Arizona republican., 1906-07-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In WestbOro. Me, Percy NJ Arnold, Saw deer the other day. The animal allowed the man to approach it. Ar mold threw his arms around the deer neck. The deer sprang off toward the woods at great speed and the man was afraid to let go. The deer rushed through bushes and over walls in it's endeavor to shake off it's strange bur den. At last the deer brought up against tree. and as MT Arnold had no wind left after meeting the tree he dropped off. Arnold will be forced to buy new suit of clothes to replace the tattered rags which the bushes left him-when the doctor allows him out once more
 4 brakeman retired to a farm and started to lead the simple life. Having piece of new land to break, he hitch ed up team of mules. wrapped the lines around his waist in farmer fash ion and started to work. He had gone but a short distance when he saw a stump ahead and immediately began giving the railroad stop" signal with both hands. The plough struck the stump and the brakeman went head first over the plough. Picking himself up. he ran angrily to the mules and roared: You Appeared scoundreIs. don't you ever look back for d sig nal?"-Atchison Globe.
 A professor in English in the Uni versity of Wisconsin. according to "Harper's Weekly" tells of some clever replies made by a student under ex- animation in English. The candidate had been instructed to write out ex- amples of the indicative. the subjunc- tive the potential and the excIamatory of f,,TT
 l am endeavoring to pass the Eng fish examination. If I answer twenty questions l shall pass. If 1 answer twelve questions I may pass. God help mel"
 Tt must be nice to be a hero" re- marked the quiet man. Tt is for a minute" replied Senator Badger. "Af- ter that the hero wonders at the worlds bad memory" = Milwaukee Sentinel.
 Grave digging is not a gray busi- ness, said a grave digger but it is a very old one. and many curious su- perstitions surround it. one of these is never to buy a new spade. To dig q grave with spade that is new is sup posed to bring death in the family within a twelvemonth. Hence grave diggers buy their spades second hand, as rule. Another superstition with some is that grave should never stand open overnight. It should not, they say be dug till the day of the funeral; if t is made the day before beware There is a third superstition that if a cock crows once while a grave is being dug, one friend of the digger will die; if it crows twice, two will die; if thrice. three"
 Bill-They say there was an actor at the theatre last night who got hit square in tho face with an overripe egg.
 Jill was there.
 Didn't you feel sorry?"
 Yes, l did. There was a woman sitting in front Of me with a big hat and l didn't sec tho egg strike him." -Yonkers Statesman.
 Brussels has a dog detective it is proud of. For some time in the darker parts Of the city cyclists have been assaulted and their wheels stolen A special police service was organized to stop those crimes. IL so happened that one of the officers charged with this service possesses a dog whose natural intelligence has been quickened by the best professional training which his master could give him. The dog was pressed into the service. On Monday evening, as ms. owner was unSuS- piciously passing some piles of ma sorry on waste ground, the dog be- came restlessly elert. and. rushing among all the ins and outs, soon led the officer to the hiding place of five of the worst thieves known to the Brussels police. The spectacle of five men being "shepherded" to jail by one police officer and a dog attracted much attention.
 The polttest man has been discover ed. He was hurrying along the street the other night, when another man, also in violent haste rushed out of a doorway, and the two collided with great force.
 The second man looked mad while the polite man, taking off his hat. said
 My dear sir, I don't know which of us is to blame for this violent en- counter, but I am in too great a hurry to investigate. If I ran into you, I beg your pardon; if you ran into me. don't mention it."
 And he tore away with redoubIed Journal
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