The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-11-07
MISCELLANY.

III man dreams the QeVlI is al
ter him, it is a sign that he had
better pay his subscription bill.
A Vermont editor says that
maple sugar is so abundant in
that State this season that the
girls are twenty per cent, sweeter
than usual.
Another wild woman with moth
ing to wear, frequents the forest
in Union Parish, Louisiana. She
is supposed to have escaped from
some fashionable watering place.
The poor people of Rochester
are without ice and a missionary
is trying to get them 10 take to
hymn books in place of it.
The Chicago people are racking
their brains in an attempt to dis
cover the relationship involved in
the following: Two widowers mar
ried each othes's daughter; both
have children; what relationship
do they bear to each other.
After throwing eight boys over
the fence, out of a watermelon
patch, a Clay County woman
charged them especially: "Now
see 'ere boys, yell keep this thing
up till We get me riled."
A doctor and a military officer
became enamored of the same la
dy. A friend asked her which of
the two suitors she intended to
favor She replied that 'it was
difficult to tell, they were both
such killing creatures"
HARRISON, of San Diego county,
clears $4,000 this year in the plea.
SAINT occupation of gathering ho-
ney. He's kind master, and the
busy bees work for him with real
pleasure. He is waxing fat, and
gathering much lucre into his
hiye.-.Saa Diego World.
A newly converted reporter
thus notices a minstrel troupe ::
"FOr those who do not consider it
a sin to witness minstrel shows,
this entertainment will furnish a
pleasant relaxation from revival
meetings"
The attach ment of some ladies
to their lap-dOgs amounts, in some
instances, to infatuatiOn. An ill
tempered lap-dog' biting a piece
out of male VISITORS leg, his mis-
tress thus expresses her compass
sion: Poor littledear creature I
hope it will not make him sick!
Some men never lose their pre-
sence of mind. In Milwaukee
last week man threw his mother
in-law out of a window in the fifth
story of burning building, and
carried feather bed down stairs
is his arms.
According to Cincinnati pa
per. John Thomas was recently
sued by Hester Prim for breach of
promise. "John Thomas, come
into courtI'' shouted the consta-
bic, "John Thomas needn't come
into court me any moro" said
Hester primIy.
A farmers wife ia Dakota
thoughtlessly used a bundle of
old letters to stuff up the cracks
in their cabin, and the farmer is
now in search of the writer of
them with a shot gun.
A Geogia woman is credited
with having raised large fami.
ly, although not out of her teens.
1t was her mother-in laws family,
and she did it with a key of gun
powder planted in the cellar.
A wicked little boy in a Fiji
teenth Ward Sunday school was
asked by his teacher if he had
learned anything during the
week. ooh, yes" said he. "What
is it you have learned?" Never
TO lead a deuce when you've got
an ace back of it," was the reply.
An Oakland man of fair weight,
was induced by his wife to at
tempt to leave Off the use of tobac-
co, for the term of four years. He
quit tobacco for month, and
found he had gained eight pounds.
He figured the affair up in the
presence of his wife, and she was
convinced that he had better not
continue the experiment too far,
as the community had enough of
him now.
That nervous Youth who recent
y, by mistake, slipped nickle
five cent piece into the parsons
hand, instead of q five dollar gold
piece, which he had ready in an
other pocket, after three weeks of
welded bliss, thinks he paid pref
ty dear for his fun after all, and
regrets that the nickel was not
suspender button.
How IT WAS DONE.-Miss An
ihnnV denies that there was anu