Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-12-26
THE CRAB BAG
Full Of Interesting News and Alleged
 WitticlSms
With Occasional Nuggets or value tO tho Economical House wife and Prudent
 Purchaser.

France elects president on the 2S. Valparaiso, ChiE, has a population ct 12l,OOO.
 Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, k seriously II.
 The striking Pennsylvania coal min CTS are still out. Franz Siegol has been made pension agent of New York.
 Joseph Jefferson i, to retire from the stage after this season.
 Gov. Hill will preside at Paruell's re- ceptiOn m New York city. \ force of PInkerton's detectives are watching Narderbilt's tomb. k. NJ. Hersfeid, jewler, Kansas City Las assigned. No statement.
 A monument 0 Sehor Arturo Pratt is to be erected at Valparaiso. CMl.
 Two bills have been introduced m Con rrass f1- ths adn4l-zi1n of Washington territory. The Washington monument committas wants Sl1I0lJ to improye the monu- n.ent grOUEd-.
 "1tyou have steers to shed, prepare {, l ---- --'N-.- -N"s N@l tAS -'dtibuhl S,o-kMau.
 Late advicss from kansGs City state that Che bee, market is firm and pros Tects good. S.!s the Texas Live Stock JOurua : icAas had little OT nothing Co ask Cf the ot. L.uIs Convention, and she ro- lt.
 Can monkey wrench nuts of an GxitA,ree!
 ! iaithul watchdog IS a terrier t evil jocrs.
 When coloTei barbe-s quarrel they are liable Go razor row.
 The guileiess blnaua-pecj can down anything but the thermometer.
 A rose IS sweet, but a babe in the house is the hesveetes. screecher yet.
 A rose bush is thought to be exceed !Dgly modest, but yetIt wants the earth
 The silver miner who strikes 1t rich is never satis fiel; he is always looking for some ore.
 Cross-ties are estimated to cost the railroads of this country S6,0OOOOO a year.
 Say what yOu please sbout a cur. he is usually n courageous animal, or else Ee IS giving themastif?
 \ cloth company in Graniteville, s. C., IS working on orders from China.
 "I think 1 was born with a headache.- said the poet Whittier to visitor few days ago.
 Powell, the English pedestrian. is coming to this country again this winter to engage In a walking match.
 Mme Pauline Lucca. who has been making a concert tour in Russia, IS re- ported seriously Ill at Charkoff.
 A couple, each over 70 years old, who separated about two years ago, were re- married last week m Rutland, Vt.
 John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker 1 poet, celebrated his 18th birthday in bis Amesbury (Mass) home yesterday.
 John Kelley IS gradually recovering lls old-time streng b, and will start | south m a few weeks tO remain a month | jr more.
 A Boston schoolma'Gm pasted paper lver the mouth Oj little girl who SO | lar forgot the rules as to sing during chOOl hours.
 NJ. Pssieur Is the self-m made son of a | amer.
 Mir. Gladstone's voice has quite recov. red its old volume.
 King KalakGua of the Sandwich Is snds is a terrible sueezer.
 In Pars, last year, there were SO,27O ,irths and 72,13j deaths.
 N.E E-T Reeds S25O,OO0,OOO annually.
 There are 15OOOO tons of coal waste 'Iled up m the anthracite regions.
 Logan Carlisle. a son of the Speaker, las gone tO Wichita, Kansas, to practice aw.
 4 human life is lost for every 5O,OO0 ous of coal mined in the anthracite re gOns.
 Editor Mcclure of the Philadelphia lines thinks Of running for the Mayor lty of that city.
 4 Virginia girl who advertised in a )akota paper for husband has re- eived ll9 letters in reply.
 James Gordon Bennett has picked out 'au as the place at which he spends his ,oney this winter.
 It IS said to be almost impossible for .urOpeans to learn the language of the stives of COngoland.
 There are 3,100 saloons in San Fran iscO. which yield ayearly revenue in be city of s20S, ,5lO.
 The Comtesse de Paris was nearly filed recently by the sudden assault of wild boar which she was hunting. Prince Bismarck admits that he ught not to read the French society apers, but he does read them with reg lsritY.