Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-26

my last birthday; cook is only a little scorched not hurt. But nobody knows | how in the world it ever started. Can | vou guess? | mean the fire, for our house | is burned down to the ground, last night. | The firemen worked like heroes, one had | oh, just such a lovely mustache! you must | let yours grow. dear hubby, that every | thing was saved; my new hat and bapy and myself are all out of danger and or course | am with mamma and she had such fright you can never thlnk, and well she might, it came so sudden, but then where was the use when baby ana | were safe, and don't you go and worry yourself into fever because we are all right. baby and l are out of all danger and my new hat and now come home and let us set things to rights. Baby calls papa all day and wasn't 1t horrible, es- pecially when l think what might have happened if baby had been-but 1 can t think of it without a shudder or spasms or something, but now that We are saie, baby and I, we want you to come home as quick as ever you can.
 Ever your
 AMANDA.
 S.-Baby and are safe and every thing. so don't worry
 N lleD lilG iuUN llNiNi llllloAiNNA t'iN' she handed the sheets to the operator, sweetly and modestly remarlking that perhaps the message might be reduced a little and would he kindly do so?
 The matter-of-fact man of business took q new sheet and wrote
 House burned to ground Everything safe Come home"
 The abridged message was sent.
 If am not mistaken it was short tune after the first publication of Dickens 1 Bleak House" that a great controversy arose among the medical gentlemen Of Great Britain as to the possibility or death bv spontaneous combustion so that the author found it pertinent to give ln the preface of the later edition hls authorl- ties for the extraordinary taking off of old Krook of the rag shop. Well, strange things will happen, and 1 heard the other day of the sudden taking off of a man which astonished me not little It oc- curred in a conversation between an Eng hshman and an American who both reiat ed incidents of fabsentmindedness that had come under their personal observation After they had enumerated a great many common occurrences, like looking all ovel the desk for pen while it was sticking all the while behind the writer's ear, etc. the American said: That is nothing that is an everyday occurrence, but knew a man in New York who in plan daylight pulled his wife's nose, thlnklnl it was the handle of the bell pull" Well, sad he from over the water that ma. have been an optical illusion, or perhap her nose was shaped that way; but Wha , do vou say to freak of my cousin, tn captain of marines3 He was in the habl when he retired at night, of hanging hl
 dresscoat over the back of q char an' then lying down in bed. What do yo , think he did one night? He actual
 laid his coat into the bed, covered 1t Il f and then hung over the back Of the chaI f and slept there until morning"
 ' That is pretty strong said our Amer - ican with a pensive air, but look hert n do you believe l am truthful man f "As much so as L. responded the Brltlsi 7, er "T am sure" Well resumed the a II had an uncle in Boston who for son F reason or other would never burn ga | He would undress by the light of wa r. candle, snugly ensconse himself und'
 the blankets and then blow out the hgll l. What would he do one nightE lie d l. murely placed the candle Ill his bed, co F cred it up carefully and blew himself o ,- (here the E. started to rum and was ne a CT after seen or heard of,
 ,t Some weeks later an English pero d ical brought lengthy article heade d Death by Absentmindedness III Bosto Q. U. 5. A.