The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
VANITY'S FAIR.

Nearly all the pawnbrokers Of France are
women. ...
A lady vi 81 years was one of the dancers
at a recent Council Bluffs merry-making.
Steel birds with jet beaks and eyes, are
among the ornaments important for fall hats.
Mr.. Gladstone is poor, but his wife has a
large fortune, with which she is very gener-
Gus.
New designs in sleeve-buttons are square,
with Japanese figures in relief, or impressed
on them.
The Queen of England keeps posted or the
affairs OF the world by being a diligent reader
OF the daily papers.
A well known firm advertises the arrival Of
five hundred baby carriages. There is nothing
like taking time by the torelock. Next year
is leap year.
Many a woman dusts billiard chalk of her
husbands coat, and a big tear stands in her
eye as she thinks how late he works nights at
his desk by the whitcwashed wall.-NeW
York People.
"Beaconsfeld has become a regular old
woman," says IA correspondent. He probably
spends his time darning Afghans.-Phad-
detphia Bulletin.
A Bay City, Mich, girl won the first prize,
for the greatest proficiency, in the Academy of
Fine Arts at Philadelphia this year.
Cork is now extensively used in corsets
paniers and in dress improvers in place OF
steel. If the gentle ones fall into the water
they will not need a life preserver.
Always add a line or o on the margin of
a letter to a lady. You can't imagine how
much satisfaction a woman obtains in turn
ing her letter upside down to read apostscript.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is at her home,
E~dgewOOd, about three miles from Washign-
ton, and it is understood will hereafter remain
there, not going to Europe, as has been said.
When a handsome Baltimore lady asked a
pedestrian to knock a man down who had
been following her, he swiftly obeyed, and
was much astonished to learn that it was her
husband.
Hamilton Co., o., has had a cooking
contest, and a prize was awarded to a young
woman who prepared a dinner in sixty-tive
minutes. Another girl cooked one in less
time, but it was not good. Herein lieth a
moral.
In Paris wooden shoes are all the rage.
They are called sabots, and are made of
ebony and mahogany, inlad with silver, gold,
ivory and mother-Of-pearl, which are truly
the most coquettish and novel inventions of
the day.
The wife of the sheriff of Sacramento horse
whipped a female bladk-mailer, who came to
her house to tell her stories against the hus-
band, and a jury not only acquitted her of
assault and battery, but sent her home in a
carriage.
Says Francis Parkman in the North Ameri-
q n ga woman is called masculine ~oftener
because she lacks womanilness than because
she possesses manliness, and a mau is called
feminine Oftener because he lacks manliness
than because he possesses womanliness."
A young lady of New York was married
the other day in the wedding gown of her
grandmother, made seventy years ago, with
out any alteration, and so similar were the
styles nc one knew but it was a new one,
''made for the OCCASION"
The Queen of Belgium, while in London,
visited the Home for Lost Dogs at Battersea.
The Queen is a great admirer of small dogs
and carries one always which is arrayed in IA
coat the same color as her dress. Each time
her dress is changed an attendant changes the
dogs coat.
Among true heroines may be classed Mary
Ann Wilson, and old woman who vends pea
nuts in New Orleans. She takes for her mis-
sion the nursing of yellow fever patients.
Not only in New Orleans did she devote her.
self to this work, but she went to Savannah,
Memphis, Granda, and other places where the
"fever king" held dreadful sway.