The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

An Indiana gentleman is now living in a home with
his lifth wile and three mothers-in-law, and yes he Is not
barer

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A bridegroom sent an account of his wedding to the
village paper, and was mortified when '1 he lady's wedding
trousseau' came out In print "the wedding tromped*
_

There is a movement in New York against &Akin
able funerals. It la thought that with less *Knauss there
eiould be more of them.

An inventor residing in Baltimore intends to erect
on the top of his house a huge steam organ, which, when In
action, will be honed all over the town.
With what different eyes do we view an action when
111, our own and when It Is another's. We always thought
the author of this remark was a bad of

A fastidi ,tie young lady in Chicago broke an engage-
ment because her lover stained her meth and the beak breMiti
of her dream suit erlth tobaoco juice. The diaaarded lever
Minute her for her pride.

An American paper says :—" Several members Of
the Enslish parliament Sr. to visit America this Talk sod
"do' Colorado ere theft return to •• /I'old intoglamm."
A lady was robbed a few nights sinoe by • man who
secreted himself in her chamber until she had retired. The
box containing her jewellery and that containlne her rouge
were just alike, and the thief took the wrong boX She
looked pale on discovering her loss, but her colour ammo
again the next day.

An American literary man writes as follows :
There iz but phew things on the fsoe ov this earth moss
worthless than a poodle, and yet I am glad there is 'modae,.
for if there Wllllll2l there is come people who wouldn't bay,
enny object In living, and have nothing tew Inv."
"I saw," says a reporter, "a dog bite, man in the
leg In the market. The man laughed and the dog bit, and it
we. a queer sight to but at, for the harder the dog bit, the
louder the man laughed, until the dog fainted sway from ex-
haustion. It was the best sell on a dog that I ever met with
In this section. The man had a cork leg, and the clog left lila
teeth sticking In It."
A Kentucky paper state. that a member of the
Legislature of that State sent up the following to the
cork—' Leeve is asked to bring in A Bin to alter the time
of the Legislator to meet. itsfurrod to the comity on
Religen."

"There are people," said a gentleman to a friend,
who never see an afflicted person but they pray to heaves
to be delivered from a similar Infirmity. Now, I never se•
a blind man without praying to be diet" " Why r Booms
I am consciotui that he la going to play • clarions, ore band..
organ to me."
A young lady of McMinnville while out in the hillk
blackberrying, wee recently *outwitted by • cougar. Shea
yielded up her patter, and the cougar endeavoured to find
some local news In the Yamhtll Reporter. A tough pane
graph stuck in Ida throat, and he died than hour.
An English traveller in the States wag thus weeded
by • youth at Beton, who, without the ceremony of asking
if his tame was Smith, exclaimed, "You jut oiler been down
to the river • while ago " Why rhe inquired. • Because a nigger was In there awlminitis, and a big catfish Oman tip
behind him and swallowed both of his test, and went swim.
ming on the top of the water with him; and there Came
b.
hind another big flab, and the nigger 'wallowed his tall, sad
the nigger and two Ash were awimming about." •• Well :
then chat r - Why, after a while the nigger awalloited his
flat, and the other ash swallowed the nigger, and that wee
the last I saw of either of then."
A TSAI 70 El TAI AN WIER A LTTTLI SAMA—Tu•
molt terrific voyage ever made by water mullet of two bore
taxed Walker. through Clear Cheek Canon, Colorado, about
three weeks sinew mos were In a rev boat that wee draws
Into the current, which "dram& down geodes four Misdeed
feet per mtle, with to,. and there • fall over • reeky Pre
tiptoe fifteen or twenty feet In height," and botklere "10,V
of ling feet In dimmer" impede fte deeding profit... Dab
%key Wen eventually eyed. Jost co, but the ewe of the
swing must have been difiatil We Imagine it must bars
been roinewhat after this Mahlon. Notwltheintding the
preelpltous nature of the oountry a looomolive was abetted
after them The beet travelled one hundred and forty miles
In two home. The locomotive, taldng a sbut out, frot_th
ahead of thee, and the trail graft we im.oed d theyouth..
ful veyegen foxed unhurt. The fototnoifve then thdy
the short out afro= Mat one hundred end forty m
tug the ascent of kora hundred to nve hanctred feet per elle,
and landed the boys in thee mothers ante