The Arizona sentinel., 1876-07-08
MISCELLANY.


the novels. What celestial life!
Boss Tweed is said to be hiding
in the big Florida swamp. If the
mosquitoes have any care to see
justice prevail they will drive
him out.
Pennsylvania has 235 beer brew
cries; Wisconsin, 232; Ohio, 210;
New York, 203; California, 202;
Illinois, 165; and Michigan, 149.
The fastest time on record was
made by the horse AristOdes, at
Lexington, on the 18th ult. He
made % miles in 4:273.
Bergh is kind-hearted by ma
ture. When a little boy, running
about barefoot, he would not even
tread on humble bee, if he could
help it.
Washington Territory issues a
call for fifty thousand girls to come
out there right away. The girl
who wants to marry should get
her bonnet on.
In Egypt, three out of five chill
dren die before reaching the age
of two years. This is about the
rate of mortality among presiden-
tial candidates in the United States
this year.
When a California woman de-
feated a lion in a hand to hand
combat, the neighborS were great.
ly astonished, but her husband
quietly remarked: "Oh. that's
nothing; that woman could lick
the devil"
Norwich Bulletin: Darwin says
that animals have no religious
sense; but he probably never OBJ
served the calm, reflective man.
ner in which a chicken will stand
on one leg and look up to heaven
after squeezing through a hole in
the fence into the strawberry bed
next door.
Chemists say there is more
strength in buttermiIk than in
brandy, but we don't believe it,
as a gallon of buttermilk cannot
throw even a child, while a pint
of brandy can floor an able-bodied
TIL 1uicker'n scat = Whitehall
Times.
An Exchange says: "We are
in receipt of two poems, one on
the "Throbbing Brain" and the
other on a bleeding Heart"
We will wait until we receive one
on the "Stomach Ache" and pub
lish all three together.
The number of innocent young
girls who marry a man BELIEVING
they can break him of his bad
habits and lug him off to church
twice every Sunday does not dim
inish in the least. and the divorce
courts grind and grind.
An absent minded editor hav-
ing courted a girl and applied to
her father, the old man said !:
"Well, you want my daughter;
what sort of settlement will you
make? What will you give her?"
"Give her?" replied the other,
looking up vacantly, "Oh, I'll
give her puff" "Take her,"
replied the father.
Two Hibernians were passing
a stable which had a rooster on it
for weather vane, when one adj
dressed the other thus: "Pat,
what's the reason they didn't put
hin up there instid ola rooster?"
"An' sure" replied Pat, "that's
aisy enough; don't we see that
it would be inconvanient to 60
for the eggs"
Mr.. Blivens, an old bachelor of
Rochester, n. Y, who is much
absorbed in politics, visited the
widow Graham the other day, just
after reading Grants letter, and
asked her what she thought of a
third term. Now, the widow has
been twice married, and, in re-
spouse to the question, she made
a rush for the astounded Mr.. Bliv-
ems, and taking him tightly in
her arms. exclaimed: 30, you
dear, dear man What a happy
woman am :" At last accounts,
Mr.. 3. had locked himself in his
wood-house, and was endeavor-
ing to explain things to the widow
through the keyhOle.
Elkader Qowa) Journal; Some
young ladies on retiring to their
bedroom one night recently op.
ened the window and saw wasp's
nest outside in the upper corner
of the casing, and not knowing
what it was, thought it would be
proper TO knock it off, and pro-
ceeded to do So. What was their
surprise and horror, a moment lat
er, to hear dozen or more wasps
buZZing around them. They