The Arizona sentinel., 1874-06-13

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Mrs. Green, a Kansas widow,
wants to marry again. and as a
recommendation. she. says she has
used one broom for fourteen
years. ------..-.. $780,.
A man. was boasting that he
had been married for twenty ears
, and had never given his wife a
cross word. Those who know
him say:he didn't dare to.
s'This summer ladies are going
to dress their hair as they did
three hundred years ago." says an
exchange. This makes some of
them pretty old.
A paper at Elgin says that a
mans social standing in that town
is graded by whether he drops
ten penny nail or quarter into
the church contribution.b box.
The Chicago Tribune estimates
that getting born costs the people
of the United States 1920, 094, 900
annually; getting married, $780,
100000; getting buried, $73, $780,
450; total S543, 1884, 400.
In the City Council, Kansas
City,s a railway BILL, providing
thatr'nO single person" should
pay fare of more than five cents,
was amended, on motion of Alder
man Black, TO include also married
people, and passed.
"A Mormon bridegroom was
simultaneously married to three
blushihg brides in Salt Lake City
recently. Some confusion was Gre
ated after the ceremony by each
bride persisting in her individual
right to the first kiss.
She lives in Douglas county,
Oregon; hasT been married eight
times, has eight living husbands,
and resides with none of them.
Her daughter, aged twenty-three,
with energetic emulation, has dis
posed of three husbands,
In New Hampshire, they value
skinned milk at two cents a
quart for feeding pigs. The C0ar-
Ser-JOogndL say that in Louisville
ten cents a quart is paid for the
same thing TO feed babies with.
81 fear" said a country minis
ter to his flock, "when 1 explain
ed to you, in my last charity SER
mon thai philanthropy was the
love of our species," you must
have understood me to say specie,
which may account for the small
ness of the collection
Mrs. Van Colt says that at one
of her prayer meetings a negro
brother prayed: ooh Lord! send |
dy angels to pin de wings on sister
BancOt's heels, dat she may fly |
troOd world preachin'de eberIas- |
tim gospel" And one added:
Lord, give wings on her fingers
too, or the preaching will not |
have effect. for she'll fly upside
down." 80
There is little anecdote apro-
pos of lOw-necked ball-dress of the
season. "Good evening"" says |
lady dressed in tn 2 height of fash
ion, to her partner in the German
at one of the late Paris balls; 81
am tired to death. 1 am going
home to undress myself" "What |
any mOre?' is the partners an
sWer. g ~ ''''''
The average Burlington, Iowa, |
saloon keeper must be bad indeed. |
A learned divine in that city re-
Gently addressed one of them as
follows: "Wretched man! if the |
bed of that river, was hank high |
with the suds of salvation, and a |
June rise of piety coming down |
from the mountains, there
wouldn't be enough to wash your
feet"
At a recent exposition a young
man was overheard expressing
his regrets to the charming young
lady at his side at having forgot
ten his gloves. 81 You have your
best hat on, haven't you?" she
asked. "Yes," he replied, "And
your boots blackedw "Yes,"
again. swell, them" said she.
pm satisfied. ALPS well, that
ends well you know"
"Stop mi papper," says an in
dignant "Pike" to the editor of a
country paper. cts rong for
foxes to lay out munney. bi in
pappers. Mi daddy dIdent. Mi
dadd was SMART man All the
naboorS all; around the knabo-
orhood sed he's the most intel
ligantist man i'm the hole kuntry.
Our domapy that ustoepreched in
our toun sed dadd'S familer was
the smartist of boiz ahought So
Mister Edatar stop mi paper.
IknO anuff tow once"
No TIMETO READ.-Go into the
houSns Of some Of orr farmers |