The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-06 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

It has been ,emonstrated that the duration of a flash
of hglitning does not exceed the one mtlitonth part of a
seoood. It to not uld who this quick-flighted g.nt la who
took the time.

The price of speckled trout In New York city is
twenty-five cente • epoch. Perchance who do not count
the speck are liable to be cheated.

'rearful eyes sze considered to be a beauty in girl 4 of
a gusiang Mod. In vlew of thia, a New York chemist, who
deals In cosmetics, has liertutiol an application which pro-
duces the desired tender effect.
A man having • bill against a distant merchant, sent
&letter. of logniry to • banker of that locality. The reply
was—‘• lie Li dead ; but he pays now just as well an he ever
did."

In an impamioned American account of a splicing,
the bride la wild In Imre " look"de •ery lily, cradle in the
golden glimmer or some evening lake—s loam neck, snowy,
yet sun flushed among the rippling' a some soli southern
sea "

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The moat extraordinary instance of patience on re-
cord in modern times La that of an American judge who
listened silently for two days while a couple of wordy
lowyers contormed about the construction of an Act of the
Legislature, and the. ended the controversy by quietly ro-
marking, '' Gontlomen. the Law is repealed'

Of a Memphis belle it is said that "words iesue
Irom her Bpi, each instinct with aseparste life and expression
of its own, and might almost be likened to beam leaving the
calyx ot • flower, each charged with Its burden of pollen and
honey—., use and sweetness.-

For reinement of horse thief strategy go to Texas.
Down there them gentlemen go in gang., meaded by a pre-
tended preacher of the Go.pel. who set. up protracted and
sealon. meeting., nod while he I. taking the congteratien
upwards on the wings of his eloquence, the rahk and the
make a descent, steal all the hones, and are off before their
presence la known.

Abraham Lincoln, the late President of the United
States, wet credited with • number of "smart thing.," the
basis of which, however, did not met upon fact. When
told of them. he laughed and mid, "The papers mike me
smarter than I ara ; I have geld none of them thins, with
one exception. I did am, when I had the emall-pox, "Now
let the cflic.-mekrni corm, for at last I have something I
ens give to all of them.''

An American coromiesioner, empowered to examine
newly.aproleted clerks, once had to deal with a sample of
K.ntucklan manufacture of about six feat four inches in
stature in his shoes ; and the following dialogue passed
between them :-Cons "03 you ko,w who wee the ablest
ofNer In the Phceuiden fleet? "-Kent. Caul say I do."
Coos "Con you tell the exact interest on three hundred
dollen et 14 per twat, for threevisrten of a day 1-tieuf
No; I C-14'.." Corn. "Can you tell the precise distance
between the son and the ma.), when one Is rising and the
other setting ''- Ken It "No, can't ; but there's cue thing
I ken tell y er, wltch 1,, that I've licked five fel:e.. Ono. I've
been here, and I'm arolu* to Wyk you if you rak me any
more of your question..
Platt, writinz from the White Sulphur Springs
to the Washington Capital, sass,-'. the p 4ernal author of
the belle here, it Is saw, the co her nay, Inertly alter his re-
turn from the Sprier., was approalsed by a youth who re-
quested a few minutes c severest'. in private, and began,
• I was requested to KO you, am, by your loy.ly daughter.
Our attachment—' Young man,' Interrupted the went
briskly, • I don't know whet that girl of m'ne la about. Y,,q
are the fourth gentleman who has approached me on that
subject. I have given my consent to the ethers, aba I give
it to you. God bless yip I '''
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The charitable Wit, of Chicago hive • pleasant
way of raising money for heneyolens objects. They rent
moms In the heast of the city, mid misread • splendid fifty-
osnt luncheon for business mew. The t.bles art eecosated
wiTd fl more, and Sr. served by pretty volatitesr young
ladies. The managers receive free supplier In abundance,
and their landlord refuses to charge rent, se, that a week's
operations usually fill the treasury to the desired point.