The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-02-20
SUNDRY ITEMS.

We are gratified to observe that Mir. M. H. Kimball, of the Kimball mansion, who has been severely ill IS now going about town with some. thing of his old time vigor. He has submitted to difficult operation by Dr. Fellows, which was highly sue. cessful, and feels almost as good as new. he next we expect to hear of him is, that he is out in Arizona again looking after his rich mines in Cochise county.--Los Angeles Con- mercial.
 Judge Tweed left us to-day to be in attendance upon the sitting of the Supreme court at Tucson next week, and for the further purpose of meet ing his son and several of his grand children. On this trip to Tucson he will see seven of his seventeen grand children.-Phenix Herald.
 Spring is coming. he cotton wood trees are in full bud and will soon be donning their beautiful robes of green.--Original. We tiust that no one will mistake this item as an invitation for contribution of spring poetry.-Phenix Gazette.
 "We enter upon the functions of journalism with an imperious con. sciousness of personal committal to the high moral responsibilities incl dent to position recognized by in- telligence and morality as & repre-. sentative and formative entity, mould ing and vitalizing the intelligent con- stituency who perpetuates by pre-. rogative its existence. Carson In. dex.
 In Kern county the officials have so little to occupy their time usefully, and so strong desire to set good example to the rising generation, that they are playing billiard matches and running foot races for coin. Some of the heetest runners now may not be able to run at all when election time comes around.-San Francisco Examiner.
 The entire coal product of this country last year was 71,067,576 tons, of which 42.420,5S6 tons were "soft coal" and 2S,846,996 hard coal, near ly all of the latter being mined in Pennsylvania.
 "All the dark horses should be provided with goggles. They will need them after travelling in my dust awhile. ."-S. J. Tllden.
 The New York Tribune says that Pattl's baggage consists of twenty three trunks. The Tribune doesn't seem inclined to recognize Nicolini.
 The cable dispatches state that in the Portuguese bull fights no bulls are killed. The Portuguese evidently fight bulls on the star route prose- cution plan.
 Road commissioner Hayes, 1t is said, has several scrap books filled with newspaper gossip concerning himself and family. All the news paper items about himself which Mir. Hayes didn't cut out would make a large volume.
 A Berlin newspaper has been sup pressed because it called the Empe- TOT Williams recent manifesto coup d'etat. If this editor had adopted the American plan of ex- pressing the same idea, and said that the old man. had evidently cold decked the boys, there would have been no trouble. There is nothing like using diplomatic language.
 "How long would it take to go to tLe moon?" asks an occasional reader. It much depends upon the route you take. If you go by the way of a rock blast, or a dynamite upheaval, you would probably arrive in about fifteen minutes, but if you went by the Guiteau trial express, you'd strike it about when the twilight was settling down upon eternity.-Rome Sentinel.
 "America," says an Englishman, lis country where mans state nent is not worth two cents unless backed up with an offer to bet you s10."
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