Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-01-01
News and Comment.

l January 9, lSS2, IS the day hXed upon | for the beginning of the trial of the ! Sprague divorce case. Mrs. Sprague De- | titions for divorce
 Senator Edmuuds has introduced a ! bill to defray the extraordinary expenses incurred in consequence of the murder 1 Cf President Garfield, but limiting the ! amount Co SiGlo90.
 The "vcal clip raised oa the Garfield ! farm is to be sold over and over again at ! tho Cleveland Commercial Exchange iu ] the hope of raising money enough for ! the proposed monument.
 The Rochester Express says: "It does not necessarily follow that because ! a man is a half-breel he likes half-anG- | haif" Certainly not \ naif-breed al- ways sticks to Bourbon straiglt-when ! treated.
 The Atchison Champion says that ire quent attempts have hesn made to put pennies in circulation in that and other cities in Kansas, bat they have always resulted in failure. Western people will n6t be "bothered with them
 The Chicago Tribune says that Presi- | dent Arthur intends to notify the coun- | try by his Cabinet appointments that
 'no Garfield men need apply" Perhaps | the frequent iteration of this idea on the part of leading newspapers has enabled ! the President tO happily disappoint the prophets. for thus far, it must be con- ! fceseI, he has not done any oi the bad : taiu-s i1-ctold. His appointments are . an fairly good.
 CT HAVE heard all the great singers of the past thirty years,' remarked a thread ! bare man o5 genius, as he bounced upon the last remaining section of sausage ! that graced the free-lunch counter. | "Hear Jenny Lind?' gueried his friend and co-mate in diversity. Certainly did, I listened to her bird-like notes from l the summit of a lamp-post."
 When Middleton's boy was led out in- to the wood-shed to receive parental discipline for punching the head of a neighbor's son, the old gentleman anlic- ipated the regular proceedings of the meeting by the remark: You've been licked for this sort of thing before and know what to expect" "Yes, whim-
 pered the culprit, q know did wrong, but couldn't help it. I had an inspira- tion." So had his father, and he fulfilled it with trunk-strap.
 Miss Julia and her mamma were on visit to a newspaper office. "WhO," in- quirtd the blushing maiden, "is wonder merry man, whose face IS wreathed in smiles, whose eye is bright, whose laugh IS loud and long?" "That, my dear" re- marked the business manager, "is the obituary editor" And who Is he that | looks so sad and mOurnful, like unto a ! 1i-ahar-pI travelian in the undertakInr ! husinessg' "Ihat, fair maiden, Is our ] professional humorist. He was born | that way
 Germany Is preparing a new pharma- cOpUia, and the doctors in national pride decided To discard the apOtheca- ries Latin and only use German in pre- scriptiOns; but the German government stepped in and forbade the change. l Therein the government was wise. The | Latin names of the druggists and doc ! tors add much to the safety of medicine. 1 The Latin names are used uniformly ! through the civilized world, while the 1 common names vary widely ID the same | country. For instance, what around | Lowell Is called hardhack, often used in | medicine, bears no resemblance to what ! is called hardhack even in western Mass
 achlsetts. Some equally common names are applied to three totally different
 . things in as many sections Of the state. | Of course such names differ as languages
 differ, even when uniform in English.
 But Ladn names O. plants and drugs
 are the same among all civilized people,
 and such names alone are trustworthy
 in any thing SD critical as medicine.