The Arizona sentinel., 1875-02-06
MISCELLANY.

An old sea captain of Lewis
county, Mass. whose age is 90, is
just about leading to the alter a
damsel of So.
An Indiana woman said she
must have a new pair of carriers,
= and ordered the clerk to cut off
two yards of elastic.
DR.. Mary Walkers life is one
continual struggle to keep her
pants hitched up without the aid
of suspenders.
A Troy man has the presence
of mind to warm his nose by a
coal stove before kissing his wife,
and Boston man always waits
until he can chew Glove.
There is couple at Syracuse,
N Y, who have thirteen chill
dren, the eldest of whom is ten
years DID,. Six pairs of twins are
among the number, and all the
thirteen are girls.
Miss Anthony will be Mortified
to learn that $50 double bedsteads
were recently imported into st.
Paul, Minnesota, in one lot; the
origanl st. Paul to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
Ifyou were Mr.. Cooper of Iowa,
and wife and sixteen children
sat around the table, you might
have some cause to groWl about
the price of hickory boot.jacks.
They passed mule steak off on
Boston man as buffalo meat, and
he ate two pounds and declared
that he'd sell out and become a
ranger within six weeks.
A Vermont woman broke an
omnibus drivers nose at one blow
and she was on her way to wa
ter cure establishment and SUI
posed to be in dying condition
at that.
One reason why so many En-
glish Lords marry Ohio girl is be-
cause the girls have been brought
up to split wood and hoe in the
cornfield, and it's money saved to
secure one for a wife.
A genteel farmer in Massachu-
sets, retired Bostonian, didn't
know how to take a wagon wheel
off to grease the axle, and so he
bored holes through the hub and
poured in the grease.
Joseph Bagg, Of Florida, told
the jury that the reason why he
killed his wife was because she
wore out so many shoes, but they
decided that if that was his sole
explanation it was too thin.
A Green Bay man thinks it very
wrong for a boy to go to circus,
but he will keep lad turning a
fanning-mill ten hours, hand him
five cents, and stand and wait fol
the boy to thank him.
Rhinebeck, New York, now
claims him-108 years old, -shaves
himself, threads a needle at arms
length, chops cord of wood be-
fore breakfast in three languages
voted for all the presidents before
and since Washington; uses tobac
co.
A Missourian who attended
prayer.meeting with his daughter
felt compelled to rise up and re-
mark: 81 want to be good anc
90 to Heaven, but if these feller'
don't stop winking at Mary there
will be good deal of prancinG
around here the fust thing they
knoww
An Illinois farmer offered hi
handsome daughter a cow TO
every Sunday night should sht
be without a beau, and how many
cows do you suppose she earned
in a year? Fifty-tWO? No, bub
she couldn't see it.
David Linton is going to present
Cincinnati with a public monu
ment $50 feet high, while thous
ands of poor creatures in Afr1cs
are suffering for hymn-boOk anC
such.
A sensible Baltimore girl worth
$4,000 wants to marry, but sht
says she will not marry any ont
who has not learned a trade t.
fall back on. Young men, wher'
are your overalls?
A Southern paper offers thu
following advice to its readers
''For sport, go to Texas. The.
have panthers there thirteen fee
long, and exceedingly vigorous
and if you have no sport, tn,
panthers certainly will"
Justice always overtakes thu
guilty. A New Orleans man stol'
q cow, and while milking her h'
fell dead of heart disease. If hi
had onIv 5et his wife milk her hi