The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-15 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
A Chicago paper says the women in Utah have
recently altered the orthography of their creed. They now
spell it Moremen instead of Mormon.

The following "notis" is posted in Lincoln, Mill-
bowl :—"Ce hear, Eye don't want enntioddi that has bosses
which has of the eppituticic tuliewensa, or an other iniurnal
earn., to cum thou this gait under penalty. Keep eh!.
Mountaineer."

A man who recently travelled overland from Cali-
fornia t,3 New York Ilf}s the route of the Pacific railroad
across the mountains la a good one, 'the snow not being
over thirty feet deepen any part of it." Nothing seems to
daunt a Rocky Mountain man.

According to Orson Hyde' the Mormon apostle,
the great fires at Chicago and Boston, the epizootic, and the
calamities in general which have lately visited America, are
manifestations of /leaven's vengeance for the oppreasiona of

If you would have an idea of the ocean in storm,
3)01 a temperance orator, just imagine four thousand hills
and four thousand mountains in vino, running over newly-
ploughed ground wills lota of caverns in It for them to atep
tutu now and then.
A Yankee has jug invented • new kind of braces,
that contracts on your approach to water, and the moment
you come to a puddle it lifta you over, and drops you on the
cpposlte side.

Georgia hats a hale and hearty citizen who has been
struck by thlrty-two minle-rifle balls, oar mortar shell, one
shrapnel, one three Inch conical shot, struck by lightning,
bitten by a rattlesnake, and chased by a mad dog.
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•
Says Josh Billings, "Before you ask a favour of any
man conedfor three thing.. First, can you not avoid it?
Secoud, can the one you apply to grant It? Third, would
you, if your places were reversed, do for your friend what
yen ask him to do for yourself? 111. well to think of this."
Quite right, philosopher, Josh's critic replies, and it may
ova the other man time to get round the corner and out of
ought, or to leave the room ins hurry when he sees what you
are up to.

Young lady dancing with an elderly philosophical
partner "INA it ever struck you a bald head Is like the
better world ?" Elderly philosophical partner becoming red,
trying to laugh, and thinking she at most is going to make a
pun a4out ball and bald head, suggests something of the
kind, when she replies, "so, not that ; I mean it's a bright
and shiny place where there's no parting '

The New York practice of using a reflector and
throwiug a ray of rose-coloured light upon the bride's cheek
as she waifs up the aisle of the church, was sought to be in-
troduced in Salt Francisco, but the man managing the re-
flector was. little nervous sad directed the rays upon the
nose of the bridegroom, and the consequbnce was that those
who assembled to witness the marriage—and were not iu the
seeret—thought the bride was throwing herself away on a
magnificent rum-blossomed nose.

AN AMERICAN MURDER Jo.—That Was s vary
tender-heatted man who, on being told that his wife, who
had left the house only an Ii Ur before, was drowned, and
that her body was found a mile or so below, said, "She must
have Itlated down quite lively."