Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-03
Fragments.

Ex-Senator Davis says that his mar
 ried life has been cheerful There IS out
 thing to be sad favor of fat men-the,
 do manage to keep carerful under al
 most any circumstances.
 A New Orleans storekeeper conceived
 and executed the plan of putting up the
 sign: Admission Free" over the door of his store, and his place Las been crowded ever since. The average human being does love a free show.
 The Countess Geannetti. a well known American resident of Rome, was re- celved into the Catholic Church on Tues day.
 On Sunday night the railway bridge between Corrals and Dlnosa, Mexicr, was burned. It IS supposed the work was incendiary.
 The body of an American lady was cremated at Gotha on Sunday. This makes l62 cremated since the crema- tory was established.
 The English government WAS defeated ln the Commons Tuesday in m attempt to pass Dobson's motion to restore the cattle bill.
 \ variation of $20O,O0f IS discovered between the Canadian Pacific books and the customs accounts. The Minister of Customs will investigate the matter.
 The Francaise, a Paris newspaper, says the Emperor of Germany shows contin- ued signs of sOmnOlence and other grave symptoms, which cause serious alarm.
 The natives of China think the acces- sion of Prince Chun forerunner of war. and defensive measures are already be- ing taken along the coast, where much excitement prevails.
 Fortunately no trouble in Cuba can cut off our Havana cigars. The home supply IS equal to the demand
 Blobsom speaks of the butterIne man ufacturers as a great and growing oleo- garchy.
 A butter store in New York exposes a | large sign reading, "We don't sell no oleomargarine." The neighborhood IS divided as to the meaning of the sign.
 When you see the headline. "A Base Deceiver" in the papers you know that | 1t refers to man. If 1t was a woman ] she would be a soprano or contralto de- | ceiver.
 G. X. Sala says that he had a cook | once who, on entering on her duties, was l asked whether she understood the use of | a sslamander. Perfectly we'll" she re- piled; Tt IS to kill rats with"
 A temperature of 155 deg. Fahrenheit | will kill the trichine.
 Foreigners own 20,9l1,OOO acres ot the United States.
 The salary Of the Mayor of Sioux Falls, D. T., is Sl per annum.
 Not one French woman IS to be found among the wIves of Utah.
 Eatonton. Ga., has had the same Post master for forty-nine years.
 Opium smoking is becoming favorite in Cincinnati.
 Singemg, instead of cutting hair. is sad to seal up the ends and prevent graying.
 Chicago has 3,777 saloons. and expects 10 entertain the two Presidential conven- lions royalty.
 It costs s1O0OO0,OOO more to pay the nations drink bill than the national neat and bread bills
 Professor Virchow says that no case ot .richinosis has yet been traced to Amer can pork.
 Within the last fifty years the popula- ion of Brooklyn. \. l., has jumped rom 20,0G0 to 100000.
 The Quebec legislature contains but P English speaking members out of the , who compose 1t.
 The tenement house system of New fork Is the curse of that city. No one ,ut the man of wealth has home.
 Canada has Ons-fourteenth the rail 'oad mileage of the United States, and ealizes upon it ore-fortieth the net arnings. Ii There is a housewife ID Grafton, Me, tho has only just bought a cooking tove. Until now she has used an open l Ire place. More than a million head of cattle in the Territory of Wyoming. nd the general round up" of th!s normous number will begin about the middle of May.
 The Chicago Times says Henry George as "nationalized' from sS,OOO to SlO,0uO f British money.
 Henry Ward Beecher's agent ad- ertises in the Western papers that I is present lecture tour Is his farewell , ne. I Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is losing er love for Paris. She thinks repub- can society does not treat her with . distinction.