The Arizona sentinel., 1876-04-08

Out in the Black Hills gold re, zion, when you buy bowl of bean soup, you take off your coat, dive for bean, and when you come up with it the proprietor of the saloon takes it away from you and says you only paid for soup.
 A man at Warren, R. l., was buried a fews days ago in a coffin that he ordered for himself more than twenty years ago, and a To cal journal says; although a lit. tie old-fashioned it was very good fit."
 Mary had little lamb
 We've heard i. OCT and OCT,
 Until that little lamb becomes
 A perfect little bore.
 So propose to make grave
 And dig it deep and wide,
 That Mary's lamb and all its bards
 Be buried side by side.
 A scholar in a country school was asked, "HOw do you parse Mary milks the cow?" The last word was disposed of as follows; "COw, noun, feminine gender, third person, and stands for Mary "StandS for Mary! How do you make that out?" Because" ad- ded the intelligent pupil, "if the COW didn't stand for Mary, how could she milk her?n
 An up-cOuntry schOOlmarm had her dander rig the other day and went through the school, thrash. ing forty-three pupils before her arm gave out. And now they talk of sending her to the Centen- nial as patent California thrash ing machine.
 One day last week some negro children were playing near q creek in Quitman county, when an alligator craWied out and swal, lowed one of the children. Next day a party caught the alligator, cut him open, and took the little negro out alive. This is no news paper lie, but was reported to us by lawyer (and they never lie). who substantiates the statement by two negroes who saw the child. -Cthhbert (Ga. ) Messenger,
 A tale of woe-I clasped her tiny hand in mine, clasped her beaute. ous form, I vowed to shield her from the wind, and from the worlds cold storm. She set her beauteous eyes on me, the tears did wildly flow, and with her lit tie lips she said, "Confound you, let nae go :"
 Mount HOlyOke Seminary is principally devoted to the furnish ing of wives for foreign mission aries. It has already furnished lI5 of these wives, and the cry is still to the effect that they come. Foreign missionaries will please step forward. Who comes next under the Holyoke ?
 Commodore Stephen Decatur, who died last week in Boston, when three of his neighbors were attacked by ship fever and no one dared to nurse them. tended them through their illness, and when they died dug the graves and buried the bodies himself, read ing the funeral service over them.
 His poor old mother takes in washing, but he sits around with cigar in his mouth" Perhaps his mother hasn't had steady work and he is unable to buy a fancy meerschaum. It hardly seems right to haul fellow over the coals when he may be doing the best he can.
 A In England they tell how San ey walked up to gremdier, and, aking him affectionately by the plt, said, "YOung man, 1 like
 ise am soldier, a soldier of hea- Wen" Old 'un," returned the greuadier, you're a long way from your barracks, anyhow" We'll, tD0I6 WdC d NCIy IOuSH NOuuR man. whom Sankey saw staring around at the close of the meet ings, and kindly asked, "Yeung man, are you looking for saIva- tion?'' "NO." was the reply, "I am looking for Sal Jackson" l" "Let us sing hymn," said Sankey.
 Quarters for "General Grant :" are being prepared at the Centen- nial. They consist of large frame pew, with two compart- nents, and are neatly furnished with troughs, hay -ricks, and oth- CT modern improvements. Zen eral Grant is the largest steer in the United States, and IS the pro. perty off H. BransOm, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He weighs 1000 bounds