The Coconino sun., 1919-09-05

quest" Jack assured him. Don't you know I've got to hold an inquest?"
 "Well, l didn't know. I've been treating him for smallpox for about thirty days, and"
 "What's that you say 2" Jack ex- claimed. "Been treating him for smallpox? Did he have smallpox ?' "Yes, he had it, all right. But it was lightning that killed him"
 "Well, if you're sure it was light ming that killed him, l guess we won't have to holdtan inquest" observed Jack, reluctantly.
 This adv. appeared in the Menard (Tex.) Messenger:
 "To whom it may concerns: The party who carried away a Slop-jar from my place will please call and get the lid, which will be found on the opposite side of the gate, for it is a shame to break the set.-Mrs. Glenn Murchison."
 Though the cloud may be dark,
 There is sunshine beyond it;
 Though the night may be long, sg Yet the morning is near;
 Though the vale may be, deep,
 There is music arounAit;
 And hope mid our sorrow,
 Bright hope is e'er near.
 E. P. Taylor, director of the agri- cultural extension service, University of Arizona, here last week, in com menting on Flagstaff's delightful climate, felt constrained to tell a story that he said might get him into trouble if it became known back in Tucson that he had told it here: A New Mexico. farm agent, former ly minister, one-day met at con- ference of ministers preacher from Tucson. g
 "How are things going in Tucson?" he Asked him.
 "Not very well," the Tucson man re- piled. "For three months in the year the climate is so delightful that the people don't care whether they go to pheaven or not; the rest of the year it is so hot they don't care whether they go to hell or not"
 It's a grand old world if you're great, And mean old world if you're small; |;
 It's world full of hate
 For the foolish who prate Of the uselessness of it all.
 At the present rate of increase of native lumber in New Zealand 1t is estimated that the supply oS standing timber will spotfla more than thirty years.
 When shoes cost so much it doesn'. seem right that a COW should be al- lowed, to wear full suit of leather.
 asome of these p9ople who get SC much enjoyment out Sof looking up data about ancestors probably don't realize that if they go back far enough they win run on to some that they might not care to own," says Ed Rufin. And then he explains why:
 "If you cut out collateral ancestors altogether, and figure up your par ents, their parents, the latters par ents, and so on, all the way back, in 24 generations, their number--that is the number of your grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, and on back-would equal little more than the present population of England. Twenty-Five generations of them amount to much more than the population of the United States. Canada and Mexico, combined, while only 30 generations of your direct ancestors greatly ex- , ceed in number the population of the entire world. Thirty generations of any mans direct ancestors number 2,127 1923 ,008 people. ..
 "These figures prove that we all have all kinds of blood mixed in us; that all kinds of miscreants, all kinds of saints, all creeds and conditions contribute to the finished personality of today. It also proves that ak man kind are akin, something everyone knows>though few realize just what 1t
 A couple of epitaphs:
 Died when young and full of promise, Of whooping cough. our Thomas.< Readers, pass on! Don't waste your
 time ..
 On bad biography and better rhyme; For what I am, this crumblins. clay
 ipsures,
 And What was, is no affair of yours.