The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-31 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Sixtyiseven female teachers in Cincinnati have
petitioned far the same salary AA males, en the ground that
they find no reinction In board bills on account of sex.
A pack of wolves in Sherbnue county, Minnesota
chased • couple el lawyers five milt., and Vie Neu Orleans
liepublwan thinks it ahowed a lack of pratersional courtesy
A political o•ator, speakir g of a certain general
whom he profee Bed to sent r', said that on the fl :Id of to.tttie
he was rlways found where the bullets were thickest.
" Yes, in the amnonnitton waggon," yelled one 01,11. hcarers.
Au eccentric old fellow wbo lived heaide a grwveyard
IMS asked if It woo Mot an unpleasant location. "No,' said
he, never piled places in my life Isiah sect of nelgabours
that minded their own baldness so 'Liddy a they do.

Ksnesii judges are either very Rene:nue, or eine they
have little digrolty. Obe f them was callel oil '
leas " by a lawyer, and he only imputed a tine of rtv-n slit.
hog, for contempt of court.

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'rhe spirittutlidt lecturer who noticed a holy clvi
deep mourning taking hr d•pirthre from the hail, pro-
pherled b-tter thou he kuew wuen he tol,i her that thespirit
of her hun,mud deaind to cougumulcate with her. ' Palmer
It," said he; 'hell waiting at the door."

A steamboat captain wait receotly feeling he way
along in the dark when the look-e eimaq tut,
"Schooner wlhout a light." it was a close abase, eel as
the steamer passed the schooner V° contain sang out,
" What are )ou doing with your int rnal inhooner bra lo
the dark without a dot ?" To ht. dismay the siopper, who
wane Frenchman, auswerwl, "Vat ze di.J 1 • y u dii ero vie
your ole steamboat in three feet water, eh ? 'nrd just then
the steamer laiMel high sod thy on a sitioLsok.
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Wil,l geese in Ohio seem not to be each geeae as they
look ; they have nearly eaten up all the Whet of many
lccalitirs thereabout. They come d 0,3 in pelt droves on
the held ot atynt tight or nine a., , let a guard to
watcb, and then go to work. A peen,n, Instlint teachers
lust how in the everao shot gun will carry, too it Lanett
Loan Impoaribility to shoot th.su

• •
THE AVERAGE TALK OF A WOMAN.—A man of
average talkativeaem speaks throe hurt a day, and at the
rate of one hun :red words a minute: that Is to say, enoogly
words to fill about twerdy.nirie etsvos pages in taDderate
pilot every hour, els hundred page. in a week sad in ..ne
year flfty-twO p:etty large volumPs. The Anerlesn autlor
sho got up them tttt!..lc,, tam that It you mu Maly those
nu•eber, by ten you tort,' at ab .fit ill, average talk GI a
woven. easy', that fa fen time, three hOlll A day ;
they have, thereore, spy:rootly thitty hours a day hi Arse-
Ilea. Very goot.head people, v,ry.
A Troy paper says 'hat s few days a,o a girl, aged
thirteen )eers, neon. F.rhy, sod another one of shout the
game age, led for a want to. p,ere A mile or two
eatt et C .hoes. Vase shout half sem they not a bay, aged
fifteen rears !dim Fall, at once fell in love with lorn. end
be with her. They apprdee ed each other, ant et mr hrlet
conversation she resolved to ac-outhany him to his father's
term In the town of Watervliet, where t!,ey would be
married. Toe parents of the girl liecsme &Write lat tie ab-
sence of their claugiVer, bet on Wednesday they rec,ived a
let'er from he chic', said, '1 will he beam On Carisimas
Day, and bring my husband with me."