The Arizona sentinel., 1876-03-11
MISCELLANY.

ficent cause for divorce.
 A woman of forty applied to the Chicago County Clerk for a license -t to marry boy of sixteen, and didn't get it.
 The eight pin factories of the United States make about 47,OOO,- 900 pins daily, and yet we import 25,000,000 more daily.
 A jawbone sixteen feet long is to be exhibited at the Centennial by Massachusetts. Put it in the Women's Department, by all means.
 Under the Iowa civil damage law the wives of drunkardS in Sioux City have sued liquor deal CTS for sum amounting in all to $60,000.
 A cautious Indiana agriculturist mas placarded his farm with the legend Preachers and other suspishus karacters are fourwarn. GU lO keep OII0u near.
 Since that Cleveland woman sawed a leg off of her drunken husband, diScontented and unhap- py wives all over the land are anXiously waiting to see if their Cleveland sister will be punished to any severe extent, providing themselves with saws in the meantime.
 A worthy old lady offers the following advice to girls: When ever fellow pops the question, don't blush and stare at your foot. Just throw your arms around his neck; look him full in the face and commence talking about fur niture."
 Now, young men, listen while we tell you how to pop the ques tiOn. Get your June-bug well cOrnered where no one can over hear you, and then poke the CO., nundrum to her: "Wheu will there be only twenty-five letters in the alphabet?" When U and 1 are made one" After that it is plain sailing.
 One night last week a number of Sacramento Ia adies, having made up their minds that the sa- loon connected with the Tele- graph House, could be dispensed with, made a raid upon it and carried away and concealed every thing it contained except the counter, stove, etc.
 A pretty and sensible young Ia- dy remarked in the presence of seven bare faced young men, the other night, "that it just doubtless the value of kiss to have to bur row it from under a mustache." The next morning one of our druggists sold seven bottles of a preparation to encourage musta- ches, in less than half an hour af- ter opening his store.
 An editor says: We started out to shoot squirrel the other day and six men came up and paid their subscriptions. They thought we were out collecting. But if they had waited to obtain the squirrels private opinion of our skill as a marksman, their fears would not have got the bet. ter of their usual cool judgement.
 A young gentleman got neatly out of a fine scrape with his intend ed. She taxed him with having kissed two young ladies at some party at which she was not pre- sent. He owned up to it, but said that their united ages only made twenty-one. The simple minded girl thought of ten and eleven, so laughed off her pOut. He did not explain that one was nineteen and the other two years of age.
 A CircaSsian girl in Reading, Penn, show a pair of stockings that she says she made entirely out of her own hair. They are thick, heavy and soft, and seem to be pure hair. The upper edges are secured with scarlet worsted work. She says her hair grows to a great length and that she is compelled to have it cut. The stockings were knit while she was on exhibition at Barnum's Muse um.
 The once notorious colored law yer of GreenviIIe, Miss, J. D. Werles, walked aboard a boat ly- ing at the wharf few days ago, and accosted a couple of cartmen with, "Did you ever see any one commit suicide?' The both an- sWered no "No," when he reioin- ed, "Then watch me-" and leap. ing into the river was drowned before he could be reached.
 The use of bOrax in Europe for washing is well known, the addi- tion of large handful of borax,