Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-10
PITH AND POINT.
A LIGHT affair-A lamp.

LIGHT atfalr-A lamp.
 LIFE's bitterest lesson Biting per simmon.
 THE proper remedy for young lady who is short f stature is to get sphced as soon as possible.
 A WOMAN has been arrested in New York for abducting little boy. Next time she'll know enough to take 8 big one.
 TIE Secretary of the Navy knows something about one ship, anyhow. We refer to courtship. He has had four wives.
 A STRANGER in St. Louis, thinking he recognized his coat on the back of pe- destrian, shouted, "Stop thief" and about thirty of the inhabitants suddenly disappeared down side street.
 "WHAT would the country have been without corporations ?" inquired Jay Gould. "What woHld the world have been without navigation ?" Capt. Kidd might have asked with equal cogency.
 A CLIENT says to his ine-dealer who proposes to sell him a brand of new wine : "Ten me, now, this wine is not too head. ?' .Mine seller, with alaclity =" Heady? Why it's not even wine p AN old bachelor, who particularly hated literary women, asked an author ess if she could throw any light on kiss ing. "I could, said she, looking archly at him "but I think it's better in the | dark.
 A scHooLBoY being set to write com- position on the OK, after long strug gle, produced the following "An cx does not taste as good as all oyster, but can draw bigger lead, and run twice 1 aS fast
 WESTERN ODE. | sm waiting n the wild wood with ciuh.
 II meet you ewixt the glosinlng and tue dark; l I'll hit you with my weapons biggest nub And knock you pretty much across the park.
 A thousand shtning stars youn discover, | And pyrotechnics tsli you cannot rest Oh cone and let me hit you for your mother, My tangle-headed poet of the West 1 --Chicdgo Tribune.
 DEACON JELLY remarked to penuri- ous companion that the kingdom of Satan was to be destroyed, and asked him If he wasn't glad of it. sYes, he replied, "I suppose so, but it seems 8 p ty to have anything wasted"
 "WHy did Gen. Washington cross the Delaware on the ice du ing the storm of an awful night?" asked 6 teacher of her young class in history. II reckon, ? ] piped small voice in answer, "it was b cause he wanted to get on the other side"
 STRONG MINDED wife-"Eh, James. you are great on languages; what is the difference between exported and trans ported?" Submissive husband--" Why, my dear, if you should go to Europe you would be exported, and well, should be transported
 AS THE family of 8 very orthodox di- vine were gravely discussing why the baby was so naughty, boy of 12, who had just commenced to study the steam engine as well as the catechism, asked. "Papa, as we all inherit the sin of Adam, and the baby is such Q little feI- tow, IS there not a greater pressure of sin to the square inch in the baby than in any of the r1st of us ?"
 "DID you serve in the war, uncle P s sNo, ,<sah I was a cowardly niggah l was a Kentucky niggah. And what did I want to list for p "Were not the white men fighting for you? ?" "S'pose dey WAS. Dat wils no sign why we 40Eoods NAo .JOA CFC1 cGC two dogs hghtin' over bone ?" "Well, what's lhat to do with your fighting? "A heap, 1nassa. Did you ever see de bone fight?" The questioner left, amid a general laugh. C2euetand Leader.
 A GOOD parson, who had the happy faculty of saying 6 kind word for every. body Ill whose behalf one could possibly be said, recently otliciated at the funera of farmer who was known as the mean est and most miserly man in the neigh l,orhood. Instead of execrating the de ceased for his extort1onate and niggard ly habits, this kindly disposed clergy man simply spoke of him as the bes arithmetieian ill the country. -Cdtskif Recorder.
 TIE wild storm still ragged furiously Ever and anon the vivid lightning, i, fantastic shapes, illumined the darksom, and angry heavens. At last our young hero, making a sudden, strategic move ment, surrounded the band of fifteer bowling red demons, and with no othe weapon than seven shooter, cavalr, sword, a dime novel, Remington rifle deck of cards, bowie-knife and pai of brass knuckles, he moved down hi pursuers like grain before the scythe 0 the reaper; then, seizing the fair Ethel inda around the waist with one arm ant plunging bayonet into the breast of lusty Indian who exhibited signs c returning consciousness, he vaulted int the saddle of the swiftest horse in tb Territory, and cried, in a delirium q , triumphant joy-"To be continued i i CUT next "-NoyyisfOun Herald