The Arizona sentinel., 1874-02-21
WIT AND HUMoR.

Robert collyer thinks a man should not marry unless he does 1t before he is 25.
 An editor who has given upl trying to please everybody says: "Even fir sound the praise of my own Maker the devil would be offended"
 We learn from an Eastern jour- nal that early in January Miss Susan R. Anthony will bring suit> against all newspapers that have thrown mud at her."
 Miss Isabella Beecher Hooker and Susan B Anthony are going to travel together. Landlords along the route will please get hot bricks ready.
 The Detroit Free Press says that if you fire a shotgun in any direction in this country you will hit a poet 10 which inc Ohio State Journal replies: We want a Shot- gun"
 A traveller, who has done some pretty tall climbing in the Alps, relates that whenever his mule exhibited an inclination to back over a preripice, he just got down quietly and prepared to let her do it.
 Gray hair has become very fashionable, and in order to ac- c0mmodate all who de>ire to be in ihe fashion, some considerate fellow has introduced a white wash for the ladies. It is wal ranted not to injure the hair and can be easily washed out.
 "We will have to si5 close to- gether t0 keep warm. as Pa Sculds so about the cnai hill." !" is what she said to him last night. And yet they say "ur giIlS are not cOnsid crate and economical.
 "Ah! my dear" said the phi losophic Miranda, 'the arrange ments of nature ever excite my wonder and admiration. The same wind which masses ourrrin- Ollne blows. dust in the eyes of young men who are so anxious to examine it."
 A KansaS man who came across Horace Greelty's sentiment "The man who raises ten hOys is greater than sesar," planted q keg of gun powder under school house, for the purpose, but 1t was detect. ed and removed. Thus is climb ing ambition pulled back to the base earth.
 If your parents won't let you marry him, write letter tO 4 l convent asking for a situat on as a nun have the letter intercepted | by your mother, and a finale of white satin, lace, Orange-blnss0ms and things will follow. At least, it worked that way with a Troy girl.
 The meanest thing lately re- ported, was perpetrated by New Haven manufacturer. who, on the last day of 1873, told his book keeper that his salary of S1.20Ol must be reduced $2t0 per anUum, and dated hack one year, this bringing htm in debt to the com pany S200. and that if he worked for the company another year, he 1 must work for $500.
 A Missouri paper says: "The 1 custom of putting powder in sticks of wood for your neighhors to steal is an old and barbarous one, and when we passed by a l house the other morning, and ! saw the family shivering out in the yard over broken stove, and | heard the children crying for break fast, our heart was filed with bitter reflections on mans inhumanity to man."
 There are seventy headed | men in Congress. No unprtiu. diced mind can look down from the galleries upon that Lake Su- periOr of absent hair without a feeling of regret that the absence is a thing with which the pecu- liar skill of the ahorigines had nothing to do-[ Louisville Cou- rier Journal.
 Tweed is undoubtedly there. A reporter addressed a note to him referring to the rumor that he was not in prison at all and re- ceived this reply:
 All such rum0rs as you refer to are false. Inc whole building, prisoners, keepers and all, see me daily, l regret that I do not feel as though l could see anybody but my family, but that am here is certainty too palpable to be pleasant to
 Yours. respectfully,