Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-19
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4 Gruesom Find-New Entr rPTise Fro POssd-Our Correspondent
 studies Spanish.

A GFuesom Etnd-NeW Entr rpTiso ITO
 POssd-Oar Correspondent
 studies spanish
 UPPER VERDE, Feb. H. Regular correspondence. Who was II that said, Never argue with a woman unless you are willing Tor her to have the last wordi' The Mining News man says am talking through my bonnet when take the ranch mans word for certain assertion, and straight way he claims the authority of the merchant Tor cer- tain assertions oH his side ot the . controversy. Que tiene va., ml her ! msnoi Are you talking through i your hati
 The bone hunter was abroad m
 the land last week and eXhumed (tbat means to dig upl a lot ot human bones near the hole m the hull below Mir. HIckeys place. ] here
 were two skeletons, and the skull oi
 one of them was sufficiently pre-
 served to enable an amateur Phre- nologist to make a pretty reliable
 report of his general bent of charac- ter. am not much of phrenolo- rist, amateur or otherwise, but 1t occurred to me that be had the big 1 head in the wrong place, IL being located all over the back of hls
 skull. The top of his head was full
 enough for all practical purposes,
 but that expausiVe forehead sO com
 mon among us IS lacking in his case.
 mention this with regret, as hate
 to say any thing rejecting unfavor-
 ably upon an intellect that may
 have belonged to the foremost
 statesman of antedIluvian form oi
 democracy. | notice also that be
 had good teeth, as l extracted the
 on;y one left, and found the enamel
 still in the crown. l am not sure,
 but I think his fighting bump Is
 rather fuller than necessary Tor an individual of a peaceful turn ot
 mind. I've seen things that l prefer
 to look at, but a human skull isn' { one of them. It gives me creepy, grave yardy feeling, and have sense of doing whJt 1 would rather not be done to. when l pick lt up and crit;cise IL. There was a small creature buried with these two, but : whether child or dog, the exhumeI : was unable to tell. An eartheu 5 l bowl. perfectly preserved, was m
 the grave with them. l forgot to
 | mention above that the individual l who owned this head was a very cautious man, very indeed. | lik' ' him for that. There's another thing IT like him for-he had back bone Judging from the number ot vertC 7, brae found in bis possession, he haC ,ust as much back bone as the res I of us, and that's saying great deal ,- But some inqusitive body may O.. n how I know 1t was a ma'e bead
 Well. 1 said in the first place that T u had but one tooth, and DO woman , U going to be buried with one toOti
 in her mouth. She'd die with a iuI |. set, or not die at all.
 u I've been studying Spanish thi IF winter. and want to advise all wh' T. have a yearning for the secluded
 halls of the lunatfc asylum to tax y up Spanish without teacher. In 1t man who got up my Look Tor b' le ginners may be mighty smart mar r. but if were in his place, d thin . twice before requiring a beginner | u translate such a soul dlstractln a sentence as I here quote: "H' d your friend the tailor run away WI h. in. corkscrew of my friend tn 4 Americsn generals French cook Now. m tue first place, that's a sill y ouastiou. because the only friend ts have who is a tailor don't have an le use for a French corkscrew; he'd he much more likely to run away wlt ne the cook. Well, l went to work O
 that sentence and when l had turne u il into Spanish and returned 1t ln' oi English the result vas so startiin of that jumped when l looked at ,i- Twas SO afraid that somebody wouI see the silly thing that l picked 70 the whole exercise and threw lt 10 the fire. I'm getting on cely m, Spanish and would have translate ce that sentence all right If it hadr of been for that everlasting corkscre
 Pm at work on it yet and feel hop IT. fuI. but 1 do say if l were getting tn '. Spanish book for beginners | ve select some other instrument oi tC ,,- tura than A corkscrew to extract tI ,i. knowledge of the student. us There IS quite an excitement aoo ey the rich gold strike near the Cher ln- creek gulch on Central Verde.
 to There IS also talk ot creame .ns at some suitable point in the vale no We hope it will not be "all talk. "o The Good Templar's supper al ut entertainment will be al Mrs. Ma his Willard's on tho 18th of this mont his Come and help us enjoy the ent' ,o ,ainment and cat up the supper 5O cents per head.