The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
ITEMIzED VARIETY.

HE wife or Senator HaWley acts as her
husbands private secretary.
THE Shah wears million and half dol.
lars in diamonds when dressed.
KING HUMBERT's palace at Rome contains
1900 rooms, but the King and his family
occupy only 125 of them.
PRINCE FERDINAND is credited with hav-
ing given away nearly $4,000 in presents
during recent tour through Bulgaria.
CONSTITUTE yourself public protector by
thrusting into the gutter every banana OF
orange peel you may encounter on the side
walk
MARION CRAWFORD has been awarded 500
by the French Academy in recognition Of
two of his works being translated into
French by himself.
In Stoverstown, village in Yorkshire,
England, there is society of women bar
be; numbering six members, and in Sea-
vile, about five miles from the village, a
kindred society of five buxom women bar
bers.
A SULLIVAN woman has just died in
Meean IIeer, India, credited with one hun
dred and fifty years of age. She was blind,
deaf and dumb. and almost inanimate. She
died in the house Of a grandson, who is over
eighty.
PRESIDENT HARRISON orders that here
after Sunday morning inspection of troops
at military posts shall be merely of the
dress and general appearance, without
arms. The inspection under arms is to take
place on Saturday.
THE free use of Paris green in spraying
orchards early in the season IS leading to
great injury where bees are kept, owing to
the careless performance Of the operation
while the trees are in blossom, instead Of
waiting until the fruit is set.
JAY GoULD's engagements for the day
are scrawled on blackboard in his private
office. Russell Sage scribbles his daily
programme IN hieroglyphics on his cuff.
John Jacob Astor keeps tally of his time on
the margins of an almanac's pages.
PARIS is following the example of Lon
don, and is about to build an underground
railway line. The railway will be seven
miles long, although only four miles of it
will be completely underground; the rest
will go through cuttings and by viaducts.
A RICH valetudinarian called in physI-
clan for slight disorder. The physician
felt his pulse, and inquired: ''Do you eat
wel|' eyes," said the patient. "Do you
sleep well?" 81 do" ''Then,' said the
Esculapius, 81 shall give you something to
take away all that"
THE order of Railway Conductors has de-
cided to build National home somewhere
in Iowa, the prize going to the town offer
ing the best inducements. Davenport, Bur-
lington, Sioux City, Clinton, Council
Bluffs and Creston are candidates. The
edifice is to cost $3.50. 900.
STRAWBERRIES furnish great facilities for
reproduction, for the seed of every pistil-
late variety, which has been fortified by
another sort having perfect stamens, is a
distinct cross of the two. Hence the null
titude of newly announced and lauded va
rieties produced in this way.
THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has con-
firmed the indictment of a clairvoyant doc
tor, by whose advice d patient with cura-
BILE hip disease neglected surgical treat
ment and has become cripple for life. The
verdict of the court decides that "spirit
cure physicians" will hereafter be liable to
prosecution for malpractice.
MRS. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE, daughter of
the late Salmon P. Chase, is said to be en-
gagged IN writing the "reminiscences of her
life. Mrs. Sprague kept open house IN
Washington during President Lincoln's ad-
ministration, and she knew intimately all
the distinguished men of that important
period in the history of this country.
A LIGHTNING flash did freaky things at
the house of W. P. Graham, in Juniata, Pa,
during a recent storm. Passing basket
full of eggs ready to be sent to the store, it
accomplished the almost incredible feat of
breaking every shell without splitting the
contents of a single egg. The house has
twice been struck by lightning within five
years.
WHAT is believed to be the largest lumber
transaction ever concluded in this country
has just taken place. 1t involves the pur-
chase of what is known as the Durant tract
in the Adirondacks, including nearly all the
spruce timber in that region. covering an
area of about 100000 acres It is estimated
that fully 1,5OO,0O0,0OO feet of spruce and
pine will be cut from this region. The price
paid was something over $500, 200.
RICHARD L. WooTToN, the partner and
bosom friend of Kit Karson, the famous
scout, has been blind for eight years, cata-
racts having formed on his eyes. He re-
Gently underwent an operation in Chicago
which restored his sight Wootton is now
seventy-two years of age. He has had
countless thrilling adventures during his
long career. In 1859 he drove 1900 head
of sheep LOGO miles overland to California
and made over $4,000 by the venture. 1t
took him only 107 days to make the trip.