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The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12

package down with Weigh that please. When I say what are the contents?' she says pleasantly, o! nothing much; only little wedding cake But her counte- nance soon falls when I say: Sorry, madam; but it can't go unless you put it in tin or wooden box. Then comes a shower of assurances that it is well wrapped, and in good pasteboard box. Butall is unavailing, and away she goes bitterly disappointed" :"
 ''HOw many pieces of destructive un- mailable are detected?"
 ''For the five quarters ending Septem- Der 30, there were detected 42, 30, 73, 61 and 167 respectively. Of course a much larger number of other kinds of unmail- able was detected in the same time"
 ''Is there no punishmentfor the wilful mailing of destructive unmailable?"
 ''There is not. The Government is quite paternal about it, and contents it. self with detaining the matter, and where it is practicable, admonishing the offender. ''-ChtcGgo Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF IT.

of she loved you?' Of course you should
 know itl
 I think that you men must be bIindl If were man should show it,
 When once was sure of my mind; But no! You must wait till you're certain; Ton men are so 3wlully proud, With your lips closed by fear like curtain, When you ought to be speaking aloud Don't you think it is dreadfullyIsilIy That we girls can't show what we feel? I'm sure that it couldn't work lily, And 'twould simplify thin2s good deal; Lots more of the girls would be married Could they ask 10 be somebo ly's wife, And one wouldn't then always be harried For fear she was single for life. own I know little of "duty"
 Of ''fitness,'' and "'fears,'' and all that; But see the full poetic beauty,
 And that is enough to look at No doubt you're convinced you know better, With thas very superior air; But it don't change my dctum one letter Because you condemn it-so there What sort of a man would fancy? We'll one who has spirit aud dash, Tall. hands Dme-that much l can say And-oh, yes-he must have a mustache. Rich or poor? Either ways not alarming; or course, one needs dresses or gloves; But it's very romantic and charming To be poor with the man that one loves! But if real lover came to me
 He wouldn't walt all of his life, Not daring to openly woo me, No, he'd ask me if I'd be his wife, And I'd know that his bias was t'ward me What must know? Three years you've
 adored mel
 Good graciousl Inever supposed.
 -CiRciRnati Graphic.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
A ROYAL GEM.
The Gift. of Emperor Francis Joseph to a
 Little Maid Who Lives in Alabama.

The Gift. of Emperor Francis Joseph to a
 Little Maid Who Lives in Alabama.
 An Advertiser reporter yesterday saw a beautiful piece of jewelry, which has a very interesting history. It is not like ly that there is another such in Ameri- ca. It is present from the Emperor of Austria to little child here in the city. In design it is four-leaf clover in gold, with lovely diamond dewdrop in its center. Upon its back is this inscrip- ton, engraved in the most tasty man. ner: "From His Imperial Majesty, En- peror Francis Joseph l., to Charlotte Pollak, Ischl, 18th August, 1885,"
 From Ignatius PolIak, the little girls father, the following account of the Im- perial gift is obtained: Mrs. Pollak spent last summer at the famous Alpine resort, Ischl. The Austrian Emperor was there at the same time. The 18th of August was little Charlotte s sixth birthday. Her aunt, without Mrs. Pollak's knowing it, remembering that the 18th was also the Emperor's birthday, wrote note of congratulation from the child as little American girl on her sixth birthday to the Emperor on his fifty-fourth, and signed it simply Charlotte. The note was accompanied by small bunch of flowers.
 Nothing was heard of the modest tribute of regard until eight days after ward, when the Emperor's master of ceremonies called upon MT. Pollak, and in the name of his sovereign presented the beautiful token already described He told the lady that when the Emperor came across the simple note and bunch of flowers from an American child in the files of presents, he was so struck with its sincerity and disinterestedness that he shed tears, and directed that the child's full name be obtained and herself sought out in or der that his thanks be returned along with memento of his esteem. goD1ery (ALG.) Advertiser.
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ONE AMONG THOUSANDS.
A Dry Goods Clerk Who Achieved Success
 in Wall Street.

A Dry Goods Clerk Who Achieved Success
 in Wall Street.
 So many stories are told about the rise of men in Wall street that they sell dom attract as much attention now as they did years ago, when speculation was carried on with caution. One of the most amusing specimens of Wall street men is to be seen every day on his way to the ''street'' in brougham of his own, with a magnificent team of bays and an English coachman on the box. Within the brougham sits the speculator, leaning forward on his cane looking thoughtfully at his we'll -gloved hands. He has pale and almost effem- mate face, and his manner is reserved and austere. He is very exclusive and elegant in the manner of personal en- joyment, twenty-four years old, and in department more dignifed than Mr. Gould, MT. Connor or Henry Clews- most of whom go up and down in the elevated, or in yellow cabs This young man had charge of a certain department of velvets in firm on Worth street, and made all the way from S15 to $25 a week. He lived in boarding-house on Twenty-second street, on terms of spe- cial friendship with the landlady. His father had performed the marriage cere- mony for the landlady in earlier years, and she kept her eye on the clergyman s son, and fed him dutifully for $8 week. He had always ''played'' the bucket shops, and often made very tidy little winnings. The landlady had raised S4,000 duIing her many years of keep ing boarders, and was about to devote it to paying off mortgage on her house, when the solemn little clergyman's son succeeded in persuading her to invest some of it in Wall street. She was cautious woman, and agreed to let him have S200 every Monday morning for five successive weeks This is not great amount of money, but he hap pened to catch the market as it rose, and he is with it yet. His profits the first two weeks were enormous, and the land lady threw all of her money into the pool. Now he is living in bachelors chambers in the Cumberland, dimes reg ularly at Delmonico's and lives in state suitable to a millionaire The older Wall street men are immensely amused at the spectacle, for they say that single slump of the market will wipe him out of existence as completely as though he had never lived. Br00klyn EGqle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
PIUTE ASTRONOMY.
The Father and the Mother of the Twink.
 ling Little Stars.

The Father and the Mother of the Twink"
 ling Little Stars.
 Dan de Guile has been interviewing Tooroop Eenah Desert Father) on as- tronomy, with the following results:
 Divested of the ''Desert Fathers pc. culiar pronunciation, it was as follows: ''The sun is the father and ruler of the heavens He is the big chief The moon is his wife, and the stars are their chil- dren. The sun eats his children when ever he can catch them. They flee be- fore him and are all the time afraid when he is passing through the heavens. When he (their father) appears in the morning, you see all the stars, his chil- dren, fly out of sight-go away back into the blue of the above-and they do not wake to be seen again until he, their father, is about going to his bed
 ''Down deep under the ground-deep. deep under all the grounds a great hole. At night when he has passed over the world looked down on everything and finished his work, he, the sun, goes into his hole, and he crawls and creeps along it till he comes to his bed in the middle part of the earth. So then he, the sun, sleeps there in his bed all night.
 ''This hole is so little, and he, the sun, is so big, that he can not turn around iii it, and so he must, when he has had all his sleep, pass on through, and in the morning we see him come out in the I, 4lo hop out, he begins to hunt up through the sky to catch and eat any that he can of the stars, his children; for if he does not so catch and eat he can not live. He, the sun, is not all seen. The shape oi him is like snake or lizard. It is not his head that we can see, but his belly, filled up with the stars that times and times he has swallowed.
 1.-The moon is the mother of the heav. ems and is the wife of the sun. She, the moon, goes into the same hole as her husband to sleep her maps. But always she has the great fear of the sun, her husband, and when he comes through the hole to the nobee (tent), deep in the ground, to sleep, she gets out and comes away if he be cross.
 ''She, the moon, has great love for her children, the stars, and is happy to travel among them in the above, and they, her children, feel safe and sing and dance as she passes along, But the mother she can not help that some of her children must be swallowed by the father every month. It is ordered that way by the Pah-ah Great Spirit, who lives above the place of all.
 ''Every month that father, the sun, does swallow some of the stars, his chil- dren, and then that mother, the moon, feels sorrow. She must mourn. So she must put the black on her face for to mourn the dead. You see the Piute women put black on their faces when a child is dead. But the dark will wear away from the face of that mother-the moon-a little and little every day, and after time again we see all bright the face of her. But soon more of her children are gone, and again she must put on her face the pitch and the black" -S0n Francisco Alto.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
PITH AND POINT.

The man who knows how it is him. self is graduate from the school of ex perience. -BarberS' Gazette.
 Every man is fond of striking the nail on the head; but when it happens to be his finger-nail, his enthusiasm be. comes wild and incoherent.
 When Mime. Chaverais, of France, eloped with Francois Say, professional punster remarked that he was not sur prised, as every woman must have her say.
 When a man can only just make living for himself and those dependent on him he can not sustain a perpetual fear at the same time.-SGA Luke ITi6- une.
 A Chinaman has published book, in which he says: "Woman does not re- quire study to make herself perfect-she is born perfect" The Chinese can stay. -Pittsbargh Chronicle Telegraph.
 -"When I wath a little boy," lisped very stupid society man to young lady, 'all my ideath in life were then tered on being clown" Well, there is at least one case of gratified ambi- tion," was the reply.-N Y. Maa.
 A Washington belle has created something of a sensation in social circles by marrying policeman. A policeman may make quite as good husband as a Congressman, but his wife won't be able to find him when she wants him. Nobody can.-NOrristoa0n Herald.
 -Pompano-"Why do you work so hard, Bagley? You slave from morning until night.' Bagley-'I know do. I wish to get rich. want to die worth a million. Pompano-''Well, there's no accounting for tastes Now, Iwould much prefer to live worth half mil lion. ."-Phtladelphia CaH.
 five dreadful headache, Brom- ley. It was that crescendo outburst of Miss Fenton. I'll never offer to turn the music for her again" ''Why didn't you beat retreat, MT. Darringer?" 70, that wouldn't have been polite, you know" "Well, but you are here in the cloak-room while she is still at the piano in the parlor' ''Yes; I watched my opportunity and slipped out between the bars. Chicago Tribune.
 -DO SdIlOld, WllO ID dI duIdGCuA photographer: Really, Miss Eveline, should so delight to try you by the new dry-plate process. " Miss Eveline, who has healthy appetite: ''Why, Mir. De Camera, it would do you no good. No, indeed, no dry plate for me. I'm always awfully hungry, you know" ''But you don't comprehend. I would like to take you Ask papaT Tableau. He had to take her, appetite and an.-Pitsburgh Chronicle.
 -''Something wonderful is sure to happen on this earth before long," sud denly remarked Harlem man, looking up from his newspaper. Why, John, you don't mean it!'' said his wife in a tone of astonishment. $ the world coming to an end?n I don't know, I m sure; but it looks like it. This paper says there is plumber in the Philadel- phia Almshouse" ''Oh! is that all?" said the little woman, with sigh of re- lief. q thought perhaps some hard hearted husband had given his wife money without her asking for it.''-N F. Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
JO BADGER'S SHOT.
A Sporting Story That Always Produced
 lis Effect
tionGitSt.

A Sporting Story That Always Produced
 It's Effect.
 Jo Badger used to tell a good story. 1t may date back tO another "Jo, sur named Miller. am not going to vouch for the originality of any story that did not make up myself, and even then 1 should expect to uncarth it in some old almanac or other jokcr's cemetery. But MT. Badgers story. whether old or new, always produces it's effect.
 Jo would gradually insert himself into crowd of sportsmen engaged in the popular amusement of proving Ananias to have been but an unsophis- ticated bungler in his business; and, after listening to their accounts of such slaughter wrought among the birds and beasts as to make one wonder that the entire fauna of the region was not cx- telmin tel. he would begin in that easy drawl that pertains by right to the ac- knowledged racOnteur of the corner grocery:
 Speaking of shooting, the longest shot ever 1 made was back in York State when I wasn't much more'n a boy. I'd been used to handlin' gun some, but nothing to speak of-wasn't considered no kind O shot. We'll, 1t was Sunday mornin'; happened to look at an old dead tree away of, most as far as 1 could see anything. There was one limb left and crow was sittiu' on # II was so far off that I couldn't a seen the crow If he hadn't been black and the old tree so gray could just sec twas a crow and that's about all. The old shotgun stood be- hind the door, loaded, sa. l took 1t up, and, just in fun. pointed .t at the crow. didn't have no more idea o' hittiD tha, crow than ! have now O SdCotu you. BU 1 sighle5 l.m and withoWa thinkm' what ] was a-don i pulled Z trigger and bang she Wcntr
 Here JO would stoop down for another piece oI shing, thing to whittie On, and or so some impatient sure Co ask:
 ''Wen, dye hit
 and innocent ls
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TEASING.
Two Serious Results of the Practice of a
 Very Dangerous Habit.

Two Serious Results of the Practice of a
 Very Dangerous Habit.
 John Willis was born tease. Some boys are. He had no distinct intention of being cruel, but he did take vicious sort of pleasure in hearing the girls scream and say ''Don'tr' If they cried little it rather added to his enjoy ment.
 His cousin Kate was strong, merry, romping girl, who was good comrade for him in most of his expeditions. She usually met his chaffing with good na- ture, and did not care for his little practical jokes. But Kate had one weakness; she was afraid of snakes John could never understand how an innocent little striped snake. which she knew was perfectly harmless, could put such a sensible girl into an agony of terror. Kate had been argued with by her father, and reproved by her mother, and coaxed by her grand mother, but it was all in vain; the moment she saw one of the 1.-the, shin- ing things glide across her path she grew fairly pale from fright.
 Now John had no sympathy for a fear which was so wholly unreasonable, and his love of teasing tempted him to lead Kate into the very spot in the woods which he thought most ''snaky," and to laugh and run from her when she began to be afraid. Its all put on,' he used to say to himself, when his conscience gave him little warn ing prick. ''She knows that snake won't bite her; she needn't be such a goose; she ought to get used to it as boys do." So by way of making her accustomed to it, he would bring home now and then little snake and put it on her fower-bed, or under the porch. He had a plan for concealing one in her workbasket, but he knew his father would have word to say to such an experiment, if it came to his knowl- edge; besides, Kate was not so devoted to sewing as to insure her discovering anything which lay hidden among her spools and needles.
 One day, however, he had what he considered very bright idea. He made a secret pilgrimage to Kate's room, and came down to await the scream which he momently expected Kate had not yet returned from school, but she presently came in. flushed and nervous from an nvoitin0 and busy day. She ran directly up to h,g own room, and slammed the door behind her. When she glanced back she saw a little green snake tied in a loose knot around her doOr-knob wriggling to get free. There was no other en- trance to the room, and the door was shut fast. Kate had but one agouiz- ing thought. that the snake would be on the floor in a moment, and, in a paroxysm of fear she rushed 10 the window. Her senses seemed t0 for sake her, and, iD her frantic terror, she would have jumped to the yard twenty feet below, but fortunately, the window was closed and her trembling hands could not open 1t quickly. One moment more and she would have been lying maimed or life less on the fiag-stones below; but, just as the terrified child succeeded in pushing up the sash, her uncle, who had heard her first shriek of horror, opened the door. Kate was not one of the fainting kind, but she was white snd trembling when her uncle drew
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.

Ohl What shall do with papa?
 I've talked till enough has been said, I've talked and I've preached to the man; And, really, it's tired my head. He looks into all open drawers,
 And rummages ev'ry high shelf. scold him, but what is the use?
 He isn't ashamed of himself. There's never day but he asks:
 "Pet what are you making for me- There isn't thing in the house
 That he isn't anxious to see. Mamma says he does it in sport;
 It must be his nature to tease. My pardon think he should beg;
 But can't get him down on his knees. For six weeks, and more, have tried To finish beautiful pair Of slippers I'm making for him; But they are trouble and care. And I'm making the loveliest rack,
 To keep all his newspapers in; But when am settled down,
 And my work fairly begin, hear his voice somewhere, downstairs. He asks: Whats become of the childP And if don't turn my door key
 He comes in and sets me so wild! He goes to the bank ev'ry day;
 But is home at a little past three. Of course. for the rest of the day.
 From all kinds of work he is free. And then he goes staring around.
 To that he was always inclined; And mamma, to tell the plain truth,
 Don't know how to teach him to mind. She speaks in the sweetest of tones;
 And bids him be quiet and read. She says: Now don't bother the child" But he laughs and says: "Ob; indecd" Sometimes he pretends that he reads: But over his paper he peeps. think he is always awake;
 For no one can tell when he sleeps. Well a man will never give heed
 To woman wholesome advice. If were the owner of one,
 never would speak to him twice. And I'm very sure would cure
 All his prying bothering ways; Or he'd go to the bank and stay
 Until after the holidays. For my mother I'm making a scarf An elegant, cardinal red. 1 work at 1t all my spare time;
 But never word has she said, To show that she even suspects
 1 am making something for her. She glideS in and out of the room;
 l sit where am; don't stir. Why should when she's sn polite? She never is looking at me, Or troubling herself to find out
 How much of my work she can see. O. papa! do shut up your eyes!
 But, then, don't know as you can; And mamma declares, with smile, That you are a wide-awake man. But you are so kind ard so good;
 And have been talking for fun. Why, you re the best man 1 have seen, The very best under the sun. The things I am making for youI
 You'll have them at Christmas; you'll see l haven't the fantest idea
 What you will be giving to me. And am not going to ask:
 know they'll be lovely and new. And ohl they'll be precious to me,
 For they'll be exactly like you. -ROsdlte VdnderlCdter. ill ". r. Independent
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-Brigadier General Alvin P. Hovey, of Indiana, received in February, 1864, a letter from General Grant, then at Nashville, asking him to organize a force of ten thousand new troops. He appealed to the young and unmarried, and ten regiments, which were called ''Hovey's Babies," marched to the front under his command. General Hovey Says they have never received due credit for their bravery, and he thinks that General Sherman should have mentioned ''Hovey's Babies' in his memoirs.- Chicago Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
No" said a Kentuckian in re-

No" said a Kentuckian in re- sponse to question, Il never actually fought duel, but came very near it once" '"Tell us about it, Colonel, y said breathless listener. ''It was some years ago, when duels were much more common than they are now, when a mans honor was a sacred thing and to be de- tended at any cost. I received chal- lenge from gentleman who claimed that had insulted him, stating that l must either make full apology or fight. I, being the challenged party, had the choice of weapons, of course. " And you chose" Il chose to apologize. That's the nearest I ever came to fightin' duel" concluded the Colonel.-N 7. Tunes.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-12
Here is a good outline for a drama

Here is good outline for drama of the modern French type. Wife elopes. Caught. Locked up. Illus band interviews her. She tries to hang herself. Cut down. Both then try it.; she inside the bars; he outside. They nearly succeed; but are resuscitated. They conclude that dying by hanging, either separately or together, isn't pleas ant business, and resolve to try connu- bial partnership again.-Bufalo En- press.
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THE AGE OF FISHES.
Venerable Specimens to Be Found iB a
 Royal Aquarium.

Venerable Specimens to Be Found iB g
 Royal Aquarium.
 It is not generally known that there is hardly any limit to the age of fish. Prof. Baird, of the United States Fish Commission, is the authority for the statement that there is authentic evil dence to show that carp have attained an age of two hundred years. Prof. Baird also says that there is a tradition that within fifty years pike was living in Russia whose age dated back to the fifteenth century. ''There is nothing," he says, ito prevent a fish from living almost indefinitely, and it has no period of maturity. There are gold fish in this city that have belonged to one fam fly for over fifty years. They do not appear to be much larger than when they were originally placed in the aquarium, and are every bit as lively as they were when young. There are so many fish stories in circulation that the ordinary reader has almost made up his mind that fish and truth do not go well together. Probably some persons will doubt what is said by Prof. Baird about the age a fish can attain. If they do, they are sim ply dogbting the best known authority on fish. The Russian Minister says that in the royal aquariums in St. Petersburg there are fish to-day that have been known by the records to have been in them 40 years. Some of them are, he says, over five times as large as they were when first captured, while others have not grown one inch in length. An attache of the Chinese legation corrob- orates this statement. He says there are sacred fish kept in some of the palaces in China that are even older than any of those in Russia, - Washington Cor. ". r Herald.