Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-06-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

A highly cultured and very popular pastor
 'f Harrisburg bears the singulArly inappro-
 prlate name of Pfuhl
 A lot in Denver that was purchased by an
 carly settler for s and 6 revolver sold the
 other day fOs tIO,OO0
 Miss Olive Green and Ivory White ware
 welded in an Iowa town recently. Rev. Hr.
 Black performing the ceremony.
 Nine brothers and sisters from family of
 zen attend the same school in Clarence,
 hleh- The eldest is 20 and the youngest s | years old
 redTood tree that was recently cut down
 near Humboldt, Colo, was 200 feet long and ! " Feet m diameter one way and 70 the other
 at the stump.
 scheme is under consideration for tunnel ing the volcano Popocatapetl through the
 val Of the crater, in order to reach the de-
 TosltS of sulphur inside the mountain An Omaha paper alluded to c number of prominent and influential residents of the
 city as ''oid timers, but the types got it "old 'errlers, and the editor had to apolosize
 The body of squirrel burned to e crisp
 was found inside glass gloOs of an electric lamp at Springfield, Mass, the other day. The query iS, how did the squirrel get into the slObel
 A man of letters-fully half of them named ZabediscofTOkenOnischi. is getting out specimens of the carbOniferous eTa in SchuyI- klil county for the slight remuneration of about Sl day
 J. S Margerum, of Washington, Pa, has a1 English gun that was made in l7is It was taken frOm the dead body of British
 soldier, who was killed in the retreat from Con,ord, Mass, April Is, l575.
 The Pilgrim wharf at Plymouth has been ised for a coal yard for years The lease e1- preS soon, and the Pilgrim society proposes io make some radical changes. Plymouth Rock IS at the end of the wharf
 An army officer living at Orchard. Neb., s said Co have discovered plant common to The country which has the property of con verting milk into butter-on. pound of the former making the same amount of the latter.
 There is still on the statute books in Rhode Island law forbidding the smoking of a cigar on the main street of any city in the sate. and in Vermont the smoking Of cigar on the street on Sunday is made misde- ueanOr.
 Says an imaginative statisticinn: "H Texas were circular lake and France q cir cular island, the island could bs anchored centrally in the lake out of sight of land. twenty-two miles from any point on the en- .ircling shoren
 fisherman at Orringtou, Ne, recently made queer catch while fishing for snslt During the big storm he wes on the river and iost an Ax and shovel through the ice The two implements wers what hs found in his net So long sfterward
 It is said that there is q postoffice for every l,ooo men, women and children in the United l States, and that if the expense of carrying | The mails was paid directly by the people pro | rata, each citizen would pay an average of | sshty five cents a year.
 Yellow diamonds are made blue of the | pureSt water, for the time being, by being | eoiored with common indelible blue pencil, | squalized by rubbing with cotton on linen. | A masnifyang glass will fail to show the | fraud, but alcohol, turpentine or benxins wlI | wash of the color.
 Broad Ripple, Ind, has q ghost IL is in | the form of a woman, and walks along the | railroad track, then out over the water, and disappears directly under the Louisville, | New Albany and Chicago bridge. This |. where an accident ocC urred four years ago | and lives were lost
 An aged preacher of Middlstown, Conn, claims to have trnyeled % OOO miles, preached over { so sermons. performed the marriage b16 times. the baptismal ceremony ,--S times and delivered 556 funeral dis courses. Iae largest sum be eyer received | tor years lAbors was Ss00
 During 6 will contest in Baltimore county, Md. one of the witnesses testified thst tle deceased had on one occasion written A letter and read II 10 the rats in his house. warning them from the premises He further asserted | that the deceased had told him that Le be- lieEed great many of the rats had needed the warning and left
 Deputy sheriff Curtis, of Wellington. Me. vent to Greenville the other day 10 srres, a man, charged with an oTense. He found hini, put him on the train. and then, step ping of for . moment, was left accidentally. The prisoner got of as the end of the jour ney, walked up to the court house. pleaded guilty, paid his fine, and was back hcme be- fore the deputy sheriff caught up with the facts.
 \ rich Philadelphia woman, noted for her "taltn ana eccentrlcity, having exhausted ter finger space in displaying her jewels, wears striking ring on one of her thumbs strange as it appears 1t is only going back 10 m old fashion. Two or three hundred years go it was the fashion 10 wear q ring on the - .mb. and the signet ring was worn on tho numb by the nobility at a time when the .nsers were devoid Of ornaments.
 The three children of Tom DashieIl. who ives near Cromwell mountain, Sutter county. 'al., came home from school several nights aying that some big animal had chased hem No one paid much attention to the -OunSsters, until one afternoon they rushed, white and trembling, into the yard, and gain told their story. Then their grand 4ther, Uncle John McCilo<n1A sasr 7U years n. grabbed his gun asd usa1r down the old, and in less than ten anEes had shot e lig cinnamon bear.