The Arizona sentinel., 1875-12-11
MISCELLANY.

marriage and then deserted her
good enough.
A Pultney, IN. W girl put in a
good ten hours work the other
day. She nailed in that time 700
grape boxes, driving 10000 nails
and handling 1900 pieces of wood.
There never was but one woman
who didn't believe that her hus-
band would take second wife if
she died, and that woman got
killed on the cars.
TRANSMISSION of blood is a hum.
bug in some cases. A Chicago
man had a pint of bull dogs blood
conducted into his veins, and then
tried to lick MS wife. She laid
him up for a week.
A cOnven ton of Waterville girls
has resolved, that it would be a
good deal nicer to be squeezed by
the boys, only they do not know
how to do it so well as the mar
ried men,"
A Danbury mother has deter
minded to frown down such ex-
cessive folly in fash ion as striped
stockings and the like. She says
her son, "shall not keep company
with any girl who makes circus
of her legs"
A man made three unsuccessful
attempts to blow his brains out,
and then his wife said to him,
Don't try it again, John, you
haven't got any" That man now
goes about saying that he owes
his life to that woman.
If a young man sits up too late
with his sweetheart out at Had
donfeld, the old folks come into
the parlor, and with a refinement
of sarcasm, invite him to wait a
few minutes longer and break
fast will be ready!
A st. Paul mother recently took
her fifteen-year. old daughter to a
party for the first time, and was
to find that the ''little
girl" know nearly every society
man about town, understood tbaI
figures of the Gerpaa-6frd could
talk like magpie.
The Albany Argus denies that
an Albany girl, out walking with
her lover, threw snuff in his eyes
while she could pull up her stock
ing. The argus has never been
accused of lying, and the girl re.
ferred to probably lives in Napa.
Think about marriage as we
please, there is no pleasanter
sight than a newly-wedded couple
home from church OF the
first Sunday, with the BRIDES
in the rear thoughtfully
the hustle and back
bows of the happy daughter.
81 say, boy, is there anything
to shoot around here?" inquired
a sportsman of boy he met. mo,
just about here" replied
the boy; "but our schoolmaster
is just over the hill there, cutting
birch rods; you might walk up,
and pop him over"
The other day three men, near
La Grange, Mo-, killed 240 black
snakes on one ledge of rocks,
Their bodies would have filled a
wagon box, and weighed over l.
800 pounds. The whiskey must
be awful mean in that section.
TAKING 1T EAsY.-Old Roger
was a queer Dick, and in his own
way made all things subject of
His son Ben came in
one day and said to him.
Father, that old black sheep
has got two lambs"
"Good," said the old man,
"that's the most profitable sheep
on the farm"
"But one Of them is dead"
said Ben.
"Pm glad ont" said the old
man, "it'll be better for the old
sheep"
"But t'other's dead too" said
Ben.
$50 much the better" rejoined
Roger, shell make a grand piece
of mutton in the fall"
Eyes. but the old sleeps dead,
too, exclaimed Ben.
"Dead dead what, is the old
black sheep really dead?" cried
old Roger, "that's good; she al
ways was an ugly old scamp, and
Pm glad to be rid of her"
We suppose the fact will be
conceded that the best husbands
in the United States are raised
in Connecticut. AS an illustration
we have the following story of a
Norwich man who recently lost
his better half. Being of a thrifty
turn, he was somewhat exercised