The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1873-02-15 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. A Chicago paper says the women in Utah have recently altered the orthography of their creed. They now spell it Moremen instead of Mormon.  The following "notis" is posted in Lincoln, Millbowl :—"Ce hear, Eye don't want enntioddi that has bosses which has of the eppituticic tuliewensa, or an other iniurnal earn., to cum thou this gait under penalty. Keep eh!. Mountaineer."  A man who recently travelled overland from California t,3 New York Ilf}s the route of the Pacific railroad across the mountains la a good one, 'the snow not being over thirty feet deepen any part of it." Nothing seems to daunt a Rocky Mountain man.  According to Orson Hyde' the Mormon apostle, the great fires at Chicago and Boston, the epizootic, and the calamities in general which have lately visited America, are manifestations of /leaven's vengeance for the oppreasiona of  If you would have an idea of the ocean in storm, 3)01 a temperance orator, just imagine four thousand hills and four thousand mountains in vino, running over newlyploughed ground wills lota of caverns in It for them to atep tutu now and then. A Yankee has jug invented • new kind of braces, that contracts on your approach to water, and the moment you come to a puddle it lifta you over, and drops you on the cpposlte side.  Georgia hats a hale and hearty citizen who has been struck by thlrty-two minle-rifle balls, oar mortar shell, one shrapnel, one three Inch conical shot, struck by lightning, bitten by a rattlesnake, and chased by a mad dog. - • --  • Says Josh Billings, "Before you ask a favour of any man conedfor three thing.. First, can you not avoid it? Secoud, can the one you apply to grant It? Third, would you, if your places were reversed, do for your friend what yen ask him to do for yourself? 111. well to think of this." Quite right, philosopher, Josh's critic replies, and it may ova the other man time to get round the corner and out of ought, or to leave the room ins hurry when he sees what you are up to.  Young lady dancing with an elderly philosophical partner "INA it ever struck you a bald head Is like the better world ?" Elderly philosophical partner becoming red, trying to laugh, and thinking she at most is going to make a pun a4out ball and bald head, suggests something of the kind, when she replies, "so, not that ; I mean it's a bright and shiny place where there's no parting '  The New York practice of using a reflector and throwiug a ray of rose-coloured light upon the bride's cheek as she waifs up the aisle of the church, was sought to be introduced in Salt Francisco, but the man managing the reflector was. little nervous sad directed the rays upon the nose of the bridegroom, and the consequbnce was that those who assembled to witness the marriage—and were not iu the seeret—thought the bride was throwing herself away on a magnificent rum-blossomed nose.  AN AMERICAN MURDER Jo.—That Was s vary tender-heatted man who, on being told that his wife, who had left the house only an Ii Ur before, was drowned, and that her body was found a mile or so below, said, "She must have Itlated down quite lively."