The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-12-09
Thr arizona srntinel.
MISCELLANY.

tn preach about. he should preach
about ten minutes.
The big prairie farmer, Alexan-
der. has given up tillage and gone
to swine raising. He says the pen
is mightier than the sward.
Mamma" said little boy who
has been sent to dry towel before
the fire. sis it done when it is
browne"
David KNITTED. a Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin, miSer, died last week
Of starvation. leaving property TO
the amount of $4,000, of which
$40, 900 was in cash.
Mamma" said a young hope.
full, who against his will was made
TO rock the cradle of his baby bro
Their, elf the Lord has any more
babies To give away don't you
take EN-"
THAT word "usufruct," which
Tilden used, is defined as the
right of using and enjoying the
profits of a thing belonging to an
other, without impairiug the subs
lance" You can kiss a pretty
girls lips under that head, but
don't bite them.
Mrs. Catherine Coggin, of New
Marlborough, Mass, has just died,
over 100 years old. Within five
years she has carried 10j pounds
of meal on her hack from the vii.
lage to her own home, two miles
The papers relate an anecdOte
of beautiful young lady, who
had become blind, having recO-
vered sight after marriage. 1t is
not uncommon for peoples eyes
to be opened by matrimOny.
w. II. Brown, of Pittsburgh,
who lately died, is the Repre-
sentative American" who in early
life dug coaI at one and a half
cents bushel-and departed this
existence the possessOr of So, $50,
600.
Darwin will he seventy nine
years old on the 18th of February
next, and on that day an album
will be presented to him which
will contain a portrait Of all the
principal mOnkeys-that is TO say,
of the principal DarWinian scien-
lists of Europe.
Chicago sells FIVE million dollars
worth of jewelry and San Francis
cs gets away with ten million dol
lars worth of drinks, of all grades
every year. The aggregate an
nual sale of testaments and hymn
hooks in the two cities reaches
S175.27.
A Northern Iowa farmer offered
a tramp his daugh ter and half his
farm for three days work in the
harvest field. The tramp waver-
ed little at first, hut then the col.
or of the girls eyes didn't suit,
and he thought the farm a little
too low, so he declined the propO-
SitiOn, stole a hameStrap, and
went on his voorhees, way.
Are you there my love?" he
whispered through hole in the
fence OF his beIOVed's hack yard.
ayes, darling" was the reply,
Jump right over" He did so,
and aIighted in the presence Of
her mother, a broomstick, and a
policeman.
THE HEN.-A boys compositions:
Hens is curious animals. They
don't have no nose nor no teeth,
nor no ears. They sWaller their
whites whole and chaW it up in
their crops inside of'em. The out
side of hens is generally put inter
PLIERS and made inter feather dus-
ters. The inside of Il hen is sum-
times filed up with marbles and
shirt buttons and SIGH. A hen is
very much smaller than good
many other animals but they digs
up more tomato plants than any
thing that amt hen. Hens is
very useful to lay eggs for plum
pudding Skinny Bates eat so
much plum-pudding once that it
set him inter the cOllery. Hens
has got wings and can fly when
they are scarf. ! cut my Uncle
Williams hens neck off with a
Ratchet and it scarf her to death.
Hens sometimes makes very fine
spring chickens.
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