Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-12
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

Pet dogs wearing sealskin blankets are among the sights on Broadway, New York. A herd of swine got drunk eating grape pomace on a ranch in Marin county, Cal. A Mott street, New York, hand organ man IS teaching his monkey the art of boot black ing.
 An 1S-year-old negro boy of Marianna, Ark, shot his mother because she was baking a sweet potato for his brother instead of for him
 The latest addition to Withlacoochee, Fla, fame IS hen which matched and raised to the size of cartridges sixteen chicks from fifteen eggs
 A novel experiment is about to be made in Paris in the establishment of cab company, with plant of 800 hansorns fitted with rubber tires, drawn by English horses
 The quantity of sugar used in Boston house suddenly increased, to the astonish- ment of the mistress. She began an investi- gation, which revealed that the servant used sugar to kindle the fire
 Two Tennessee men went out to fight duel, one having an sx and the other scythe, but stranger canse along and suS- gested game of poker, and all shook hands and became good friends.
 During the delivery of course of lectures in Paris the lecturer alluded to Damocles and the sword incident held by thread He forgot the name of Danocles. "No matter, ladies and gentlemen; the thread was good, and will hold till tho next lecture"
 George Thornburg, of Winfield, Kan, and Arminta Miles, of Sumner, were married by Judge Tansey. The young lady lacked one day of being 10 years old, but as she was an orphan and had no home the judge issued the license without the usual consent being | filed.
 Workmen, while engaged in demolishing the Dinwiddie, Va, county court house, ] found under the floor of the kitchen skele- ton, together with a casteen and musket. It Is supposed that the skeleton is that of sol dier, who while sick or wounded, crept under | the floor, and there died
 A veterinary surgeon of St Louis and for merly dentist recently filled three decayed teeth of valuable horse. It is the third case of equine teeth filing on record The animal had suffered terribly from toothache and was unable at times to eat or drink. The horse bore the pain without wincing, and did not have to be tied CT be given gas
 In the little town of Arvesnes, in France,
 
 two young marriageable girls, and only three young men who are candidates for matri- n1ony, and one of these has proved 80 re- creant to home influence that he is about to marry Q girl belonging to neighboring village.
 A curious museum has been opened in Dresden In it are collected boots, shoes and slippers, which emperors, kings, queens, fe Among them are pair of boots worn by Ma poleon at the battle of Dresden, on April 27, 1913, and pair of white satin shoes, em broidered in gold, which the same great em- peror wore on the day of his coronation.
 David Jennings is the latest perpetual mo tion lunatic. He lives in Lyons, N. Y., ant commenced with youth, health and forum, twenty years ago to develop his insane idea He has spent his intellect, his youth and $50, 900, and is precisely as near making some thing out of nothing he was when h. started. He finds it easy to come very neal to it, as the boy did to finding his hat
 Bernard Meyer, of Omaha, recently felt slight pain under his left shoulder. The pail soon became intense, and a doctor wa sought. An examination or the spot revealed hard substance, which, on being extracted proved to be a needle in good condition Meyer had no recollection of needle having entered his body, but his mother says that i occurred when be was an infant, ffty-fou years ago.
 W. c. Vaughn, Dayton, O., has photo graph of an old oak tree, or what migh more properly be called miniature oak tree growing from between tho creYices- of . court house spiro, built of solid masonry o limestone, at g height of some eighty fee from the ground. The strange production draws it's life principally from the air, a there was but little cement used in the build ing of the spire. The dwarf is 20 years old