Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-04-19
SMALL TALK.

The French Government has presented the Queen of Tahiti with a gold medal, in memory of her visit to Paris.
 A dude injured himself seriously last week by trying to read without having first taken of his eyeglasses.
 Just before a census is taken in St. Louis the people send to Chicago for cucumbers. They want to double up the population.
 With the price of coffee going up ten or fifteen cents a day, the S4-a-week clerk who goes out between acts must fall back on cloves.
 The orgau-grinder who is foolhardy enough to grind out "Geutle Spring. before the trees begin to bud deserves the fate which shall surely overiake him.
 A large immigration of Swedes has set in to this country.
 4 man at Pittsburgh, Texas, is m jail for cursing his wife.
 Fifty-three Philadelphia lawyers are after vacant iudgeship.
 The New York Legislature has rejected the cable railway bills.
 George M Rupert. the treasurer Of West Chester. Penn., has been dis covered to be S15,0O0 short in his ac- counts
 Bullets now have covers of plain sateen embroidered in crewel.
 Painted and stained floors grow more popular each day.
 Harlequin stockings have one-half the leg and foot in ore bright or dark color, the other half in paler shade of the same or a contrasting tint.
 One of the richests stuffs for wraps and parts of costumes Is silk grenadine brocaded with frise (uncuDvelvet figures and flowers.
 Napkin rings of Bohemian glass are the latest.
 Old-fashioned rag-carpet is to be seen on the floors of some of the kitchens in some of our fashionable houses.
 The mushroom, top and stem, seems to have afforded some of the art ideas of the inventors of new figures brocaded in velvet on taiieta glace silk.
 Oh. Spring. beautiful Spring,
 When woods awake to song of bird.
 and festive bullfrogs notes are heard,
 When winds bring odors from afar,
 And soft we play the hght catar1h.
 Hail, beautiful Spring!
 Gray and brown are the coming col oTs
 The new bonnet frames are mostly small.
 Ottoman silks will be much worn this spring.
 Waistcoats are all the rage for ladies' dTesses.
 Floral designs prsdominate in the new percales and sateens.
 Chenille trims many Of the new wraps imported for spring.
 Jet figured are prominently among the new trimmings for spring.
 Faile cloths, like a cotton crosgrain. with satin finish, are new this season and very pretty.
 Morning dresses of pale pink or blue cashmere, embroidered with rosebuds. form part of brides outfits.
 Rev Thomas R. Bacon's parishioners asked him tO resign. This will tickle Bismarck.
 If Joseph Cook were a trifie more religious he would make very good paragraphist.
 "A house divided against itself, etc" reminds us of the democracy's split on the tariff question.
 The buekwheat cake and sausage gravy must go.
 You can now go to Mexico for fifty dollars, but you will find it a good deal cheaper to stay at home.
 A barber about to be hanged said 'Necksw and then the trap door fell Those present considered it a good choke.
 The man who began keeping a diary at the first of the year Is still keeping it. but he now uses the pages as cigarette paper.
 When the wind blows great guns 1t plays havoc with ladies bangs.