The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-02 00:00:00

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A doetor? reckons that an average woman will shed a
barrel of tears in forty years.

Amhurst College has an alligator now. AL is twelve
feet long, and will be trained tp follow the co ego boat at
regattas and confuse the crews of the other boats.
Novelists of the day 'have set Phrases. One of
. those phrases is that "the evening' wore on ''—what the
evening wore on such occasions we are not h.formed. Was
It "the close of a summer " day ?
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The 141'ilwat4ie Sentinel says of a brother editor,
"lie is one of the few journalists who can put an enemy
into his mouth without fear of its stealing anythin:."
A lady, widowed by the Chicago conflagration, has
been recently remarried ller second husband.calls her his
relic of the great fire.
Thoughts of a man after turkey and plum pudding
—" Reputation is a bubble upon the rapid stream of time;
popularity a splash in the great pool of oblivion; fame
Itself but a full-blown bladder, or at best a balloon or
sausage."

" All hail, our risen Head !
ii6A*4srittlt; . We, thy children dear,
..b...:VZ=., ;•:.-7 .AvLook for thy appearing.
We, by thy spirit led,
„Nothing here are fearing.
Come and gather us home, dear Lord
Come and gather us home.
~....... We long to be in Heaven with thee,
Our cry is, Come, Lord, come!
" All hail, thou Perfect One,
Time is drawing nigh ;
-.? .• Things around are telling ,
. The work is nearly done.
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!. Our hearts with joy are swelling.'
Come and gather us home, dm.
"All hail, thou Mighty One! .
•-• I ;AT
~. : Display Thy glorious powiFi ;[<l:
These last days revealing,
Man's race is nearly run ;
---'-- Light from them is stealing.
' __lr 'r, - Come and gather us home, &c.
ri J. "All hail, thpu King of Peace,
....... ....t....We know thou'rt at the door.
• . We yearn for our meeting.
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k Bring Thou our release.
We want to give Thee greeting
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It was difficult to listen unmoved to these rude
stanzas, sting with what appeared to be such heart-felt
conviction. It. was irnpossibbi 'not to respect a faith
however ill-founded, which enabled this little com-
munity
pr r o IVI E OF - NEW S
to fix their thoughts on the highest themes,
regardless of their sad reverse of fortune and present
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al:II:IRs
haAvlagDpFer.Olß:GfrNom.-
nnserable plight. There is a rumour that the Board of
• Guardians next week may seek to turn them out of the -s-71
less
htrei:uac,la,totl pest continues. to rage'
barn ou the ground of over-crowding. . Such a
proceeding .-Wor,id be - *VI-defensible: These 'people
ponrtmeal,suortdg date the 11th inst.—"
Atimoonersional correspondent of The Hour writes
in , -Russia, nol
are .quite able to take care of theinselvve, : '•Whether
WitintitieisryLsear::. w
.Ahey- Shspnld 'be berried may be a moot point, but . r!, . , ryt .
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they ought ricit to be worried and harried. -That all of
vtramadneivolahamveataaverloasts toomknaewvvuheokw,
Canada. 'Alr',.:ady there i
'them are monstrously deluded there MU be. 3 ;0, ' :It
ha Thu
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turn; that many of thein would do well to return to
fromfairly u
wlfl
parts of the city. For thypearYst tdwuoli'mcne.lin:sciiahlieY
their friends
be a very hard one for the poor in
and their inirmlesei snd, not - "'hotly aimless, lives, One branches of trade being
dtehaethlsunfribeom
s a good deal of 'mitering, many
land,
, probable;the wor k . b
apportionedut
cannot help regretting the blunders and muddle-
headed' perverseness by which their. little freehold has classes will get over the next fouranouth& Tl(i)esnilaellFatreisr
annu:lthbac:fBin fa. you pulationr
becoine • forfeited, . and theii Ironie tioken up this
of about 120,
very bad indeed in Montreal, and is rapidly spreading in all
duted by it here."
NO. In-London with nearly four millions of
,-tide. •- • ' `;' i e•= :- . - 4
y imagine the state of alarm pro-
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A. telmem from Rome states that the Pope enjoys Inhabitants, 36 deaths a week'from small-pox weutd cause a
good health, from the cold. His Holiness con- panic, so You can rbadir
thanes to hold receptions. .
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" Yaas, stranger," said a Missouri steamboat cal)
tam, "George Washington was /nifty great an' high, an' tin)
father uv his country, an' lust in peace an' war an' other
things, but he'd been nowliar in racin' any boat' he ever
owned with this yere scudder,.the Ricer Queen, on whose
quiverin' deck you now stand.
"Cheap and hungry dances" are a Vermont in-'
stitution. There are no lefreshinents, and, the fun stops at
twelve o'clock._ _ _ _

I Miss Isabella M. is one of the cp.-licked girl for a
I reply. A gentleman thinking to klutz her about dyeing her
hair, said, "What fine dark hair you have got Miss Ml My
wife, who is much younger than you, has her hair 'quite
grey." "Indeed," rejoined Isabella, "If I had been your
wife, my hair no doubt had been grey too."
An honest old Kentucky fanner from the country
gave his recollections of a hot summer as follows :—" It was
so dry we couldn't spare water to put in our whisky. The
grass was so dry that every time the wind blew it flew around
like so much ashes. There wasn't a tear shed at a funeral
for a month. The sun dried up all the cattle, ami burned
cif tho hair till they looked like Mexican dogs, and the
sheep all like poodle puppies, they shrank up so. We had to
soak all our hogs to make 'em hold swill, and if any cattle
were killed in the morning, they'd be dried beef at daik."

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