The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-17
NOTES AND NEWS.

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The greatest prayer is patience.
The Peruvians seem to have barked up the
wrong enemy. ii e
Hope is the sugar coating on the pill 81
iife.-WnitehaM Times.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as
well as under adversely.
Lite ID comedy 10 him who thinks, and q
tragedy to him who feels.
The American Episcopal Church has now
seventy congregations in Mexico.
A little less money and a little more good
character would improve hosts Of people
vastly. /
Happiness is something we are all looking
for. When found, introduce the stranger to
your neighbor.
The Chicago Journal says that a man has
never yet been found so sick and weak, that
he could not draw his salary.
1t is with wit as with razors, which are,
never so apt to cut those they are emp1oYaa;
on, as when they have lost their edge.
Dennis Kearney says this country g isssIyn'
by college consumptives and academic3yaga-
bonds who don't know howto. SOW potatoes.7
Robert Lincoln and Stephen a. Douglas
are both practicins law in Chicago; and both
are prominent in their respective political
parties. 500
Among the Seminole Indians there is a
tradition that Florida was once. inhabited by
a half-civilized race, who were artisans and
great in wealth and war.
Judge Woener, of St. Louis, has recently
decided that a mulatto is not a negro, and
that the law forbidding negroes intermarrying
with whites does not apply to mulattoes.y 5
Among the speakers at the next Yale COM
mencement will be Chun Lung, a Chinese
member of the class of 1870, who will deliver |
an Grafton on " The Chinese in America"
The footprints of a barbarian in the sand
prove The presence of a man to that same
atheist who denies the existence of a God Of
whose hand the whole universe bears the |
impress. ....0. .r.
A book is announced by Lee & Shepard
relating the adventures of a gentleman who
on a bet of SIS 900 walked in the guise of a !
from New York to New Orleans in
twenty-five days.
Thu white man may go to Leadville, says
the Detroit Free Press, get broke and die
there for all anybody cares. Let a negro go
to Kansas and get homesick and an excursion
ticket will be sent him for the return trip.
Those who have never seen Senator Thur
man may like to know that he has a massive
frame, a large, well-shaped head, covered
with gray hair, bright, humorous eyes, and a ]
large mouth. His manner of speaking is I;
eminently business~like.
A monument is to be erected at Titusville,
Pa, to COL Drake, who sunk the first oil we'll Y
IN the State. The Philadelphia Bulletin says Il
t will be made of papier mache, composed
of the certificates of stock that represented
early oil wells, AM will be at least a
million feet high if all are used.
One of our clergy, says the Boston Tran
puts checkers among the :" games Of
that are "positively hurtful." He
would doubtless count jackstones as simply
Itrocious. By the way, wonder how much
+ a chance the reverend gentleman i
would have in a contest with a good checker
layer. ~. NJ
Senator Hill of Colorado made his money
" science and hard work. He was Professor
# Chemistry in Brown University for four
ears ; spent W years in the mining regions
# Wales and Saxony, studying metalurgy,
nd put his knowledge to good account later Ii
n Colorado as manager Of the Boston and
Colorado Smelling Company position
which he still retains.
In Professor Huxley's recent work on
1ulne, there is this passage: Gone of the u
nost curious peculiarities of the dog mind is
is inherent snobbishness, shown by the re-
ard paid TO external respectability. The
og which banks furiously at a beggar will lie
well-dressed man pass him without opposit
ion. Has he not a'generic idea of rags
dirt associated with the idea of aversion
that of sleek broadcloth associated with
he idea of liking?" @s..
The Ohio Democratic Nomination.