Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-05
PITR AND POINT.

A ABoARDlNa-HoUsE keepers tree-'ashj
 BARRELS were first made in the cooper age.
 A ROD and lyin' catches the biggest fish of the season.
 "DARLING, this potato is only half done. {" Then eat the other half, love"
 PEOPLE talk of visit to the salt sea for the purpose of getting little fresh air.
 WHEN the river rises one foot what becomes of the other? It remains tide, of course.
 WHEN the Arab has stolen everything else in sight he quietly folds his tent and steals away.
 WHEN man threatens to give you , piece of bis mind he wishes to destroy the peace of yours.
 WHEN young man i' alone with his best girl he is generally supposed to be "hol,ling his own."
 BYSa m9ler in law" You can de- ceive yGsAe aileless little wife, young man, but'her fathers wife-never."
 THE author of the "Little Browu Jug" was probably in q iugular vein, when he wrote that sometime popular ditty.
 A BRIDGE over stream in Missouri bears this legend "Drive over as fast as you want to, and be durned /" Every body, therefore, drives at walk.
 A TEXAS young man shot himself be- cause a young lacy refused to dance with him. In his blind rago he probably mistook himself for a rival.
 TIE "utterly utter" kind of talk has infected the street gamins, one of whom, after picking up more that usually fragrant cigsr-stump, exclaimed to his friend "Jack, this is quite too posi- lively bully"
 "TosAIY, said mother to her 7-year- old boy, "you must not interrupt me must wait until we stop, and then you can talk" "But you never step" reg torted the boy. .
 PR1DE's fall: ."Yes," saidtlara, "your Maltese cat is pretty enough, but he can never come up to my bird. That WAS all she knew about 1t. That kitty did come up ta her bird that very day, and it was ,ali day with the bird.
 "FArHE K, did you ever have another wife beside mother }" "No, my boy :; what possessed you to ask such ques- ton ?" Because I saw ill the old fam. fly Bible where you married Anno Domini ill 1885, and that isn't mother, for her name was Sally Smith"
 A CAMBRIDGE youth wrote the follow ing in young lady's autograph album "In the chain of friendship regard me as missing link ;" and after signing his name he addei underneath by way of postscript: But do not mistake me for Darwin's missing one "
 CLAY of your overcoat or you won t feel 1t when you go out, said the land | lord of a Western inn to guest who was sitting by the fire. That's what I'm afraid of, returned the man. The last time was here laid of my overcoat. l didn't feel it when I went out, and 1 haven't felt it since.
 "CHARIIE, have you got hooked nose?" Yes, dariing," answered Charlie, smiling, I'm afraid it IS lit tie liable to that criticism" "Well, l never should have noticed it, :" she added. indignantly, "lf thas horril Spriegs girl across the way hadn't told me to ask you If you wouldn't Ike to sell it for s sy- phOn.
 WHEN little Minnie was 2 years old she asked for some water one night. When it vas brought she said "Pnpa, can't you get me some Ifesh water !: This tastes little withered." Her little sister Belle had been accustomed to a | lf1,l,& i,, tb., E~l distress, crying, " Me can't see, Aunt Bessie; my eyes are all blowed out. D
 Ar juvenile party young gentle. man about years old kept himself from the rest of the company. The lacy oi the house called to him: "Come and play and dance, my dear. Choose one of those pretty girls for your wis-. "Not much 7! cried the young ernie "No wife for me Do yod think l want to be worried out of my i.te, like papa 7
 HE read in newspaper paragraph the statement that "The child is father to tue man, and straigh.way went anc asked his mother if tia, was true? '.Yes my sen, she answered. it may seem 2 little strange to you, bG5 it's true Il "Well, mamma, responded the inquis luve youth, why IS It Ii l m papa father thst he always lc's me and . never lick him?"
 THE minister's man of a certail preacher followed him up one day tt close tie pulpit d,or ss usual. Ther, was something rcag wi5h the lock, ant l the door would rot "sneck." John losing his patience, said, "I think tn devils in the pul7it' Just ct this mo ment the minister fled his bowed head and, turning seriously oil him, sid "Sureiy, ye dinna mean me, John?"