough, and 2o:, from diarrhea. The fatal cases of mall.p..x
were more 11111111,01111 then in any of the live refeeedinit
WI ohs. At titeellvtiell the nican temperature during the
'reek was 53.0, ~r 24 below the average sof the same week
during the past half •century.

The Parim omrespondent of the N7l .11,11 Ca:ctte
%rite% :—We were rather startled this morning by the
mysterious announcement that a certain general, whose
brother had fallen Miring the late war, %Ai Ilp ill :VMS against
the Government. Later in the iLly it Wog 1111i101112.1 that
General --- had been arrested. The groundwork fortheso
stories was the proposed visit of General Donny to Napoleon
lii.; but them was no tnasonable motive in what the general
did. Having business In England, he informed M. Tillers
that, having been the Emperor's aide.de-camp tip to the date
of his fall, he could hardly cross the Channel at it bout-going
to see the ex• Emperor as a private Melia. Miluers in soil
to have fully appreciated the intention, of the general, and
consequently the Incident has no pollUcal importance."