The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-24 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Among the things mut to the starving people of
Kansas was a tract headed "The Wickedness of Gluttony.
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A Los Angeless woman has made her husband cut
off his beard and give it to her for a switch.
A fatker in lowa recently gave his daughter a lead
mine as a bridal present. They say that he came down
heavy.
In New York clergymen have commenced their
hacking cough in anticipation of being sent to Europe this
summer for the benefit of their health.

Two things in this world that should not be trifled
with, according to Mark Twain, are a woman's opinion and
the business end of a wasp.

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Some Boston girls are about to eatablish a sock
darning factory, for the lwneflt of friendless young bachelors.
The girls should adopt the Latin motto—Sock et teum,
darnit !

"'Was it not," said a preacher, "very extraordinary.
that Nebuchadnezzar lived on grass?" How is that remark-
able when hundreds live on the less succulent "Turf?

Story of a local lawsuit in Kentucky: Subject
natter, 5 dols. worth of geese. Number of trials, three.
Lawyer's fees, 75 dole. This story of law geese need not apply
to Kentucky only.
The present belle of Long Branch is sail to weigh
196 pounds. but in her bathing suit she only weighs 108. She
Is then called a diving belle.

A popular senator, by way of diverting a melancholy
sitting gave a riddle. What State is round on both ends and
high in the middle, and owes the most? Ohio.
The American Roshefoucauld says: It is highly
amusing to see a man trying for ten minutes to light a tooth-
pick by scraping it on a match-box. Ile never succeeds."

Deaf and dumb men have a poor chance in Texas.
One of them went to a farmhouse, and when asked what he
wanted put his hand in his pocket to get a pencil, and he was at
once shot down by the farmer, who thought his visitor was
feeling for a pistoL
The American Rochefoucauld says :—"Every young
man has a line season in his life when he will accept no office,
and every young woman has the same in hers, when she will
accept no husband; by-and-by they both change, and often
take one another into the bargain.
The Toronto National thus concludes a notice of a
visit to Barnum's travelling circus :—" On the whole, we
were well pleased with the show. And, blessed be Creation,
there was no clown. Our heart bounded with joy when we
gathered this important fact from the programme. The
performances concluded with a balloon ascent in which
several members of the Toronto press took part. We are
asyet unaware of where they came down, but hope they
were as well taken care of as the Hamilton gentlemen a few
days ago. They have gone nearer heaven, however, than
they ever will again, at least unless the prospect stimulates
them to much-needed reforms."

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One of the proprietors of an alpacca factory in
America, having been presented with a fine pair of Angora
goats, attempted the remarkable feat of taking the fleeces
from their backs and making a fashionable dress of the
wool, between sun and sun. Operations were commenced
at sunrise and at an early hour in the afternoon the goods
were ready for the dressmakers.. Four ladies then made the
dress, complete in every particular, and ready for wearing
at sunset.