The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-07-18
MISCELLANY.

old. We shouldn't call him very
new.
Why do women talk less in Feb
ruary than in any other month?
Because it is the shortest month
in the year. s1~ika
Janesvill has an educated pig
called Ben Butler. There is a
chance for a libel sutton the
part of the pig. ~ - S r.
Value the friendship of him
who stands by you in storm;
swarmS of insects will surround
you in sunshine.
A Philadelphia youth was re-
Gently married to a girl who had
refused him eighteen times. He
wishes now he hadn't asked her
but seventeen.
In Russia a fellow is not allowed
to court girl unless three of her
friends are present, and conse-
quently lovers never indulge in
such pleasant affairs as holding
peppermint lozenges for each
other to bite.
A negro boy was driving a
mule in Jamaica, when tb e animal
suddenly stopped and refused to
nudge. "Won't go. eh?" said the
boy. "Feel grand, do you? I
s'pose you forget your fadder was
jackass."
81 tell you," said a Wisconsin
man to a neighbor next day after
burying his wife, "when I came
to get into bed, and lay thar, and
lay thar, and not hearing Lucin-
da jawing around for an hour and
a half, it just made me feel as if
I'd moved into strange country"
We hear of men confessing on
their death. bed to the crimes of
murder, abduction and incendiar-
ism, but whoever heard of a dy-
ing man eonfessing to stealing
papers? Nobody! Death cannot
scare that man.
A young widow adyertises in a
Cincinnati paper that she has an
income of three thousand dollars
a year, and will marry any man
young or old who possesses the
same means, and can produc a |
good CHI aracter.
A German Jew was eating a |
pork chop in thunderstorm. On
hearing an unusual loud clap, he |
laid down his knife and fork and
observed: "Vell did any poty efer
hear such arfuSs about little
piece of pork?"
A contemporary mentions that
a near sighted hen which mistook
for indian meal, ate hear
tiIy thereof, then laid a nest full
of wooden knobs, and in three
weeks hatched out a set of parlor
furniture.
The most confiding woman
lives in Providence. She went
to an auction, and knowing the
of thieves at such
places, asked a nice looking man
to take care of har pocket-bOOk,
containing $50. He is still taking
care of it.
A window-full of pot plants
descended into the |
street Monday morning, filling
the back, bosom and hair Of an
man with bulbs, earth.
thorns, hair pins. As soon as he
recovered his speech he stated
that he was pilgrim and stranger 7
but he would he id ifhe couldn't
lick the man who touched off that
powder.
Brother Beecher." says the
venerable DIR. Bacon, laying his
hand on the great preachers
"Brother Beecher, I
fear the devil whispered in your
ear Just now, that this was a very
fine lecture" 80, no." replied
Mr.. Beecher, she left that for you
to do.H
The N. Y. Herald has given
Ben Butler a nav name which all
men will consider as eminent and
proper-"Honest Ben" Tt is said
that this unjust reflection on his
character surprised none so much
as Honest Ben" himself, and he
desires to know on what act in his
life they base so false an assump-
ton.
A Sunday school inquiry and
answer may be told as follows:
Tommy Howell, can you tell me
what is meant by the word mir
acle so often used in the Bible
which you hold in your hands"
'sYes Miss Harvey / think / can
Ma says if you and Captain Smith,
who was at the Presbyterian
picnic, don't get married pretty
soon il will be a miracle" !
One day recently, says the New