Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
Items of Interest.

Staid New Hampshire records one di- vorce for every ten marriages. This IS not setting a good example tOyOung and growing states
 There is a new French gun g feet 6
 inches long, weighing 50 tons, costing e25.0OO. It is wire-bound, and Is ex- pected to put ball through 15 inches of
 armor at distance of seven and half miles.
 The war department recently adyer- used for proposals to furnish the army
 with 5000 scrubbing brushes. An army armed with scrubbing brushes would certainly send thrill of terror through the enemy.
 Mexico is full of snakes, though an englneer of long experience says that ln the habitable uplands there are fewer dangerous serpeuts than in central New York. Some of these snakes are veri- table freaks of nature, such, for instance, as the famous centoatl, the phOsphoros- cent snake of lower Mexico.
 Hon. J. Speed Smith, of Richmond, Ky. has dog of the rat-terrier breed. As an experiment, large piece of paper was fixed to one of MT. Smiths children and set afire. The dogs attention was called to it. He immediately attacked it, without regard to burns Of himself, and tore 1t from the child.
 Along the line of the Philadelphia aud Reading railroad thirty-fve blast fur naces have been blown out during the past two weeks. On the Lehigh Valley railroad eight furnaces were recently blown out. Seven other furnaces in the same neighborhood will be blown out this week. It is estimated that one third of the furnaces in east Pennsyl- vania are now out of blast.
 4 Syracuse, N. Y, paper remarks that according to observation in that city, 1 where a pension agency IS located, a large share of the money pad to male 1 pensioners goes for drink. One old sol ! dier who drew sl.240.20 as back pension | May 24 did not rest contented until he l had spent the last nickel in grand l spree. He is now sober enough to join | m the demand for another equalization i and increase of pensions.
 4 meat market at Marlborough, | Mass, was infested by rats of prodigious size, and one morning, when the proprle- 1 tor had caught boss rat, he pulled iis | teeth with pincers and let the toOthless | rodent go. The result IS that, although | the number of rats formerly about the | premises was very large, since the den | tai operation not a rat has been seen or | heard about the market pr in the ad- | joining store.
 Bromide of ethyl IS the new substitute | for chlorOfOrm. It IS a powerful agent, | and teaspoontul, when inhaled, will | Nm al. rsr la and keep him utterly obvious of what Is l being done. The unconsclOusness lasts | only from three to four minutes, when | the patient awskes as from a natural | sleep without headache or other dis | turbances of any kind.
 The negroes in northern Alabama are | very much excited about reports to the | effect that students in the northern med l ical colleges are now securing the place | for the purpose of nesmeriZing or trick | ing 'em, as they say, Tn order that they l may take them up north and skin them l and tan their hides. Some of them even | go so far us to relate theIr experience of | encounters with the "trlckers' which of | course Is all myth.
 c. w. Couldock, the veteran actor of New York, has gone with Joe Jefferson to New Brunswick, there 10 camp out on an island in lake. The two actors will spend the month fishing for salmon. Mr. COuldock says that he intends to play in "Hazel Kirke" mp to the end of this century. He is now nearly seventy years old.
 4 Watertown, \. r.. man, who has kept an account of the weather, claims that 1t invariably repeats itself, and gives the following as the result of his VIZ: All years ending Tn 9. 0 or l are extremely dry; those end jug iu ,, 8, 1, , or 6 are extremely wet; those ending in or $ are ordinarily well those ending in 6 have ex- tremely cold winters; those ending in have an early spring; those ending ln l have late spring: those ending in 3 and are subject to great floods.
 4 New Orleans paper tells about a printer who, whenever asked out to drInk beer, laid aside Tn a saving bank the exact amount he would have spent for the drinks. He did this for five years. He then looked st his bank account, and found that he had laid up S52l.s6. In the five years he had not lost a day because of sickness. Three out of five of his fellow workmen had in the mean time become drunkards. The water d-iuker then bought out the printing office and in twenty years from the time he began to put away his money he had laid aside many thousand dollars.