The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1875-05-15

tween two girls the one with the
blue garter beat.
Carlyle is not a fit man for g
census taker. He says England
is populated by 100000 souls
mostly FOOLS"
Six Milwaukee woman agreed
70 decide by vote which had the
handsomest baby, Each baby got
one vote.
A Milwaukee woman has been
sick nearly a year from fancying
that she saw a kangaroo in the
looking glass while she was try
ing on a new bonnet.
No Irishman ever made a great =
er bull than the English lawyer
who drew up an Indictment
charging that the prisoner killed
a man with a certain wooden in.
trument called an iron pestle.
A young man charged with be.
ing lazy was asked if he took it
from his father. ~ think mott
was the reply, ''Father's got all
the laEiness he ever had"
A gentleman in Missouri offered
a girl $3.50 and three mules if she
would marry him. She declined
on the ground that she didn't
want four mules in. the family.
A Michigan man has raised five
lemons on tree which he keeps
In a dollhouse. 1t took four tons
of coal, and he sold the lemons for
twenty cents.
Take life easy, and don't al.
ways be trying to beat the sun up.
You may win for awhile, but in
the long run you are sure to be
beaten, and some morning it will
rise when you don't. Exchange.
A certain old bachelor was told
that two lovers will sit up half
the night with only one chair in
the room, and wanted to bet that
it couldn't he done unless one sat
on the floor.
"Don't call on me for three
days" is what an Ashland girl
posted on the front gate, and she
further added: "I'm going to
eat some onions this week if [
never have another beau. -CyeUe-
land Herald.
Asa Butler, on the San BenitO,
is the owner Of twin colts, for
which he has refused the purchase
price of $1,000, and one of the colts
has but three legs, either. But
the other one has five, enough to
make the requisite number be-
tween them.
A Florida paper recommends
the passage Of a law forbidding
the killing of alligatOrs for mere
sport. Why? The Florida peO-
pie ought to have some sport in
terperSed with the arduous labor
of killing fieas and mosquitoes.
A paper in that State says that
the meanest man in Michigan, is
a constable in Marquette, who
levied on an old lady's chickens,
and, after running them down
one at a time, sat down and figur-
ed how far he had run, and charg-
ed mileage.
The ladies of Franklin, Ken
lucky, refuse TO receive the at
.tentions of young men who drink,
and those who vote against the
local option law will be entirely
shut off from society. SIT would
have been better for those young
men if they had never been born"
81 thought you was born on the
LIST of April?" said husband to
his lovely wife, who had men
toned the 21st as her birthday.
"Most people would think so, from
the choice [ have made of hus-
band" was the reply.
An Alabama lady recently died,
leaving to her disconsOIate hus-
band 287 hoOp-skirts. The poor
man says this was hint that he
should remarry 287 times, and he
is going to do it or perish in the
attempt.
The following is an admirable
take off on that excessive urbOni-
ty with which some officials clOthe
the discharge Of their duty with
careful eye of preparation to the
dreadful ordeal of r future eiec-
ton day:
Sentence of death was once in
this manner passed upon a motor
ious william, by a popular New
York judge, who desired to main
tain and extend his popularity,
and was willing to conciliate the
freeboOters as the other classes of
his acquaintance: "Mr. Green,
you have just been found guilty.
will you have the kindness to
stand up, Mr.. Green? I really
would not trouble you, Mr.. Green,
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