The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1875-11-27

THE REASON WHY.
Its strange that l remain a maid,
Though fifty SWANS have homage naid!'
"The reas on you have told, says F lnn,.
you have just forty nine too many"
A close observer is responsible
for the statement that, when a
mouse makes its appearance in
Ladies' Sewing Circle, the women
with striped stockings on always
jump the highest.
LongefeIlow slightly paraphras-
ed to suit the times:
"And the night shall be- filed with burglars
And the thieves that infest the day
Shall pack up their TAPS like peddlers
And carry the spoons away"
1t takes 'em half an hour to get
the big English cannon ready to
fire, and by that time a fellow
could dodge, heel it around the
corner, and tuck himself away in
a dry goods box.
The PictOu (Canada) Times per-
petrates the following ona late
baby show:
Twenty four babies all in a row,
Twenty-four mammas also on show;
Twenty-four daddies happy as CLAIMS,
A show of live babies none of your shams
A vision of angels, dear little lambs.
A young man employed on Com.
mercial street is six feet eight in
ches high, and weighs a trifie
over a hundred pounds. They
Judge by his appetite that he is
hollow clear down, and think Of
amputating his feet and using
him for stovepipes.
A report of a wedding in Ken.
lucky concludes in this wise
1.-THE bride was far from being
handsome, but her father threw
in a span Of horses and seven
mules, and the bridegroom was
satisfied"
"Mother," said a little English
girl, just arrived in the country
"is that an 'en?" mo, my dear,''
said the mother, sit is not an ZEN
it is a howl" "My wife, and my
daughter" said the father, sit is
not an zen nor a howl, but it is 9
beagle, the hemblem of this haw-
full country"
A western editor apologies Il
his readers somewhat after this
fashion: I'VE expected to have
a death and a marriage to publish
this week, but violent storm
prevented the wedding, and the
doctor being sick himself, the
patient, recovered, and we are ac
cordingly cheated out of BOTH"
The BrookIynites are congratu
Iating each other that they have
succeeded in capturing Moody anC
Sankey before the Philadelph
ianS:
Hankey panky,
Moody and Sankey,
Philadelphia wanted them first.
"They re ours by right
Cried the Brooklynites.
$50 let the BrOtherlylOvers burst"
Snifkin staked his all on the re
suit of a game of enchre the othel
night, and lost. Throwing dowr
the cards peevishly, he broke forth
in the following pathetic strain
"'Twas ever thus in childhood'l
hour, Fve seen my fondest hopeI
take flight, and every time 1 play
ed left bower some one took i
with the ight."
There was young man in Chicago,
And he said: 80, may to your pa go
And ask for your haad
And yOnr homes and land?"-
That timid young man Of Chicago.
There was young girl in Chicago,
And she said: IF you don't letmy paw &c
Your eyes { Will scratch.
And your hair | will snatch,
Auu cNIlbil u LuohO OFcl J Csn" 80
The Washington Capital ate
informing its readers that Hwal
kin Miller has left the Catskills
remarks:
For weeks in plaintive anguish, the Cats
killers did languish,
With this long-baired, loudly-rlgge,
rhymer disguised,
Till he took the right idea, and he got VI
on his ear,
Paid his bills, and packed his carpet-ba
and rose up quick and busted!
Gone to get his hair cut
Sarah, the wife of Abraham
gave birth to Isaac at the ripe az,
of 80, having for some time pre-
vious considered herself out of tn,
field. Sarah, of North Denver
now steps forward, having achiev
ed her three-scOre and-ten, AM
presents her astOniShed lord witt
a boy and a girl at one and tn
same time-this performance be
ing commonly called "havin,
twins" Jackson's last name i
NI,rti, and thO,1rb l,a 10 an nj,