The Arizona sentinel., 1874-09-12
MISCELLANY.


 The fool seeketh to pick fly from mules hind leg. The wise man letteth out the job to the lowest bidder. A chap who spent $1 1,5OO to graduate from Harvard, IS Post master in Iowa at SPA per year: Where would he have been but for his Latin and Greek? There is some good coming out of that affair, anyway. Isaac Blyther, San Francisco religious enthusiast killed himself on &C., count of the Beecher scandal.
 The reason why they didn't have court in Topeka the other day was because the judge "went to the bottom of the river on busi. ness and didn't get back until f1Shed up."
 When Portland woman chases her boy with a broom, he runs down on wharf and jumps into the water. When he comes out his face is washed; his mother does not know him, and he is safe.
 The pale, sad1ooking young men whom one sometimes meets iu the street are not consump- tive; are not mourning the loss of a friend, and are not divinity students. They are breaking ln tight boots.
 A loving and affectionate Del ware man thrashed his wife al most to death because their baby didn't get prize at baby show and then he offered to trade the baby for pig.
 The following is said to be a popular song in Dutch:
 Beefsteak when am hungry.
 Whisky when am dry,
 Greenbacks when I'm hardup.
 And heaven when die.
 Aunty Betsy Fisher, says a Louisville paper. has twenty-twO living children. When asked by a reporter for some particulars of her much motherhood, she ad- mitted the twenty-twO, but said |: Don't publish it, as 1 came out to Kentucky in search of another husband.
 Some men are born to n1isfor- tune At a Fourth of July pie nic, a Covington chap got his eye punched for speaking tOan- other fellows girl, and when he tearfully explained that "he knowed her these thirty five years" he got all his hair pulled out.
 A German in Decatur, Illinois, married No. 2 before No. l had been a week under the sod. The next Sunday NO.2 wanted ride, but was brought to a. realizing sense of her hard heartedness when he responded, with unwept tears in his eyes "Mein Gott Tn Himmel! Vot! You dinks l rides so quick out init anuder wOomans after mein lieber frau gone died"' A party ofIove-lorn young gents in Albany, after pouring out the melody of their souls for an hour and a half, the other night, be- meath the window of lovely maiden of that burg. disbanded when a Chinaman, the sole oc- cupant of the house, poked his head out of the window and re- marked, "Go way; too muchee big fool"
 The bummers' lament-"- sol. Ium kamness steals around. dred orecums the sole, when in my pockits' depths sound and only find a hole. O thus when life's breef span is past, and deth yanks out my sole, how dreery life will seem at last, when taken as hole. But still this consolation's left, to cheer the dropping sole, though through it Pun of all bereft, l can not luse the hole"
 His name is Jem Brown, and he lives in ROckaway Valley, Nevada. He says to Ali Warner: "Come over Ali ; the old woman is dead, and you see I don't know much about running the funeral business And Ali he says: "Jem I feel for ye, and I'll see that the old woman is planted as right as a hangel" But he went off and got drunk, and when Jem met and shot him dead, Rockaway Valley said it was a case Of Justi fable homicide.
 The following touching line: are from Harpers' Magozlae-f contribution:
 On bury Bartholomew out in the woods.
 T koout;fnI hnle m the prOuDd