Arizona republican., 1897-10-20
THIS BUSY WORLD.

The only consistent man is he who never does or says anything.
 A young lady in Paris kissed her pug dog and died of hydrophobia. i, Moral: Kiss somebody else
 Dr. Johnson: "Women give great offense by a contemptuous spirit of noncompliance on petty occasions"
 "A refined girl wanted for general housework," reads an advertisement in a Kansas City newspaper.
 The best way for Georgia to re- form her penal system is to convict the men who are responsible for it.
 The average telegraph messenger always learns how to smoke a cigar cite before he learns how to close a door,
 Cervantes: ''The woman who is re- solved to be respected can make her self to be so even amidst an army of soldiers"
 The first imports of cattle to Amer ica were made by Columbus in 1493, who brought over a bull and several COWS.
 Mississippi is perhaps the only state in the Union that elects its United States senators over two years be- fore the time for taking their seats. The full name of the smallest state in the Union is 'the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" and the legal title Of its chief officer is governor, captain general and commander-in-chief."
 A southern paper refers to go'f as "dude shinny'' All well regulated kids have played shinny, but they would lick the life out of the boy who talked about "snoodling gutty out of a bunker with a nIblick."
 R. A. Van Wyck, Tammany candi- date for mayor of Greater New York, | is hearty eater and holds the prize for eating the most beefsteak- -twen- l ty-six pieces at the grand annual competition of the Beefsteak club.
 A Philadelphia scientist dec-ares i the idea that whiskey is a cure fer snake bite has been completely ex- ploded. It is wonder these men of
 science cannot let laymen enjoy at least this one of the old and comfort i ing traditions.
 MT. Benjamin F. Hunt of Boston ] who is 8S, is to wed Mrs. Sherman of | Watertown, who is 90. The differ ence in age ought to have been on the other side, but as the bride-to4be is worth a million, there is no hard kick coming to the groom.
 In ascending Mount Ararat this fall, Dr. Stoeber, a geologist, was frozen to death. The late Noah, who lit on the mountain some years back, made no complaint of the temperature Anything in the line of real estate cold or hot, came in very handy about ] that time.
 New York proudly claims to have a l William Shakespeare among it's two i million inhabitants Kansas City had ] one, too, up to few years ago, when he moved to New Mexico. He was a i shoemaker in the west bottoms and l had evidence to show that he was a descendant of the immortal William. Chauncey l. Filley spent a week in Troy, N. Y., visiting the scenes of his childhood. While there he said: ''The last cigar I smoked I got from Presi- dent Garfield on the day he was shot by Guiteau. The president had two imported cigars in his case, and gave me one. Son after, the assassin s bullet inflicted the wound which caus- ed the presidents death. I have not smoked since that day"
 A St. Louis servant had $35.75 eav- ed up after four months hard work. Then she suddenly became infatuat- ed with a beautiful Parisian hat dis played in a shop window there and at once paid the price, S35.50, asked for it. All the other hired girls in the block made so much sport of her, | owing to the contrast between the gorgeous headgear and the rest of her apparel that she spent the remaining twenty-five cents for morphine and now she is expected to die.