The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-08-15

MISCELLANY.
A kind word will always go fur
Their than a flatiron or potato
masher.
Two or three geranium leaves,
bound on a cut, will cause il to
heal Immediately.
A fashion writer states that
there is ''no change in gentle
mems pantaloons, this season.
A Brooklyn sewing society fines
any member who talks scandal,
ST. for each offense; only the
wealthy are able to attend.
A married man in Chicago is
not looked after until he has been
absent from home five days. Then
his wife begins to think that some
things wrong.
A marriage was broken up in
Duluth by the young man max
ing an unexpected call and find.
ing the poodle dog playing with
his true loves glass eye.
The ,Hoosiers like work when
it is disguised as fun. The other
day twenty of them handled over
thirty-five cords of wood to get
a rabbit, which escaped from
them after all.
A Japanese young lady who
came over to our shores three
years ago, bore off four of the
highest prizes at the Wash ington
seminary last week. In what
light does this place our Ameri.
can girls?
A young lady engaged to be mar
ried, but getting sick of her bar
gain, applied to a friend to help
her unite the knet before it was
too late. "Oh' certainly" he re-
piled. SITS very easy to unite it,
now, while it is only beau-knot."
A lady entered a telegraph Office
in New, York a few days since,
and after delivering her message
earnestly requested that the an
swer should not be read by the
operator, as it was of a very pri-
vate nature.
Wendell Phillips is going to
lecture on the Indian; but if he
wants the service of this paper
he must send on word whether
he got his Indian knowledge from
q dime novel or from one of Ned
Buntline's historic stories.
The following advertisement is
from paper published in the far
West: ssTO rent A house on Mel
Vile avenue, located Immediately
alongside offs fine PLAN garden,
from which an abundant supply
of the most delicious fruit may be
stolen during the season. Rent
low, and the greater part taken
in plums."
A canvass is going on in the
principal towns in Michigan tot
ascertain wether a majority of the
women; want to vote. While the
large number think they would:I
vote on temperance and other
kindred topics if they had a
chance, the result of the canvass
thus for seems to show that they
are not anxious for the ballot On'l
general questions Of political poll
cy.
Adolphus and Angelina fiutter |
into the drug stores occasionally |
and she says she will take a little |
lemon in hers with the air of an |
old hand at the business. Then
she watches Adolphus. Adolf |
plus is "a shrewd Gus. So he leans
over the counter, and with a
wink, says, '.I'll take a
little of that same.v He's been
there before, and he gifts it, but
1t costs him twenty cents q glass.
There is story of traveller, I
who, wishing to reach Taunton,
in the State of Massach usetts, had
somehow got turned round and
was trotting along very composed
y in the opposite direction from
he right one to that town. Meet.
ng farmer ia the road, he drew
up and asked, "How far is it to
Taunton, if L keep straight on?'
WELL" said the farmer, with al
in his intelligent eye, "ift
re keep straight on the way We
ire going now, it's about 25'0091
niles; but if We turn right round :
md go t'Other way, it's about half
i mile"
AS a rule we dislike iIl-natured
.pitaphs, though we are bound
o acknowledged that certain of
hese are by no means wantings
,ither in wit or sarcasm. Here
s one, for instance, on Isabella
Young a termagant, no doubt