The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-30
VOTES

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One hundred thousand Londoners live on
canal boats and barges.
Hanlan has won $4,000 in the past year
and his bar room in Toronto clears his $500
Il week. &SH-45A@8 G#s@5@
Susan B. Anthony says she would go on the
stage. but she can't bear being made love to,
even in the play. .tJ4 "a s..a8&%4&4..
Huxley tells the London University boys
that industry and physical endurance are
better than cleverness. --
Thomas Carlyle says he wants a quiet
funeral. And Thomas shall have one if he
can keep quiet long enough himself.
Lucretia Mott has been elected president
of the PENNSYLVANIA PeacegS Society. She is
eighty-six years old and lis hin excellent
health.
1t is just twenty-nine years since Garibaldi
was a soap and candle-maker Oh Staten Island,
New York harbor. He is sevent three years
Of age.
Prof. Lubbock believes that ants produce
sounds which are heard and understood by each
o,her, bnt which are not sufficiently loud to be
distinguished by the human ear.
Captain Ericsson says the sun itself has no
heat, but it is our atmosphere which gives
heas by the passage ofthe solar rays through
1t. he believes that the whole solar system
is inhabited.
The German government has dissolved the
three gymnastic societies at Strasburg because
they took part in the fetes at Nancy on the
OCCASION of the unwilling of the Theirs monu-
tnent. ..#.#..4
An incident OF daily occurrence at Passaic
bridge, N. j., is the appearance of a little girl
at the depot, who awaits the arrival of the
train with a bouquet of choice flowers. which
she sends by a conductor to be placed on the
grave of a playmate of hers who lately died.
The flowers act as weather interpreters.
When their oder is very strong, the air is
gradually becoming damp, and rain may not
be far of. They are very sensitive to the
atmosphere, and increase OF dampncsS causes
them to throw out perfume.
What is believed to be the largest rope in
the world is a grapnel rope 10000 fathoms
long without a splice, and has been made for
the Siemens Telegraph Company. 1t is made
Of three strands. the diameter of the completed
rope being two inches.
In the stlect parade of a circus at Mayfield,
Mo-, was a Ions cage out Of which hung the
beasts tail. A boy could not resist the
temptation to pull it; whareupon the lion
attacked a mar who was it the cage. and bit
him dangerously.
n halt a dozen drugs seems to be sufficient
to combat all kinds of diseases. During the
last Turko-Russla war the medical staff of
the Russian army ordered $4,000 pounds of
l~uinine, 10000 pounds of chloroform, 10000
pounds of castor oil, and several thousand
pounds of opium, gum arabic, champion, and
carbolic acid. With these they felt prepared
for all emergencies.
The Paris street names have been so uni
versally changed of late as to excite indigna-
ton and ridicule. One of the French news
papers gives the account of a court scene ::
The J~udge-"Your name Prisoner
''Guiboliard." "Where do you live??' 81
don't know "What don't know ? how is
that?" II have been in prison for two weeks.
The name of my street has probably been
changed several times since then"
The wife of the sheriff of Morris county,
ILL.,, us small, delicate, and habltually screams
at mice; but when a stalwart prisoner
escaped from his cell, and ran through her
room with a revolver in his hand, she tripped
him, threw herself upon his PROSTATE body,
and held him down until her husband came.
There is one certain way in which to tell a
bogus S. bill. A genuine is made of paper
mixed with hair, and the hair stands out so
plainly that you can often catch hold OF them
with your fingers, or pick them out with a pin.
The secret Of making this kind of paper cost
the government . vast some of money, and no
eounterfeiter has ever been able to produce
any paper like it. Hence the bogus bill is
checked with ink to resemble the hairy SUI
face OF the genuine, and the checks can
always be detected upon close examination.