The Arizona sentinel., 1875-09-25
MISCELLANY.

d CI0ISy III1H III w AoOOi-oih o OOS and an accordion for marrying them.
 The metropolitan seOurge, call ed base ball, permeates the popu- lation of the Sandwich Islands. The champion club in Honolulu is entitled the "WhangdOOdles."
 The London L0ncet says that no person should sit for more than half an hour. S'pOsin fellow Is sitting on the sofa, with his girl, is he going to be particular to a minute?
 "Current Topics" of the Koch ester Democrat wants to know whether anybody can tell why the top stripe of the ladies' stock ings now in vogue is invariably black? And still that young man has hopes of heaven as his home.
 Mark twain says Horace Greeley once tried to make a living as writing master. and failed. His CODY was "Virtue is its own re- ward" and the scholars got it, Washing with soap is wholly ab- sured."
 A man was lately arrested in Baltimore who, while in a state of drunkenness, pulled his dead wife from the bed on which she had been prepared for the grave, and stripped the clothing from her body. rudely vOciferating, "She couldn't play no 'pos5um with him."
 It was the opening remark Ot an ebony Evangei to a c0ngre- gation of his cOIOred brethren l: "Let all de good niggahs cl'ar out. De LaWd moves me dis ebenin' to spoke only to de bad niggahs." And in three minutes there wasn't d "niggah" in the meeting g-hOuses.--B Brooklyn Argus.
 By declining to eat things that you want because they are un- healthy, by going 10 bed early when you want to sit up, and by making your life wretched in a thousand ways. you have chance of living to a ripe old age, if that is any satisfaction to you.
 Aiken. Mississippi, has cOlored debating society. The following are the latest questions discussed: (Which is most beneficialist, the horse or the cOW?" and "Which is the mOstest useful to the white man, the negro or the North American Indian?" After long and animated debate. the umpire decided in favor of the negro and the coW.-C2tarIeStOh NelOS.
 The other day an aged lady stood in Reynolds drug store and surveyed the hundred of drawers and bottle filled with drugs and medicines. She sighed and whis- pered to herself: "Dear me, how i'd like to be twenty years young CT, and have about fourteen chil- dren, and have a chance at all these medicines D. VckS6 Wg Her. Gyd.
 There is a very amusing sign board of one Paddy Gallaher, who keeps a drinking house in San Francisco, California. Wishing to blend the emblems and mot foes Of America and Ireland, he had an eagle painted on one side, and harp upon the other, and the notices ran thus:
 'Epluribus Erin-U n m go brah.'
 A citizen who was driving along the Chauncy road the other day, saw a man up tree near the road side, and halting, he enquired: "what are you doing up there?" The man made no reply and the citizen continued: "What's the cause of your being up there" At this moment a woman rose up from the fence corner, rested a club on the fence, and remark ed: Pm the cause stranger, and if you'll wait till he comes down you'll see the worst field of car mage, around here that ever laid out doors 7" The citizen drove on, and she turned to the man up the tree and continued: "P0lhemu5, ] can't climb, and you know it, but if you'll drop down here for two minutes, Pll give you quit claim deed on the farmr' At the latest accounts POlhemus hadn't accept ed the propOsitiOn.-Er.
 It was the twilight hour, and they were meandering over the execrable sidewalks on Veto street. He was blacker than the king of clubs, and she could dis count the ten-spot Ofspades. "Su- san, Tub youP he suddenly re- marked. "Shoo! Go longr she 1epIied. "Susan, will you marry meov he continued. "GO long wid yu. Pete" ''If yer don't 1 shall embrace de foatin' waters nh do dark Tibber. Den de cOrO-