The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-16 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

A St. Lonisaa has lost faith in doctors because

shortly after being vsccinated he wu bitten by a mad dog.

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A Tenessee negro had a quarrel with a locomotive.
Age unknown.
In Minnesota recently s coroner's jury declared a
man to have been " severely frozen to death.' _
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A shrewd old lady compares her husband to a tallow
candle , he always sputters and smokes when he's put
out. .

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A Kentucky farmer refused to buy • sewing machine
—" he mowed his wheat out of a bucket."

A reporter in Binghanapton went to interriew
coroner and was pat on a Jury and detained fourteen days
Ile got his information in lull and in detail.
An American paper says: "A man who had lost
his eyesight by reartiag a narrowed paper, recovered it soon
altar he became a streecriber for it

A "Society for the Encouragement of Young Men
Dentringto Idarry" I. organising among the young 1..41ei of
Runduw.t. Y.

A Springfiel U.S., paper says : "We know shoes
have soles end tongues ; and DOW a chap to Rhode bland
advertises ' Shoes made Hoar. We don't believe IL^
All the Smiths, says an American paper, who go to
Europe Ude mummer, will come borne Smythe' Thomprona
will melt the " p " and Bakers will style themselvm
Becalm

A Californian hunter, who went ten miles to a place
where game was plentiful, flund that he bad brought a box
of pills Instead tf permualen cepa Ile eturned home In
disgust..

An American contemporary saysof a very prominent
militia general that 'his sword was never drawn but once—
and then in a raffia."

The following elegant notice of the change of
Weather appear. lu • lee w Yore paper—" The lain le swinging
np the circle again, and will .on crone the oversoat line Into
the regions where lighter clothing and ham and eggs tell Oa
It Is Spring."
An American editor, who has been soliciting "short
articles" from the suaacrioen to hie paper, lately received •
baby's under-garment, momewhat dilapidated, but short
°Lough doubtless to meet all requirements.
A new Chicago lire insurance company, taking •
lemon from misfortune, has added the following it ite
regular list of questions .1. Do you keep • cowl V. Is it •
female cow 3. I. it • farrow cow? 4. is It • kicking cow
6. is kerosene used In milking?

A Georgia bride is said to have "looked • very lily,
cradled In the golden slimmer of some evening lake—a foam
tick, snowy, yet san.ilashed among the rippling' ot some
soft southern sea."

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says, in the Christian
Union, that Professor Tyndall's face is " long, thin, hinged
with whiskers, without moustache or goatee, leaving his
mouth, like the embrasure of a fort, clear foe action "
" Mr. Speaker," said a member of the Wisconsin
Daghaature, in discussing • bill for the regulation of the I'm-
be r trade, "these timber dealers are a bad 1.1; they're
egregious scoundrels. I know 'em ; I was in the timber line
myself moron 111500 para."

We perceive in the papere that an Atalanta doctor
advise. person, who with to avoid the cholera 'to stand OD
their heads for • comidcrable time each day, for the per
p ..6 of causing abdominal deprestion." It will be in
affecting .pectacie for • man to c.,me home In the evening
and see Lit wife and children sad his aunt all mending on
their Loads In a row lu the entry welting for abdominal e
prassion.
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It rained the other evening in Indianapolie, and
there wee an entertainment. A young gentleman into to a
young lady, 'May I have the pleasure of protecting you
with my umbrella?" Said she, with her lovely, round ex-
pressive eyes looking lull in his 'rut up your darned old
The editor of the Lexington (Missouri) was from the
first opposed to the recent enitosial convention to Sa Louie,
but he controlled his feeling., and mildly, but decidedly
referred to it as " Menke& and fruitless cetawarnpus of nin-
compoopic gabequlrts and rapatallions."
It has been asoertained Chet during the last five
mouths five hundred and forty young ladles fainted on
ration. occasions. More than two hundred fell into the
&Ms of young gentlemen; foity were caught by their aunts
and grandmother'; and only one had the misfortune to fall
on the door. She, however, picked out • soft place to fall
upon, and IVY pray-id...1411y received by an ottc-man.