The Arizona sentinel., 1874-09-19
MISCELLANY.

week.
 Fourteen women attended a dog fight in Detroit the other day with their babies. Fresh and beautiful and over | sixty years of age is the latest description of Bismarck's wife. A Stark county, Ill.,, woman committed suicide the other day because no circus company had visited her vicinity for two years. Young ladies who faint on be- inx proposed to. may be readily restored by whispering in their ears that you were only joking. A lady barber has been driven out of Dubuque by the married ladies of that place. The latter thought she scraped acquaintance too easily.
 A very slight difference-That between a fashionable woman's ballroom toilet and her bath room toilet.
 An Albany Method st girl forces piety upon her lover by making him say the Lords Prayer every time he kisses her.
 The best way of committing suicide, and of revenging yOur- eelfon your neigh bor at the same time, is to jump down his well.
 A wealthy English widow, whose passion is small feet. offers to marry the man who is over five feet tall and can wear her shoe. number three's.
 This is what a San Francisco re- porter saws nf lecturess who re- gently appeared in that city:
 Her feet beneath her petticOat
 Like great big rats stole in and out,
 As if they feared the cat.
 The Boston TrGUeler says if they went to find out in the country if a girl is courting or hot, an old lady steps in and remarks: ''1 say there ain't no one sick in this here house or nothin' is there? I seen a light burning nigh onto 12 o'clock last night, but I don't sm ell no campfire or nothin' roupd."
 The following startling notice Is posted in a rural district in Blair county: To the cittasens of --Al men wanting to pay His Road tax By work Can Do So by Coming and working any day next week as I will be here all week on the ROades. - Supervisor. Bring Shovel and matic along.
 This is how it happened down in Southwest Missouri:
 He found rope, and picked itup,
 And with it walked away.
 It Happened that to t'other end
 A horse was hItched, they say.
 They found tree, and tied the rope
 UBto a swinging limb.
 2 It happened that the other end
 Wac somehow hitched to him.
 Says the Nevada Enterprise: A runaway couple went 10 Eugene City, Oregon. last week to get married. The clergyman and clerk both wanted proof that the young lady was of proper age. Strategy, which has proved so efficient in other scenes, was re- sorted to with success The fig ures IS were placed in the bottom of the shoes of the maiden, and one who was in the secret affirm ed that she was over IS.
 Ata ladies' temperance meet ing. not long since, one of the members remarked that the tenn perauce cause had been blessing to oher. ."for "said she, tI slept with a barrel of rum for ten years, but now,,' she continued, her eyes brightening, ''since my husband signed the pledge 1 have 8 man to sleep with"
 Sabbath breakers will please take warning by a recent occur renee on Skunk river, Iowa. A lot of bad boys went to swim on Sunday, and while the Rev. Jabez Lynne was reproving them and vainly endeavoring to induce them to come out, thunder storm came up, and the minister was killed by flash of lightning.
 No JoKE.-Max Adeler says: "I happened to call at Magruder's the other morning, on my way down and, as I knew them we'll, I entered the side door without knocking. I was shocked to find Mr. Magruder prostrate on the floor, while Mrs. Magruder sat on his chest, and rumhled smoug his hair, as she bumped his head on the boards, and scolded him vii gorously. They rose when I came in. and Magruder, as he wiped 4hn hIond from his nose tried tn