The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-24 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

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What is the difference between a newspaper reporter
and a man who has lost his right hand? The one Is a short-
hand writer, and the other Is aright hand shorter.
The Governor of Wyoming closed his thanksgiving
proclamation with "Give thanks unto the Lrl, for fits
mercy endureth for over. In witness whereof. I have htve-
unto set my bond, end caused the great seal di the territery
to be attired," tbc.
The New York Daily Graphic proposes to bake •
"new departure' art Thiele Ito lee,. stuyndons enter-
prise than to ptibilth portraits ot the champion Idles °leach
14500 8k America.
The hotel-keepers at Niagara are discussing • plan
to amp tourists Ave miles from th, f all tt Atl If lhotr eall
with mitt n, to prevent !hum h.t.rin_t tro rt-or hoot Ir p
leg a tee of three d tilers.
A Kentucky Pane,' cengratuletes a minitter cf the
,naptl s vii g o'torch wt:h a aniall ',Oat), 'or
f, der el I Mee o :vitt :,CCO i?.ollots, to say ohn ng ti
the pickings and ate allege.
" esiel.a wettsrn judge, " you Lie go out and
find a vordict. If 300 0; nit thud cite of your own, get the one
the last jury used." The Jury returned a veroict of antic is
in the ninth degree.
Daring the reNint frethet in Connectient, • Watcr•
bury editor telegraphed seethe-it alike scene f ectlon, "hoed
me full ;articular, of the liooh" The *Lacer gam-,
tleid them in Geneeni."
A little boy has becu fairly driven from siihool by
tie diaircoetul parse:Aston of the other Fe 01•041, ale
tahhh,l him with the foct that Li, faher had 4gen a New
Y.oir jur,man.
A western jourr al, probatily wishing to do the
handsocre thicg ly the loos doctor, recently see. Animed
that "lie. Cia Word was eslhil in, and, nude: his prompt
and 'MAO trcalment, the young rose died on Wednesday
attermdn." Tots the D-trelt Free Ptcie calla the puff
oh hoe.
Under the head of "broken English" an American
paper places sucu Englishmen as get smashed op by railroad
collisions, or who financially come tc grist.
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Two young ladies of New York were examining a
etotuette of Andromeda, labelled, "Executrd in Terra
Cotta." "Executed in Terra Colts," says one where a
that?" "I'm sure I don't know," returned the other; "but
I pity the poor girl, wherever It war."
An American Mee is that the difference betwean our
days and time, of Diogenes Hes In the fact that whereas the
old boy only wanted 11 inntera, tow a strong lime light would
be neceoary
Julia Ward Howe says that no woman can be
brilliant after mortgage. It must be confessed that the
society of some hatband' la enough to dull the brightest
faculties.
A keen sportamsn went out, nine in hand, to have
some sh orting, when he perceived a dozen blackbirds
pnched upon the projecting and lesEess bough of a tree
some eighty yards from him. lie fired. To hie great surprise
not one of them flew awoy, although be was certain Ms
bullet had struck toe bough, having seen some splinters fall
' from it. No ; there they remained, flopping their wings In
the most unacconntahle manner. 1711 curiosity being er.
cited, he approached the tree, the birds remained seal perched
and fluttoing their wings On coming quite close to Mem,
he toned to Mt astonishment, that his bullet had spilt the
bough along ha entire length, and thereby caught every one
of the birds by their claws, This might not appear true but
for the tad that It au so Amato= goutioosoo who heed the
bond and seta Um 11017.