The Arizona sentinel., 1876-06-17
MISCELLANY.


Waldo Emerson.
Nothing was so much dreaded
in our school boy days, says dis
tinguished writer. as to be pun
ished by sitting between two girls.
Alb, the force of education In
after years we learn to submit to
such things without shedding a
tear.
A Nebraska doctor furnished a
scalped soldier with a piece of
Buffalo hide and made his head as
good as new. The only trouble
with the hair is that it "sheds,"
twice a year.
Forty centuries may look down
upon US from the pinnacle of mod.
ern civilization without discover.
ing a man bold enough to hit a
woman on the toes with a tack.
hammer while she is directing
him how to put down carpet
Brooklyn Argus.
The following epitaph is from a
tombstone in Indiana:
Under This sod our Babe Lies,
it neither cRries nor HolErs
1t LIVED Just twenty Days,
And cost us $40
Class in the middle of geogra-
ply, stand up, stand up" said a
schoOlmaster, "What is a pyra-
mid?" he asked. GA pile of men
in a circus, one on top of the 9TH
err" "Where's Egypt?' Where
railways was. 4" "Where's WaIes?"
"All over the sea-" "Very WE'LL"
said the schoolmaster, "stay there
till | show you a species of birch
that grows all over this country"
SCHOOL STUDIES A beVy of
little children were telling their
father what they got at school.
The eldest reading, spelling and
definitions. land what kind do
you get, my little one?" said the
father to the little rosy-faced fell
low who was at the time driving
a tenpenny nail into the door
panel "Me? Oh. I gets readin',
spellin' and spankin's."
A Court joke is of an ancient
African, who was brought up Oh
trial for an offence against the
State. The case being duly and
formally announced The State of
California against Caesar August
us Simpson," the aged moke rose
in his seat and shouted "Wat
dat Wat dat De hole State OBJ
CalifOrny agin dis one chile Den
gibs up ~
DObbs memory is not of the best,
and he rather surprised his sweet
heart the other evening by ask
ing her if these lines of Scott were
not beautiful:
oh, woman, 10 our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
But seen too oft, familiar with thy face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace
A Louisville chap thought he
had found something pure and
fresh in the shape of laughing,
sunny little witch of a girl, and
was or the point of proposing
marriage when she scattered his
fond hopes to the winds by re-
marking one evening: "You
Kiss and hug me more than any
gentleman | am acquainted with
except Bill Wallace, and he is a
steamboat clerk and only comes
here once month.
"Julius, s'pose dar are six chic
Nkens in de coop, and de man sells
three OBJ 'em, how many is Ieft?"
"What time OBJ day was it?"
"What time OBJ day? Why, what
has dat to do wild it?' "Sartin,
nigga, if it war dark, dar wouldn't
be none left-dat is, if you hap
pened to come along dat way {"
'LOok We here, nigga, jist stop
dem personalities; if We don't Pll
explore yer head wild a pump
handle -
Now set out a Centennial tree.
Set one out. Don't fall. If you
have no tree buy one. If you
have 10 money borrow it. It'll
makes no difference what sort oil
a tree. If you have no land, set
it out in the street. Show your
grit. If the police interfere, tell
them it is centennial tree. and
if they haul it down, shoot 'em
on the spot. Set out a tree, and
future generations, coming home
late at night and leaning against
that tree to 'git their bearin's,"
will rise up and call you blessed.
N. Y. Graphic.
He made his last visit Sunday
night. He had been going there
pretty steadily for two years, and
Sabbath evening he got his cour-
age up to the popping point, and,
with a stammering tongue, COM
menced "Mirandy- or err Mi. Mir
I, - -, Loan