The Arizona sentinel., 1875-10-09
MISCELLANY.
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There are forty-two churches in Troy, N. Y and yet there are more cock fights there on Sunday than in any other city in the State. The difference just now between fishes and girls is, that the former are fin-backed and the latter are pinned back.
 Anna Dickinson says she does not see any sense in pull: back dresses. That is very true, but 1t isn't sense that men are looking for when they gaze on travelling pull-back.
 A Pennsylvanian hunter. who went ten miles to where game 1 was plenty, and then found that he had brought box of pills in- stead of percussiOn-caps, returned home in disgust.
 A person of Pike's Peak, writ ing to Minnesota; journal, says that the miners are greatly dis 1 outraged in that region; they | have to dig through a solid vein ofsilver four feet thick before they | reach the gold.
 Nothing in the world makes a man so mad as to dream that he is kissing an academy girl, and wake up to find that depraved fly is waltzieg around the ragged edges of his mouth.
 A merchant who does not ad- VertiSe can no more succeed Tn drawing custom, than can a young lady, without hustle aud a few pounds of false hair, succeed in drawing beauX. - WhttehGU Iin1eS. l
 There is one consolation in be- ing bald. When a policeman strikes you on the head with his club the doctor doesn't have to waste any time in cutting the hair away from the wound. When Hnau goes t6 quilting party about tea time, and sits down on a ball of Wicking with a long darning needle in it, he will ] think of more things connected with darning in minute than he can mention in two hours.
 It is scareIy creditable that a Chicago woman, when tod by a | doctor that she must die, walled | out, "Oh! hate to die and have women stand around my coffin l and make remarks about my turn up nose"
 Dumas, the French author, has written a romance in which an American coon ghas6s a ,couple Of American lovers up tree and tries to gnaw the tree down. He says this coon was as big as year ling calf.
 BOgus-If your girl or her big brother comes along and points a pistol at you, and tells you to walk down to the minister's and be married, go right along and do it; the marriage will be bogus. That has recently been decided by the Supreme Court of New York.
 The New Orleans Bulletin thus discourses: eff men are the salt of the earth, women are the sugar. Salt is necessity, sugar is a lux ury. Vicious men are the saltpe- tre; hard, stern men, the rock salt; nice, family men, the table salt. Old maids are the brown su- gar; good-natured matrons, the loaf sugar; pretty girls, the fine pulverized white sugar."
 A MODEL VERDICT.-Another has been added, in Cincinnati, to the dudious but delicious verdicts of coroners' jurieS. Read: "We,. the jury, find that the said Lewis Fillman came to his death by shot acciden tally went off by him. self by killing cat by shooting the same and when she was not dead instantly by striking the cat with the breach of the gun the load discharged itself"
 The largest mirror in the world has just been put into the parlOr Of one or the saratoga nOIelS. Two platform cars were required to transport it. It will be great convenience to the Milwaukee belles at Saratoga, enabling them, for the first time in their lives, to get a complete view of their feet in a mirrOr.-ChicGgO Times.
 An honest faced stranger called on Justice Potter the other day and inquired what His HOnor's usual fee was for joining couple in the holy bonds of wedlOck.
 "The fee is two dollars i'll case you come here," was the reply.
 "Less see," unused the man as he handed out roll of bills; "there'5 three dollars for bed Stood ajpht dollars for a second