The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-06-12 00:00:00

A FIGHTING EDITOR'S ENG GE-
MENTS:

A correspondent at San Francisco sends to a Liver-
pool paper a large two-sheet bill, which has been
issued by the News-Letter of that city. The placard,
which is surmounted with a death's head and cross-
bones, contains the following dismal notice: "We
have found it absolutely necessary to establish the
following rules and regulations for the conduct of
the News-Letter Office, and to which the attention of
the public im earnestly invited. Stockbrokers can in-
terview the fighting editor of this paper hereafter on
Mondays only, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday,
will be devoted exclusively to the medical profes-
sion, would-be members of which will be slaughtered
precisely in the order of their appearance. There
will be no partiality shown in this respect what-
ever. Wednesdays, members of the Board of
Supervisors will be killed, as well as politicians
generally. Thursdays, adventures, beats, and all
other frauds will be attended to. Sundays will be
assigned entirely to ladies who have been mentioned
in the' Lies of the Day,' and otherwise lacerated. No
calls will be received on Fridays and Saturdays, and
it is imperative these days be reserved for the purpose
of editing our slanders. Our new Gatling gun will be
in position in a few days, when all aggrieved persons
will be accommodated singly or in lots. Parties
desiring to avail themselves of the beautiful new
hearse which will hereafter be an adjunct to the News
Letter will call at least a few minutes before four
o'clock, as all corpses on band after that. time will
be unavoidably sent home in the pushcart a:I hereto-
fore."
WHIRLWIND IN NORPOLY,

A correspondent of the Times describes an extra-
ordinary whirlwind or tornado which inflicted con-
siderable damage on his property and w. -.s accom-
panied by some most remarkable incidents. Ile says :
—A smart shower, with thunder, about 0.45 p.m.,
and at 7 p.m. I observed a very dark cloud rising in
the south-west, with a very light cloud, Blmost like
steam, underneath, which came up very quicLly, with
a peculiar roaring whistling sound, andirtste;vl of rain,
as I expected, there came a tremendous rush of wind,
which blew showers of tiles off my house and pre-
mises, and blew down five trees on the pasture adjoin-
ing, all within 50 yards of each other; there were also
eight chicken coops standing in a row about two or
three yards apart, with fowls in them. These were
taken clean up by the wind and blown quite over a
high fence 50 yards away and broken into small
pieces, every nail apparently being drawn. I picked
up one piece of board quite 120 yards from where the
coops stood; they must have been blown in pieces in
the air, as I could not find two hits together. They
were all sound, strong coops. The first trace of the
wind that I can find is half a mile south-west of my
holm, where it seems to have made a path acrosl
a field of wheat not more than two yards wide, in a
zigzag course, which is clearly shown by the blades of
wheat being covered with soil; it then took the top off
an oak tree, blowing one large branch sixty-eight
yards into the next field • its course then seems to have
got gradually wider, till' it reached the corner of the
pasture where the five trees were blown down, four of
which were within twenty yards of each other, and
the other about fifty yards wide of them. What seems
to me so peculiar is the very small space of ground
that the wind covered—viz., half a mile in length,
beginning two yards and finishing from eighty to one
hundred yards wide. All my neighbours noticed the
cloud, but none of them felt the effect of it. The
gust of wind did not last at all more than two minutes,
and it was quite calm directly after..

It is no longer a train that the fashionable girl
wears attached to her ball dress. It is a" drag,',
according to the latest "society language.
When an :Esthetic though fresh young journalist in
Connacticat was married, the other day, his panel
'me out tinted with rose.

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