The Arizona sentinel., 1873-12-20
Wise-If not Otherwise.

anu UtSlHS AGAIN DIT tW0HCys
Michigan moonlight is danger
GUS, we should judge, from the
statement that ''two men were
robbed in Manchester, Mich, by
moonlight"
In a letter to a friend, a young
lady of Illinois states that she IL
not engaged, but she sees cloud
above the horizon about as large
as mans hand.
The Lawrence, Kansas Tribune,
edited by an ex-Boston clergy
man, calls a brother of the Leav-
enWorth Times, a hoary-headed
Old hook. nosed devil.
western women are grumbling
terribly because the managers of
the agricultural fairs don't give
at least years notice when they
offer prizes for the finest babies.
Miss c." said a gentleman,
one evening, "why are ladies so
fond ofoffcers?" "How stupidI"
replied Miss c.; sis it not ma
tural and proper that q lady
should like good offer, sir?"
This is from the Augusta, Ga,
Chronicle: Delinquent SUBJ
scribers should not permit their
daughters to wear this paper for
hustle. There being so much
due on it, there is danger of tax
ing cold"
A Chinaman came down one of
the main streets of Millerton,
CAL, on election day, in a state of
inebriation and joyful exaltation,
and thus delivered himself:
Hoop la! me all same Mclean
man. Hair cut short and dunk
like HI. Hoop lap
A cowardly fellow having kick
ed a newsboy for Fostering him
to buy an evening newspaper, the
lad waited till another boy accost-
ed the ''gentleman," and then
shouted in the hearing of all by
ISLANDERS, sits no use to try him,
Jim, he can't read"
Thomas" said a father to his
son, ''don't let that girl fool you.
Look sharp. Remember the adage
that love is blind" 80, that adage
won't wash" said Tom; stalk
about love being blind! Why, x
see ten times as much in that girl
as you do"
A pious but uneducated judge
clesed a sentence with the follow
ing touching reproach: Prisoner
at the bar; nature has endowed
You with a good education and
respectable family connections, in
stead of which you go round the
country stealing ducks"
A peculiar way of discharging
printers exists in the Dayton, O.,
Offices. Each compositor has a
nail to hang his coat on, and when
the foreman concludes to dispense
with the services of one of the
hands, he takes a hammer and
drives the. nail in to the head.
They have some very smart
business men in New Jersey.
Last week a young man was
struck by lightning in a field near
Trenton, and when the people be-
gan to flock to the spot to look at
the victim, they found a man
standing by the corpse trying to
sell ligh thing rods to the crowd.
Respect for old age has never
had brighter illustration than
in the case of young lady who
always refuses to go to the wash
tub when her mother or grand
mother is present.
Prof. E. A. Sophocles, of Har-
ward College, is going to Europe
for a few months visit. Proba-
bly, going to see old Damocles,
Pirecles, Ripides, Cantharides
and other Suchasthese.
Chicago wants to have the
next worlds fair held there.
"In the first place." says the Bos-
ton Post, sit isn't certain that the
next world will have a fair, and
in the second place, these who'd
be likely to attend it will prefer
a more pious town in which tot
celebrate"
A stone-cutter received the fol- |
lowing epitaph from a German,
to be cut upon the tombstone of
his wife:
"Mine wife Susan is dead, i'll
she had lefe till mex friday she'd
hin dead shust two weeks. AS a /
tree falls so must it stan; all tings
is impossible NIT God"
The following lines are said to
have been copied from stone in
Oxford, New Hampshire:
ITO all my friends bid adieu,
A more sudden death you never knew;
AZ 1 was leading the old mare to drink,
She kicked, and killed ne quicker'n q |