The Arizona sentinel., 1874-08-22
MISCELLANY.

When man parts his hair in the middle, the crease. is very apt to strike into the brain.
 A hen in Carlyle, Pa., is exer- cising the civil right of laying black eggs s4.is.,s,
 Rochester thieves have become so hardened that they steal police mems hats a aw
 They have got so particular in 1ndiana { that they won't let women take their knitting to church.
 A burglar went through nine houses in Charleston, s. O., and all he realized was an old watch andla bite from a dog.A< T
 They now make flour barrels out of paper, but nothing can as tonish one who, has seen Congress men made out Of basswOod. ft
 The solemn Arab thus curses his enemy: "May his face be turned upside down, and jackasses bray on his grandfather's grave"
 Why is the first chicken of a brood like the foremast of ship? Because it's a little for'ard Of.the main hatch.
 Fuss works hard all day, and don't do enny thing, goes to bed tired at night, then gets up next morning. and begins agin whare she leftseph. .-BiJlingS.
 A Wisconsin widow has just buried her eighth husband, and a subscription is'On foot to induce her to establish her private ceme- tery in some other State.
 There onee were two cats of Kilkenny: Each thought there was one too many;
 So they quarreled and fit, <i
 They scratched and they bit
 TEexcepting their nails.
 And the tips of tbelr tails
 Instead Oftwo cats there wasn't any!s
 A Mississippi pilot saw the comet, the other night, and imme- diately cried, "Pve got lem; snakes Rye have befose, but now the stars have sgot tails on Fem; Pm a dead man."
 Circumstances alter cases. For instance, wien a asVirginiafl arose in church and said: HHere's q hundred dollar bill for the old hoss ebehind sthe pulpitP' no one | thought of having him put out.
 Ore reason why Wisconsin. hired giristget four dollars per week is because they have to go down stairs at midnight to investigate 1 strange noises, while the man of | thehOuse takes up position un- derfhe bed. s.axfvsY
 Acouple of neighbors became | so inimical that they would not | speak to each other, but one of them having been converted at a | camp meeting on seeing his for mer-enemy, held out his hand, saying, "How dye do, Kemp |? I | am humble enough itoshake hands with,a dog" |
 A lady in winnipauk recen- tly left the following note for the miiknan: ssMr.h H-AA-d pleas toput in wun quart, and leve me some more tickets and eff thist note shud ble ava and yo kant fine it, pleas leve me the tickets all the same.
 The three, great -excitements of New York at this writing, says l a lady correspondent, are Beech 1 CT hydrophobia and the comet. There is a similarity between the l whole party worthy of much con- sideration. Beecher and the dogs and the comet rush on their course regardless of outery and conster- natier.sS sgSfNS-2 Nsat
 No sEoUI.-Ae stump orator out 1 West, wishing to describe bis op- ponent as a sOulless man, did it in l this wise: "I dave heard" said l he, "sofhe persons hold to the opinion that, just at the precise in- stant after one human being dies, another is born, and that the soul 1 of the deceased enters and ami mates the newborn babe. Now I have made particulay and ex- tensive inquiries concerning my opponent there, and I find that for some hours previous to his nativity, nobody died"
 josh Billings says of an old bachelor: An old bachelor iz born | in a maskuline way, but changes hiz base to the nuter gender. He l is longe-lived bird, and generally | dies a sloven, He iz, phull Ov partikuIars as an indictment for | petit larceny. He thinks he has got a good lone hand, but in play 1 ing. he almost allwuss gets uker- ed. He sumtimes, late in life, makes up hiz mind to git married and then invariably thare iz two nartvs who get cheated. I am !