Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-16
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everybody in the room $2 each because a dog fight interrupted proceedings.
 Instruction in field and garden work is to be given ;n the rural schools of Russia.
 The great-grandson of the author of Robinson Crusoe'' is in indigent cir cumstances, and penny subscription is to be started for his relief.
 Louisiana negro field hands insist up- on being paid in silver coin, and bright coint at that. They positively refuse to receive paper money.
 Once upon time Ava was naughty, and mamma had to frown at her. 70 mamma, mamma" Ava cried; "don't shut your forehead that way, cause then know you're going to scoldr'
 When the ten children from Sitting Bulls tribe arrive at Carlisle there will be 360 pupils at the Indian school at that place. representing twenty-nine different tribes.
 '.Geographer::'' New York, as you suspect, is city in one corner of State by the same name. The princi- pal occupation of one-half its popula- tion is selling beer to the other half.
 A woman of Tuscumbia, Ala, was struck by lightning and found upon re- covery that her hair, once beautiful brown, had been instantaneously turned to snow white color.
 Club snobs will next be caricatured in comic opera. W. S. Gilbert has been black-balled in a London club. The Of l,,++ Lo,. had been informed that Gilbert had worked for living, and is therefore not respectable.
 An English girl who saw the Prince of Wales at theatre writes: sHe, as usual, enjoyed the play as much as schoolboy. It is delightful to hear him laugh--a rich flo! hor that rolls right across the theatre. He is so nice!''
 MT. Boucicault says: Egypt was fatal to Assyria; to the Hebrews; to St George, who was hanged for footing, and to Napoleon. It is the graveyard of the world, and England has gone there to steal lot for quiet family vault"
 A Baltimore physician is quoted as saying that if he could maintain through out the year an average practice of twenty patients he Cor any other physi- cian) would consider that he was doing we'll and his practice would amount to several thousand dollars per annum.
 Near Fort Valley, Ga., lives man who has named his children after ani- mals, having belief that they will, in consequence, live to an old age There are four children, and they are named respectively Rabbit. Coon, Fox, and 'PosSum.
 The work of removing the guano from the famous bat cave in Uvalde county is progressing. A tramway has been constructed for some distance in the cave, over which the deposits are brought out by means of steam instead of the slow process of horsepower. : An English lady who sued for dam ages because of fall when boarding a Steamboat, has just lost her case The jury decided that her high-heeled boots had wantonly and wilfully contributed to cause the injury of which she con- plained.
 A fruit-raiser at Quitman, Ga, has peach trees whose leaves are perfectly black. The fruit, also, is black at first, but turns white when ripening. The trees were carried from North Carolina many years ago, and are a distinct species of which the fruitmen seem to know nothing.
 A gentleman who recently visited the Skagit country, in Washington territory, states that the mouth of Deep slough, of tree forty feet in circumference. which at some time has been uprooted and washed there, where it will probably re- main. For at least sixty feet the tree is the same size, and is described as equal to the famous big trees of California.
 4 report is current that 300 of Gari- baldi's old comrades have banded them selves together with the determination of taking his body from it's present rest ing place. and of causing it to be ere mated according to the desire expressed in his will Whether the report, which is believed in Italy, be true or not is not yet known; but it has been thought ad- visable that guard should be placed near his grave.
 In Williamsburg, L. l., the other day, young German woman was sued for rent. She swore she had paid in full '.Did you take receipt when you paid?" asked the court. Il did" "Well. let's see it.'' Il drank it up, your honor." '.Drank it up?" queried the magistrate, in amazement. What do you mean?' ''When I paid my rent the landlord gave me pint of beer as receipt. That's what he does with all his tenants.' Other witnesses swore to this fact, and to seeing the defendant drink a pint of beer furnished by the landlord. The court decided in favor of the defendant.
 The Bank of France is having printed 60,000.0 900 of 100-franc bank notes at the printing office attached to the bank building. The new note has been drawn by the painter Baudry and engraved by Robert, and will, it is reported, be a marvel of beauty and elegance of it's kind. The original drawing was three meters long by one and half deep, and when completed was photographed on reduced scale to the size of 8 bank note Robert was engaged on the work of en graving it for several weeks in the strict est seclusion, in an inner chamber in the bank.
 Guaymas. at the mouth of the Gulf of California, is place of which even well-informed people have rarely heard; but it is point from which. for two years past, railroad has been slowly creeping north, and it is announced that this road will connect with the South western system in October. The road was started by Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe capital; but that line is not yet far enOuoh south to make a function