The Arizona sentinel., 1875-02-27
MISCELLANY.

have a wild and hunted look, and the bakerles are filled with mince- pies"
 Two skillful burglars at Harri- son, Ohio, recently worked all night trying to blow open an empty safe, which was not lock- ed.
 James Gordon Bonnet, who has gone to Europe to get married, may bring back Queen Victoria as his wife, but we doubt it like thunder.
 There are thirty or forty differ ent kinds of religion in this country, and it worries the ce- lestial entry clerk immensely to have people tumbllng into heaven in such singularly assorted lots.
 An Oakland lass, becoming an- noyed at the attentions of young divinity student, told him that he looked sappy enough to be the principal of Mills Seminary. A negro insisted that his race was mentioned in the Bible. He said he heard the preacher read about how "Nigger Demus want ed to be born again."
 It is estimated that there are f1fty-seven women acctually edit ing newspapers in this country. The female reporters, general wri- ters, etc., engaged on the press are numbered by hundreds.
 It is hard to sdie at eighteen af- ter marrying the handSOmet girl in all the Empire. That is what the Emperor of China had to do. When man has home'y wo- man for a wife. seems as though he never would die.
 Think of that! When you take a girl to spelling school in Nevada you have to ride twenty. four miles, and she expects you to keep your arm around her all the time.
 A Cincinnati woman burned her husbands Sunday suit be- cause he would not put on a buffalo robe and crawl around the backyard and play Santa Claus.
 This time she halls from Tren. ton, N. J. The kitchen stove was before her with the cover of, the kerosene can was in one hand, the baby on the other arm. She wanted to light the fire, and she did it. Mother and child will Oc- cupy one grave. The oil can is useless.
 "You havea pleasant home and a bright fireside, with happy children sitting aroundit haven't you?" said thejudge. "Yes, sir" said Mir. Thompson, who thought he saw way out of the difficulty "Well," said the judge, ''if the happy children sit around the cheerful fireside until you return, they will stay there just forty three days, as 1 shall have to send you up for that time."
 A man, living in the country, far from any physician, was taken suddenly Ill. His family, in great alarm, not knowing what else to do, sent for a neighbOr who had a reputation for dOctoring COWS.
 "Wa'al, 1 don't know nothing about dOctorin' people,"
 "You know more than we do, for you can doctor COWS. Now, what do you give them when they're sick?"
 "Wa'al, l alters gives COWS salts-Eps0m salts. You might try that on him."
 "HoW much shall we give him?" inquired the son.
 Wa'al, I give COWS jest a pound. l suppose man is quarter as big as cOw-give him quarter of pOundw
 A QUEER PRAYER In his prayer the other night, the Rev. we'll say the Rev. MT. Blank-said: "We thank Thee, o Lord, for the many blessings Thou didstbestow upon us during the year just past. which was that of 1874 In that year were 365 days-in that year were B Weeks-and we were blessed through them all." The amount of valuable information the Al. mighty may contrive 10 pick up from the prayers of some people would surprise you.
 WET WIT.-The MarysvilIe Ap- peal man gets off the following neat piece of wit, one of those ''drippings of the food" probably: "A young lady in one of the mountain towns wrote to a gentle man in this city, inquiring for the following music: 'FrolIc of the Frogs, There's a Letter in the Candle" The letter was received in the midst of the great flood