The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-05 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A Western critic, noted for his softness of style,
speaks of an "Indian poet who was recently sent to the
Penitentiary for three years for plagiarising a horse."
The Yonkers Gazdte says :—Our country, it is Said,
has had but one black-eyed president. That was General
Garrison.

The Boston Herald comments on the " curious fact
that the detention of the New York mall cats down the
special • telegraphic' despatches of certain of our contem-
poraries to a wonderful extent."

Never marry a woman till you know where her dress
ende and her soul begins, says a New York writer. It is
practical advice, but not well spelt; it should be sole, not.
soul.

Mark Twain says that in the towns the Sandwich
Islanders wear something like civilised garments, but in the
up-country they wear—a ell, a smile, or a pair of spectacles,
or something of that sort.

A society for the suppression of slang has been formed
among the pupils of the girls' high school of San Fr anidsco
Said a reporter to one of the members, 'Your object is a
praiseworthy one. Do you think you will succeed in eradi-
cating conversational.slang ?" She laid, "You bet !"
A man who saved a lady recently from *drowning
bat registered • vow never to makes "humane society ' of
himself again. lie took off his coat and leaped Into the
canal to save her, when • pickpocket stole his portmonnaie,
and the rescued one beat him because he pulled herchlgnon
off in getting her out.

Th; joci.ativeness of Josh Billings bee come to this
miserable pass, sa)s his critic, and he quotes from Josh
this i—The best kind of advice for me to follow Is this :—"Pay
tow the order of Josh Billings 50 dollars, and charge my
alcouut. John Burch." Well, Josh, continues his
with reference to that name of Burch, it la well selected, for
" all's well that ends well

Somebody who is bored with the Yankee enthusiaem
for the poem called "Beautiful Baow," writes this pretty
Ascribe reply:—

•• BeautifUl-snow ! when a delicate thaw
Makes the air chilly and damp and raw !
Beautiful snow ! they may sing whom it suite—
I object to the stuff cause it 'maga through my boots."
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The following magniloluent passage occurred in the
Federal General Rosencranz I despatch relativato the battle
near Corinth 1 shall leave to pens dipped In poetic ink to
den crib° the gorgeous pyrotechuy of the battle, and ;mint in
words of fire the heroes of the fight, the detains of which
will be found graphically depicted in the accompanying sub-
reports."

A maker of instruments to remedy deaf nese, residing
In New York, In said to have the following in him window:—

"There was Mrs. Jr,,
Bo very deaf
That she might have worn a permission cap,
And been knocked on the head without hearing It snap,
Well, I sold her a horn, and the very next day
She heard from her husband at Botany Bay."
A gentleman from New Haven (Connecticut) hea
recently exhibited some swcet little games tor children. One
of them, called the "Sly Leaf," is done In this way :—.Take a
sheet of wraing paper, spread it on one side with gum
mucilage, then catch. • Hy, tarn the fly over on its beck,
stick Vie back of the Hy to the paper; then catch another
fly, and do likewise; put the flies close together, heads all
one way ; keep on doing this till you get the sheet full;
then turn the paper over, and you'll swear that paper was
alive. It will run all round the room. When you tire of
this sport, turn the paper over and admire the movement of
the flies legs.