The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-01 00:00:00

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS,

Vermont talks of increasing its Governor's wages
above the preset rate oft dole. 75 cents • day, as as Cs
mho him nearer au equality with journeymen mechanics !

A chicken in Taberg came fr.,m the shell recently
h two Nils We are happy to know it Is deal. There
are too many bills in the world now.

Jo Oregon " bibulati,m" i pajd to ho a re,- eentive
&ODA cholera, mod the modern style of drinking invitation
I-," L.I. Olanifect
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A geologiet says that he never heard of secondary
formations without vitamin the ladies Moog the secuuclary
form•tions, for thay Ware farmed attar the 1111-n.

An American paper quite in a tiff says—" There
seems to be no end to the ournher of planets in the solar
system. Five new ones were discovered last year'
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Insteed of dying, as was aitticipated, the King of
tht S.thrldh Ishiois Is ncoveriog. nark Twit n ken, Ids
8 •verefe 0 a box of petru:etunaud dynamite Ow, which have
worked thia
A farmer lost a gimlet in the woods near Monticello,
three ,ears aff ID, aid tho other day cut down an Iron-wood
tree, last lathe folks of which Le fourd—not • gimlet, but
• full.. ae abet Ile la sorry he didn't wait • year or two
longer, Sit crow ,r was Nit what he wants.
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Afar-west preacher took no s collection one Sunday,
anti found, when his hot was returned, that there 1114.11.1 a
tau y In it. "I thank m G sahl he, turning the bat
up•ide down and tapping the crown of it wi:h his hand,
" Os% I hare fp..t my hst back from this congregation."
The writer of the following version of " Mary's
Little Lamb" should tot given into the hands of the hale.,
to be puniahed as he deeerves:—

" Mars laid Mule lamb with wllloh she rued to Must.
Sae en ~h,d the wool clean off Its boric and stuffed it In her
busile."

An energetic young Infirm, who had been reported
as among the 'fatally injured" by • 'envied accident, and
after w.rds reporied as not among that Unfortunate company,
writea to the aihtor, ming : • I Wit you I was among the
fatally hj awl, but the reason I didn't die arm because I'm
always temperate in my living, and have a splendid constitw
lion naturally."
The Springfield Union thinka that one of the moat
amusing sights Is th at of • pretty and elegantly dressed young
lay standing In • mud puddle In the rear I • street car,
from which she has pat sllghtel, and calling frantically to
her pet poodle to" come b ck, you awful tiny, and let that
boiled yelimw dog alone," and In the oast breath beseeching
the driver to wait Cmli she eta get her "darling dog"
A juatice of the peace in Ibinoie, before whom a
°Wain had prosecuted ids daughter's lover for ejicting him
from his own parlour the Sunday er tug previous, solemn.;
deal. d an :—' It 'pears that this joung feller was
°Junin' the plaintiff'. gal, In p atntlff'a lslonr, and that
plilut.ff Int, tut d, and vas put out by delft, ant. Courtin'
Is a Wine necefelty, and mast not to Interrupted : there.
fore the low of 11 lo la will I,ld that a paront has no legal
right In • ra,na where cow" in' Is aloiit, and Po the defendant
Is iliachargel, ant plaintiff mast pay costa."