The Arizona sentinel., 1875-06-19
MISCELLANY.


is to shed tears at the news that
your wife's uncle has died and
left her $4,000.
A Humboldt butcher, trying to
kill himself, run a knife into his
side, and felt round for his heart,
but couldn't find one.
Missouri deacOns put tar in the
bottoms of their hats to facilitate
the retensiOn of the currency
when church collection is taken
up. 1t is said to work admirably,
Col. Powell, of Mississippi. left
a note at his bedside which read
''If it is possible for a man to COM
NIT suicide and be rational at the
same time, that man is John NJ.
Powell"
A man digging a well in New
Jersey came across a hoop skirt
eighteen feet beneath the surface
of the ground. and it flew up and
struck him across the nose as na-
tnrally as if he had come across
it in an alley.
They have now got so that they
blow up whales with torpedoes,
and it won't be long before the
women will get hold of the inven-
ton and scatter an intoxicated
husband all over the ceiling.-De-
trOit Free Press.
A French butcher, who was on
his death-bed, said to his wife:
eff | die FRANCHISE, you must
marry our shop-bOy. He is a
good man, and the business can
not be carried on without some
body to look after it," Il have
been thinking of that already"
said his wife.
AtSPenn Yan4SSN. Y, recently,
Edward Cole, returning home
late, pretended for fun to be a
burglar. He entered the house
through window, when a strug-
gle took place with his, brother
in.law, who supposed it was a
genuine robber, and the joker
received cut from knife which
killed him almost instantly.
The.f Brooklyn Eagle. says the
elegiac bard of the Philadelphia
Leader has established a school
of poetry in this country which is
doing much .tOsassauge the pangs
of final parting. The last tribute
is in memory of the late lamented
Thompson:
Death came at halfpast nine o'clock,
And put out Thompson's candle.
Thank Heav'n that gives him rest at last
From this here Beecher scandal.
A New York man was recently
fined $25 for cruelty to dog, in
employing the animal to walk on
a tread mill to furnish power for |
a small grinding machine. The |
man appealed, and the Superior
Court confirmed the sentence, lay
ing down the rule that while it
was not illegal to use dog for
any useful purpose, it was cruelty
to employ one in the manner set
forth in the Indictment.
A lady correspondent describes
the new society bow as executed
among the Washington bellies.
She says that to bend the head,
except to acknowledge superiors,
is out of fashion. The lady looks
you coolly in the face, smiles as
sweetly as she can and gently in
clines her head toward the right
shoulder with a little backward
at the same time. A
slight, Frenchy Ashrug. heightens
the effect.
A rather singular scene occurred
at the depot on Friday afternoon.
A lady was going by when a gen.
tleman stepped out and said to
her: How'd do?" extending
his hand and smiling cheerfully.
81 beg your PARDON" said she,
looking hard at him, you have
the advantage of me- "Why,
dont you know me"' he asked
81 can't = remember
she said. "Why, l used to be
your husband John Augustus
Henderson, you know" She re-
membered him.-DGa61ry NeaoS.
IRON ICAL.-A patent medicine
who was dilating to a large
crowd upon the wonderful efficacy
of his iron bitters, pronounced
them all-potent in building up an
Iron constitution.
"That is so, that is So" said a 7
bystander. "What he tells you
is'a fact, gentleman, every word
Of it."
"Hear that, will you?" cried 4
the delighted quack; "here is
man who has used the bitters,
and he can recommend them"
mo, not exactly" replied the
Did fellow. 81 have never used