The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-06-13 00:00:00

GEORGE FREDERICK'S FEAT.
MR. CARTIVRIWIT, owner).
This feat of thine, 0 wondrous Hone,
What other hone could do
The Derby win on Epsom Course,
And pull a Ca it right through !--Pv

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

A Detroit paper, noticing the fact that a man fell
down dead while combing his hair, says— And yet there are
people who will persist in that dangerous habit."

A North Carolina paper contains an advertisement
or " the great American house movist."

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Beginning of a judge's charge in lowa—" Gentlemen
of the jury, you most now quit eating pea-nuts and attend to
the ease."

Ihe Cremation Society propose to do Its cremating
ns Frydays.

A man wrote to Agaasiz, the American savant, that
he had an appl • that he preserved for arty-three years, and
when Agassiz wrote for It, the joker said it was the apple of
his eye.

An American Sunday-school scholar being asked
what became of men who deceived their fellow men,
promptly exclaimed, " They go to Europe."

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When any one out West relates a circumstance that
takes more than two men to believe, they interrupt him by
asking if he has a photograph of the occurrence.

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A recent ghost was heard singing :
" Twas a cough that carried toe off
'Twee a coffin they carried me off in."

Somebody recommends that a few tons of the
"(Men to spring," now lying about the newspaper offices, be
sent to Iceland for exhibition at the millennial Better send
the writers the paper might be of some use

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Everybody now-a-days Is a 'lady" or a "gentle-
man." A St. Louis paper recently informed its readers that
two gentlemen and a lady left for the penitentiary last
night."

Fifteen years ago, Nava the Wash i ngton Star, a gen
tleman of this city scratched his name on a gold dollar and
lent it on its travels. But it disappoints the anticipations
of curious people by adding. "He has never seen it since."
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An Indiana statesman is indignant at the govern-
ment for taking the tax off ptaners which we don't use, and
keeping it on whiskey which we do.

A railroad croinnug at Portland, Maine, on account
of its fatal associations, has been named ' the gridiron of
death."

The proposition to introduce ladies as railroad con-
ductors is objected to in view of the fact that "their trains
are always behind."
A. woman's heart is the only true place for a man's
likeness. An instant gives the Impression and an age of
sorrow and chillis cannot efface it A philosoper, named
Josh Billings s, "Will. it wash?"
One summer evening, during a visit to Salem, the
late Mr. Peabody was sitting alone by an open parlour
window. The room within was lighted, the street without
was dark, so that while his form was plainly recognised by
anybody passing, he could not we what passed. A party of
young men stopped in front of the house, and began to sail
for "Peabody ! Peabody ! George Peabody!" Supposing,
very naturally, that the townsmen wished to pay their
respects and hears speech, he came forward, when a voice
rose nut of the darkness, "Say, Peabody, give us a thousand
dollars," MI. Peabody shut the window very suddenly, and
did not make a speech