The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-29 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Brigham Young is about to build " gorgeous and
costly rendon." Indialt Lake City.
A very superior otutlity of champagne is now made
with petroleum as the chief Ingredient. The manufacturers
ciaim that It Ls the best that has ever benzine.

A San Franci4co couple were recently married in a
balloon, at an elevation of several hundred tees from the
earth.

The Denver News gave, ftpbort time ago, an amount
of a raid of "Mee hundred clergymen" on the frontier,
°amine their nape and plunder with them. It meant three
hundred Cr eyennea.

A California town has 'neither a bar-room nor a
minister of the Gospel wd'lla Its limits." The Pacific Press
notes the connection between the two phenonens, hut can-
not quite decide which of them ill Cause and which effect.
Mrs. Osgood, • Boston poetess, says :
" Two thins' break the monotony
Of an Atlantic trip;
Sometimes, alas ! we ' ship a ass,'
Sometimes eye • aes • ship.'
An American paper says that the grasshoppers re-
cently steep half an sere of tobacoo for • man down South,
and 50,0 the owner went op to loot at it they sat on the
fence and squirted Wham" Woe at him.
In a Nitehtia court recently a juror asked to be et-
ernal br wife he was deaf, altnough there were reasons for
trippwdng that his hearing was not tiff -cted. 'lie 111 en.
cused,"sad the Judge, for If nthlll deaf we don't want him,
and if he lea liar we don's want himdilther."

A Iltwyer poet sends the following :-
1,.e elma'o, and a ample tee,
And all the fete Intel.
Are nothing when compared to thee,
Thou bmt of tee.—Female "

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The following character Mic advertisement appears
Ins New York I .per ;—" If the party wart took a fumy to
my overcoat was ItAtoenced by the iticl-mency of the
weather, ill nets but II by commercial coididerationa, I ala
ready to negotiate for Is. return."
Advertising ingenuity has left little room fornovelty,
but a nierzha-it In New irk, New York State has challenged
attention by loot g his span* entirely blank, with the f ol-
lowing note, to flee prink at the hottont : "TM psce was
sold to A R. Merman ; hot as his busman Is a ilticlebtly
btiat &Imam be &clines to nee It."

A gentleman in Boston advertises for a horse "for a
lady of dark colour, a good teaser, and of atyllah r0t1,0."
Toe hone 'moat be youtg, and haves long tall about Ilfiseu
bands high"

A certain young Isely keeps in her portmonnaie •
pathetic gipped to the light-beano i gentrk, la which the
sufferings she would endure if deprived of her money are so
feelingly presented, that the purse ties been returned to her
intact on three occasions

Accuracy is desirable. But the Indiana editor who
quo'ed a familiar lump-meeting hymn u follows :

,
"Tau tempted thosaand (10,000.000 J are their tongues,
bat all their Joys are cake (I),''
carried his love of accuracy to vacua •
A lager beer house in Hudson county, N. J., WU for-
nvler • ehurch The shrewd Teuton who now keep. it wee
seat o acme an tnecr,ptl u tainted over the do r, but on
eecond thought be 101 l the lest Una untouched. it la: Let
him woo Is albino come."

A New Hampshire clergyman, who was asked hie
pr.cs by • yowl man who he had Net married. replied that
the law gave him 2 dole The youth pr. 'aptly hen tad out 60
cent. remark's,: •• Well, that will hate 2 Owl. 60 cent. for
you," an bcore the astovished man cold explain mattert,
he was off with his bride on hie hosseymoou.
An exchange abates, as an example of perfect Ar4h.o.
grannie acquirements, that • prise was !seemly offered to
any member of the Conasetteat Tesobeire Institute who
would write end spell 1;k/erectly the lollowiug setterioe :
"I t is an agreeable sight to witness the Unparalleled end
barrassment of a haramed pedlar attempting to gauge the
symmetry of a peeled onion, wig.% a alert has stabbed with
a poulard, regardless of the Innuendoes Ist the Um of car-
neaten hue Thirty-sighs teachws competed, but not one
wee micomolul.