Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-19

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 A doctor in Massachusetts says that eating beef makes people insane He probably qualified the assertion, though, by ''at present prices"
 Los Angeles papers have been very profuse in their illustrations of the Phenix carnival. George Ruffner, of Prescott, was among the subjects illustrated, as that of king of the COW boys and broncho busters.
 Great Britain, it is said, is prepar- ing to block the Nicaraguan canal. If this is the case, very soon Great Britian will be whistling for Kaiser William to pull the dog off.-Phenix Enterprise.
 Oom Paul says that he would come to the United States if he thought it would do any good, althought he fears the terrible hardships of winter travel. Evidently Dom thinks that he would have to travel in an OK cart if he should come over here.
 A western bill collector recently climbed telegraph pole to hand his little account to line man at the top. Why not employ this man to collect from Abdul Hamid?
 Those large bodies of excursionists who promised to come from Denver and Los Angeles to the Phenix carni- val, have not yet materialized. Phe- nicians spend thousands of dollars in Los Angeles every summer, but the latter do not seem to have learned the law of reciprocity yet.
 Jim Jeffries, the pugilist, and Doro- thy Drew, the actress, are just now being accorded considerable newspa- per space over lovers quarrel. Jim says Dorothy lied when she intimated that they were engaged to be mar ried, and Dorothy says she will make Jim pay for using such language, un- less he apologies to her. Jimmy was very ungallant in his statement about their love affairs, but after all the public is not interested in it and they should fight it out privately as hundreds have done before.
 General Knox is giving a lively chase to Gen. Dewet.
 New York gave Winston Churchill a rousing reception on his arrival in this country.
 Mir. Lease is perfectly willing to have the court grant a divorce to Mary Ellen Lease.
 Washington, on December 12th, celebrated the Tooth anniversary of the location of the national capital there.
 A man and woman were recently married in Philadelphia at D. m. Q and separated at 3p. m. If Phila- delPhia, the staid old Quaker city, can keep this lick up she will soon outdo Chicago in this line.
 While the Hollanders sang psalms and received Oom Paul Kruger with enthusiastic demonstration, the Dutch government has finally and definitely refused to take he initiative in behalf of arbitration between the Transvaal and Great Britain.
 The Enterprise says: There is no politics in insisting that Arizona be made a state. It is simply cold business propositisn that all sensible men should support" Prior to cleo tion that paper seemed to take a diff ferent view of matters.
 You can never tell what a woman will do. A Wyoming candidate for congress declared that the woman vote was easy to get, easy to keep and easy to manipulate and the women turned out and didn't do a thing to him on election day.
 Possibly our Anglomaniacs will hesitate to go to live in Great Britain when the decision in the Winans case IS generally known. That gentle mans estate must pay S1, ,2OOO,OOO to the British crown in death dutles be- cause he was a "domiciled resident" of Great Britain.
 It IS curious historical fact that before the civil war Kentucky was not blood thirsty. Her citizens fought. indeed, but it was with their fists. Killings were practically unknown. But the war brought out the latent strain of sayagery-Ex.
 Connecticut was too proud to ac- cept one of the powerful new coast defense monitors as a namesake, but Nevada took it thankfully. It is just about Nevada's size you know.
 England's friendship for the United States is like that of some individuals So long as courtesies are all in ther favor, she is all right.
 A Mexican in jail at Los Angeles amused the other prisoners by tell ing them that he was going to get an other judge to try his case as the one who presided at his trial was preiu- diced against him, and was deter mined to have him convicted. The prisoner was not well skilled in the use of the English language and as his reason for coming to this conclu- | sion he said: "Whenever my lawyer . objects to something a witness is about to say the judge says Over the road and sometimes he says Over the road before my lawyer has chance to say word. Oh, he was bound to send me up." The deluded Mexican boy imagined that the judge said "Over the road" every time be said