The Arizona sentinel., 1875-08-07
MISCELLANY.

two women claimed the same
waterfall.
Mr.. Spencer, of MoOdus, Conn,
east a despairing look upon his
twenty first child the other day.
No wonder they call a repeating
rifle Spencer.
A young woman at Youngs-
town, Ohio, who has an imitation
seal skin cloak, is forced to tell an
average of fifteen lies per day to
make folks believe it is real seal.
A La Crosse church has two wo-
men to pass the contribution box,
aud it is a curious sight to see
those women pass the box, over
their husbands heads.
"Minnie. Pm in such a guam
dry; for if | turn nay back on
Charlie he becomes offended at
once, and if | don't, he can't see
my new buckle. What shall l
dO?"
August will bring the unusual
occurrence of two moons, the first
coming on the 1St of the month
and the second on the Both. This
has not happened before since
1853.
Said a returned Chicago bride
Owe were married just month
ago to-day. We went to BaWStOn
and New Yawk, and ever so ma
ny places, and had a perfectly
gawgeO0S time. New Yawk's
just lOvelyr
A cOHntryman fell from a ferry
boat at Ficksburg, and his wife,
waiting cOOIly until his his head
showed above the water, shouted.
There !-durn yer, [ knOw'd you'd
do it J! Bet yer never get out,
either"
A Kansas woman offers to bet
$50 that her husband can "cuss"
a bushel Of graeshOpperS entirely
out Of the country, while the |
people of Missouri are fasting and |
praying pint out Of a ten acre
wheat field.
a farmer complains that a hook |
and ladder company has been or
ganized in his neigh bOrhOOd. He
states that the ladder is is used |
after dark for climbing into the
hen house, after which the hook
ing is done.
A Virginia widow rides with |
a leg on either side of the horse. |
People used to stop and look at
J her before she killed John c.,
hut now her mode of riding is
uncommented Upon.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks
Eve must have been a very un-
happy woman. There was no
other woman TO pass her on the
street that she might look around
and see how that dress was fitted
in the back. Poor Eve!
He held the old shirt up by the
neck before discarding it forever,
but he was not mourning for the
garment. He only said: Il wish
l; had all the drinks again that
have gone through that old neck
band"
A California OctOgenarian has
buried three wives whose maid
EN- names were Green, Grass and
Groze. He stirred up the fire
with kerosene the other day, and
now he lies in the cold, cold grave
and the green grass grows above
him
A Pennsylvania lad who went
a fishing Sunday, and was there
by the means of saving a wealthy
gentleman from drowning, has
had $4,000 deposited for him by
the latter in the savings bank.
Such occurrences can only be in
terpreted as conspiracy to over
throw the Christian religion. Bet
ter abandon our Sunday Schools
and dissolve our tract societies, if
this boy doesn't come to some bad
end before the season Is out.
a very tall and shabby looking
mana fellow that remindedIyou
of a vagrant letter from a fount of
forty-line paragon, extra cOndens-
ed-stepped up to one of our city
bars last week and after heaving
a glass Of liquor into his long
throat, blandly asked the bar ten
der if he could change twenty
dollar bill. That gentleman inform
ed him that he could. "Well,"
said the tall one, with a sigh of
satisfaction, "Pll go and see if /
can find one" And he plunged
out into the cold world on his
mission.
Up in Oregon, young mani
pulator of the telegraph wires
concluded to put in recent Sun
dav evening at the pleasant en-