Arizona miner., 1867-11-09
Groupings.

IT is related that nervous old gentleman recently attempted to remove a large bug from the bonnet of lady who sat in front of him at theatre in New York. The re- suit was, he unroored all her Lack hair, the bugs office being to hold head and hair to- gether.
 AMONG the group of "minerals sent by citizens of the United States to the Paris Exhibition, were shingles from Milwaukee. soft soap from New York, paste backing, photograph fox-skins, tobacco, stomach bit ters, and other productions of the soil.
 IT is stated that Mir Horace Greedy receives one hundred dollars column for his contr- buttons to the Ledger for the next twelve months.
 A PHYSICIANS MoTro.-Foote being asked by lady to translate physicians motto, which was |" "a aumiHe salssn he quickly re- piled, God help the patient
 Two persons wrangling at a hotel about their propensity to sleep one said to the oth CT, "As soon as you lie down you don't know anything until you get up.' "Well,n was the reply. that's better than not to know anything after you get up"
 WHEN the President is closeted with Col. Florence and Hon. J. $. Black he Is said to be under the influence of Tom and Jerry
 STILL another musical prodigy has ap- peared. He is a boy of fifteen who plays Yankee Doodle" "Rye Straw and other tunes on a paw-paw whistle, whatever that may be.
 GENTLEMAN remarked that -, who used to be given to sharp practice, was get ting more circumspect. Yes replied Judge Hoar of Massachusetts, "he has reached the superlative of lfe-he began by seeking to get on, then he sought to get honor, and now he is trying to get honest
 JoNEs complained of a bad smell about the post office, and asked Brown what it could be. Brown didn't know, but suggested that it might be caused by the dead letters
 Do not live in hope with your arms folded Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulder to the wheel that propels them on to wealth and happi ness. Cut this out and carry it in your vest pocket, ye who idle in bar rooms and on the streets.
 SHAKsPEARE.-"To this complexion must we come et last says a St. Mark, Florida paper, in reference to the appointment of a negro as postmaster.
 A LITTLE boy in Portland told his father he was a fool On being reprimanded by his mother, and required to say he was sorry, he ran to the insulted parent and exclaimed, Papa, I'm sorry yon's fool"
 THREE daily papers published at Keokuk, Iowa are called respectively, The Cute Cty, IHe Morning Glory, and the Eeokpk AiP-aad- Tack.
 A CORRESPONDENT of the UaiHe Farmer says: Many housewife may be glad to -har gba hoe t,ia s,ff froab Ina wishes to keep few days, that it can be sue cessfully done by placing it in dish and coy- ering it with buttermilk. l have practised the plan for years"
 TIE Sultan has made joke: passing the shop of a well known coiffeur, where chignons were exposed for sale, he inquired if it was a hair-cm.
 THE Chicago RepuRieon, referring to the forthcoming editorial excursion to the plains, remarks that "as most editors are bald at an early age, there will be no special induce ments held out to hostile redskins to inter fere with the programme"
 TIE VIRTUES OF BoRAx.-The excellent washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, who ''get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax as washing powder, in- stead of soap, in the proportion of one large handful of borax to about ten gallons of boil ing water. They save in soap nearly one half. All the large washing establishments adopt the same mode. For faces, cambnc, etc, an extra quantity of the powder is used for crinolines, required to be made stiff, a strong solution is necessary. Borax being a neutral salt does not in the slightest degree iniure the texture of the linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest water and therefore, 1t should be kept on every toilet table To the taste, it is rather sweet; it is used for cleans ing the hair, is an excellent dentifrice, and in hot countries it is used in connection with tartarc acid and carbonate of soda, as a cool ing beverage. Good tea cannot be made with hard water. All water may be made soft by adding teaspoonful of bOrax powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water, in which it should boil. The saving in the quantity ul tlsnd trill he n lnasA na-Hfih