The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-02 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Thomas Ducey, of Lowell, Illinois, is a father at the
age of ninety-three. The Ducey is!
The Memphid Appeal poetically heads its telegraphic
news—" so runs the World away." Why not put it practi-
cally and American thus—" Absconded" ?
A Wyoming woman judge WM obliged to vacate her
seat on the bench a few days ago, and the cause briefly stated
was ta Ina

fleecher says that the most gratifying circumstance
in his life was being kissed by Kossuth. haul this a little
hard on Mrs. Reedier?
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Recent affairs•in New Orleans suggest the shrewd
remark of Major Jack Downing to " General "Jackson, that
" those who talk loudest about the last drop of Mood are
always amazing particular about the first." This has an
application nearer home.
An American paper says--' The English fashion of
carrying a hat is being universally adopted by American ,
society young men, even no far as to carry it into the ball-
rooms and dance with it under the arm." They may be happy
that the idea has not entered into Young America's head of
"sending the hat round."
A late Chico go Post says :—"Our lynx-eyeil as-
sistants reports this morning that 1,741 people slipped
down yesterday on the perfidious side-walks. (If these
1,140 were men, 401 women, and 200 miscellaneous. The
table shows that over 160 lauded on their elbows; the others
sat down. Of the entire number, 1,742 of them swore—tat
audibly."
A gentleman who stole a suit of new clothes from a
solicitor atm was stopping at a North country hotel, had the
audacity to put them on, and wear them about the town.
Ile was recognised in consequence, and brought before the
local magistrate in the stolen clothes. It was soon made
evident that he was in a law-suit.
A geattleman from the backwoode of the fair landiof
the Welt, rustic in his notions, and a model of sylvan tem-
perance, pulled up in New York with a gentleman far gone
in wine, took hint to a sobering oyster and champagne shop,
and reading him an impressive lecture on intemperamme, so
wrought on the feelings of the sinner that then and there he
put his name across the temperance pledge offered him. It
turned up, a month after sight, in the form of his accept-
ance bra thousand dollars ! As he did not like exposure,
he paid the bill, but warned a few friends of the innocent
prairie lad.
AN EDITORIAL Tounierosg.—The following (says
the San Frescoes Call) is an inscription on a tombstone
erected over the grave of an editor's wife in the vicinity of
that town :—"To the memory of Tabitha, wife of NI oses
Skimmer, Es-i., Gentlemanly Editor of the Trombone. Terms,
3 dole. a year in advance. A Kind Mother and Exemplary
Wife. (Mice over Coleman's Grocery, up Two Flights of
Stairs. Knock Hard, We Shall Miss Thee, Mother. We
Shall Miss Thee."
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MATRIMONIAL CURIOSITIES.--A couple appeared at
a parsonage in Ottawa, and expressed their desire to be
united ; but just as the clergyman was about to commence
proceedings, the lady discovered that she was minus one of
her gloves, and requested the gentleman to go and get a pair,
and to be quick about it, or she might change her mind. Ile
obeyed. Clergyman, witnesses, and bride waited and waited ;
but neither gloves nor groom came to hand, until thincs
looked so serious that the good parson himself started off in
search of the dilatory bridegroom. After a long hunt, he
was discovered comfortably seated in the verandah of an
hotel, with his feet on the back of a chair, quietly enjoying
his cigar. Upon the clergyman demandirg an explanation
of his behaviour, the nonchalent gentleman said, with all
the coldness imaginable, that he was waiting to see italic was
going to change her mind !
THE STORY Or A MUFF—Some young ladies and
gentlemen who were taking advantage of the fine sleighing
In Canada, not long since, were obliged to sit three on a seat.
One of the seats contained two gentlemen and one lady. The
, gentlemen, of course, would not allow the lady to take an
exposed seat she, therefore, sat in the middle. Asthe night
I was extremely cold, gentleman No. I quietly passed his hand
(a remarkably stnall one, by the way; into the lady's muff
As the mull was not very capacious, the lady quietly re-
moved one of her hands from the same. In a few moments
she felt a movement in the other side, and found gentleman
No. 2 attempting to pass hia hand into the muff. She then
quietly drew her hand from the muff, and allowed him to do
so. What took place in the muff afterwards she is unable to
say. But each of the gentlemen privately reported to a
small circle of friends how warmly the lady had returned the
pressure of his hand in the muff, while the lady as privately
repotted to her friends the magnificent sell she had made of
both gentlemen !

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