The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

"No JOKE—The California itilrerliner has what it
calls Laushoriams," a column from the comic Journal..
Not long back a contemporary told its readers .—"ln
the article upon a new college, In our last, for 'alum water'
read alma muter." . .

A man ran through Detroit the other day shouting
that he was looking for the rood to heaven. The crowd
called him crazy for looking for it to Detroit.
An lowa newspaper publishes poetry written in the
county gauL B.,rue of the readers think the author in the
right place.
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Seven hundred gallons of whiskey were destroyed by
lightning in a Indiana town the other day, but It was a
pretty even tussle between the two.
A Californian writes that tls4y have fire-flies so
large In that interesting State, that they use them to conk
by. They set the kettles on their binder legs, which are
bent for the purpose like pot-hooks..
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A Michigan love•letter—" Dear —, come and see
US soon. We have lust got a new lamp that will turn down,
down, down, and make it deliciously dark. Your affectionate
—."
One of the States passed an Act that no dog should
go at large without a muzzle, and a man was brought up for
infringing the statute. In defence, he alleged that his dog
had a muzzle.
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If you don't want the soot, don't you go up the
chimney," was the reply of a New York editor to "respect-
able" parties who requested him not to mention the fact
that they had been arraigned in the police courts.
A gentleman going to Texes asked his lawyer for a
letter of introduction. The lawyer opened a drawer, took
out a lags and handsome spring.hladed dagger knife, and
gave it to him.
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An American paper says one of the passengers upon
the Netts at the time of the disaster was an esceedmgly
nervous man, who, while floating in the water, imagined
what his friends would do to acquaint his wife with his late.
Saved at last, he rushed to the telegraph office and sent Oils
message—" Dear Y., I am saved. Break it gently to my
wife."

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An eminent civil engineer and geologist gave the
following certificate to the starters of an American coal
mine :—" At the urgent request of the directors of the
Ojibheway Coal Company. I have tested the mingle ofc ,al
keitt to rue, and it is my firm opinion that when the great con-
flagration of the worli shall take place, and which in x-
pected to happen on the final day, the man who shall stand
upon that coal mine will be te very last man who shall be
burned."

Hoe Di an epitaph framed by a forlorn American
widower, from a Parisian cemetery— " Sacred to the memory
of Theodora, the beloved wife of Mr. , proprietor of
the newepaper, yearly xubicriptlon francs, pay-
able in advance. She was a good wife and an excellent
nether. The publishing office Is in -- Street, knock
loudly at the door. Thou net bitterly regrett,d, oh I much
loved wife. Rejected manuscripts are uot returned."

A MERICiai WHIRLPOOL. —A correspondent of
the- Baltimore American give* the following account of
whirlpool at the mouth of the St. Croix river, which
runs between Maine and New Brunswick :

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"It it somewhat singular that a dangeroul whirlpool has
always existed, and still continues to frighten and be
cautiously avoided by boatmen and fishermen, without a
single chronicler to state its whereabouts audits dangers. The
•hirlpool is all at midway between Deer Island and Dog
Island, where the channel is very narrow, and a rapid sax-
knot current prevails on the flood tide. Indian river flows
at right angles with the St Croix, striking it immediately at
the entrance, rushing by the projecting point of Deer Island
with great velocity. These canoes, added to the counter
current of the eddies, running nearly as swift as the flood
tide, and huge boulders, aupposed to lie at the bottnm along
the centre of the turbulent waters, form the whirlpool. The
tides in this locality Ilse and fall from 25 to ao feet, and at
halt tide the roar and rush of waters can be dlatinctly heard
for ten miles along the shore. I have seen large logs and
timber 'tending perpendicular in their "pint] embrace, and
many fishermen and other persons have been swallowed up
In their treacherous folds. On the ebbing of the tide there
Is no danger.'

Cathedr.l

An agil
threatened

perch*

LETTER FROM THE COUNT DE It ban been resolved to erect a magnificent
in New York at a coat of 11,000,000 dolLars.
CHAMBORD. tation in favour of universal suffrage iA
The Count de Chambord has written a totter tO M. In Germany.
La Rochelle, a member of the Assembly, in which he In the last nine months the declared value of gatta
says that France can only be saved by a monarchy, imported as. £th5,431.
and protests against the establistunent of a Iteptiblic, The Bethnal-green Museum, in London, was visited
which would be the commencetuent of social anarchy. last week by m,bo2 persona
The Count de Chambord denies that any differenc,e From the returns received in Paris it seems that the
exists between the Party of Violence, which promise Republican or Radical candidates have been sucoenolul in all
peace to men while declaring war against God, and the recent elections.
those more prudent persons who obtain the same end The Germans are calculating for naval glory, anal
by more covert meats, lie appeals to the energy of have opened a large Naval School at Kid with 1$ pro.
Frenchmen who really lave their country to counteract lessors.
the weakness and timid compromising conduct of An Italian newepaper laments that, after the liberal
others, and to oppose a frank polity to a policy of pths,ripCous made there Ira monument to Garibaldi, Gist
fictions and hes. lie declares that France at bearlfwir Ole' will not lake the Mut'
Catholic and Moharchical, and says : Iteports from various i arts of Lancaslislire show
.• We most snide France to the haven rafely. Nothh,,, tl
w:tpd! crpp throughout the caunty is a failure, and
mlle me dsei hom pmh. Vie eat crop Oast ty below the r.vmde,..
nor. ~otttst a single act of mine they have all been inspired The " bottle of sacred oil," recently tonna in the
by 1,10 for my country. Let us have confidence in the ruba ci romped" inns cut to have been a bottle of whisky
mission et France. Europe and the Pspacy have need of her, left by an Irish party of visitors.
and an old Christian naiion like ours cannot therefore On Saturday afternoon, as &pilot boat was returning
perish." to thmtrose, slier eon un .micating with a vessel in the bay,
it wee e bp a gust of wind and capsized. Five of the
CrOW were din Ind.
" people in the next lone tons are foreign.
en, and have t..thiur hstever to do with ma. They keep
my people from me by tell, g faisehoala
Advertisement in the Dade facyrapli.

Episcopal

tier Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High.
fleeces Prince Leopold and Princess hestrice, attended by
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, in expected to arrive
at Windsor Castle about the 17th of next month.
A few days ago died at Florence. after a long and
painful illness, at the adwinced age of 7S years, Dr. Pucci-
float, one of the must distinguished professors of the healing
art iu Italy.
The Glavola Herald states that the Queen has con-
tributed inn to the funds of the " Association for Gaelic-
speaking Students from the Northern synods to connection
with the Church of Scotland."
The New York Herald says that from the initiation
of the Joins C,nunission down to the close of the Geneva
Arbitration proteedings, the whole business seems to bare
been a carnival of eating and drinking, mutual admiration,
and overstrained courtesy.

Now that the American printers have got their eight
hours a day and an advance of 20 pet cent in wages, they
don't stem quite happy. Work is being sent away from hew
York to England. It is very unpatriotic, but it is remanent-
tire.

The tire in the Outbid Main Colliery turns out to
be much more serious than was at first anticipated. The
promrtetors have found it necessary to flood the entire mine
with water, and It is feared that many mouths will pass
before the pit can be again worked.
It is stated that the result of Captain Tyler's investi-
gation as to the cause of the lamentable aocideut at Ketve-
don. on the Great Eastern Railway, is that it lame from a
spring of the engine breaking, and not from any defect of
the permanent way.
From the report of the Civil Service Supply Aaso-
dation recenely issued it appears that during the last half-
year goods were bought to the amount of .093,203 that
the gross profit from trading and other sources was £34.327 ;
that the ordinary sorting expenses were £23,133 ; and the
net balance in favour of the association £7,017,
The diamond discoveries of Arizonia are having a
bad effect on some of the brains that infest that region. A
man has become crazy because he found a piece of quarts
that he believed to be worth 0,000,000 dollars. It was the
sire of a quartapot—a very good measure indeed for •
diamond.
In a recent case at Greenock, brought by a servant
girl against her master for damages for illegal dismissal, the
defence urged was the improper conduct of the girl, and it
was explained that on one occasion she dressed herself in the
master's cloth., corked moustachios on her face, aud In this
guise exhibited herself to the children and neighbouring ser-
vants. •The case was dismissed.
The ex-Prince Imperial of France, who will join tte
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich is. the course of next
month, will have for a companion the son of Dr. Conueau,
the Emperors physician. A house on Woolwich-eommen im
1 to be procured for the Prin.'s residence during his stay at
the Academy, and he will also be accommodated with
quarters in the Academy.
" A good story is told of a dignitary of the Church
otEugland, who happening to be in London a short time
ago, went on Sunday morning to service at Westminster
Abbey, it having been announced that the Dean would
preach. 'how did you like the sermon?' asked the lady
with whom lie was staying. 'Oh,' be replied, 'lt was very
good; but it was not what I went to hear. I went to hear
about the way to Ileaveu, and I only heard about the way to
Palestine.' "—Court Journal.
An American paperstates that the old elm tree under
which Washington took command of the armies of the
United States is still standing at Cambridge, Massachuaetta,
with an iron railing around its ancient trunk and a granite
monument beneath its branches, but is beginning to show the
effucts of old age. Recently one of its largest branches,
measure!, upwards of thirty feet in length and a foot in
diameter,'fell to the ground. The venerable tree will soon
disappear with other relics of the revolutionary period.
On Saturday afternoon, Charles Fsnwick, of the
firm of W. and C. Fenwick, plumber., Proughty Ferry, while
experimenting with the gas used for the purpose of cement.
ing sheet had, had his head blown to pieces by an explosion.
The cylinder containing the gas Is believed to havo been
I overcharged ; the lid wee blown elf, striking lenwick on the
face. Lie was kited on the spot. Two other persons were
. . . . .