The Arizona sentinel., 1874-12-12
MISCELLANY.

COlOraQO rQulr0 Ol d WIG III the
way of music.
The champion father lives in
Carbon county, Pa. He is Ger
man. 70 years old, and is parent
of 80 children, the youngest being
only four months old.
The local authorities of Auck-
land, New Zealand, have insti-
tuted a yearly tax on bachelors at
So head, to be devoted to educa-
ton.
A lady barber has been forced
by the married ladies of Dubuque
to leave the town, where she was
doing a grand business, shaving
many of the men twice day.
A Dubuque cooper, whosed
wife was always scolding, barrel
ed her up and rolled her around
the shop until she sOlemnly pro-
missed to reform.
A young man who knows all
about it state that his experience
has taught him that firt is a
fool who delights in fooling fools,
and the fool who is fooled by such
a fool is the foolishest kind of a
fool.
Do you keep matches?" asked
way of a country grocer. "Oh,
yes, all kinds" was the reply.
"Well, I'll take a trotting match, -
said the wag. The grocer i'm
mediately handed him box of
pills.
A Boston girl just entering her
teens writes home to her mother
from the country: "The COWS
march into the barn and 90 right
to their places, just as the scholars
go to their right seat in our
school,"
ONLY. - Devout mother TO
young lady who is burning up
love-letters on Sunday)-"What
are you doing there, my dear?
Are you burning incense?"
young lady-"O, no, ma; 1 am
only burning nonsense"
Speaking of bottles, Mrs. Part
ingtOn says: 'Fhe less people have
to do with bottles the better. NV
neighbor, Mrs. Blotch, has been
using bottle for a good many
years for her complexion, and her
nose looks like an eruption of
Mount Vociferous, with the burn
ing lather running all over the
contagious territory.
An English clergyman is re-
ported to have knocked his wife
down and sat on her. The story
is improbable for the reason that
a woman under such circum-
stances has peculiar advantages
for making herself felt that no
prudent mari can afford to de-
spise.
AS river boat was loading at
La Crosse. a large gray mule re-
fused to go on board. The mate
sung out to a deck hand: "Twist
his tail and he'll Like Casabian-
ca, that deck-hand obeyed orders,
and like Casabainca, he nobly
died.
Minnie BedelI advel tises her
husband in this manner: "Where-
as. my charming husband, Daniel
G. Bedell, has left me for the
twelfth time, without just cause
or provocation. this is to warn all
persons trusting him on any ac-
count as 1 am done paying his
debts and supporting him. Here
after he must 'cut his own feed
or StarVe."
A young lady and gentleman.
aged respectively II and Is years,
were married at Gouldtown, Mich,
last week. When last seen, they
were quarreling over a pound
of mixed candies, and throwing
out vague limitations about di
vorce.
A young man has been arrest
ed in New York for sleeping in
sanding position. He would
stand on the street for four hours
at a stretch, with his eyes closed,
and not move a muscle. 1t is
hereditary. His father was a
policeman Wash. CItrOn.
A man in Wilmington has a
lizard in his stomach for twelve
years, and much to his relief the
reptile came up a few days Sgo
and crawled out of his mouth.
The man says the lizard was very
much surprised at his account of
the events which have occurred
since it went down. 1t has heard
nothing of the war, nor of the
death of Napoleon, nor of those
things. 1t was annoyed at the