The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-28 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Nuts, oaks, and oak-apples are worn on plain straw
hats in New York.
Brigham Young ham just invoiced his stock of child
ren again, and thinks there are 16S in all.
"in you go in for the Maine Liquor Law ? '
" Why, partly yes, and portly no; I go in for the liquor, but
not tor the law."
A prowling panther has eaten up the only good-look-
ing man in Oregon. Many is the maiden that now pant (5)
her heart in vain after him.
A Western paper avers that the water is no low in
the Mississippi River that the steamboats have to keep
whistling to keep cows out of the channel.
Josh Billings says—" I paz never went to Ante—
skule kum to me natureL" Rh critic sa)s—" Yes, Jost, and
left you one." Two of a trade clearly &ill agree,
Chang, one of the Siamese twin., is sosid to be in
favour of Grant for re-election as President, whilst Eng
bolds out for Greeley. In the present state of surgery they
will never be able to split the difference.

A lady, in instructing her daughter in the use of the
needle, said, 'As I tell you to sew, so saw; but do not
merely sew 0 50"
Of the 1,003 young ladies who fainted last year, 987
fell into the arms of gt ntlemen, two fell on the floor, and one
Into as aderbutt.

A Missouri lady advertises fora person who is in the
trildt of strenading her, to stand nearer the house, so that
the Ca.l cc Ad him.
It has been circulated by a Missouri legislator that
the cost of supporting the dogs in thus country would—if
applied to that humane purpose—purehase 1,344,000,400
whisky cocktails annually.

The youth who stole a watch and returned it to the
owner, who promised ‘• no questions asked," is in gaol The
owner waste good as Ws word, but he arrested the youth
without asking ally questions.

Diamondii are dnicoyered in New Mexico to such
an extent that the gall Francisco News Letter announces that
diamonds will be taken to exchange for the News Letter.
If next expresa charges paid.
They reckon time out West and give dates by Say-
ing, " Two weeks before the last circus," or " hree weeka
at er the last circus" Nothing lesa than two weeks will do
for that great people out West.

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A New York ambiumacior thinks, from the manner in
which shirts are made in that elty, there ought to be an bi-
ol.-Winn of sewing. He says he sr,..nt to the expense of. new
shut the other one, and tonna hmself, when he awoke In the
morning, crawling out from between two of the shortest
caches.
There is a secret society composed solely of women
in 1 in dinati, railed the Independent Harmonic Benevolent
' Association of German Ladle iilidi Virgins Alaids of
e7ncinnati. It has it. oath, grip, pas.word, and initiation
' ceremonies, . well as terrible penalties for any revelation
lof the secrets of the order. . . .-
1 A fellow lately started a store in Kansas. The fol-
lowing was the sign he hung out—" Dry goods (drapery and
haberdashery), by John Smith, who wishes to get married."
This sign drew all kinds of custom. The single ladies went,
of course; and the married men all told their wives to go,
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under the impression that they could easily *heat so great a
simpleton.