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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
PlTH AND POINT.

Some one boldly asserts that the Afnerican hen is not doing her duty. You would have us believe that her son is setting, would you?-Y Yonkers Stdtess man.
 -"Rule of the office, sir, patients will please pay before taking gas" "Why not after?'' ''It's awkward collecting in case of failure to restore respiration " --Puck.
 -''This is very healthy place, " ob. served boarding mistress. "Yes-for chickens" said boarder. 'I have been here for two years and haven't seen dead one yet" She took the hint. Chicago Tribune.
 The railway companies want to lay their tracks with hardened sleepers. One of the New Haven ministers says his congregation has material enough to set up whole parallel road.-New HaUere Nes0S.
 --"How long has Brown been mar ried, Charley?" Didn't know he was married at all. l don't believe he is, either" ''Yes, he is; I noticed him turn pale when the clock struck eleven. "-N. r. Sun.
 According to the New York Trfb- tne, the band in passing the reviewing stand where President Cleveland stood, '.burst into Mendelssohn's Wedding March," and the crowd 'burst into cheers" " If somebody would only ''burst into' these gushy dailies it would be the burst thing yet.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
 They tell of boy in England who, seeing great tent in which 8 panorama of "Bunyan's Pilgrim Prog ress' was being exhibited, went to the ticket taker and asked if MT. Bunyan was in. Receiving a negative reply he remarked that he was sorry, as Mir. Bunyan was his father, and ended with the query: "Of course you'll pass me in free?"
 Amateur Actor (who has taken the part of Hamlet) -''Well, Charlie, what was the verdict in regard to our enter tainment last night?n Charlie -''To be frank with you, old man, heard some of the audience say it was deuced stu pid." Amateur Actor-'' 'Stupid That divine tragedy? Why, Charlie, Shak- speare never wrote stupid thing in his life. "-Harper's Bazar.
 -"Got any eggs to-day, MT. Cold, cheesep" ''Yes. sir, plenty of them" "Are they freshP'' "Fresh, sir, as the flowers that ahemr' "Then I don't want any" ''Don't want any?" ''No, sir. I'm going to a lecture tonight, and I thought if I could run across some stale eggs--'' ''Stale, sir! There ain't an egg in that barrel that was laid thls year. Philadelphia CaH.
 We do not believe that a hen scratches for living. She scratches for exercise. If you don't believe it, watch well-fed hen in her humble cage at the market She will scratch on the sheet-iron floor with all the vigor of a gold digger, and affect to find things to eat with all the innocent assumption of a man who slips on the ice, breaks both legs and his back. and tries to look as though he hadn't fallen down.-Bur- dette.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER 34.

Many anecdotes might De told of tho elephants usefulness and ssgacity, and now that no one is allowed to shoot the wild ones in India 1t IS ex- pected that in few years they will be- cofne so numerous as to be used for all purposes that cart-hOrses are now re- duired for, at least in tropical coun- tries. Some farmers have them draw their native blows. But as they stand cold almost as well as heat, we may vet see them become common In En- gland and Australia.
 Thirty years ago elephants had to be brought up in ships from Burmah to Calcutta. They were not allowed much fresh water. which was kept Tn iron tanks arranged down the middle of the vessel in front of them. These tanks were closed with round lids that screwed in, and as they had to be opened night and morning to give the animals drink the cunning creatures soon found out the way of unscrewing them and helping themselves in the night when all was quiet. Men had at last to be put on as sentries over the tanks, or the whole supply would have been drunk up in a couple of days Another thing they did was when they received their allowance of sugar-cane in the morning they would immediately lie down upon it and then try to steal from their neighbors. If any delay took place in serving out their food they would trumpet and bang their trunks against the water-tanks, creat- ing such disturbance that it made the people on passing ships wonder what the vessel had on board.-Ch ChGtterboE-
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
IN NICARAGUA.

A Wonderland of Fertility, Natural Re
 sources and Prosperous People.
 The largest forest tree-the ceiba tree, for instance grows to the height of ninety or one hundred feet, straight as an arrow and without limb. At that height from the ground it widens out to vast parasol-shaped affair, lit- erally covered with heavy punches of crimson, bell-shaped flowers. Out of one of these trees can be made boat which will carry forty or fifty men. All boats are made of one piece. I saw great many mahogany boats from thirty to fifty feet in length, forty-six feet beam. The bread fruit tree grows everywhere. It is an immense tree, as large as the largest living oak in Florida, with green foliage. The bread fruit looks like small water-melons It forms the principal portion of the food of the inhabitants, who usually split it open, put piece of salt pork or other salt meat in it, and bake it, and then eat it. One tree will supply whole. neighbor- hood with fruit. The tree that is pronounced the most beautiful is the margo tree. It grows to an immense size, from twenty to fifty feet in cir conference, and from seventy-five to one hundred feet in height. It is an immense umbrella-shaped tree. with featherlike foliage. One tree win bear five thousand margOe- The fruit is heart or kidney-shaped, and grows to the weight of one or two pounds each.
 .s asIt h h9s 2 gFin ike 2 DIum and itshayor IS that 0f all our best fruit combined the plum. peach and grape and some thing of fine apple. lt is delicious fruit, ...i,, .o ,.i..g goIssIly used as Q part of food. The cacao tree, from which cocoa and chocolate are made, grows everywhere, and the fruit, which is shaped like musk-melon, grows right out of the body of the tree There is no stem to it at all. The samson grows in the same way, and has a very deli cious fruit The cassara is a substitute for bread. The yam grows everywhere. 1t grows solid and is very differentfrom that of this country. It is more like a root. The root is fifteen to twenty feet long. They break it up into pieces and sell it in sections. The cocoanut palm abounds everywhere. One tree drops nut every day in the year. It drops three hundred and sixty-five a year. The banana produces a bunch a ! month every month in the year. It is perpetual in its growth. All they have got to do to cultivate it is to chop the brush and stick in the plant, and it | needs no cultivation. It is the same with all their fruits The sugar cane | grows from twenty to twenty-five feet high. was told that by the officials, and it produces eight thousand to ten thousand pounds to the acre. It never needs replacing, but grows just like clover. Cotton grows in the same way, reproducing itself. It becomes a great tree and bears great amount of very fine fiber. Corn produces five crops a year. Coffee grows abundantly, and Nicaragua coffee is among the best in the world. No finer coffee is pro- vided anywhere. The country is pre- eminently a country of lazy people. One can live there as nearly without
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
COMMON-SENSE DIETING.

Practical Application of the Maxim
 "Eat to Live and Not Live to Eat"
 By dieting l mean taking only such food as will most promote the health ot the individual, in such quantities and at such times as will admit of the most thorough digestion and assimila- ton, giving the greatest amount of health and strength. There is prev alent notion that one is dieting simply because little oatmeal is occasionally eaten, without any regard to what is eaten beside this, or the quantity eaten, or when it is eaten, and how.
 To take a little oatmeal, or ''cOld blast bread,' or ''gluten, occasional ", or when the stomach will not toler- ate any other kind of food, or in addi- ton to full meal of rich and indi- gestible food, is not dieting. ThereiS nOthir- ;-> th"~" plain, rcurishing and wholesome articles which will render minep pies easy of digestion; nothing tO cOunteguct the Unfavora ole influences on our digestion of strong tea, to- baccO, whisky, intoXicants in general, opium and the like. all wearing with the functions of the stomach.
 A full meal of pork and beans with doughnuts, old and strong cheese, will not be easily digested simply by taking avery little gruel, however simple and wholesale it may be, since the unwhole- some food is there, and in some way must be disposed of, digested- is the nature of the case, is not an easy matter. Gluten, as nourishing as 1t is, as easily digested and favorable to health, can not render boiled cabbage, saturated with grease, or hard-boiled or fried eggs, safe and wholesome food. In other words, after a person has taken all that the stomach can pos sibly tolerate, an addition of whole some food, taken just for principles sake, will never constitute sensible di- eting.
 Wholesome food should be taken for its own sake in proper quantities, that the digestive organs may be properly treated, cared for, and not as a matterof penance, to atone for the first wrong. If the dyspeptic wishes to diet lon the square, let him select plain and simple food, that in the matter of ofdigestibility is adapted to the facilitated state of his stomach, take it in moderate quanti- ties. at proper times, chewing slowly and thoroughly, without the aid of drinks, taking less at night, the sim plest of the day.
 Dyspepsia, in its natural form, is as curable as any disease, if disease m- stead of fatigue, this should be called, the cure consisting mainly in giving the digestive organs fair chance--a chance for reasonable rest.-Dr. Hun. Gt0rd, in Golden Rule
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
A BOY GROWN UP.
How and When Good and Bad Manners
 Are Formed.

How and When Good and Bad Manners
 Are Formed.
 Young people rarely realize, when criticising their elders, that the traits or habits that seem to them obnoxious were formed in early life. If their manners are rude, if they lack tact, if they are not we'll informed, it is be- cause they have not made use of their opportunities. Manners are the truest indications of character A discourte- ous person is both careless and selfish, for the best manners are but the ex- pression of the Golden Rule; they are the card of introduction to strangers. A friend can introduce you to good so- ciety, but he can not keep you there; that depends on yourself.
 A boy of kindly nature is rarely rude. A boy of selfish nature is polite only when his own desires are not interfered with.
 Every man is the result of his own boyhood and youth. If he has read good books, kept himself informed on passing events, he becomes what the world terms a well-informed, intelli- gent man. If he has wasted his time in triflire conversation, read only sen satiOnal books and papers, neglected to develop the talent which he surely possesses, he becomes a superficial, tiresome, if not a wicked, man.
 If as boy he has not cultivated the graces and amenities of life, he can not expect to become that most de- lightful of men, a polished gentleman. If as boy he has not studied to avoid collisions with those about him, has not recognized the rights of others. has not cultivated desire to lead men to higher motives, to give to others the benefit ot his own opportunities, he becomes that most unfortunate person., tactless man; a nuisance wherever people are brought together. One of the lessons every boy can learn is to watch those men who arouse adverse criticism and carefully avoid their hab- its both of mind and body. Remem- Der the old adage: By others faults correct your own. CaristiGn Union.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
TURKISH BRUTALITY.

An Incident Illustrative of the Moslem
 Hate of Christian Travellers.
 While waiting to be presented to Ali Bashaw, Belzoni managed to see the sun rise from the top of the Great Pyramid, and to visit those of Saccara and Daiior, and to meet the great traveller Burck- hara.. a meeting 10 which We owe a good many of orr best Egyptian an- tiques. Riding up to the citadel with NJ. Baghos to see Mehemet Ali, he ad- mired '-the malestle Gppearance Of the Turkish soldiers, but soon found that looks are not every thing, for one of these noble looking t.llows, passing on horseback, managed, out of pure spite, to cut two inches of flesh out of his leg with the sharp corner of his shovel-like stirrup. The wound was so serious that it kept him prisoner whole month, and when '.Ali Bashaw' noticed his limp and learned the cause he simply said: ''Such accidents will happen when troops are about. :" The soldiers just then hated the very look of a Frank, for Ali was trying to teach them the European drill. There was mutiny about this not long after, and the attempt had to be given up, the mutineers getting off scott free, though Belzoni remarks that just then there came on an unaccountable mortality among the high officers of the army
 By and by, after he had got into high favor with Ali, our traveller was nearly killed by Bimbashi, out of whose way he could not get, a loaded camel filling up the street. The Bimbashi Oieuten- anD gave hlm a blow in the stomach, which he repaid by cutting him over the naked shoulders with his whip. ''The fellow then took out his pistol. 1 jumped off my ass; but the shot singed the hair near my right ear and killed one of his own soldiers who was getting behind me. He took out a second pistol, but his own men dis armed him." This was narrow escape, for just then the daughter of Chevalier Booty, Swedish Consul-Gen- eral, was riding with a party of ladies, her mother among them, to get a bath, when a soldier shot her dead out of pure wantonness.-4Ht tte Year Round.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
A DISCERNING TEACHER.
How She Developed q Boys Brain-4
 Valuable Lesson to Instructors:

How She Developed a Boys Bra1n-A
 Valuable Lesson to Instructors:
 A teacher had charge of a school in d county town, earl y in her career, and among her scholars was a boy about fourteen years old, who cared very little about study, and showed no interest, apparently, in anything connected with the school. Day after day he failed in his lessons, and detentions after school hours and notes to his widowed mother had no effect One day the teacher had sent him to his seat, after vain effort to get from him a correct answer to questions in grammar, and feeling somewhat nettled, she watched his con- duct. Having taken his seat, he pushed the book impatiently aside, and espying a fly, caught it with a deXterous sweep of the hand, and then betook himself to a close inspection of the insect. For fifteen minutes or more the boy was thus occupied, needless of surroundings, and the expression of his face told the teacher that it was more than idle curios ty that possessed his mind. A thought struck her, which she put into practice at the first opportunity that day.
 ''Boys," said she, "what can you tell me about flies?' And calling some of the brightest by name she asked them if they could tell her something of fly's constitution and habits. They had very little to say about the insect. They often caught one, but only for sport, and did not think it worth while to study so common an insect Finally she asked the dunce, who had silently, but with kindling eyes, listened to what his schoolmates hesitatingly said. He burst out with description of the head, eyes, wings and feet of the little creat- ure, so full and enthusiastic that the teacher was astonished and the whole school struck with wonder. He told how it walked and how it ate, and many things which were entirely ly new to his teacher. So that when he had finished she said:
 "Thank you! You have given us a real lesson in natural history, and you have learned it all yourself. "
 After the school closed that afternoon she had a long talk with the boy, and found that he was fond of going into the woods and meadows and collecting in sects and watching birds, but that his mother thought he was wasting his time. The teacher, however. wisely encOur- aged him in this pursuit, and asked him to bring beetles and butterflies and cater pillars to school, and tell what he knew about them. The boy was delighted by this unexpected turn of affairs, and in a few days the listless dunce was the marked boy of that school. Books on natural history were procured for him, and world of wonder opened to his ap- preciative eyes. He read and studied and examined; he soon understood the necessity of knowing something of math ematics, geography and grammar for the successful carrying on of his favor ite study, and he made rapid progress in his classes. In short, twenty years later he was eminent as naturalist, and owed his success, as he never hesitated to acknowledge, to that discerning teach er.-F'Grnl and FGreSide.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
.tE OLD FARMER,

much of this worlds goods have I, still less of classic lore. envy not yon rich mans wealth, { With all his gilded store. My acres yield me daily bread. And toll brings appetite; blow, 1 SOW, 1 reap and mOw,
 Then sweetIy sleep at night. No carking care to break my rest,
 Nor aspirations high; l plod along from day to day
 With no regretful sigh. 'Ifs little that can bestow
 Upon the suffering poor. But none that ever asked for bread
 Went hungry from my door. And thus my days move on apace;
 The end is drawing near; With cheerful hope I'll say good bye" To all that hold dear. And when this body's mouldering- As well I know It must Let no tall monument be reared
 To mark my sleeping dust. ] only want a marble plain,
 For DaSSers- by to scan, And read all would have them know 'Here lies an honest man." -a -4LLdn BdRe, i's Toledo Blade.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
Causing a Smile in Court.

The late Judge Des Barres, of the Su- preme Court of Nova Scotia, was not much given to joking.
 He was a big man, of slow and delib- crate manner, and always on the bench wore deep bass voice.
 On one occasion, however, in the an- cient Town of Sydney, c. B., he caused a smile. The prothonotarv was swear ing in a jury in case to ic tried, and there seemed to be hitch.
 The Judge, who was ready to begin, asked what was the matter.
 Prothonotary-He won't be sworn, my Lord.
 Juryman-Tm no weel, ma Lard.
 Judge-What ails you?
 Juryman-I've got ta eech, ma Lard.
 Judge Gin very large tones)-Scratch him of, MT. Prothonotary. Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
FOREST DESTRUCTION.
Evils of DeforestatiOn as Seen on the One
 Fertile Plains of Spain.

EVllS or DeIOreSuaUlOn as seen on the Once
 Fertile Plains of Spain.
 The evils of deforestation have been so many times rehearsed that it is only necessary to mention them briefly here. Trees are necessary in the hills and mountains to perfect the springs and in- sure a steady supply of water through out the year. If all the trees about sources of the springs are cut away the springs flow but short time after the winter rains cease. In early summer they have disappeared entirely, and with them the small brooks they have fed, and which were wont to supply the creeks and rivers now either greatly re- duced in volume or vanished Conse. quently drought, poverty and suffering from fine agricultural possibilities ruined with soil deprived of its needed moisture. There is anotLer evil scarce ly less serious. This results from the foundations which almost annually devastate those parts of Europe which in the long course of ages has been gradually denuded of their forest with little or no effort at renewal. Spain has in this respect been the worst suffer- CT. Except in certain favored local ities, principally along or not far from the southern base of the Pyrenees, or along the Mediterranean, it may be described as an absolutely tree less country, its vast olive or chards affordm~ here and there a partial exception. One may travel by train for days here and there over the great cen tral plateau, which constitutes the greater part Of the peninsula, and scarcely see 9 tree, not even m olive, on the plain, and not grove ou bill or mountain side. Such deSolatiou seems appalling. AS natural con- sequence, the rains that fall, not being detained by groups or forests of trees, run off at once into the valleys, where they swell the creeks and rivers to enormous volume and cause those frightful inundations which two or three times every year form the burden of Spanish dispatches and deplete the purses of the benevolent in every part of the world. In Austria, Hungary and in different parts of Germany, there are similar experiences, with incal- culable loss of property and loss of life, and to certain extent in France and Italy, though the two latter countries find a remedy in the universal dissemina- ton of the olive and vine, one or the other of which clothes, and to a great measure protects the most barren hill sides There are also in both countries efficient laws regulating both questions of deforestatiOn and afforestation, which have done much for the protection ot all interests concerned. d.-COr. SGn Fran cisco Ch1OnicIe
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-24
TALKING ABOUT HENS.
How Decided Goodness Sprang Up Be-
 tween Two Old Friends.

| How a Decided Goodness Sprang Up Be- tween Two Old Friends. A Rochester man named Muggs has been out in the town of Wheatland wis iting some friends who live on farm. MT. Muggs is not only a man of more than average intelligence, but he is also of an inquiring turn of mind; and while he was visiting on the farm he managed to pick up good deal of in- formation by asking questions about things. One of the first things that ex- cited his curiosity was a hen that was on nest under the end of a lumber pile.
 ''This must be hen," said Muggs, confidently.
 1t is, said the farmer.
 ''She seems to be taking life pretty easy" ventured Muggs.
 'sQuite the contrary" said the farmer. ''She is busy"
 Laying an egg, probably" suggested Muggs.
 ''Probably not" said the farmer ''She is setting"
 Then Mugs made some patronizing remark to the hen and reached down to stroke the fur on her neck. The hen was busy, but not too busy to keep an eye on Muggs, and when his hand came within reach she picked small piece of skin off from it. Muggs took his hand away with wonderful quick ness and put it into his pocket Then he stood and contemplated the hen in silence for several minutes. At length he said:
 Il suppose hens seldom have hydro phobia?"
 Seldom, said the farmer.
 ''But when they do have it they have it pretty bad, don't they?" in quired Muggs, with considerable anxiety.
 ''Oh, you needn't be alarmed" said the farmer 1.-The hen is mad, but not in that way. Her fangs are not poison ous."
 "I suppose, now" said Muggs, ''that an industrious, persistent hen like that will hatch out chicken every day, and not feel il"
 ''There is difference in hens," saiG the farmer. ''Some hens set harder than others and hatch chickens faster. l have got one that matched out a brood of chickens last summer in ten days. She never stopped for Sundays or legal holidays, but just kept right at it. But it wasn't very good job, because it was rushed too much. Nine of the chickens were fool ish and the other four were not any too bright. You see, they were not expect ing it, and they seemed to be sort of dazed-couldn't understand how they got here so soon. They would stand around in half-witted kind of way and try to figure it out, but they never seemed to understand it at all"
 II should think" said Mugs, thoughtfully, ''that chicken matched so fast as that would be apt to mature quickly-get old while they are young, as it were"
 ''Exactly-they do," said the farmer.
 "You remember that I bought a couple of spring chickens from you last fall," said Muggs, still more thought fully, as if an idea had occurred to him.
 ''Yes, remember" said the farmer, who was also beginning to have an idea. ''What of it?"
 70, nothing; only I thought perhaps they belonged to this brood that you have been speaking about. We broiled them couple of days and then gave them to my boy to cut up into bean- shooters.
 A coolness has since existed between Muggs and the farmer. .-ROchester Her. dld.