Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-02-22

mander-in-Ch of the G. A. h' commenting on the proposed amend ment to the pension law requiring veterans to proclaim themselves paupers or relinquish their pension ,'were all that Lincoln asked of us.
 Every speech made by Senator Hill appears to leave his position in greater doubt.
 Brethern, the hoop-skirt has ar rived, and all che ridicule in the world will not prevent its being worn. Let every young man equip himself with a powerful magnet, that the dear girls may be irrestibly drawn to him.
 |. s. bonds when properly issued are worth big premium, but when issued only in the colums of sensa- tional newspapers they arc worth somewhat less than nothing.
 Perhaps the selection of Judge Gresham for the cabinet is intended as a recognition of the populists, who gave material assistance to the democrats last November and from whom the votes necessary to re- organize the senate must come.
 The American boodlers now dom iciled in Canada must feel the pangs of envy every time they read the European news.
 Great Scott Weaver is still talk ing He made a political speech in New YorL the other night. No eggs were used.
 Senator Turpie is said to know how to talk in eight languages. This may be true, but those who watch the Congressional Record P will readily concede that he knows how not to talk in at least sixteen differ ent languages.
 Senator Hill is a convert to the Cleveland idea on silver and Charles A. Dana is working around to Mir. C.'s idea of the tariff. Harmony is always desirable, brethren.
 If every democrat who held office between March i. 1885 and March I, 1889. is to be reinstased, and all of them seem to expect to be, what is to become of the other applicants ?
 If the Minnesota legislature legis- lates against the wearing of hoop skirts, how will the state officers find out whether the law has been violatedf
 The number of gentlemen who think themselves it to engage in a catch-as-catch-ean with a cabinet portfolio is out of all proportion 10 the number of portfolios.
 Queer things happen in Tam many-goyerned city. The bar rooms all keep open on Sunday, but the other day a building contractor was arrested and put under $500 bail to stand trial for working on Sunday
 He is a big-hearted man indeed who has any sympathy for those who lost money in the wbIskey trust.
 The sentiment of the country seems to favor annexation.
 Our contemporary, in it's support of Farish's candidacy for the gov ernorship, goes into riddles yess terday about ~wobbly," demo erats and men who have gro Sn gray in Arizona. While readers of the paper know what it said, they arc at a loss to know what it means.
 4 Phenix visitor complains to the Gazette that real estate is held at too high figure in the Salt River Valley. He says that a number of proposed investors have been de- tered from buying land on that account.
 The seventeenth legislature con- tains many able members. Among those who have heretofore had ex- perience in the legislative halls of our territory are the following: Geo. W. Cheyney, A. ]. Doran, Foster $. Dennis, W. M. Lowell and M. J. Nu- gent in the council. In the house are Luther Martin, R. \. Leatherwood Mike Gray. Many of the new mem bers, while lacking in actual legisla- tive experience, are possessed of ability to faithfully represent their Both branches are overwhelmingly democratic, the re- publicans having only four members out of the 12 in the council and out of 24 in the house.
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