Arizona citizen., 1876-11-25

NeNer again need my steps come
 To the Burned Ships on the strand! 
 GOLD continues to be sent form Lon don to the United States.
 THE Chimes commission is persuing IS inquiry in San Francisco but there is noting new, the evidence being yer tually repetition of that previously taken by the Legislative committee.
 NEARLY a thousand men are em- ployed in the Consolidated Virginia and California mines, and their earn ings aggregate nearly $lO0,OOO d month, which sum goes immediately into circulation.
 THE debt statement shows a reduc- .tion during October of s. .3SS, 139.' The amount of coin in Treasury is $15.697.- O21; currency balance, $l2.90I. .326 {; special deposit, S4O,67O,O0O; coin certl- ticates, S33. 3.2S3, 100; outstanding legal tenders, $367, ,535, 716.
 Two Chinamen last week applied to the county clerk of San Bernardino for their naturalization papers, but owing to the fact that they were Ig- nOrant of the rudiments of the English language and couldn't take the oath in good English, he was obliged 10 refuse them
 CONGRESSMAN Thompson of Glou- cester, Mass, is afflicted with stammer- ing. When he was told that the Old South Church had been sold. he re- marked that it didn't do for the Al-m- m-mighty toto own cOrcorner lot in Boston"
 4 FEW days ago, as President Chad bourne, of Williams College, during a lecture was telling the freshman class that the notion of allowing girls to en- ter the college for the sake of their good influence on the boys was not as sound as it might be, a freshman raised his hand and eagerly inquired, Don't you think it would have a good infu- ence on the young ladies ?"
 OWING 10 the disaster to the Arctic fleet, whalebone has gone up nearly 90 per cent. in value, and only steel cor sets will be worn this winter. Steel corseis are more objectionable than whaleboDe, on the ground of danger from lightning, but as there is good deal more " give" to them. even when embracfd by the left arm, we haven't much of an opinion of a girl who won't be willing 10 risk the lightning.
 FRANCE launched her most powerful ironclad last month, the Rodubtable, at LOrient This vessel, which has been three years building. is 330 feet long by 70 feet beam. She has an iron ram at the bow weighing thirty tons, and her armOr plates weigh twenty-fOur tons each. Her armament is eight pivot guns, capable of being pointed in any direction, and her decks arc bOmb-proOf Her 6,000 horse power engines work a screw twenty.One feet in diameter, and there are smaller en- zines for working the helm, the wind. lass and the pumps. The displace- ment of this monster war vessel when fitted for sea is estimated at 5000 tons
 AMBIGUITIEs-These extracts. found in a magazine article, show the moon sisiences and antiquities of the Eng fish tongue. It is not strange that find it a difficult language that foreigners find it difficult Ian. guage to learn.
 "A A man." says Punch, was arrest. ed for attempting to damage the River. Thames. What was he doing? He was trying to pull up the stream"
 A lady, in advertising herself as a teacher. spoke of the reputation for teaching she bears" But a furrler, an expert in making up old furs. advertis- ed "capes, vIctOrines, etc, made up. for ladies out of their own skins" The of a concert was, doubt less. prophetic, when it announced '. that a variety of songs might be eX- pectcd. too tedious to be mentioned.' !
 You walk very slow" said man to a cOnsumptive. Yes, but l am go- ing we're fast"
 "Show me fire" said traveller to. the landlord, for I am very wet, and bring me a mug of ale, for am very dry"
 How TALL ARE WE?-A late num- Der of the Scientific American, in dis cussing the question, How tall are we?" publishes table showing the mean night of the men of 24 different The result arrived at is that the Indians of the United States are the tallest, the mean night being 57 934 inches. The whites of the Unit ad States come second, the mean of. }l5. .620 examinations being 67662 in ches Then follow the NOrwegians, . Scoth, inhabitants of British America SwedeS, Irish, Danes. etc. The Eng fish cone eleventh in the list, being j6. 6.571. followed by the Germans. who show mean of 66536 The French stand eighteenth in the list, at 66,211 The Spanish and Portuguese stand ai he foot of the list, measuring 65.63j md 65.432 inches respectively. Com Darlng the natives of the different State of the Union. those nt Kentucky stand lt the head of the list. 6S.677 inches Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri. Califor- nia, Nevada, Indiana and West Nirgi- nian follow, all exceeding 6S inches The people of Illinois stand twelfth in he list, at 67.S35 inches, while the | ankees of the wooden nutmeg State bring up the rear, being only 66.577iI