Arizona miner., 1868-02-01

 cannot consume it, prisons cannot incarcerate it, famine cannot starye it.
 WHEN the ladies of the court of Sweden had finished hugging and kissing Admiral Farragut, they each and all exclaimed, "farry gootn
 A HARD-HEARrED contemporary speaks of Mrs. Lncolns wandering as the "widow's cruisc.'
 ON one branch of the Madison river, in Montana, the hot springs may be counted by hundreds. and some of them are gcysers, or spouting wells. of a very high temperature This stream used to be called the Fire Hole Rivcrn The Stinking Water River derives its name from a large spring of sulphuweted hydrogen near it's source.
 EUROPE is at peace, yet her armies number two hundred thousand men. and in time of war, the effective force would be five million. THr capital invested in railway enterprises in the United States is somewhere near two thousand millions of dollars, and the amount is rapidly growing larger from year to year. The Pacific railways will add one hundred and fifty millions within the next five years, and new lines aud the extension of the pres ent lines will probably add as much more to this great interest within that time.
 THr last mile of track of the Union Pacific Railroad, into Cheyenne, was laid in one hour.
 NTr HOuL1, the great oarsnan, is gen tlcman and a srullT
 Ix a graveyard in Ia Grange, Tennessee, there is said to be tombstone bearing this inscription:
 Here lies old twenty per cent;
 The more he got the less he spent;
 The more he got, the more he craycd;
 If he goes to heaven, we'll all be saved' q WONDER how they make luciCer matches 2" said Mrs. Caudle. "rhe process is very sim pie said Mir Candle; II once made one.n How did you manage it ?' she asked By leading you to the altar replied Caudle. SEVEN thousand nine hundred and thirty oil wells have been sunk in the United States since the year 1861, and have yielded total product of about II ,640,6 barrels of crude petroleum.
 IT is said that the Indians have tried their new Government revolvers and scalping knives, and pronounce them about the right thing.
 THREE months experience in journalism cost the proprietors of the Brooklyn Pres s40,000, after which they gave up the pastime.
 4 RAILROAD bridge is being built across the Missouri river, at Kansas City, and it is stated that the sum of S300000 has already been expended upon it.
 IS Iceland, the clergyman kisses his con gregation all around before preaching-EI That's what we call freezing assurance on the part of the Icelandic clergy
 
 A MOBILE paper nominates Franklin Pierce for the Presidency
 AN editor, describing the bonnets now in fashion, says: "They have downward slant that reminds one of vicious COW with a board across her face"
 GEO. D. PRENTICE says of Fitz Greene Halleck. just dead: His soul was a thing of eternal beauty and music and sunshine" '" TIE Maysville (Ky.) Rspa5iioaa has the following: Married, Oct. 2l, by Rev. E. D. Isbell, in Scott county, John R. Corbin, aged S3 years, and Mrs. Sarah Simpson, aged 73 years"
 Old, but adYcnturesome.
 As the afternoon way train was coming from Baltimore. recently, the conductor. call ing ont the names of way-stations, shouted out in explosive tones:
 "Jessup's Cut"
 Was he hurt much 7'' inquired demuFe locking passenger.
 Whereupon there was a general snicker, and the conductor, proceeding to another car. called out, in lower key, Jessup's Cut THE new elevated railroad in Greenwich street, New York, has been completed for q quarter of a mile from the Battery.
 To MEAD AMBER Mourn PmcEs.-Smear the surface of the broken pieces with boiled hnseed oil, and hold them over the mild heat of a charcoal fire, pressing the parts well to- getheT, til the lute becomes hard and solid A knowledge of this secret might save tho pocket of the "knight of the meerschaum 2 enough to keep him in tobacco month.
 DR CROSBY, of New Haven, the man who invented the machine for making pins has perfected another which turns out perfect needle without touch of human hand, ex- cept in the tempering of the wire The Am erican Fish-hook Company of that city of which he is president, uses an invention Of his which drops hundred perfect fish-hooks each minute into a pail at one end from a coil of wire at the other.
 ITs rrUArIoS-Sonebodv asked the edi. tor of the NssisSippiaa the latitude and long. itude of Vicksburg. He answered:
 "Nicksburg is the parallel of Military Despotism, and thereby exposed to a high old African heat It's longitude may be calcula- ted by observing the long faces of the Radi- calls, since hearing the result of the late cleo tions."
 PRENTICE, in speaking of Thurlow Weed says: You ought, if your ancient joints arc not too rheumatic or gouty, to go down al -fgttT.s s4-ifh fila f r.ct,r ,,o,,,..