The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-03-20 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

The New York papers publish a report of a lecture
delivered in that city by the Hon. Dudley Field, in
which he gave his impressions of the various countries
he had recently visited, and spoke as follows of the
British Empire and the Anglo-Saxon alliance :
Another lesson impressed upon me by this voyage
is, he said, the magnitude of the English Empire.
Truly it belts the globe. The title 'of Victoria,
"Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of
Hindostan, and Sovereign of Australasia," does not
even tell the whole story. I have heard it said and
repeated a hundred times, that England has lost her
prestige because she has in some degree withdrawn
from intermeddling with the affairs of the European
Continent. Lost her prestige, because instead of fight-
ing to raise up one dynasty and put down another
among her neighbours, she has taken to founding states.
and building up nations all over the world! She has
laid the foundation of a nation to the north of us,
reaching from the lakes to the Pole; she is building
up another dominion in South Africa; she is building
up a greater nation in Australia, that is yet to domi-
nate over the southern hemisphere, eastward of the
Cape; and she is taking and peopling the islands of the
Pacific Seas. For my part, I rejoice at this. Bearing
in mind that pro-consular or colonial governments can-
not be safely worked under our American institutions,
I am glad that under English institutions they can.
Our two nations have, each in its own sphere, a
great work to do; and they can do it, aiding and
stimulating each other. My heait swells with
pride when I think that America, by settling her
own vast domains, and covering them with popular
and free institutions, and England by colonising and
stretching her dominions, that these two nation* are
extending to indefinite limits the use and sway of
their common language, their common laws, and their
common social life. I rejoiced the other day
when I heard that an Australian governor had planted
the flag of England on the Fiji group, and reflected
that the sonnets of Shakespeare and the laws of Alfred
would be the heritage of the future inhabitants of those
sunny islands. America and England hold more
things in common than they hold in severalty. It is
time that the tone of disparagement, in which some
on both sides still indulge, should cease, and that the
hates of past ages should be buried; that the light of
,the coming Centennial may shine upon kindred
peoples, rejoicing together in that mysterious Provi-
dence which parted them, that they might travel by
different roads to the same goal, and which makes
' them at once rivals and mutual well wishers. The name
of Washington, our great leader and father; whose
birthday we are celebrating, is held in honour and
reverence by a majority of the English people. For
myself, I am free to say that while I love my own
starry flag the best of all that float, I love next the
fiery cross of England.

AAoapor,loftmeli4olli,

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
Dental science is called "tooth carpentry" as a fine
art.
The young ladies of Richmond have formed a co-
operative self-escorting church and party-going society.
When a western man loses 50 dollars in the street
he offers 49 dollars reward for it. Ile knows what human
nature is.
A New York lady recently paid a dentist's bill of
£7O on account of services rendered to her pet poodle.
And that's the way the money goes to the dogs in New
York.
An American interviewer stops short after writing
the words Prince Demetrius Tschawtschawadze, and utters
this remark :—" Imagine such a name on an umbrella handle.
It would hang over the ferrule."

A Boston paper innocently remarks that there is an
air of improbability about the Chicago Post's story of a woman
who was eaten by grasshoppers. Some of these Boston
papers would doubt the veracity of Mr. Gulliver himself.
A man had better have a millstone tied to his neck
and be cast into the sea than to promise to marry a Texas
girl and then refuse. The whole country turns out to hunt
him, and he is generally left to grow up with a tree.

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A Washington dentist advertises for "the front
tooth of a girl fourteen years old. Will pay liberally and re-
place artistically."

There's said to be a man up in Maine who can go on
the ice in a pair of skates and write a promissory note at four
months in such perfection that the sun will be sure to liqui-
date it at or before maturity.
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A Yankee editor says, "If the party who plays the
accordion in this vicinity at nights will only change his tune
occasionally, or sit where we can scald him when the engine
has steam on, he will hear a something to his advantage."
A good many people were recently deluded into
going mto an apothecary's shop in a village on the Hudson
to see a red bat which had been captured and was en exhibi-
tion. They saw it, and it was red, as a brickbat usually is.

The young ladies of America have one careful family
at least, for we learn that a young lady was married in
Beverly, New Jersey, the other day, in a buff-coloured silk
dress, the material of which was brought from Canton.
China, and taken to England during the American Revolu-
tion by Roger Kean, a prominent merchant of that day,
and great-great-grandfather to the bride, who is the sixth
married in it during five generations—three in England and
three in the United States.

This is the way they do their advertising in San
Francisco :—" Tell that man to take his hat off in court," said
a judge, the other morning, to an officer. The offender, who
turned out to be a lady, wearing a fashionable sailor's hat, in-
dignantly exclaimed, "I am no man, sir I " " Then," said
his honour, " I am no judge of anything but good wine, and
the best is Ileidsieck's champagne, which I always get from
F. and P. J. Cusin, at 623, Front-street."

Three Saginaw girls of the Methodist persuasion
having met together, concluded to pray for the welfare of
their lovers, but the arid one had not gone far along in her
petition when it was discovered that they were engaged to
the same man. The religious exercises were at °not) ta-
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