Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1881-08-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.  A Kinkinnati editor has just mitten a kolumn about the pronunciation of Kicker°.  Tea parties are all the rage in New Mexico just now. They always end up with a shooting match, with the host for a target, and hosta are growing scarce at the rate of a mile a minute.  At Wamego a place in the extreme West, is a sha-nty which bears the sign—" Here's Where You Get a Meal Like Your Mother Used to Give You. A Chicago policeman dodged four bullets easy enough, but then got tired and the fifth one fetched him. evens polfbeman can't stand everything. A Connecticut man announces that he can play on seventeen different musical instruments. He is compelled to make the announcement himself because none of his recent neighbours are now living. There are five women. to one man in Holyoke, Mass., and the poor men have to enter ice cream offices by way of the back window, and they carry revolvers when they go to planics. In Canada, when a man is seen staggering along the street under the influence of liquor, he is described as "doing the outer edge."  "A Buffalo paper has an article on 'Giants Thirty Feet High. That last rain seems to have done a heap of good."--Peck's Sun. -  A woman is going to try to keep her mouth shut three thousand quarter hours. If this new departure should become epidemic, what a mighty peace would settle down over this troubled land A travelling dentist invaded Burlington, U.S., last week and hung out the startling sign—" 2th pullin." A female lecturer in Boston said : "Get married, young men, and be qui& about it. Don't wait far the girls to become angels- You would look well beside angels, wouldn't you, you brutes After a Michigan farmer had committed suicide because there was to show for his corn a soaking shower started every kernel into We and guaranteed a big crop. Some folks are always a day too late. A fisherman has found one place in Lake Ede where he sounded with a line two miles long and could itiad no bottom. We trust that he will try again with a longer line, using for sinkers those people who point unloaded guns at friends and bring about a funeraL—Detroit Free Press. A Norwegian woman living in Nebraska, washed, baked, ant her wood, killed Nix rattlesnakes, run off two tramps, and shot an eagle, all in one day, and it wasn't the longest day of the year, either. A canary in New York imitates the most difficult air performed on the piano. A smarter canary in Norfolk warbles the choicest selections from the old composers and accompanies itself on the piano. It also plays very artistically on a Jewsharp and an accordion at the same time. The owner says he wouldn't take a shilling for it.  On Sunday night about fifty galley slaves at Golebta succeeding in bursting their chains, seised the guns of the soldiers who had charge of them, and took to night in the direction of Carthage. A panic ensued in the town, and a number of rich families passing the summer at Goietta, fearing an attack in the night, went back to Tunis. Moat of the prisoners were, however, recaptured. An inquest has been held at Bromley-by-Bow, as to the deatbul Mary Ann Scott, aged 45, which arose through self-itspuid deprivation of food. About two months ago her son wit ineldentally drowned, since which time she had refused to take the common necessaries of We. Dr. Moore stated that death was due to starvation. It vu said that a banking ageount for a considerable sum of money was found in the preision of the deceased. A verdict of "Temporary insanity Ives returned,  lOU