The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-23 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A poet he rent a poem to a local paper, in which he
alludes to the clew as "the perspiraa .0 of the moon."

A Connecticut editor offers to vaccinate, free of
charge, all new preming auhecrhers to hts paper.

..k Yankee Int who is bald off sreas reward of
one thenaind Mdlara for a tale that will make his hair stand
on end.

A bachelor having ailrertiged for a wife to share his
lot. an Anxious Inquirer" solicited Information as to the
size of the sold lot

An Illinois postmaster gives notice as follows --
" After this date everybody must lick their own psetage
stamps—tor 1117 tong,'s given o tt.

The dying conned of a San Francisco woman to he
daughter ought to be Impressed on the memory of every
young girl N,ver turn a blue silk."

Says Joeh Billings, "There ain't hut phew khan stick
a white handkerchief into the breast pocket ov their over-
coat without lath, g a little of it .tick Oat—jest by acksident."
We hear that the last Yankee term for vaccination is
" virnsed."

A preat bond robbery is reported from Philaielphis.
IL Is &Hared that 20,000 doll. has been extracted from the city
treasury.
Tip-re is said to be a man in New York so thin that
he can keep cool at any time by standing in the shade of a
lamp 'oat.

A Western editor lately returned a tailor's bill with
the eturorsement, " Your tuaumcrtpt Is declined ; It is
Mr. William Frond was robbed near Corinth,
Alabama, recently. The Corinth paper says the name of the
hiahwayman Is unknown, but there, no doubt that he wan

A Woman's Rights orator frankly declared that the
first time • coat-sleeve encircled her wsist she seem, d to be
in • ',Kenton built of rainbow., the window•ailis of which
sere comp wed of cr Man harp.,
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A Pittsburg paper wade a rather ridiculous blunder
rs cantly, and yet there was only one letter out of place. The
editor satd, "II e leglaleture paiited (passed) the bill over the
g weruor's head
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A port says hi. anceAt Ts have been in the hsbit of
Hying s hundred years Ills opponent reeponilt by saying
that •. that was before the intr•du :tion of capital punish-

A New-Hatopahire clergyman was ill one Sunday,
and his wife euppard his plc, e noductiug Weil', the local
paper slow who the modesty of a bluahlog school-gal,
combined with toe ewe and diollty of I pulpit veteran

A Chicago railr ,ad has provided its psasenger trains
with ihto,ea, neural' chained ar.d marked as to prevent their
being •tolen, Tel,, of c Mese, says a Trausatlactic c.mtern-
{swam Is to prepare its p‘trcus for the death which In.
evlt ably awaits them.

The young men of Chieago are maid to Vlchaiifid
hecw.ding to thhir Kkill a. veleeMediets Into to " timid
L.,ddlera," the wary whridt re," the godt-gracefule." and
the "limey few."

rt., question for dlscuosion at a recent ineetiotr of
scientitts wa., Which travelled Istlest, best or cold?Ii
was dectdeo In favour cf hest, as ninny person. pre,eut hid
ofUn been stole to catch cold.

In the New World city the bill-stickers are so
erentetic drat they get into the bather.' shops auo paste
handbills on the soles of the boot, of those chetumere who ere
weer the hands of the man of the razor.