The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-02-14
WIT AND HUMOR.

phrase for a wife-murder.
In pocket-picking. as in every
thing else, man never succeeds
until he gets his hand in.
A schoolboy's essay Of liberty
concludes as follows: "The rights
of the people should be preserved
in violet"
The people of Montana called it
''the natural park Of the Yellow
stOne," until Congress had &C.
cepted, and now they want
100000 for Improvements"
"The evidence shows that he
sot up with her night after night,
and they squeeze hands and talked
soft, and l think she ought to
have about SO damages WAS
the charge of an Idaho Judge to
jury.
An unstamped letter was de-
posted in a Mifflin county post
office, the other day, and under
meath the address was the endorse
ment: "Let her slide. p. NJ =
she's all hunk. inside air one Of
them there post hole keerds "
A Michigan newsdealer recent
ly received this order from a
young lady: "Send me A Novel
colled buffalo bill and the dai>
doins." Contrary 10 what might
be inferred, she was not from
Boston.
While Lydia Thompson was
capering in Memphis theater
the other night, a fellow in the
audience shouted, Bully for
you. old tnw,top! Good Lordy,
look at her kick!" and they put
him out.
Among curious wills in Eng
land, a devoted wife wills that
her darling hu shand shall marry
ere long nice, pretty girl, who i
a good housewife. being careful
she has a good temper.
A Nevada clergyman has had
to vacate his pulpit without wait.
ing to tender his formal resigna-
ton herauSe he was $50 nice that
he wouldn't even hold his stakes
for e scrub race -
One of the three wOod-choppers
in MarysvilIe arrested for grand
larceny, committed in Npvad ,
county, remarked the other day,
swell, if GO to the State Prison
for four or five years, I'll learn a
better trade than chopping
wood"
The Boston Herald says: The
project of a Home for Fallen
Men," in Chicago, has fallen
through. A variety of reasons
have been urged, but the most
probable seems 10 he that it would
involve the building of a new
city.
a good brother in a Baptist
Church IF Miami county Indiana,
while giving his experience, not
long ago. said "Rrethren. I've
been tryin' this nigh onto forty
years to serve the Lord and get
rich both at ontr. and / tell yer
it's mighty hard sleddin'."
Sir Moses Montefinre, the Jew
ish banker, was Negotiating p
loan on the BourSe, when a small
lot of capitalists approached him
"Oh. dear" cried one. ''he is GO.
ing to swallow us ALL" mo my
dear SIR" said Sir Moses. with a
eanstic smile, ''my religion for
bids that"
He lives in Cleveland, but he
ought to live down Fast. His
name is George w. Knox. He
has tackled IA huge plank with a
jack knife, purpoeing To white
it into marvellous things, and
leave them all connected. The
weak will he done in time for ex-
ibitinn ut the Philadelphia Cen-
tenniai. Already the leisure of a
year has been expended on it.
In the following manner bud
ding Bohemian expresses him
self about journalism, in a college
paper printed in an Iowa institu-
tiOn: 1T is to be most devOutlv
hoped that the time is speedily
: coming when the outrag ed public
opinion-the faithful mentp- Of a
free people-will arise i'm all the
fury of abused dignity. and wi III
mastadonic power thoroughly
purge this field of useful lahGr of
all its fnul and exotic eXrrpScen-
ces, and open pure soil for hon
est husbandmen."
TEA AND PRAYERS Fashion
able Christianity in London is
growing 10 he amusing. People
are now invited to prayer meet
ings precisely as if invited to a
social sniree or an evening party.
The Newcastle Chronicle prints