The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

coheiress, to the enjoyment of that dignity, the 'Lord Great
Mary Cary says that if husbands generally knew chamberwilllainship
twill be 111/W hedeputld solely by
Aveland her ladyship,
which be pby her y, Lent The
what their wives thought of them, suicides would be a mom
common occurrence. Lord Great Chamberlainship wi ll continue in the De Lre' sliy
family during the reign of her present Majesty, when it will
A very agreeable girl, about twenty, having during pass into the Cholmondeley family, the two families holding
a country visit run out of powder to whiten her face, has , the ottice jointly.
tried pounded sugar with the hest results ; she says it tastes A newspaper correspondent at Versailles points out
nice when she is kissed that the Clerical journals in France deceive their readers
Miss White has been made cashier of a bank at ' when they represent that the result of the debate in the
Weymouth, Mass. Under ordinary eleellillanneeS Woolen French Assembly on the tempoml power is a victory for the
handle men's money as much as is actually necessary, with. papal supporters. M. 'Mem was anxious that neither the
out making bankers of them. : extreme Left nor the extreme Right should obtain a triumph,
A boy bawling in the street in New York brought on • and succeeded, as he wished, in leaving the Wiesti"ii open.
the commiseration of a newly-arrived Britisher, who asked , France is in no way committed either to make war on behalf
the cause of his trouble. The reply enlightened hini as to of the temporal power, or to take any diplomatic steps likely
Young America :—" I scant my mamma : that's the matter. 1 to lead to war.
I told the darned old thing she would lose me." , A lady of Balloter has thus expressed her views of
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twelve hours. Be won the bet, and his widow remarked at , the same cumin back with a message all in half an hour !
the funeral next day that it was the first money he had earned , iNnL. 31:a I,!k Viirtintab ry',i,t i.i:;d 1,7 oaor•sll,iteyla,svii i6e. has y
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! gite. They pit the message through a wire." " Guide keep
"My little angel," asked a fond husband, " are yon ins if ye binna jokin'; it's a terrible world we live in. The
comfortable in your corner ?" " Yes. thanks." " You do folks wid be like the people in the Auld Bible tunes—lire
not feel the cold r" "Not at all." " Your window closes through the air in a firey chariot."
easily ?" " Very nicely, dear." " Then come and take may Mr. W. If. Brownrigg, a solicitor, was shot at on
place." Saturday, near Bray, county Dublin, by a contractor named
The art of "throwing the hatchet " has attained Green. Mr. Brownrigg is agent to Mr. Jackson, J.F., and the
such perfection amongst the Yankee journalists that it is occurrence took place ill connection with the dispossession of
dittieult to see how further improveinent can be made. The Green from a holding. Brownrigg and his servant went to
following, which is one of the latest, is a most ingenious i Green's residence to illlillet ililll to give up imssession quietly.
affair :—." At Manly, Tennessee, recently, a young man went When passing out of the office, they heard an altercation, and
to bed leaving a burning candle and a pistol on the table. Green was heard to say, " Let Inc go till I shoot film," A
The dripping sperm ignited the pistol, the barrels began to pistol was then fired out of the door, wounding Browmigg in
explode, and when the young nmn awoke he was nearly the hand, and his servant in the collar-bone. Green Was
burned, smothered, and shot to death. His pillow received shortly afterwards arrested, and committed for trial.
the balls, and saved his head." me Una foie says that the treasures of Notre Dame
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The fashionable Kangaroo droop is thus sketched in
a New York letter:—" To make the thing perfect, a glove
with three or four buttons is selected, so that the wrist soy
be as long and as small as possible. The wrist of the left
hand, if it is not engaged with an Alpine parasol, is brought
•lose to the breast, RIM then the hand is allowed to fall, palm
downwards, as if all muscular action was lost. This is the
present attitude of locomotion by the descendants of the
kangaroo, and it suggests the loveliest helplessness imagin-
able, besides proving respectfulness to the deceased pro-
genitor."
Not far from Tappan, on the Palisades, the tree is
pointed out on winch Andre was thing. It is rather a
notable feature in the landscape: but its >Yr igon d' Ore is
being forgotten, and the ri,rernne of the locality, in describing
it to a traveller, said, "Stranger, that's a famous tree, there."
" What is it famous for ?" " I don't remember exactly, but
I believe a general was bung there once." 'What general 1"
Final auswer—" General Washington." Such is political
tunic

have ius-t- beeircin:f&tiTi-tWO valuable gifts. (Me is of the
cassock worn by the late Archbishop of Paris at the time of
his assassination. The garment, all covered as it is with mud
and blood, will be placed in a reliquary between the box con-
taming the easscek worn by Monsignor Ann, when he died at
the barricade in 1848, and that worn by Monsignor Silmur
when he was assassinated by the priest Verger. The other
acquisition is a rare cross, dating from the 12th century,
deposited in a silver casket of the same epoch. " This cross,"
adds the Gauloi,, " was, we have been assured, given to
Moinignor Batboy by the family of Thomas Becker, Bishop of
Cantertatry."
A Meeting of tenant farmers was held last Saturday
at Bells, as a demonstration against the evictions which are
now taking place in tlw county of Meath. There were about
20,000 persons present. ant a large number of Roman
Catholic priests took part in the proceedings. The system
of consolidation and pasture fanning was strongly con-
demned, as injurious to the interests of the country, and
calculated to offer a premium to the exterminators of the oc-
cupying tenantry. The Land Act was severely criticised, anti

APYing tenantry. The Lama AC. - .•AAAMAI,
condemn.' as inauflicient, inasmuch as it gave the tenant
little or no protection against capricious evictions. The
trade 11,111{CS of the adjoining town attended the meeting,
and made a great display of the insignia of their order.
A letter in the Constitationarl gives some family de-
tails of the Princess Mary of Holland, who has just been
married to the Prince of Welt. The Princess Is thirty years
old, and the Prince twenty-five, The bride is heiress to one
of the largest fortunes in Europe, and, like Mlle, de Mont-
pensler formerly, had been asked for in marriage by all the
lackland Princes of both hemispheres. None, however,
found favour in her eyes. One day in travelling she met the
young Prince of WCifi at a lunch ill the Palace of the Prince
of Memo, and from that consent her affection was fixed.
The Princess, n-e are told, is an excellent MUtileiiill and a
capital cook : she not only played the organ during a part of
the marriage ceremony, but made her own wedding cake !
S. W. writes to the Spedator :—" When the Queen
has nine children, and the Prince of Wales at the age ot
twenty-nine has five, the thought of providing by additional
allowance for all the Princes and Princesses of the blood that
are, or may be, is likely to distress the imagination of the
taxpayer. Even you. I presume, would draw the hue some-
where; say, on a venture, at cousins, or nephews, or nieces
of the monarch but the course of prmiding only for those
who have regal duties to perform, if the provision be made in
a generous spirit, seems simpler, more logical, and not at all
republican. The comparative misery or privation entailed
in all classes of society on those who choose to have unduly
large families has a wholesome effect, and is a useful check
on population. It would be beneficial if even Sovereigns had
a little of this foreboding, and occasion to exercise a slight
forethought for the future of their olffpring. To put them
above this natural law is rather a stretch of respect for
monarchial iustitutions."