The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-20 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A recipe for dressing the hair for ladies has pla-
garised Mrs. Glass thus :—First buy your hair.
Anna Dickinson says if she were a man she'd slap
one's face everyday In the week.

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Pittsfield, Ma-sachusetts, has had a "baby party,"
at which fifty guests attended, and the belle was a young
lady aged nine days.

An American writer calls the ceremony (if young
Indies kissing each other " a dreadful waste of the raw
material !"

Miss Laura C. Redden complains that American
women eat too much horseradish and too many pickles at
lunch, entailing sharp elbows, thin calves, and red noses.

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Wendell Phillips says, "Put an Am. arican baby, six
months old, on his feet, and he will immediately say,
Chairmau,' and call the next cradle to order."

A Connecticut clergyman wishing to ascertain how
long it would teke to r,ud the Bible through, read it aloud
to his wife in flfty-nine hours and thirty minutes.
A young man out West was entrusted with the
money to bring his father home a good family sewing machine.
Ile carried if a neighbour's daughter to Chicago, married
her, and brought her home.
It is computed by the Isaac Newtons of the present
century that over 1,503 dollars has been paid during the past
thirty years for the printing In the Congressional Globe of
the single word" laughter."
A poet recently sent a song entitled What Shalt my
Love KAe to an editor, who regarded the question wholly
in its moral aspect, and sat down and wrote a kind but firm
article roe minending her to wear clothes.

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There is a Canadi- an newspaper entitled The Saint
Mary North Middlesex Argus and Review, and [down,
uranton, Park Hat, and Whitler Advocate, and Luean
Exeter Gazette.

California has a new poet, who sighs to become •
buzzing insect. He sae:

"Oh arud that I end buzz about my love
Of curly blonde bright hair;
My dying Aim; ebould be one of love
To her on the kitchen chair."

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The following elegant notice of the change of
weather appears in a New York paper p—" The 91111 is swing-
ing up the circle again and will anon iTOS9 the overcoat line
into the ro.rions where lighter clothing and ham and eggs
tell us it is spring."

There was a thoroughneee about practical joking in.
the ?diddle Ages. When Pope Asian died in 1523, tho
Roman people, who hated and despised him, determined to
testify their pleasure at the event They therefore adorn:4
the door of Ma physician's house with garlands, adding %Oh
inscription—" To the deliverer of his cuutitry."

An American burglar was recently frightened out of
his scheme of robbery by the sweet simplicity ot a sc7itary
spinster, who, putting her night-oapped heed out of the
window, exclaimed, "Go away ! ain't you oat/limed!" Ile
must have been an American, one of the hultrect claims
gents.
On the leather "cockade iineeilon," a gentleman
writes to the New York Poet —"I: 'Jim them to distinguish
my coachman's hat from my 0.151. We are both good-look-
ing men; we both wear ten do'..iar hats, and when we get out
for a drive in the park, I tkank it doe to myself that the
public should know who WWII the carriage slid who drives

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