The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-22 00:00:00

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CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
Houston, Texas, is proud if the circumstance that
its timer and neatly an of Its aldermen on nearly read end
write.
They hanged • negro lately in Cairo, and this leads
the Ett Louts !Democrat to say "ibis It was a severe death,
but what a robot so got out or Cairo

A young lady a; Winchester lately went to a pho.
tovaphic Arden, and wrilmd him to take her pidurs wtsb an
expression ae if compnang a poem.
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A 'rexas town was recently visited by a clergyman
1., the first tiros In Its history, and tbe tobelgrants, wishing
to do the handsome thins by Wm, offered to get up a horse-
rase for his eutertsinment
The aivertieer cf a new liniment mildly cans Aka.
tion to the taolithet hie notice should mad, "Tales la no pain
this liniment will not roller.," an Idea suggested to him by
the freak of a oompositor who had taken the precoutton to
substitute the word " revive" for "redeye.'
An Illinois county clerk refuted to issue a marrive
licence beiestme the man was only four feet high, while a•
woman was sin Be said that he UMW something about
domestic ilie with the proportions reserved, and could net
alert s fellowmoan '' to buy Into a 1 Wary when the odd'
were 113 lawfully against him.' _ _

A great many people seem to miss their vocation
because their bodies do not happen to fit their coals. Thus Le
on, of the advantages a middle age Paeple have got
used to their bodies, end to their faults; they know how
to me them, to spare them, and they do not *visit too
much.

This announcement brought the Maine police lot.
medistel7, and bring down upon an Innocent pacer and a
fesblracoompllshed spellerlst of that tomperenor Mettle',
"Souse (Moine itoquers just Imported." Be explahmd that he
meant "Bokers,"--and by tickers dried tongues'
Here Is the experience of the wife of the owner of
the woo dog that one loohl : "%stories, my beloved Beam
nicht, I likes to know who gist youth, priestess dot you MIMI
go ant vont me Menet:re for to buy dot plc* ribbm Vol you
got died mount your miter-Milt ? You omit to prate me cop
in pieceseo, eh? My peloved flobooticht Kate:ins, light of
my eye, 1 yot you one eyed i.r done tinge don't paver happens
solo In die foully, beescoe I +map ion town as Mat so you can't
Mont, atot it, my peloved dchusucht Hataritio
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Smith, the American poet laureate, bee 104 an old
friend, ad has given this to the world " gratis
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"It waa not that I loved her overmuch
met made ~,ur parting bitter;
It was not for the soltuma of her touch,
Or her eyes' glitter.
It wee not that her cheek was rosy Mb,
Or smooth as any :
It was cot that she had such lota of hair
As black as leeches
Tirss not that when we partod her small hand
Waved an adleu—l did not discern It
that she borrowed my umbrella, and
My old friend'. lost—she did not ratan It."

An American clergyman, who is in the habit of
preaching in different parts of the C twitry, was, not long
sloce, at a c tummy hotel. where be observed • hone dealer
trying to take in a simple gentleman by lmomins upon him
a broken winded horse tor • sound one. The ['arena knew
the had character of the dealer, and taking the gentleman
maids, told him to be cantinas of the proem he was cleanest
with. The gentleman docketed the pankage, and the dealer,
quite nettled, observed. Parson. I bad much rather 1t...
you preach than see you privately interfere in bargains be-
tween man and man in this way." "Wall," replied the
"If ton bad been where you ought to have been
last Bands), you teould have heard me preach." " Where was
that I' inquired the Sealer. "I. the Mate Prison," returned
the clergyman.