The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-11
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Halt a million dollars worth of violets are
sold in the streets of Paris annually.
Europeans say that they can always tell an
American woman by her feet /, which are
usually smaller and better dressed than the
feet Of women of other nationalities.
English women give large pieces of worsted
work out to their friends to do as remem-
brances for them. They then collect them
together and make into rug and carpets.
Japanese ladies wear hats only when il
rains. The arrangement of the hair differs
according to rank, age and condition. The
general style is to dress it in turban form and
rnament it with golden pins variously
adorned.
Many think there is nothing in the world
so good for children as scolding, whippings,
dark cupboards and bread and water, upon
which they are expected to grow up into tall,
fat, cheerful, amiable men and women.
If it is mere thoughtlessness, it is a very
culpable thoughtlessnesss, that makes a dime
that buys a bunch of hair-pins look to some
men ten times as large as that whichpurchases
two glasses of beer or a cigar.
1t may appear a little queer to our epicures
who sit down to a fve-dollar-a-plate dinner,
that two thousand guests sat down to a ten
cent-per-head banquet recently given Blanqui
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In France house linen bears the Christian
and surname of the husband, to which is some
times added the maiden name of the wife.
In Germany it bears simply the name of the
bride, and in England the family name only
is used. Ali house and personal linen should
be marked with indelible ink.
The beet sugar crop of Europe is estimated
for the present season at 100000 tons as
against 100000 ions last year. In the
United States the cane sugar crop is estimated
at 100000 hogsheads, or 2O0,0OO,OOO lbs, and
double the quantity is but a little figure inthe
sugar produce of the world.
In the last few days a young lady and gentle
man it this country, both in good circum-
stsnces, were married at $3.50 O'Clock a. H.,
went to their new residence, to which the
groom had already ordered new furniture
and an outfit for housekeeping, and at II
o'clock they had dinner, which the bride had
attended to. In the afternoon the bridesmaids
had a good deal of fun putting down the
carpets for the happy pair.
The evils of smoking IN early youthful
appears that the German government has
seriously taken this matter in hand, as smok-
ing is practiced to a great excess by the youths
of that country, so hat it has been considered
to have damaged their constitution. and
incapacitated them for the defense of their
country. In certain towns in Germany the
police have had orders to forbid all lads under
sixteen years II age to smoke IL the streets,
and to punish the offence by fine and
imprisonment. Moreover a Belgian physician
has found, during a journey of observation
and inquiry, made at the request of the
Belgian government, that the too general and
excessive use of tobacco is the main cause of
color blindness, an affectionwhich Is OCCASION
ing increasing anxiety, both in Belgium and
Germany, from its influence upon railway and
other accidents, and also upon military
lnefficiency.