The Arizona sentinel., 1875-09-11
MISCELLANY.

S1,200 to S1,0OO.
 Little drops of whisky
 And little drops of water,
 Make fellow frisky-and
 Do what he hadn't oughter
 If there is anything in the world which will make a woman mad It IS to have man hang over the fence and survey the weeks wash ing on the line and grin and grin.
 Young men are so scarce at Memphis that each one has to take from eight to fourteen girl to a picnic, and all want to hang on his arm at once.
 Who'd live in Vermont ? Why, they fine a boy three dollars in that State for tying an oyster can to a dogs tail, and a red dog and small can at that. Detroit Free Press.
 A Missouri man tried to ride a mule across a creek thirty feet deep. The man was drowned, but the mule crossed in salty, walking on the bottom and breathing drought his ears.
 Michigan girls are none of your sentimental kind, that go around with crOquet and the like, but pitch horses shoes and practice high kicking at the clothes line.
 One ounce alcohol; two drachms Cayenne pepper; one ounce kerO- sene oil; let it stand tWenty-f four hours after mixing. It cures the worst tOOthache ever known.
 The average Brooklyn boarder doesn't hunt through his soup for chicken any more, but glancing sadly up into his landlady's face, timidly asks "are you quite sure you dipped any feathers in this water?'
 4 Denver boy pulled the bung out of a beer barrel and stuck ill his thumb, the barrel rolled over and broke the thumb so badly i that it had to be amputated. The father of the boy sues the owner for five thousand dollars.
 A small boy of Clay street, in l this city, has such respect for old i age, that he will never permit his grandfather to sit down without | having previously Orn;.mented the chair with a cushion of pins, point | upward.
 Last verse of an ode to Chica- go belle, just published in St. l Louis:
 Her mouth O mouth O fleeting hash
 From ear to ear lovely gash
 O mouth for kisses
 O gaudy cavern. stopping down,
 I'll huri myself within and drown,
 In awful blisses
 A young girl of Knoxville, Tenn, who was unexpected in- terviewed by the family as she was about eloping with the object of her virgin affections, knocked the old man down, laid out two broth CTS with cistern pole, kicked the hired man in the stomach, and got away with her lover, and 'made the rifle"
 Scene at coffee stand-Proprie- tor to colored soldier: "Be kind enough to take seat over at that little table in the corner" Color ed warrior: "Dat's all right. Dur ing de rebellion I used to squat on one dead Brigadier- General, and stand my coffee-pot on another. l ain't noways partickler. Gim- me some noah sugar. ."-.Sda A11- tos1io Herald.
 A dog is on the police force of Alleghany, Pennsylvania. He went to the police station as a lodg- CT last Winter, and has lived there ever since. He goes the rounds with an officer, and assists in capturing the rascals, seizing them whenever the pOIiceman's strength proves insufficient. He 1 sometimes travels alone, and when 1 he meets aD inebriate barks for policeman to come.
 Condensed letter from Saratoga , "No beauty-no belles-no eligible partners-nO prizes in the matri- lottery-single ladies an with grizzled heads or wigs, or slightly bald. Shock ing times-light purses-patched ( shOes-nO style. Colored walters never seed sich times'-quarters very scarce, and, as for fifty cents and dollars, never to be seen. Me- groes all on the Ohio platform and down on contraction. Hotel ta- bles light on chickens and ice cream"
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