The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-05
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Latest news from Spain A great deal of
cry and very little baby.
Il Why is manuscript called MS? Because
hat is the state in which editors most fire.
~l1ently find it.
1t does not by any means follow that a
woman who hugs her preacher embraces
Christianity.-New York Graphic.
EYES, said Abraham Lincoln, speaking of
D neighboring family, ''the colonel and his
wife make a fine team; he's always a little
a~1sarse and she a little sulky."
Il The L~eavenworth Times sums up the latest
preach of promise verdict as follows: Gan
Injured woman sues her deceiver for $4,000
nd she runs S49,950 behind the ticket"
4 A very disagreeable old gentleman dies. A
Nephew, charged with the duty of preparing
us epitaph, suggests: 'Deeply regl cited by
latll who never knew him."-Bufalo Express.
The New Haven Register cynically remarks
hat there are a great many church choir sing
hrs that receive a good salary here that will
lever get a chance to sing in the angel cho-
Professor-"Can any one tell us the origin
II the expression go top" Embryo minis
hr-'Perhaps there was something more to
once, and they left it of because it didn't
s,und WE'LL"
s A woman who kept a boarding house in
isttawa, Canada, has recently attempted to
,mmit suicide. In the states it is gener lily
ssae boarders who feel like putting an end to
Il leir existence.
IL When a newspaper humorist's sallies agree
u it'll the readers feelings and prejudices. the
a ritter is a genial, whole-souled fellow when
g4D0U IN mt hA 10 on ircpirn1 IoREocc nr n
Juggling hyena.
II A circus manager wanted a new name for
Il show, and a sophomore collegian sugges-
L e'monohippic aggregation as good, and
L e circus man had got three towns billed be-
re he discovered that "monohippic'' meant
me horse"
/ Inc Booiak Museum preserves an interest
seg figure that is called The Bust of Pharoh."
he bust dates back to the Exodus, when too
b any chips were passed in to cashed be at a
itical moment after the banks of the Red
. had been closed.
u eI'm on the PRESS said John Henry, as he
1Fided his girl in one sweet embrace. "Well.
ats no9reason why you should try to pi the
H ,rm," she replied as she arranged her
gtmbled collar and pinned up her hair.
mich had come undone.
A plain Observation-Disclosures is a knock at
3f*e front door, and the colored person says
Is the lady of the house: SIS you de white
.I1man what told a colored gemMan you was
alokin' for a colored lady to wash yer clothes
s, de mumf."-NeW Orleans Times.
Ia lawyer and a preacher were discussing
y e direction of the wind. The former said !:
lHsNe 90 BY the court house vane." "And We
Id by the church vane,' replied the parson.
the matter of wind That is the best
4 5lthority, !" said the lawyer. And the preacher
snt home to cogitate.
She was a four-year-old blonde, generally
!. .ktiet and tractable, but uni bad provoked
tter. 81 don't love you any more, mamma y
Very well, dear, you needn't "Well, l
1fSn't love YOU" s.All right, dearie, mamma
i'll try to get along swell, | do love you;
lit l don't feel like it just now"
Nh Back from ~Chicago-HIe walked into a Gal
ston saloon and asked for some beer. II
las handed out and he put it where it was
Host needed. ssHow much?" he asked, wipins
slss mouth. sFive dollars" give devils VIC
Naa6te YOU take me for?" Give cents, colonel
81 took you for a Templar returned from
a1zhicago and thought you hadn't got out o
He habit yet of paying full rates. "-Galresto,
Ey3ke,rs.
u An Englishman says that no other people
${A the world, so Tar as lie knows, can equa
l5tAe Arkarsans in off-hBnd exaggeratlons
do you see that spring over there, stranger?
lid one of them 10 him. He said he did
/ hereupon the settler added: swell, that
& IRON spring, that is, and it's so might
fbwerful that the farmers horses about her
lat drink the water of it never have to b
bod. The shoes just grow on their fee
&at' ally.-Chicago Tribune.
EI# 1rhn Auof;p Nevada Herald says. ssvV
Re sorely in need of a preacher, bat we d
BIT want any cheap trash. We want a goot
VASCULAR christian, who can snatch sinner
The scruff of the neck and drag them how
e up the plane of righteousness; one VIII
III not drink more than he can hold, an
III not copy after Beecher further than I
cal his sermons. Such a man will get
eht smart layout here. If he can play til
Idle for the regular weekly dance, it wi
leuent his salary somewhat"
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