The Arizona sentinel., 1876-03-18
MISCELLANY.

James ParCOu, WHO ldtoly HdT- ried his stepdaughter, is the only man in Massachusetts who ever held the situation of husband to his mOther-in-laW.
 They have kissing fairs in To- wa. Only ten cents kiss. Sup |, pose a fellow takes two, how would they make change for quarter?
 A funny Austin (Nev.) man re- gently imposed upon a credulous Eastern tourist by giving him a bug, representing it to be a rare specimen of a sage brush terrapin, and he brought it home.
 It doesn't cost near so much to take a newspaper as it does to keep a yellow dog. Still there are lots of people who are too poor 10 take a newspaper who have several worthless dogs on their premises.
 A Sacramento lady, who sports an artificial tooth, left it on the table of the restaurant where she had taken breakfast the other morning, and on returning for it an hour afterward, found it at tached as charm to the bOb-chain of the waiter.
 A romantic Brooklyn girl says of her handsome pastor: "I know he is a good man, because as l sit in church and listen to his words and watch his beautiful smile l can think of nothing but heaven and the angels"
 Economical fathers of grOwn-up daughters are growing over the fact that there are fifty-three Sunday nights this year. And it's leap year too.
 Now the Washington ladies have an opportunity 10 turn up their noses to their fullest capaci ty. The Mormon Delegate, Geo. Q. Cannon, is going to bring his wife to Washington this Winter, and there is four of her!
 All reverence for the sacred name of woman seems to be fad ing from the land. Women cor responden4s in Washington who write ball and party gossip are now spoken of as "persOns who get their chicken salad for nOth- ing" Shame!
 A city cobbler, it is said, made so many pairs of shoes in one day that it took two days to count them. He was a smart man, but not equal to one in County Tip perary, who built so many miles of stone fence in one day that 1t took him all night and next day to get home.
 That is a touching Kilkenny ballad that begins:
 "Fario's daughter walked down to the Nile
 Along wid her maids for 10 bsthe in stile As she ran along the shore for to dhry her skin
 Her fut hit the basket that Moses was in.'
 A man of portly sized was trav- cling by diligence from Macon to ChalOns, and made the following complaints to his fellow passen- gers I am a fat man, and re- quire much room. 1 sent the rascally garcon from the hotel to book two places for me. When l came to the office, I found that he had booked one seat for me on the inside and one on the outside! He has not yet solved the problem of filling his two seats.
 A BABY's SOLLOQUY,- Il am here. And if this is what they call the world, I don't think much of it. It is very fiannelly world, and smells of paJegOric { awfully. It's a dreadful light world, too, and makes me blink, I tell you. I don know what to
 do with my hands. ] think I'll dig my fists in my eyes. No, l won't. I'll scrabble at the cor ner Of my blanket and chew it up, and then Pll hOlIer; whatever happens, 1'll hOller. And the more paregoric they give me the louder I'll yell. That old nurse puts the spoon in my mouth in very uneasy way, and keeps last ing my milk herself all the while. I She split snuff in it last night, and when 1 hoIlered, trotted me. That came of being a two days \ old baby. There's pin sticking < in me now, and if l say a word T about it. I'll be trotted or fed; and Il l would rather have catnip tea. Fll tell you who am Hound out to day. l heard folks say, Hush, don't wake up Emeline's baby;" and I suppose that pretty white f,oo6 xxynnoon nUnr nn fhn roiiID,r,