The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1873-04-19 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.  Ei. youth who was creased in love attempted suicide recently by taking a dose of yeast powder.  A gentleman of the name of Furlong has four children, or halt • mile's worth, as eight furlongs make • Mlle.  Yankee burglars my that they never saw such a panic In the money market uat present. They assert that every other watch has been sent to the pawnbroker's. No one wishes tothave a bald head, but no one wishes to lose It when he has. The American Poet Laureate, Smith, calls this a Solem-une proverb.  The times are affecting the poor Indian. They complain that none but bald-headed emlgranta go West now.  An experienced surgeon will anynnpany every train," very properly composes a part oil an American railway advertisement. A contemporary describes how "a young man who thinks he has • tine tenor voice was vaccinated by • cow." It tossed him while he was in the meadow sender her window.  An Indianopolis paper says that a banquet in that city was opened with prayer by the Rev. Emsley liamilton whisky gauger for the Seventh district. It occurred to a Yankee scholar, while writing a componition, to make the remarkable statement, that "an on does not taste as good as an oyster, but it can run taster."  A Georgia man who recently sent the Savannah News thirty cents for sample copies of the paper, put in one corner of the envelope To poet Maaters—Gents, This contains money. Pleas handel It with a pair of tongs." Smith, the American poet laureate, says :—" I have often been told that the beat way is to take a bull by the horns but I think, in many Instanews, I should prefer the tall hold."  smith, the American Poet Laureate, writes thus of • cattle show—" Al with men, s, lit. with cattle. They may be, and pemibly are, lovely and beautiful in that lives; butt. their death they are divided."  The last Yankee invention is a new.faehioned travel. ling-beg to whien a man can .to himself upon a journey He place. himself In the bag, and, taking it In bla band, pastes fee luggage.  -- Nobody ever stands in the horse cars at Leavenworth, Kan. When a gentleman enter a car, the noupet young lady Hess and off.rs him a mat. She then ate In hla lap, and both are eatlalied.  A down-east journal essys that a Maine man la about to apply for a patent for an artificia/ syster, made out of flour-paste, tapioca, salt, and water. :Ile Inventor places these to second hand oyster-shells, which are carefully glued around the edges. . . .  "How shall we settle the labour cutestion ?" exclaimed a member of the Georgia Legishtture, In the midst of his speeeh. "By all going to work and earning your living honeatly !" thundered. epectator in the gallery. That nentment brought down the house.  There wail a catholic and impenetrable gloom in • house in New York last week. A youth of eighteen summers and seventeen winters got too near the gas, and the grease on his moustache took Are. Mat moustache, slight and sparse as it was, had cost him six months' tender nuraing and fond caressing, and there wun't enough of it left to make a decent-sired toothpick for • fly.  The robin ham a red brest. They have a song, and sing as though they wan sorry for something. They rob a currant bush lust rate, and are smart on • goo•eberry. If a robin kaut find ennythlng else taw wit, they slut tew fastddious`tew eat ripe straw berry. They build their nests out of mud and straw. and lay tour eggs that are speckeld. Four young robins In • nest, that ar Just hatched out, and still on the half shell, are nisniz an ready for dinner as • nuzeboy is. If ennybody goes near their nest, their months all fly open at once, so that you ban see clear down to their palates.