The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-08-24

to find out any rule by whic4 to reckuI
 when ne will go to work again. It is use
 less to pound him, for he will stand mOr'
 beating than sitt:ng-ro m carpet. He hai
 been known to stand eleven days in on'
 spot, apparently thinking of something. anC
 then start of again as though nothing had
 happened.
 Down South, when they have surplus ot
 small dsrkeys on the plantation, they send them out into the barn yard io play. wher,
 there Is loose mule. They always bid
 them goodbye when they start out, for they
 are sue the pirting will be fdal. This is the most economical style of funeral now in the market.
 ! To fully appreciate the mule, one should listen to his voice. You never can really know whether you like mule or not until you have heard him sing. at ended mule concert at Fort Snelling. The programme opened with soprano solo, and then swung into duet, and then pranced off into trio. followed up by quartette, and ending Ni'h full chorus of 150 mules. l didn't hear the whole thing. for when l came to. the regimenial surgeon Was standing over me. giving me powerful restoFatives, and heal d him say that might possibly ge, out again, though l never would be well man again l have been through the New York Stock Exchange, and spent part of the day Tn n boiler factory, aad have been on one or two Sunday-sehool excursions for children. but l never knew what noise Was till heard a lot of army mules bray.
 One nf the dead certainties about a mule Is that he Is sur -footed, especially with lis hind feet. He never misplaces them. If he advertiSes that his feet will be st cer- tain spot on \ ceiiain time, with sample of mule shoes to winch he would call your attention, you will always tiEd him there st the appointed time. He is a. reliable as the day of judgment, and he never cancels an engagement. Every man now living who drove mule team during the war now draws pension.
 l Lever owned mule. came near buy ing one once. He was a iine-iooking sni- mai; hls ears stoud up like the side spires of an Episcopal Church. His tail was trim med cown so that it looked like d tar brush leaning up against him. He was striped of like the American flag, and Raphael's $ eheruhs never looked more angelic than did that mule. He looked all innocence, though he was, Tn no sense. The owner sat in the wagor, with his chin resting on his hand and his elbow resting on his knee. Tn the other hand he held a stick with a brad in the end of ii. l examined the mule and asked the man few questions. and out of mere form inquired if the mule WAS kind. or If he kicSe,ll "Kindi KickTr sai the man, and those were the last words he ever uttered. He reached his stick over tl,e front ot the wagon, and stuck the brad intn that mule. It was awful to see man snuff led out as quickly as he was. Ii almost 10 TX away my breath he went so suddenly. never saw the thread of life snap so ab- ruptiy Hs It did on that occasion. He didn't have time to leave message fer his family. That mule simply ducked his head. and then pair of heets flew out i,ehind; there VA, n crash, flying of splinters. and that was all. and the next moment that mule and I s,oo,I ai"nr, my lace covered with asionisnment two feet deep, and his covered with mart Inf an oid orldle. The next day read an ac. count Tn The telegraph news of shower of nesii m kentucky. l was the only man that could explain that phenomenon, and I did not aaFc t". lest should b. implicated in the affair with the other mule.
 nave seen death in many firms, but I don recollect of ever seeing funeral p.,t- len up with less pomp and display than on | thai ,casion. If had my choice, 10 either ""rk m niiro-glycerine factory, or take | care ct mule, should go for the factory. as m case of an explosion. there would be more possibility of my friends finding some h'tie mementoes of me, with which to as- suage their grief. A very small piece of me would tighten very big sorrow will hunt round and if | find any oths, Iscts tnat belong to the mule, I will write them down, and send them to you bv .r press c. O. D. r3
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