The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-02-21 00:00:00

Oh, the Snow,
The Bet Yewtiful Snow 1
It Made Last Night So Jolly, You Know,
Belating the Trains and Grounding the Wires,
as Bizzarding Over the Land
It Fires.
0, Give us a Chance, with a Big Sharp Hoe,
at the Son of a Gun Who Wrote
"Beautiful Snow."

A Pharp•looking youth walked up to the counter of
the post office in an American country town, and emptying
a bag of coppers thereon, asked the clerk, who was attending
to other cu turner!. for a dollar's worth of one•cent stamps.
"Oh, you be bothereo I" was' the answer. "That's not a
legaltender; it is all copper." What is a legal tender,
then r" asked the boy. "Why, one cent is a legal tender for
a one-cent stamp." "Oa I" exclaimed the youth, la It 2
Come on then," passing a coin from the heap; "a one cent
stsmp, plesze." The clerk gsve hiin one. "Another,
please." A second was given him. Ano-" "lere, atop
that," the clerk said. "Ohre me the money. It will be the
shortest way to get rid of you." After counting the money,
he gave the Iraqis thereof in stamps to the lad, who was
heard to mutter, "I thought I would dr him."

"•Let's see. They rat. e some whet in Minnesota,
don't they ? " asked a stranger of a Minnesota farmer.
"Raise wheat I Who raises wheat? No, sir; decidedly no,
sir. It raises itself. Why, if we undertook to c'altivate
wheat in that State, it would run us out, There wouldn't
be any place to putour house." "But I've been told tbet
grasehrppers take a good deal of it." "01 course they d,;
_.°
It they aldn't I don't know what we would do. Toe stu„'"'
would run all over the state and drive us out nih uakii
These grasshoppers are a godsend, only there stitl:,tamp
enough of 'em." "Is the wheat nice and plump 2"
but en u 1,3
Why, I don't know what you call plump wheat;
and
- alto,
are seventeen in our family, includin tea
serf kernel of
when we want bread we just go out and fetch in ter tint
wheat sod bake it." "Do you ever soak it in
"Oh I no; that wouldn't do. It would swell °At' little, and
then we couldn't get it in our range-oven."

The Duchess of Edinburgh when she passed through
Paris from Cannes. had a mud made entirely of the blue
feathers of the lay.—The

A RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT
ISANDLANA.

A letter from Natal gives some description of the
thanksgiving services held throughout the colony and
especially at 'sandlona on December 9. The Bishop
was accompained by Archdeacon Usherword, the
Rey. G. Smith (acting chaolain to the forces, just
made a chaplain), and Mr. C. Johnson of the Basuto
mission. The Bishop was East by the Bishop resident
(Mr. W. D. Wheelright), Mr. F. H. Fynn (resident
magistrate), and mere than a dozen English and
Dutch gentlemen, and by Hiubi, the chief of the dis-
trict and fifteen of his chief men. The burial office was
first said, and then the Holy Communion was cele-
brated, the Bishop preaching and explaining that he
had three objects in view in holding that service :
(a) That the bodies of dear Christian -men should not
be left without one word of peace and love said over
their graves; (I) that the protecting hand of Pro.
videsee might be recognised; and (c) that a practical
outcome of the work might be the establishmsnt of a
mission. The wooden slab used for the celebration of
the Holy Communion farms the pedestal of a hand.
some iron cross, which was then firmly fixel upon a
mound of earth and stones to mark the spot where
the services had been performed, and where it is
hoped a church will be built.