The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
NOTES.

From 1878 to 1870, inclusive, the United
States mints coined 376,641 $40 pieces Of
money, aggregating in value $119,O71,313.
Colonel T. w. Higginson, is mentioned as
possible Mayor of Cambridge, Mass, where
he now lives.
Herbert Spencer is said to have lately
almost suddenly recovered health, and is
better than he has been for fifteen years.
George Elliot's health is so seriously de-
clining that she is unable to finish several
MSS. One of these is an essay ON Herbert
Spencer.
The Sacramento Bee says: Grant look
old and weary. Once as straight as an arrow,
strong and sturdy, he is now stoop shouldered
and seemingly afflicted with lassitude. Two
years and a half of continued reception ap-
pear to have worn him down.
The demand for rails engendered by the
building of new railways and the extension OF
old ones the present year, has been so great
that the steel rail mills have been utterly in
adequate to supply it, and the pressure upon
the iron rail mills has become almost equally
urgent. Orders have been taken fordelivery
in some cases as far ahead as February, 1880
Prof. Klinkerfues, the director of the
Observatory at Gottingen, has patented new
telegraphic invention by which it is said to be
possible to send as many as eight messages
simultaneously along the same wire.
portion of the invention is an apparatus
which simultaneously writes down all the
messages as they arrive at the station to
| w&ich they are addressed.
The mileage of new railroads built in the
Z nited States during the first nine months of
| the current year is given, on authority of the
Railroad Gazette, as 2,2l4 miles, as compared
| with 1,167 miles for the corresponding period
of 1878, 1896 in 1877, and 1,777, in 1876. AT
this rate, the mileage of new road at the close
of the year will figure up to 2,767 miles.
The construction OF the Interoceanlc rail-
| road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to
which we have already referred inthe journal,
| is said to have already begun. This enter
prise is intended as a rival to the Panama
| Railroad, and is based upon the authority OF a
concession from the Mexican government to
Mr.. Edward Larned, of Pittstield, Mass,-ES,
The construction of the Hudson tunnel,
which, from the period of its first projection
up to the present, has been hampered with
litigation, has lately been resumed, the cdsus
belE having been removed by the agreement
of the tunnel company to pay to D., l.. d W.
Railroad Company q certain sum for the
right of way. 1t is anticipated that the work
will be completed within three years.
Charles Reade is reported to have been fond
of fiction from his boyhood, when he made ur
tales and read all Scott's novels before he
was twelve years old While at college he
read at least half dozen novels week. He
has been called to the bar, but never
practised, having read law simply as an aid il
writing novels. He is a stout hater of in,
justice, and declares that he can no longer
afford to write with no higher object thai
entertainment; that the noble and only
: worthy end of fiction is to correct evils il
society and the State.
On the first of October the GENITAL system
will go into effect in most of the large cite.
and trade centers Of the country, in the hand
ling of great variety of articles. This mean
that quantities and amounts will be estimated
t by weight instead of measure, and purchase
and sales will be made by the pound ant
2 Genital. Thus. instead of measuring grair
and other bulky articles by the bushel, they
/, will be bought and sold by the GENITAL, o
a hundred weight. This standard will sool
e displace the inconvenient one of the oil,
hundred weight of l12 pounds, and no doub
, the rule of buying and selling by weight in
\ stead of bulk will eventually be adopted il
= most retail transactions, as it ought to be.