The Arizona sentinel., 1875-11-20
MISCELLANY.

Stanley says that African mos
quitoes are AS big as Kentucky
chew of tobacco.
The fast train telescoped a hog
in Hague street, yesterday, and
threw the squeal a mile Distant
DG1l6ry NeaOS.
A harder subject to deal with
than even an old deck of cards,
is a man who don't advertise.
Every third man in st. Louis is
named Jones, Brown, johnson or
Smith, while the others answer
to the name of "hellO: there"
The water is SO low in some of
the Western rivers that the cat
fish have to stand on their heads
to breathe.
A man in an American settle
ment, who has been an inveterate
smoker for twenty years, has sud-
denly and permanently given up
the pratice. He knocked the
ashes out of his pipe into key of
blasting powder.
A Vincennes, Ind. man and his
wife after a stand up fight of an
hour concluded to call it "a draw"
She drew about six handfulS OF
hair out of his head.
Miss Hulett, the Chicago lawyer,
will not move in a divorce case,
believing, as she says, ''any Wo-
man who will marry man ought
to be forced to live with him."
Tney have found petrifed
Mormon in Utah, and from the
number Of dents in the head, evil
IDENTIFY made with poker and flat
iron, it is judged that be had al
least thirty three wives. Norris
tom Herald.
"Buh. is your mother in?' ask.
ed Vicksburg lady, the other
evening, of a lad of ten who was
lounging over his widowed moth
er's gate.
"No, she's out" he answered
"GOne up to visit your dead
fathers grave?" she continued.
mot exactly" he smiled, 'She's
gone after ice cream with a chap
who has three inches of fat on his
ribs. and I'll let ten to one she'll
halter him in leSs'n a month";"
She was an elderly lady, and as
she seated herself on one of the
stools in a dry goods store and
asked to be shown some "caliker,"
she remarked that when she was
a "gal" she thought she Was pow,
erful lucky if she got sixteen
yards in a dress, and she thought
it a "singfuI" waste OF stuff to put
in more; but size had just "heern'
that Mrs. X. was agoin' to heI
forty-tWo yard in her new calike
and she hoped that there might
be a cloud burst in seventeen
minutes if that air woman should
stare round at her in church anC
make remarks about her clothes
"You kin just cut me off forty
three yards, and I'll have it pin
back fashion, with an over-dresi
and square main-Sail, and a fyin
lib, and action, then PC
jist like to see that stuck-up Mrs
x. put on airs over me-"
'Iillie Lenole" writes to the
Pottsville Miners Journal defend
ing the pull-back skirts. She
says: 1--WE think now, after &
sufficient review of the present
style of dress worn by females
that there is nothing more suited
for our disposition than the pull
backs" And we have no dispo
sition to contradict her. eff mer
take exceptions to them.". she
says; "we can also, with the bes
of grace, take exceptions to the
narrow breaches worn by them
Yes, and some of her sex woulf
like to take the breeches AS wei
as the exceptions. "LiIIie" asks
as there any person in this mum
dane sphere more anxious to see
a beautiful and well-shaped form
than are the menw We give il
up. But "LilIie" is right. The
man who doesn't admire the pre-.
sent style of feminine attire, but
considers it immOdest, should &c
to Patagonia, where the full dress
is a mole on the back and a piece
of red string around the left leg
-NorriStOo0n Herald.