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Wise Savings.

1t occasionally happens that he
who is always in search of something
beyond the great lights on something
which is really great.-QWintiliGn.
Let us not forget that in sorrow
and joy alike our Heavenly Father re-
members US, and loves us as only such
Father can love children GOide15
Rule.
The day is growing to a close,
And what good deeds since first il rose,
Have presented, Lord, to Thee,
As offerings of my ministry?
What wrongs repressed, what fruits MAIN
tanned.
What struggles passed, what victory
What good attempte and attained?
-LOngfcUop
in a cemetery a little white stone
marked the grave of dear little girl;
and on the stone were chiseled these
words: "a child of whom her play
mates said, 1t was easier to be good
when she was with us" 81 used to
think" says one, land do now. that
it was one of the most beautiful cpl
taphs | ever heard"
Did it ever strike yOu," said one,
''what grand men we ought to be, who
have been praying so many years? If
prayer to US has been reality, if be-
sides being petition it has been COM
munion with God, how near Him we
ought TO be by this time, and how like
Him we ought to have become. Com
munion with a Christ should make US
Christ-like."
The interior beauty of a soul
through habitual kindness of thought
is greater than words can tell. To
such a man, life is perpetual bright
evening, with all things calm, fragrant
and restful. The dust of life is laid,
and its fever cool All sounds are soft
er, as is the way of evening, and all
sights are fairer, and the goldea
light makes our enjoyment of earth a
happy preparation for Heaven. f w.
FG6er.
Among the various forms of Chris
tian duty, that of sympathetic listening
is certainly entitled to high rank
The helping hand and the kindly word
are both needed, and should never be
spared; but there are times when the
listening ear is more needed than either
of them. There are meE and women
in the world who feel most keenly the
lack of some wise. and gentle, and
heartful person towhom they can simply
tell their griefs ortheir joy; and for lack
of such a listener they endure deep
suffering, or perhaps fall into actual
sin. To listen wisely is no easy task,
nor is it 10 be lightly undertaken; but
it is not to be avoided on that account;
and sometimes it may be the first duty
which calls upon us.--S. s. Times.
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PUNGEST PARAGRAPHS.

"a big thing on ice"-The price.
Boston AdUeT1fser.
"A man over-boredl-Th editor.
Boston Journal Of Commerce.
When a mar dies ne adiourns sine
die, SO TO speak.--SteubenUiHe Eerald.
"A pun upon the dog days would be
q dog-gOne good one. -Bufalo Courier.
To bring up child in the way it
should 90, lead the way.-W Whitehall
Times.
-" Doing to others as you would
have them do TO you''-kissing pretty
girls. Waterloo Observer.
"A man digging CLANS hardly knows
whether he is fishing or engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits.-N. o. Picayune.
"A man who won't take off his hat to
himself once in awhile in summer must
be a cOld-blooded wretch. Free
Press.
1t is a contradiction of natural phi
losophy, but cold, cold ice cream will
warm up her heart, muchly. -Ne0
HaUeH Register.
-''Miss-takes viii happen in the hest
regulated families. as the old gentle
man remarked upon hearing that the
tall and slender young man had stolen
his child away Boston Transcript.
"A bass drum well played can cover
up the poor notes of the cornet players
quite successfully. This is the reason
why the poorest brass bands have the
loudest bass drum. -NcU HaUen R.gis-
Ter.
A mean boy got at scientists rain
measure during u thunder shower and
made ii register the enormous fall of
about eight inches and now that scien-
fist is trying to figure out why in thun-
der there wasn't a freshet.-B05t0R
Post
"A visitor enters a French newspa-
per Office and is greeted politely by the
Office boy If monsieur comes to fight
a duel he will have to be kind enough
TO call again; all our editors are already
engaged for to-day. Paris Giarjrari.
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London a Long Way Ahead.

The four largest cities in the United
States, New York, Philadelphia, Brook
Iyn and Chicago, have total pOpula-
ton Of 3,l13.6S4. In 1870 their popula-
ton was 2,31l $50. They have, there
fore, increased about third in the ten
years. If they keep up this rate of
growth ten Years longer their total pop
ulation in 1890 will be over four mil
lions. or an average of a million each.
Yet now the population of these four
cities, of whose growth we are so proud,
taken together, falls short of the popu-
lation of London alone. Even if we ad-
ded st. Louis we should not make up so
many people as London contains. If
we put in Washington also we get an
aggregate population about equal to
that of London.
London, therefore. contains about as
many people as New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, Chicago, st. Louis and
Washington together. Though the
latest census of that city was taken
eight years ago, its increase has been
carefully estimated and the population
is now put at 1920, SGS, total which
is probably within the actual figures.
The aggregate population of the six
American cities which we have named
is 3.6j0, 6S4
And even ten years from nov, if Lon
don continues TO grow a. the rate of
increase which it has shown during
the last eight years. it will have a
population equal to that of our
four greatest cities put together. 1t
will contain over four millions of people.
These comparisons are not only inter
esting; they are valuable, also. They
may tend to subdue boastful spirit not
uncommon in new and growing cOun-
tries and they help us to form some
conception of the magnitude of the
greatest city the world has ever seen.
Assuming continuance of its present
rate of increase for a century to come,
some English writers have imagined
London as swollen to a capital of more
than ten millions population. But there
is no warrant for any such estimate, for
history teaches that great cities event
ually reach the limit of their growth |
and thereafter show a decline. When
that period will be attained by London. I
however. is beyond the reach of any
thing like safe calculation, but the in /
.dications are that it will have been 1
passed before the next century is over. |
Add TO New York the contiguous
population which really belongs to it as
a metropolis. and at the opening of the I
next century we shall have a popula- |
ton as large rs that of Londcn now, /
provided our rate of increase for ten .
wears past is kept up for twenty wears .
lourrf.r. II Is therefore moi AT all i'm I
probable, indeed it is very probable, !
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An Escaped CCnYict.

William Mackinaw johnson, a Young
man with a very dirty neck, a meek
and humble expression from the nose
down, turned up at farm house about
six miles from Detroit the other day
and conidentialiy informed the farmer
that he was an escaped convict from
State Prison, with a reward of $500
offered for his arrest and return. He
ha grown tired of wandering around
and asked the farmer to bring him into
the city and turn him over to the police.
The farmers hair stood on end at the
prospect of making $500 in half day.
tie took William Mackinaw into his
house and Toasted him on the fat Of the
land, gave him a clean shirt aud q coat
and then harnessed up and the two
logged into the city. They had some
Beer at the first saloon on the road.
They had some more at the next and
by and by they put their arms around
each other and joyfully sung
" Ny name il Is Joe Bowers,
And have brother Ike"
BY and by the escaped convict an
nouuced that they must part, as his
objcct-that OF securing a ride into the
city--had been accomplished The
farmer objected, a fight took place and
both were hauled in by the police.
William Mackinaw was simply an old
vag and the farmer was laughed at and
allowed to retarn home.
a." Eou expect to be sent up, don't
you?' asked His Honor, as the testimony
was all in.
90, yes. I've got tuckered out with
this hot weather"
How long sentence do you want?'
We'll, give me three months and if
/ want any more I'll come back. Judge,
you'd have died laughing to see that
farmer eyes hang out when | told him
there was a reward of 500 on my head.
] don't want to insult this Court, but
I've got to laugh-hal ha! ha! Oh! no!
ha! hon'
His Honor leaned back and wiped the
rivUletS off his brow, and the prisoner
got his breath and said:
And such a dinner as he got up for
me! You'd have supposed [ was the
biggest King in Europe! I'll 90 up
three months any time O year for such
a dinner as that It's all right-all
risht-ha! ha! no! hor'
And he was heard laughing long after
the next case had been called. Detroit
Free Press.
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Orthodox Progress.

You know that it has been customary
for years-at least it has been hereto
point at the loosening tenacity with
which old orthodox doctrines are he'd,
and to speak of the so-called eyangeli-
cal faith as losing ground. But this is
nothing like facts, and the facts prove
exactly the opposite. know of no
reading on this point so encouraging to
orthodox people as the recent Stats
ties gathered by the Rev. DIR. Daniel
Dorchester. For ten years, so it is said,
has he been gathering statistics to settle
the disputed point as to whether the
evangelical denominations were holding
their own. lie had hal enough of as
sertion, and wanted facts. By "evan-
gelical" he includes all those denomi-
nations which believe in the divinity OF
Christ, in the need of change of heart
and Divine forgiveness, and in the
eternity of the two states in the life to
come. He has made up his figures
from original church and parish re-
turns, so far as they were accessible,
AMI the detailed result of his search
will be published in a volume a few
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Rehqions GninnlIi.
GOD KNOWS.

In the times of toll and trouble,
Wnca the way W - bard to ind,
Ami with teirs from heart so weary
Ny eyes were often blind.
have always found comfort
For ali nv bittercst woes
In the thought that whatever befalls me
Ny loving Father knows.
Our feet may miss the pathways
Thai lead 20 tire happier ltndS;
Our backs may be bowel with burdens,
And cares I'LL our heart and hands:
But when tue way is thOrny
And the wind OF sorrow blows,
We've a Friend that will never fail Us,
For the good God sees and knows.
So in the shadow and sunshine
That checkers this lower land,
God always seems close beside me;
/ can reach an / touch His hand.
Deep is the pea e, and lastinE,
That the comforting thought bestOws,
There never snail come a TT Iuble
But the dear q ID sses and knows.
-EbcH L. RerfOTi, IN Chicago AtUdncs.
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The Dismal Swamp.

A Virginia paper tells some things
which are not generally known about
the Dismal Swamp. 1t is not vast bog
sunk low in the ground, into which the
drainage of the surrounding country
flows. On the contrary. it is above the
level ground some fifteen or twenty
feet, as was demonstrated by actual
surveys. Instead of being receptacle
into which rivers and streams enter and
flow, it is in reality an immense reser-
vOir that, in its vast spOnge-like bulk,
gathers the waters that fall from the
heavens and pours them into the five
different rivers which flow onward to
the sea. Any one would imagine that
the Dismal was a veritable eharnel-
house that spreads its miasmas through
out the country. On the contrary, it is
the healthiest place on the American
continent. The swamp is entirely of
green timber. There is absolutely no
decomposed wood; one sees trees lying
around the forests and swamps. The
two principle woods that grow in the
place are the juniper and cypress,
which never rot They fall prone on
the ground, like other trees, but instead
of wood decomposing it turns peat and
lies indissoluble by air or water for ages
perfectly sound. There is nothing in the
swamp to create miasma; no rising of
the tides and decomposing OF rank veg
etables; no marshes exposed to the
burning rays of the sun. All is fresh
and sweet and the air is laden with as
sweet odors as the fragrant woods
in May, when the fragrance of the
flowers mingles with the pungent scent
of the pine and dogwoOd. In the ante
bellum days all planters were anxious
to hire their slaves to shingle-makers in
the swamp on account of its healthful-
ness. Mr.. Reddick, a well-known con-
tractor, says he worked gang of fifty
hands for fifteen years in the Dismal
getting shingles, and in all that time
there was not a single case of fever and
ague. | have seen numerous affidavits
of Oyerseers and agents who have lived
in the swamp their whole lifetime and
they never knew death caused by nil
asma or a solitary instance of ague and
fever. The air is pure and sweet and
the water, tinged to faint wine hue
by the juniper, is as potent medicinal
drink as is to be found at the famous
places of the Virginia mount
aim spas. 1t IS used by vessels going
on foreign cruise on account of its
healthful properties and also because IL
keeps fresh and clear for wears. TITS a
strong and invigorating tonic, with a
pleasant taste. .-
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that long before the Twentieth century
is ended the cluster of cities of which
New York is the nucleus viii contain
more people than any other city in the
world. BIT for quarter Of century
to come London must take the lead and
continue to have population equal to
that of any other two of the great cap
itals.
Moreover, the perpetual aggrandize-
ment of great cities cannot be an I'M
mixed blessing to any country.-NeU
York San.
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THE unavoidable attention drawn

THE unavoidable attention drawn to
a loving couple who attended fashion,
able church in this city yesterday
prompts the suggestion that young
people who persist upon sparkling in
church should defer the more interest
ing portions until after the evening
service. It is true that love is the
basis of religion, but there is a big diff
ference between loving an enemy be-
cause the Bible says so and hugging a
girl in church because they cannot wait
till the service is over.-Oshkosb PAPER.
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The jealousy Of Ants.

The jealousy of ants toward intruders
is well known. Strange queens intro
duced into their nests are very often
ruthleSsly slaughtered; yet tbs believed
that communities must occasionally
adopt queens. With a view of testing
how far temporary acquaintance might
assuage dislike and passion, Sir John
Lubbock introduced queen, protected
by wire cage, into a queenless nest;
bat when the cage was removed some
DAYS after the queen was at once at
tackled. Nevertheless, Mr.. McCook has
observed the adoption by a colony of a
fertile queen Such difference in con-
duct. Sir John suggests. may be due to
the fact that his own ants were living
in a republic; for it is affirmed that bees
long without a queen are strongly adj
verse to accepting another. Further
more, if a few ants from a strange nest
are put with queen they do not attack
her, and if other ants are by degrees
added the throne is ultimately secured
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flor ponng Readers.
Il RECIPE FOR 4 RACKET!

What does II take to make Racket?
Wen, bless me, certainly ought to know,
FOR We made them score of times or sol
Here's the receipt-an1 1 can't be wrong
FOR making them hot, and sweet, and strong:
What does It take to make n Racket?
Two small boys in pants and jacket;
An empty room and a bare wood floor;
A couple of sticks to bang the door;
A chair or two TO break and to swing;
A trumpet 10 blow and a bell to ring;
stamp and a tramp like great big man,
And when you can get il, an old tin pan;
A Hight of stairs for climb and tumble;
A nursery m aid to grOwl and grumble;
A chorus Of howl and cry, and shrek,
To drown your voice If YOU try to speak;
A dozen good blows on knees and hack
Each one coming down with a terrible whack
A couple of falls that would crack a nut,
And one good bump on your occiput;
A mamma to cry, Now what Is the mat
terY"-
You take these,
And shake these,
And put in packet,
And you'll have just the jolliest kind of a
Racket!
OF course am bound to confess
You can manage to m axe il with less,
(For this IS a regular, rich receipt,
For pudding. and sauce, and al completely
And still have very good show,
If YOU follow dir scJions below:
ou can leave out the room. and the floor;
The bumps, and the bangs on the door;
me bell and the sticks ald the stat s.
The trumpets, the bowls, and the chairs;
The whack, and the fall, and the rise:
The shrieks, and the groans. and the cries;
Mamma. and the pan, and the tramp:
The nurse, and the growl, and the stamp;
But one thing you must have, however you
get il,
(Or else, if you don't, you will sadly regret
it
For remember my words-if you happen to
lack il
You never I'm have the least bit of a Rack
jdcfetu
-Wide- Aludke.
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Sunday-SchOOl Lessons.

THIRD QUARTER.
Aug. 5-Abram and Mechize-
de< -. ........:.... Gen. II: 1e-ai
Aug. 22-The Covenant with
Abram. Gen. 5:-1s
Aug. 29-Abraham's Interces-
sion ....... .......-.-. Gen. Is: 1888
Sept slots Escape from
SOtOm ................. Gen. 10: R-2j
Sept. 2-Trial of Abrahams
Faith 90. ......-.... Gen. -: LA
Sept. 19-Review of the essOns.
sept. 25-LessOn selected bv the School
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Two Clinton Conn., men went
fishing the other day. One of them
was drowned, the other caught cold in
his head and died from lockiaw, and they
were both buried on the same day.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17

Our great progress in journalism is shown
by the fact that in 1775 there were in the
United States less than forty newspapers and
periodicals, whose aggregate issue for that
year comprised 100000 copies; now the
united press publishes over 500 daily newspa-
pers, more than 1000 weeklies, and about 600
monthly publications; of the dailies that ex-
isted in 1870, about s00,O 900 copies were
struck off that year; of the weeklies, about
600, OOO, OO0; and of the other social publica-
lions, about 10000, 900, amounting in all to
100000, 900 copies. And to sum the matter
up yet more forcibly it must be stated that
the United States publishes more newspapers,
with a greater combined circulation, than all
the other countries of the world can together
boast of having.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17

The unwritten law is against a third term.
Go back to the morning of the republic, and
what bugle sound do we hear lifted up against
a third term, and making all the air of those
great heights of our national revolutionary
era resound with the vibrations of patriotism?
Here is language uttered by a man greatly re-
vered by one of the political parties of the
United States and not lacking respect from the
other party: "That l should lay dow my
charge at aproper period is as much a duty as to
have borne 1t faithfully. If so~metermination to
the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed
by the Constitution, or supplied by practice,
his office, nominally for years, will, in fact,
become for life; and history shows how easily
that degenerates into an Inheritance. Believ-
ingthat the representative government, respon-
sible at short periods of election, is that which
produces the greatest sum of happiness to man
kind, l feel it a duty to do no act which shall
essentially impair that principle and | should
unwilliRgly be the person who, disregarding
the sound precedent set by an illustriOus pre-
decessor, should furnish the first example of
prolongation beyond the second term of
office" So sounds the bugle at the lips of
Thomas Jefferson. | know that Senator Howe
says that he did not write this till he found
he could not be elected to a third term. But
for one l have more than little faith that
jefferson was not speaking here as a politician,
but as a man who, in the serene and illumined
years of the close Of his great life, had risen
out of the region of partisan clamor into that
of craftsmanship; and expressed not only his
own views as to policy, but his understanding
of the opinion OF the fathers of the republic
and the teaching of the Constitution.-Joseph
Cook.
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CHIPS.

A philosopher says You require in .
riage precisely the same quality that
would have in eating sausages-absolule CO
dence."
Babies are chiefly remarkable, we h
from the New Haven Register, for i
element Of uneXpectedness." The tern
packed with meaning.
"You promised to pay that bill yesterla
said al angry creditor TO a debtor. "Y
calmly replied the other, ''but to err is
man, to forget divine. and l forgot it,"
Mary, we shall always miss you.
Gone will be your pleasant smile;
Had the Oil-can been much larger
You'd Have gone about q mile
The name of one of the society ladis
Washington is Bureau. Photographers
ware.
Another too Jealous colored brother
Nashville has blown the whole top Of
wife's head off because she will not
company him TO church.
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Yankee Fork Items.

There are forty-six Chinese in this Can
present, among whom are nine women.
Budd Brown came in from Challis n
day. He made the trip OH snow-shoes.
wounded arm has healed and is getting ST
again. Or. Pickman did a good job of h
saved the limb. Al. Gardner and Budd
in together and enjoyed the trip on
sleighs.
There are eleven men w~intering in 81;
Basin. twenty miles from Bonanza.
are drifting on the placers and taking GU
dirt to wash in the spring. We have h,
word from them here since the beginni
winter, but as they have an abundan
provisions laid in, andthree fiddles in thee
they are no doubt getting along as well Al
of us.
Some of the Territorial papers expires
easiness at the fate of the Bonanzaites.
fea" we are snow bound and have no p
ions. Don't be alarmed. There is
enough on hand to do till spring, and the
is open and freight will now begin to
in. Beef is here in abundance. and gro,
are not lacking. Mlnce pies are on hal
the cord. and since coal oil and candle
coming in there is no complaint whateye
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17

The published statement that General Shel-
man had recommended a mitigation Of the
sentence of Major Reno to suspension is uli-
true. He has Endorsed the sentence of the
court which is dismissal from the service.
The sentence has also been approved by the
Secretary of War, and is now in the hands of
the President, who feels that Major Reno has
forfeited confidence, and has not yet shown
an intention to reform according to the prom
Use made by him two years ago, when a SINH
lar sentence was RENTED.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.-The working
men met again to-day and visited the offices
of some of the minor manufacturing corpora
tions, and were promised replies tomorrow.
President Stanford, of the Central Pacific,
addressed a letter to the committee stating in
substance that there were only seven China
men in the employ of the company in that
city that the company was retaining OIL duty
many white men whose services were not
really required because they did not wish to
discharge old employees; that the company
would respect the laws as construed by the
courts, and in the management of its business
would be governed under the laws entirely by
the consideration of what it deems is policy.
An answer was also received from the
president of Selby's smelling works, who
bluntly says that he considered the law as
unconstitutional and would not obey it until
the United States babe him submit.