The Arizona champion., 1885-11-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

Is life worth living !? ask thela Barefpotel, homslesS, Stlrvcd. ilIclad.
 And hear ;he answer you wligat,
 "My dors an me have fun--you bet.n
 Is life worth living? ask the tramp Whose hone lhe gutter, cold ana damp, Anl he1r him tell you with i.rk
 u is ol'l plrl, for l dpnt work"
 Is lie worth living asS the great, .a.. . The million ures, the Ring, Tn state, And note thcir loo'tS ot tsr woe
 As m de>paIr they sy No! no."
 W'ih a population of 300, ,ooo, ,ooo the Chinese have no insane as, lum. But ,hat doesn't prove that there are m lunaucs among the Chinese.
 "Break, break, break" may be the song of the surf on the sea shore, but Broke, broke, broke," is orten the sad echo of the mining speculltor.
 The postmistresS al Fee,wook, p. z, has Ueen sent to prison for opening and reading letters She meant no harm, bu; her woman's curiosity got the best of her discretion,
 A large number of preachers now think there iS neither fire nor brim. stone in sheol. The punishment is probably young woman banging on the piano and the crowd can't get away.
 A diseased, filthy, non-producing, beast of prey in human form, is the reality of the ideal noble red man" of the New England sentlmentaIists. If you don't believe it come out to Arizona and gaze upon them.
 A recent report states that SrIo,- ooo, ,ooo have already been spent on ;he Panama canal and only about one tenth of tie required work is done. DtLes,ep's chance of seeing his pet ,Chsme completed Is very small,
 For unquthG.d, brazen cheek, Pastor Downs, Of Boston, takes the cake. Although convicted by a de- Ci,lon in the dlstric, court If breaking the seventh COmmlnd nent, he refuS:S to q1t hl' pulpit. A little old fash toned Purltln rule would soon settle Pastor D ,wns' clse.
 The R4cric Veteran, a newspaper devoted to the interests ot the GrIud Army of the R4pnblic, has made is appe trance in San Franc:s:p. It is ad mlra0iy gotten up and worthy of sup port from all who are interested in matters connected wlth t'iS great or ganiz G,ion of citizen soldiers.
 Hugh NJ. Brooks, better known as Maxwell, the murderer Of PreIl"r, at the Sou hern hotel, WIS arrJigned in the criminal court al S.. Louis, when his counsel made a motion 10 qul,h the indictment, on the ground that he had been illegally brought from Au>traIil. Alter long wrangle be. tween the lawyers the case WIS laid over unlli the first Mondly in March next.
 Reliable adviccs from the City of Mexico state that everything is m a terrible condition there; business l. S,agnlnt; the government lS at itS wits end for money, amI the opposition, strong and active, IS only restrained by severe and rtpre5;ivc measures. Intelligent NJ 'xic4l politicians say thai the present condition of affairs can not last very long. and the re>uIi wi'l be q very dis SrrrrJu, revolution. Already st~ong pr .e, In the Stlt's befDre rcpresSed are preparing for re. a'stancc a' 10 the manalAtes, of Di4z in local aGirs.
 The last new inslrlnce dodge i, called Birth Insurance. " Tni; IS a WISnOmer, for the modu' operindr by which the produatiDa of blby cLn be assured has not vet been discovered even in this lightning age. The com. plny merely agrees that on the pay nent of a given premium annually certain sum will be paid over to any woman when she accomplI,hes the iaGdLbIe feat of becoming mother. The incentives to increl,e the popu lation seem to be strong enough al ready without aiy new tangled Van kee scheme like this to help it along.