The Arizona sentinel., 1874-09-26
MISCELLANY.

CnaG tney spell It II worth.
 The nearest approach to con hdance game is pulling a mules tail.
 When a Chicago man can't lie on his back and go to sleep with. out dreaming of his mother-in- law, 1t is considered a sufficient ground for divorce.
 x Some one wrote to Horace Gree. ley if guano was good to put on potatoes. He said it might do for those whose tastes had become vi. tlated with tobacco and rum, but he preferred gravy and butter.
 North Platte, Neb., was once a virtuous and happy town; not a swear was ever heard there, and the people just spent their time in preparing for heaven. Now all is changed. Tn an evil moment a brass band was organized.
 "Whereas Patrick Maloney has fraudulently taken away several articles of wearing apparel with out my knowledge, this is there- fore to inform him that if he does not forth with return the same his name will be made publicp
 A California temperance asso- citation limits the beverage of it's members to wine, beer and cider, "except when laboring under a sense of Encouragement, and then whisky wilt be allowed"
 When they told an Indiana woman,that her husband had been sliced up by a reaper, she impa- tiently replied: "Well, take the pieces to the barn; Ican't leave the gooseberry sauce just now"
 Mrs. Tracy, of Missouri, had been sick a long time, and Tracy had her coffin in the barn. When she died the coffin was found four inches too short, and the neigh bors wouldn't even let him saw four inches off the body to make a fit. ifs 7Cg E |
 A young lady gladust te of the medical department of the Iowa University has carried away from a class, including twenty-four young men, the first prize for the best performed dissection in sur gical anatomy. The two dozen young gentlemen ought to feel as badly cut up as the subject.
 An Indianapolis minister spent an hour the other day in exhort- ing lot of Democratic politicians to be "honest and virtuous." Pro- bably this is as good an illustra- tiOn as we could have of what Paul meant in his remark about the "foolishness of preaching"
 "As to being afflicted with the gout," said Mrs. Burlington, Thigh living doesn't bring it on. It is incoherent in some families, and it is handed down from fla ther to son. MT. Hammer, poor soul, who has been so sick with it. disinherits it from his wife's grand mother"
 "Misses Snowdrope," said a gentleman of color, the other af- ternoon during a shower, to a lady of his acquaintance, ''as de we'd der isamphibious, will you do me de honor to step under my um breIler an, form quOrum?" ssTank you, mister Rillups, 1 will In this wedder an umbreller is radder cosmopolitan, ,"- Territo, rial Enterprise.
 A BULLY LETTER.-The follow ing is letter, verbatim, sent by a doting father to his young hopeful, a student of one of the principal colleges of this country:
 MY DEAR SoN.-I sent you two pair of my old brooches, that you my have a new coat made out of them. Also, some new socks which your mother has just knit by cutting down some of mine. Your mother sends you ten dol. lars without my knowledge, and for fear you may not use ir wisely, I have kept back half and only sent five. Your mother and I are well, except that your sister has got the measles, which we think would spread among the other girls if Tom had not had it before, and he is the only one left. I hope you will do honor to my teachings; if not you are an ass, and your mother and myself your affecttiOnate parents"