Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-22

pearance probably indicates presence of mind but absence of cash.
 When Mrs. Botha reaches Dom Paul and petitions him to intercede with her husband to surrender, so that peace may be restored in South Africa, he will probably ask her who ipaid her fare from Pretoria.
 Hayti invites the American negroes to come there and settle. There will be some wild surprise on that island if any of the men of the Tenth cavalry who helped Teddy charge up the hill at Santiago immigrate and take hand in local politics. Men go voting with a gun in Hayti.
 A Phenix woman threw stick of wood at an impudent boy and broke thirty dollar plate glass window. The lady paid the bill but the boy es- capped. She concluded, however, that it don't pay to throw thirty dollar stick at a ten cent kid.
 The Gordian knot was the one tied. according to an ancient Greek legend, by Gordius, king of Phrygia, with a rope of bark, and so ingeniously that no one could unite it. Whoever should l accomplish this would reign over the ! east. Alexander the Great cut the 1 knot in twain with his sword. Hence | to "cut the Gordian knot" is to evade l difficulty in bold way.
 A Pennsylvania man is making life | lively for executors of estates by mail ! ing lawyers forged notes for collec- | ton. So far S3OO,0OO worth have turned up, in favor of all sorts of peo- pie and with very clever limitations of the signatures of the deceased owners of the estates. The letters bearing them are always mailed on trains to avoid town postmarks and no clue to | the man has been found, although he has been at it l5 years.
 It is evident that a campaign for | the restoration of the army canteep | by the next congress has already be | gun. The enlisted men, it is report | ed, often get as drunk as possible ! nowadays out of simple resentment ! and spite, and it follows that the post | commandants, who formerly had can teens under their charge, will be able . to report an immense increase in | drunks and greater difficulties in dis cipline. The feeling of the enlisted | men is not hard to understand. They . think that they are being treated like | children or treated much worse in | having the canteens abolished and . they resent it.-Springfield, Mass, Republican.
 Speaking of gushers, etc, what's the matter with Ella Wheeler Will COX?
 Count Boni is threatened with ap- pendicitis. Constipation of thought, no doubt.
 As there is no pocket in shroud, some of the multi millionaires will be buried in their pants.
 Since the supreme court of Massa- chusetts enjoined Hetty Green to keep still" she has been talking more than ever
 For a coffin combine to be success ful is all the more singular, as its one of the last things any man wants to go into.
 Of course it had to be the farmer member Of the presidents cabinet whose wallet was touched by the Los Angeles pickpocket.
 Pedestrianism is becoming fashion able in London. Most of the bikes have been shipped to South Africa and the war tax have put automobiles entirely out of the running.
 King Edward VII's salary has been placed at S2,2Si.0O0 a year, a large figure. but a monarch who makes no foolish speeches deserves to be well paid.
 An Arizona exchange accuses the Los Angeles Post of being 3l years old, and its editor being a woman , shook all her hairpins out in her haste to deny the charge.
 It is now the correct thing for woman to have her hair laundried, in stead of shampooed. After a while, instead of washing her hands, she may have to irrigate them.
 A statistical opponent of the army canteen says, there's more nutriment inone egg than in six glasses of beer" Here is a chance to effect some sort of a compromise by selling nothing but egg-nOg. i
 A Tucson wife refuses to give up cigarette smoking to please her hus- band and the indignant hubby is sung for divorce. Thus like Behan |. and Moore. another romance ends in smoke.
 The Japanese cabinet rendered its resignation; the German ministry has its moving day; the English are on i the qui vive for change; the cabi- t nets of the Old World abound with the same danger as some American folding beds; there is no rest for the weary. There is always fear of being shut up or shut down.
 At West Point May Is. eighty cadets have been placed under arrest as the result of an angry demonstra tion, during which they trained a field 2 gun on the quarters of Col. Miller, i superintendent of the academy. 2 Wholesale courtmartials are expected { to follow.
 The French foreign office off cials formally deny the statement of the Sydney correspondent of the Lon don Daily Mail as to the alleged in . tention of France to acquire an island / of the Galapagos group, off the coast ' of Ecuador.
 A saloonkeeper of Cochise county in order to maintain wild west rep utation advertises his place as The Bucket of Blood" In print he tells that two drinks of his whisky twill C; make a jack rabbit fight bear; two n glasses of beer will make you whip O your mOther-in-law, and cigars are X guaranteed to be pure alfalfa filler q The Cobre Grande sold on the New ii York market yesterday for S5l share. Some one will make an everlasting u ortune out of that great property.
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