The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-31 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A New York paper save, In allusion to the artist
employed on an illustrated journal We would not gives
sent for an artist who could not produce pictures that
would answer for more than one occul,o."
The Memphis papers say that the aeronaut of •
°lrene exhibiting in that city evinces the agility of a cat, and
the fearlessness of a double headed tiger.
A defendant in a New York court produced a letter
from a wuherwoman testifying to his good character. This
witty stroke of flat irony produced his release.

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" The greateet Rource of weakneee to every nati'on
under heaven," said John Smith, the great American Walker,
"cornea from the fact that women have so little to du, arid so
much to say."

A couple of Americans being in great spirits Rome.
how got in the gutter. The moat conscious of the twp thereat
remarked thus to his companion : • Lete get another house :
this hotel leak."

The daughter of a Boston clergyman has been
filling her father's pulpit. lier preaching Li said to have been
listened to with marked attt ntion by the congregatiot‘ The
is &splendid-looking girl, and looks well in a surpliee:
tact. she has set the fashion, and many young,-Isgt obre
going in to it. •
A countryman went to see hisladydove, and wiehing
to be conversational, " the thermomoirn
twenty degrees &bore seism this evening.' 1-6., Inno-
cently reMied the maioen, such kinds of birds do fly
higher some seasons of the year than others."

A poetical American thus define. the Darwinian
theory ws to the monkey pedigree of man

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There was an ape in the days that wort earlier,
Centuries pried, and Ills hair became curlier ;
Centuries more gave a thumb to las wrist
Tnen he was a rnau and a l'ositiviat."

But One fatal accident tterved to mar the harmony of
the opening piece at Baton, and that was unavoidah'. It
appears that a workman who had been ngaded in setth,g op
the great organ the day previ dis had left hi, shot ato Vol
great airteen-foot pipe, known at the ,urlton double
mouth " Thinking he had time to get hit thee befor ,o
performance he descended the pipe, hut obl
signal came, the air was turned on, and he was allot ,• to
the top of the pipe, and then fell down again 1 rii pr. -e l-
ing was repeated for five mirmtee, making a vouato
which, in conjunction with the man's yelling, is descrthed to
have had a beautiful effect. The orgen.conatructor Lem,
, much complimented on this new stop. lie calla it the man
stop, hut the man won't stop.
In the Lehigh Valley there is an hotel-keeper who
bass mountain shoat a quarter of a mile from his house, and
It occurred to him that it would be a good ides if he could
fix things so that • magnificent echo would he heard front the
mountain by persots who stood at hla hotel, and hallowed.
Hethought the phenomenon might attract vialtors, lie on.
gaged • boy named Jim Simone, who lived over on the moun-
tain, to be on hand every day from extorter, to au nfall, whew
the sun was visible, and to secrete himself behind a little
clump of trees, and when he saw anybody on the roof of the
hotel, and heard them calling, to repeat their words fifty or
sixty times In. voice whieh should grow fainter and fainter.
It mess great nieces', especially as it was described as as
echo that would only reply when the atm was out. This is
the fruit of belonging be a spesulative
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