The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-09 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

There are trees so tall in Missouri, that it takes two
men and a boy to look to the top of them. One looks tall he
gets tired, and another commences where he left ott.
It may seem strange, but it is true, that a man in
New York, perfectly uneducated in art, took half-a-dozen
exquisite portraits in less than half-an-hour. We must add
that he himself was soon afterwards taken for the theft.
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Chicago has a shooting gallery for the exclusive one
of ladles, among whom there is a growing restlessness to be-
come proficient with rifle anti pistol. The divorce courts,
swift as they are, are too slow for them.
Lawrence, the State capital, which is on the dried-
up Kansas River, sneeringly says of all the new towns on the
Missouri, that the boats that ply between them are so
dangerous that the fare is collected in instalments every
five minutes throughout the trip.
A Chinese widow in California being found fanning
the tomb other diseased husband, and being asked the cause
01 50 singular a mode of showing her grief, accounted for it
by sa)lng that he had made her premise not to marry again
while the mortar of his tomb remained damp and as it dried
but slowly, she saw no harm in aiding the operation
A new and profitable branch of business, it is said.
has been invented and put intopractice in Georgia. There is
an enterprising man in Whitfield county who sprinkles salt
on the railroad to allure cattle upon the track. The ar imals
are killed by the trains, awl the railroad company bas to pay
for them. The owner has the beef and hide for his profit.
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On a recent trip of one of the Illinois river packets
—a light draught one, as there were only two feet deep of
water in the channel—the passengers were startled by the
cry of "Man overboard" The steamer was stopped, and
preparatkna were madetosavebim, when he was exclaiming,
"Go ahead with your darned old steamboat ! I'll walk be-
hind you."
Levenworth claims to be so healthy that when it
lately became necessary to " Inaugurate" the new graveyard
they had to shoot a man on purpose." 011 the other hand,
a Nebraska man, when adisel whether all the Kansas
people were fairly honest, said, 11.in't know about honest;
but they do say as how the folk around take In their stone
fences every night"
Don Piatt, writing from the White Sulphur Springs
to the Washington Capital, says—" The paternal author of
the belle here, it bi nod, the other day, shortly after his re- '
torn to the Springs, was approached by a youth who re
quested a few minutes' conversation in private, and began,
' L was requested to see you, sir, by your lovely daughter.
Our attachment—' Young man,' Interrupted the parent
briskly, I don't know what that girl of mine Is about. Vol
are the fourth gentleman who has approached me on that
subject. I have given my consent to the others, and 1 give it
to you. God bless you."
AMERICAN MURDER JOKES.—ere is another murder
joke. At a late funeral the undertaker arranged for the
husband and motherdn-law to ride in the same carriage.
" Most I," said the broken-hearted man, "must I ride with
that awful woman? " " I think you will have to," answered
the undertaker. "Well, 11l musts I must," said the stricken
man ; " but to ride with her destroys all my pleasure on the
occasion."