The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-15 00:00:00

materially to cheapen production. In chemical works,
for example, metallic chambers, which are expensive
without being durable, will certainly be substituted
by glass. M. de is Bastie is taking measures for the
practical working of his discovery, and his English
agents, Messrs. Abel Rey, Brothers, of 29, Mincing-
lane, exhibit a number of articles to which it has been
already applied."

WHIST (AND ITS LIGHTS.)

Whist,

Some take a birdseye view of
Some seek returns from play,
Others on Cavendish Insist—
Punch smokes them all—in Clay !—PINCII.

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

There are said to be only three women in Milwaukie
who can direct an envelope outright without drawing a line
with a pin.
In New Orleans a lady does not consider herself
dressed at a main& unless a prettily-clothed baby or child
sits on her knee.
Mark Twain, as is well known, is a subject of the
King of the Cannibal Islands. He says of the predecessor
of the present monarch, whose history he is writing—" He
was a tender husband and a most nutritious father.'
A young man broke through the ice on a skating
rink, and when he was hauled out and laid upon the ice, he
faintly whispered, "I didn't care for myself, but I'm en-
gaged, and I thought of her feelings."
A New York young lady saw in a wicked paper that
U two young ladies would each take a pole of galvanic
battery in one hand, and then complete the circuit by kiss-
ing, the sensation upon the lips is exactly that of the pres-
sure of a moustache. She immediately secured a battery,
and, with a lady friend, tried the experiment, which they
persevered in and charged the battery till they obtained "a
spark" between them.
"Don't you know that it is forty degrees below
zero?" asked a Milwaukee girl, as she was cutter-riding with
her lover. He took the hint and put his arm around her.
An affray, in which pistols were drawn, lately
occurred in a Nashville court, and among the incidents
were a justice hiding under a desk, the overturning of a
stove, and a man sitting down rather unwillingly on the
burning coals.
No Baltimore girl is allowed to have beau until she
can bake bread and knit stockings; and as a consequence
every girl can bake and knit long before she can read or
write, and she doesn't have to be coaxed into her industry

An American, whose wife's temper is somewhat un-
certain tells us that he is hourly expecting another outbreak
in the county called Lucy Anna.
A Brooklyn girl said to her dressmaker the other
day :—" If women are ever allowed to vote what do you sup-
pose will be the fashion for voting dresses?"
Josh Billings says he believes in the universal salva•
tion of men, but he wants to pick the men.
A Western editor did not wish to hurt the feelings
of a gentle poet, but apologised forthe son-appearance of a
long and tender poem by saying :—" Beautiful Spring' was
crowded out of our Sunday edition to make room for an ac-
count of the great snow-storm."
A Massachusetts man was elected to the office of
lieutenant-governor and second in command. When the
fact of the election was announced, he was called upon for
a speech. He proceeded to acknowledge the honour in very
handsome terms, and added that he should make a good
lieutenant-governor, as that was the office he had always
held in his own house.