The Arizona champion., 1883-11-24
PERSONS AND THINGS.

pehoia ciierIiian s IDS are Tn a con tinual state of puckering. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes can write poetry with his left hand. Quareling avails nothing. The 40 thieves came to grief by jars. The Duke of Argyll takes great inter- est in the acclimatization of Canadian animals in Scotland.
 M. Jules Verne is 50 years old. His hair and beard are turning white, and he is growing fat
 Congressman Andrew G.. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is erect as an arrow and his hair as white as snow.
 Twenty-Five hundred negroes have left South Carolina during the past four weeks for Arkansas and Texas. The powerful electric light at the Calumet and Hecla mines can be seen 42 miles away by vessels on Lake Su- perior.
 Be careful how you handle matches. When you strike them they always flare up. Fuse see this. Keep it dark. A Michigan man who lost both legs in a saw-mill now sits around and tells about the terrible battles of the late war. That's the sawed-of man he is. The number of pupils who are now studying German in the public schools of St. Louis is over 0,000, or more than half of the whole number of pupils.
 A Vermont editor, in publishing one of Byron's poems, changed the words ooh Gods! to "Oh gosh! because the | former was too profane for his readers Japan is unnecessarily cruel to her police. A late press regulation compels editors to hold original manuscripts three weeks to permit their perusal by the police.
 "Isn't it singular" said visitor gazing at the Niagara Falls, "that the little moisture that arises from that vast cataract should be mist ?"
 It is believed that dude could gather cocoanuts without danger of bodily harm. It would be mean monkey that would fire cocoanut at dude.
 A Toledo man knows how to play on two comets at once, The neighbors say they don't object to his knowing how, but he had better not try to do it.
 MT. John c. Jennings, Mayor of Salt Lake City, appears and acts like an Englishman. He is a large stockholder in the Cooperative Store, which has a business of 5000, ,000 a year.
 One of the mos interesting historical curiosities at the fair recently held in Canton, Ct., was vest made in l776 from blue striped bedticking spun and woven by Miss Rosannah Ferry, ol Simsbury,
 A scientist says that in the moon a hickory nut falling from bough would crash through man like a mimic ball. That settles it. We shall never go to the moon to gather hickory nuts.
 Professor Paul Passy, of Paris, thinks that America is the dustest country he ever visited. He thinks that our high schools are not practical. "Too much Latin" he says, "is the bane of modern educational institutions"
 "This is the time of year." says a New York paper, "when the baby should have ride every morning. 1" "Yes," murmurs the bachelor who lives next door to cross youngster, "yes, put it in the dog-catcher's wagon"
 The Rev. Phillips Brooks increased his great size while on his journey round the world. He is modest and courteous, and is liked by reporters. He refuses to give away his portrait, and destroyed the only negative ever taken.
 It is stated that hen set for three days on a nest full of hailstones before she discovered they were not eggs. The funniest part of the story is that she didn't hatch out an ice-house or two. But perhaps the Texas liar was not en- toying good Eealth.
 "Behold my whacks nosen ex- claimed knock-kneed bar-room bum- mer, as he emerged from free fight. "Hear my glass sigh!" ejaculatad a cork-legged comrade, as he put down an empty one and moaned. "If you have no tin near," said the bartender, "then you can peg out"
 The other day farmer living north of Streator, Ill.,, sold a quantity of rags to dealer. A few days afterward he was in town, and, after searching for some time, found in his discarded gar ments $400, number of notes, and some deeds, which had been put in the rag bag for safe keeping.
 The police of Cambridge, Mass, were called to save man from being mur- dered by his wife, and on repairing to the place of the butchering found a newly married couple, where the young wife was spanking her husband with various kitchen utensils, including the pancake turner, for coming home drunk.
 Prof. Bergstrand, of the Royal Agri- cultural Academy of Sweden, has been experimenting with sunhower-se cake as food for milch COWS, and has dis