The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-15

TOOK the stun, ana ground III
Not q penny was there in it,
Save the Sc gouge around 1t.
Engineering Joaunal.
Late to bed and early TO Iyes wears out the
strongest constitution. a sH
A Texas dog ate up s. worth of postage
James Gordon Bennett will send on the
Polaris such men as he never wants to see
again.
When a man puts ali innocent hen to work
over a porcelain egg, is he setting that hen a
agood egg-sample?
Chicago school teachers haven't been paid
for four months, and they are. licking an
average OF seven boys per day each.
A man never enjoys the keen enjoyment OF
fishing on the part of the fish, until he gets
the hook well into the ball of his thumb.
If the socialists keep on shooting at the
monarclls Of Europe, it might pay for some
American to go over and copper the king.
The car hasn't been shot at for so long
that he feels lonesome, snd thinks his people
never think about him any more.-Haaokeye.
When q boy sees a nice, round, smooth
stone lying on the ground, he always thinks
it rather mean that there isn't a yellow dog
in the vicinity.
The rooster that will leave his crow half
crowed to gobble a worm, may not be a mu-
steal success, but we will bet on him for all
that.-Boston Transcript.
Professor in law recitation-"Mr. -,
what is an excusable homicide ?" Senior
promptly-"Execusable homicide is when a
man kills himself in self-defense."
Stanley while away down in Central Afri-
ca, discovered one or two tribes SO hopeless
ly, despairingly, supremacy ignorant, that
they didn't know any more than a petit jury.
Shout, Yell and Holler are the names of
three Michigan families not related. Their
names sound well, and they evidently belong
to "high-toned" society.-DanielsonpiUe
Sentinel.
said a lady to her husband as they wendell
their way from church. eyes," was the re-
ply with a yawn, "but do you know I
thought it never would be-"
"No, I can't stay,'' replied a gentleman
who was invited TO stay all uight at the
house of q friend before morning my wife
would out with a lantern, like Diogenes,
hunting for an honest man, So Z.
The play was at its height in the card room'
tf a wel-known club, inc from a distant
corner was heard: "We are too to tout"
11By Joye, W. are too to too too p responded
a player at an adjoining table. No wonder,
that a German there present likened our
language TO a French horn.-Judy.
Up with the sun in the morning, "a
To bee with the sun at night. 4
That is the only timely warning
To heed, if you would feel bright
Through the day.
Sc they say, L.
But very few people take an stock in it.
Rome Sentinel.
If the young men who persist in wearing
their hair filed off to the first joint knew how
abominably they look, they'd 90 out and,
plant themselves somewhere until the sum-
mer roses to fade and their head
! rigging gets enough fuzz on it to keep flies
from slipping up on the surface thereof.
Nextl-Ezmira Gazette.
A Glasgow minister was recently called in
to see a man who was very i'll. After finish
ing his visit as he was leaving the house, he
said TO the mans wife "My good woman,
do you go e. any church at all ?" 'Oh, yes,
sir, We so to the Barony kirk" "Then why
didn't you send for DR.. Macleod ?" ana, ma,
deed no we wadna risk him. Do ye ken
MS : dangerous case of typhus Pr
When . bee brings pollen into the hive, he
advances ~ the cell In which it is to be de-
posited and kicks il OF; another bee, one of
The indoor hands, comes along and rams il.
down with his head and packs it into the cell
- > dairy-maid packs butter into a firkin.-
yoAs Burrouohs. We would prefer not to
have any dairy-maid pack our butter that
3uag-TraUeter's Record. II our butter must
be packed in that wsy, let IL be done by .
baldsheaded dairy-maid.-Rome Sentinel.
A slnsil boy had seen his mothers fur
mnf that had been badly eaten by moths.
Shortly afterw4rd be was In his faihsr's sta
BE watching the process Of cnrrying his pet
22eny. The animal was shedding is coat and
~ponsequentiy large punches or hair came out
mn each application X the comb. With
aas IN his eyes me lIttis fellow rushed into