The Arizona sentinel., 1874-10-17
MISCELLANY.

There's many man hath more hair than wit.-.SbGEespeCCre.
 Brigham Young says of the scandal: "Well I s'posed I'd do just as Beecher did"
 Josh Billings says, "Tew enjoy a good reputashun, giv publicly and steal privately"
 An enterprising Yankee pro- poses to boil down the Beecher scandal, and bottle it for bed bug poison.
 The London critics Fsay that these Hamerican hactors karn't pwonounce Hinglish, you know. to save their hize. lang lem!
 The Saratoga beIles merely taste food at the table, but fee the walters to bring square meal up the back stairs.
 Chicago soda water sells at ter cents a glass, and the man whe drinks it would give fifteen cents if he hadn't dOneit.
 The girls at Vasar College are learning to swim. Fourteen of them got into a wash tub at once, so as to give each other the neces- sary courage.
 A Chicago pa per says that not one man in fifty knows how to carry ladder easily. The best way is for a man to carry the holes and hire boy to carry the rest of it.
 "Cuss you, get up!" exclaimed Philadelphia lady as DO one in a street car would give her seat. Then they had an excuse for making her stand up longer.
 The Chicago clergyman who lost S70 to three card monte man, delivered an eloquent discourse the following Sunday showing how the devil has such power over men that they cannot trust their own eyes.
 The ether day Brooklyn po- liceman, in making out a charge against an arrested party, wrote: "The prisoner set upon me dis orderly, and called me an ass, and a precious rufian, and an idiOt-all of which I certify to be true.
 A medical advertisement is headed "Looks like a Miracle! A Young Man Made to Walk in Five Minutesi" But Augustus thinks that is no great miracle compared to his experience the other even- ing when he went to see his girl. The old man came in and made him walk in less that one minute.
 A HIT.-It iz hard work to dis tinguish between a sukcess and al hit, but thare iz just about the same difference between them that thare iz between two frogs, one may be little quicker on the jump than the other.
 A boy throws stun at a rooster,l and knoks him over-he makes al hit.
 He didn't mean to do it, thare. fore it may not be called suk ] cess, and iz just about as mutchL surprized as the rooster iz.
 Sukcess iz the result OV plan, but shit iz often @ pure acksid- ent.
 Hits and sukcess both are about az skarce az to have the measles twice.
 But I don't want to be under stood that I konsider two krops Ov the measles much ov hit Josh Billings.
 A lady, while engaged in pur- suit of her domestic duties, en- countered @ mouse in the flour barrel. Now most ladies under similar circumstances would have uttered few feminine shrieks, and then sought safety in the garret. But this one possessed more than an ordinary degree of feminine courage. She summon ed the man servant, and told him to get the shotgun, call the bull dog, and station himself at con- venient distance. Then she ciim- ed half way up the stairs and com menced to punch the flour barrel with a pole. Presently the mouse made its appearance, and started across the floor. The dog at once went in pursuit. The man fired aa1 the dog dropped dead. The lady fainted and fell down stairs, and the hired man thinking she was killed, and fearing that he would be arrested for murder, dis appeared, and has not been seen since. The mouse escaped.
 A Strange Bond of Sympathy.
 It is stated that the extraOrdi- nary wedding which took place | at Jevington, England. a short |