The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-02-24 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

"Woman not exactly an Angel," was the ungallant
Me of a lecture recently oven by &reverend gentlemen.

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A New York bride received among other weddinz
presents three pianos, twelve iee-pitchers, and eight large-
steel family bibles.
An Alabama paper published the following notice :
Married, at ilinEstone, by the Hey. Windstone, Mr.
N.themith SaVstuue and Miss Wilhelmina ligglestone, both

The beauty of the Treasury girls at Washington is an
counted for by the absorption of arsenic through the tips of
their fingers while handling new greenbacks.

Z.A.—We must decline to print your poem on A
Drowned Boy. In tile first verse you speak of your subject
as floating in the water," awl in the second as " lying on
his bier." Which is It, Water or Bier?
Forty-four thousand three hundred and ninety-nine
years from now the sun will burn out, said a learned
authority recently in print. Sensation writers, quick ! a
leader thereon.
A sect by the name of Soul Sleepers is said to be
making progress in South-Western Virginia. It teaches the
annihilation of the wicked, and the eternal sleep of the good.
If the. are only to sleep, there is small comfort and reward
' '"

The Chicogo Post claims to have on its editorial staff
a lady of extraordinary abilities. The -Altos says lie "never
knew any one who could write will equal ease insui so
singular a range of WWI, with information so exact in
detail." Whereupon an envious conteinpontry asks the Post
why it never publishes any of her artie.es.
A Now Orleans minister recently married an ugly
couple, and at the conclusion of the ceremony remarked :
"055 such occasions as this it is customary to kiss the bride,
but in this case we will omit To this unclerical remark
the indignant bridegroom very pertinently replied : "On
such an occasion as this it is customary to
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the minister
le dollars, but in this case we will omit it. '
A poet has written a book in poetry on the Franco-
Prussian war. The following picture of a dying horse Is done
to a tom, if we may use such a gastronomic phrase, to express
the result of tine phrenay
" Ilath'd white with foam, and quivering through fear,
lie knows not what has brought him to that pass—
The trunmet.blast urg'd on his bold career,
llack'd by the spur of is superior class."

An American clergyman exclaimed to his hearers—
Eternity ! why, yau don't know the meaning of the word,
nor I either, hardly. It le for ever and ever, and five or six
everlastings a-top of that. You might place a row of ngures
from here to sunset, and cipher them all up, and it wouldn't
begin to tell Inov many ages along eternity Is. Why, my
friends, after millions and millions of years had rolled away
Into eternity, it would be a hundred thousand years to break.
jut time."

COMMON Lew !—ln the early " jayhawking"
days, General Sherman made a slender livelihood in
Calhoun County Kansas, and once, when be had
prepared himself most elaborately, it is related that a
"long, lank, lean genius," leaving his ox team, came
before the court as his competitor. The general sum-
moned up grandly, quoting freely from an immense
pile of books placed carefully before him, and citing
the English common law to prove his point. The
" bullwhacker " follow-. I him, and ridiculed his prece-
dents and scouted at nis books. He said it was an
insult to the court to read from "the common law of
England," and declared that "if we were compelled to
take any of that aristocratic British law," he wanted
the very beat lice Majesty bad, and none of her
common law." That was enough ; the justice's face
was set, and the general lost his case. It was the last
he ever tried in Kansas.