Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
BreTItIeS.

Here IS a remdrkaDie statement IQaQ g by an Oregon exchange: A brakeman ol e the Oregon Short line lell under tn
 cars recently. Upon examination 1t wa sscertained that, notwithstanding fou a wheels of the car had passed over him - no bones were broken. The man IS nov f at Pecatello, doing we'll. 2 A Californian who has returned iron a Walla Walls county, Washington Terri
 tory, says that in five months he had only ten days of sunshine. In the sum l mer the smoke from the unnumbereG i forest fires obscured the sun, and the winter rams, which quenched the flames yelled the sky in clouds. Postal officials say that the foreign mails nowadays are burdened with hun. dreds of thousands of dollars from this country to Europe as Christmas pres ents. It is said that two-thirds of the amount comes from servant-girls, who are proud to remember "the old folks st home"
 The city of Atlanta, Georgia, was first called MRrthasyille, after the daughter of Mir. Lumpkin, who donated five acres of ground at that point, and SO declded the terminus of the Atlantic and Vest ern railroad. The name was afterwards changed by the legislature.
 It IS proposed by the Mexican federal congress to make the new nickel coins legal tender in sums up to S1. Mer- l chants will be protected from an undue influx of the coins by being permitted to pay 10 per cent. of duties and taxes in that kind of money.
 The ladies of Olympia, Wyoming, held public meeting when the woman suffrage act was passed, and afterwsrd Indulged in a secret parade. A great many ladies marched in the ranks bearing transpareDcles and different notices.
 The New Workers, who are now in Jacksonville, Fla, claim to have dis covered chemical process by which oranges and other fruits may be pre- served for twelve months without im- pairing the flavor. The merchants of CuernAvaca, Mexico, have notified their customers that they will receive the nickel money in sums not less than Sl, and that after Jan. l, 1884, they will not receive 1t at all A belt just made in Lowell, Mass. ,and sent to a western mill is l60 feet long, and 55 inches thick. It contains 200 hides, weighs l ton and is valued at S2,0O0.
 A pauper in Florida, who has been suffering from an ulcerated foot, had his leg cut of with an old Spanish dag ger and dull saw.
 IL IS reported that there is in Schen- ectady woman who takes 20 grains of opium daily, and that there are about l5O others m that city who are also ad- dicted to the opium habit.
 There IS "A Chinaman working on the Carson and Colorado railroad who has a perfectly developed hand and wrist growing from his spine. a few inches above the waist.
 Scientists say that the reason kissing is so pleasant is because the teeth, jaw bones and lips are full of nerves, and when the lips meet, an electric current is generated.
 The average age of the people at a table where thirteen are seated should be 72, in order to give ground to the su- perstition that one will die before the year is out.
 Dan Johnson (colorei), of Sherman, Texas, has recovered S6S0 damages from the TeIss and Pacific railroad for refus- ing his wife admission to the ladies' car.
 General Neal Dow, of Maine, has just received from an ex-confederste soldier n fsSt"a -i.sOi- woo .-l-~-s eTUm nm when he was capturing the rebellion.
 The governor of Aguascsllentes, Mex, proposes 10 establish a night-school in connection with the city prison, and im- prove the morals of the prisoners.
 The ground is already frozen in the streets of Burlington, Vt, to the depth Of eighteen inches.
 Dembert, a baker in Gainesville, Fla, has just fallen heir to Sl l,OOO,OOO.
 A Georgia negro has just paid doc tors bill of twenty years standing.
 A young man ID Oglethorpe, Georgia, stole his wife's bed and eloped with his sister-in-lsw.
 A negro woman went crazy in Chatta- noOgs, Tennessee, the other day, because she lost pair of bracelets which were given her by her dead sister.
 A late emigrant from Georgia Eto Texas has returned home because he was tired of travelling four or five miles whenever be wanted drink.
 The mail from San Francisco for Aus tralia last week filled about 900 sacks. The most Of it was from Europe.
 The Puget sound presbytery have de- cided to build church for Indians at Mud bay, near Olympia, Washington Territory.
 Vera Cruz is said to be almost free from yellow fever. There is no danger for foreigners in passing through the city.
 4 crazy man on the roof of the France house at Eureka. Nevada, recently, had to be lassoed before he could be got down.
 Chihuahua people are asking that S200,0O0 more in nickel be distributed throughout the state.
 A plot of ground in Harlem, New York, 10 inches wide by 100 feet deep was recently sold for S6OO.
 There are fifty-three associations of the Young Mems Christian Association in Tennessee.
 A mountain near Lakeport, Flake county, California, is on fire, similar 10 a volcano.
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