Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

The ruling passion strong in death: "John," feebly moaned a society lady, who was about shuffling off this mortal coil; "John, if the newspapers say any thing about my debut into another world, just send me dozen marked copies"
 T met q lovely woman from Rome, Ga, yesterday, and she said: Eve been at summer resorts for month, and all 1 want now is to be in my back . porch Tt home in loose wrapper and my face buried in Georgia water melon.' "-Atianta Constitution.
 Polo is game played by thin-legged young men who smoke cigarettes. They ride sawed-off horses and try to knock a wooden ball across lot. Ben jamin Franklin. George Washington. and several other men whose memories arc held in high esteem never played polo.-De:roit Free Press.
 Arabi Bcy 10 his Adjutant before re- tiring for the night: You have re- ceived the reports from the different commando" Adjutant-"I have" Ar abi-.'Our soldiers are securely tied, hand and foot?' Adjutant-"They t. l then have an army to fight with in the morning."
 Society life in Des Moines, Iowa: "A young couple in the gallery of the opera house last night were so overcome by the beautiful forms on the stage that | they sank into each others arms with kiss and hug. The young man wore | an immense wide-brimmed hat, which the young lady worked vigorously as a fansto keep him cool. A rural rooster who saw the performance yelped with envy"
 ''Pa, what is pessimist, and what is an optimist?' "A pessimist, my son, is one who takes the surplus kittens, just after they are born, and chloroforms i them. The optimist is one who lets the starving life; to be tortured continually by boys and other thoughtless animals, and to be finally killed with brickbats and left to rot on the streets"
 Father, if mother should sit sin a chair and you should want it, you would say, Get up dear wouldn't you ?s' "Yes," said I. But" said the ktf1e four-year-old, If should sit i'd T chair you wanted, you would say. Get down, dear?" ''Well, what is the dif- ference?" said she; and as if perfectly satisfied that she had given utterance to poser, she replaced her thumb in her mouth again. and looked sidewise with rougish smile on her countenance.
 Lately at the Theatre, Royal, Dubbo, Australia, while Mrs South was singing | sNf bearded and top-booted miner entered the auditorium and sought out his rough looking and coarsey- y-attired mate. Well, chum? how is it getting on?'' asked the late conner. Well" replied the other, ''she was a singin' just like old peaches all to herself, until lot oi yellow idiots and women rushed in and drowned her pretty voice by jining theil screeches into a regular gulch squall.'
 Three years ago seaside summer boarder, while straying along the bed o stream that had been left partially bare by excessive drouth, discovered lying upon the sand, conchiferou. bivalvular mollusk-vulgus, clam-tha seemed to be in the last gasp from ex haustion and thirst. Plying the sor, distress of the unhappy bivalve, tht stranger took it up and cast it into th' deep part of the stream, and went ol his way happy in the thought of kind ness done. He speedily forgot the in cident A week ago. however, as h, was enjoying again a summer vacation and sitting near the spot where tn, event of three years before had takel place, he perceived a clam clamborins Iaboriously over the rocks toward him Arrived with much exertion at the fee ! of the amazed obseryerthe clam opened its shell and disclosed pearl as larg
 as a hazel nut. This the gentleman un hesitatingly appropriated, and thereup on the grateful clam, smiling clea around to its back hinge, returned joy fully to the water and disappeared wit gurgle of atisfaction.-FrOna 'Ih
 Summer Boarder and the Clanl."
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