The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-28
VANITY'S FAIR.

Queen Victoria has twenty-five grand
children living.
ANewport lady dimes off a $4,000 set of
Dresden china.
France has 100000 manageable girls.
History says that Eve first tempted Adam,
but We have never heard her story.
1t is always the smoke from the other
mans cigar that is offensive to the young
lady.
Call a 200 pound girl s'Little Rose-bud' if
you want to please her.
Fanny Davenport has been trying to prevail
upon Anna Dickinson to write a new play
for her. "
1t is better sometimes not to follow great re-
formers of abuses beyond the thresholds of
their own homes.
If we are ever caught in a shower Of pros
perity remember we can find shelter with
some poor naighbor, III whose threshold we
might allow some of the supeltiuous drops to
tall.
1.-THE 'Mary" who 'had the little lamb
was Mary Sawyer, of Sterling, Mass. The
poem was written sixty or more years ago., by
John Roulstone, a Boston boy.
Miss Anrie Louis Cary, the singer, has an
elegant summer residence at Portland, Me.
1t is of orick and brown stOne, contains
works of art and has a pretty lawn.
Gen. Sherman's third daughter, Miss Ella,
is engaged to be married to a young naval
officer named Tbackeray, who is a relative of
the great novelist.
The late Lady Waldegrave is said to have
kept a diary in which every event of her life
uas napaf,ify rnanpInI Thara ic % fu-itfar
about it in English society, and, if published,
it will have an enormous sale.
A ton of gold makes a fraction over half a
million of dollars, and when a man says his
wife is worth her weight in gold, and she
weighs 100 pounds, she is worth $4,000.
Japanese women. it is said, never see and
don't know the use of pins. So we suppose a
young man in Japan can 90 up Sunday night
to see his sweetheart without being surprised
into a yell as big as the Side of a house, be-
fore he gets his unprotected ann half way
around her belt.
Never lend ear to that disturber of peace
and happiness the ..tattler or slanderer," for
by listening to their prating you en-
courage them in the nefarious practice and
aid them in retaining a place in the ranks of
society that would better be filled by those
acLnated by useful nd honorable motives.
had rather teach my child to be happy
with the things of nature than to leave to him
the wealth of an Aston. He who can enjoy
nature has all ineXhaustible gallery of
pictures and a theatre for the most agreeable
amusement and ennobling Instruction.
Beecher.
Queen Victoria once signified to Viscount
Nacduff, now Earl of Fife. that she would
not be unwilling to have him for a son-in-
law The nobleman respectfully declined
the honor. He is not yet 80, was schooled at
Elton, has eight residences in the Highlands,
and is warmly spoken of by all classes. His
four sisters are ladies of extreme beauty, but
have not all been envIable in their welded
life.
George Eliot is one of the most learned
authors of her time. The amount of her ac-
quirement is wonderful. She is mistress of
French. German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, has
a felerable acquaintance with Romaic and
Russian, is up in all the sciences, is a critical
Latin and Greek scholar, and admirable
historian and ~archeologist, understands
music, painting and statuary, and is a brilliant
cOnversationalist
s.How did you like the hymns" asked
Charley of his city COUSIN, as they left church
SUNDAY. @One Of them was just splendid! ="
replied she, with enthusiasm. iAh, which
one! "lHe one III the next pew, Win Dlack,
curly hair, and such killing black eyes. Oh,
L think he was the most fascinating him of
all" Charley became too much confused to
pursue the conversation any further.
Nature, our mother, is a queen. She has
her kingdom to care for, and if row and then
she gives a kiss or a smile to our little
miseries, II Is all we can expect of her. She
has seen so many breaking hearts healed
she knows nothing Of death and parting. She
only knows death as a phrase of life. The
dead leaves and flowers are dear to her as the
cradle OF next years leaves and flowers.