The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-27
THE WORLDS FAIR.

A Chicago woman accidently killed hel
son while shooting at a target, and is insane
with grief.
In Cincinnati there are 1872 dressmakels,
and the young men of that city are afraid g
marry.
They are to have a Ladies' Cooperative
Dressmakins Company in Chicago, and 1t
will begin work early in Autumn.
At the Swiss Universities this year the
female students have carried off most of the
prizes.
Hancock's nomination has been a bonanza
for the telegraph compaies. The wires are
kept hot reporting democratic ratification
meetings.
William Ii. Nanderbilt's youngest daughter
has become engaged to marry Niscount Dup
plin. son and heir of the Earl of kinnoull.
Lord Dupplin is 80 years old and a widower.
A woman hearing the sufferings of ou'
Pilgrim fathers celebrated, popped up and in
qulred: "What of our Pilgrim mothers ?
What Of our Pilgrim mothers? They had to
bear all this and our Pilgrim fathers be-
sides"
The Princess of Wales sold bouquets at a
bazaar held at Baron Grants late house three
weeks ago, and realized a large sum for the
charity. Both she and her husband seem
willing TO do anything to help charitable OBJ
jects.
Mrs. General Hancock is a blonde, speaks
several languages, is notably a fine French
scholar, and a woman of elegant and attractive
manners
There is a report that Mrs }. w. Mackey
has offered to purchase the French crown
jewels.
The women of Denver will have no more
footing. They have sent themselves to lynch
ing clipping husbands and ducking clipping
wives III frog ponds.
An Illinois man found his runaway wife
working, in male attire, III a Peoria tailor
shop, where her sex was unsupported.
Since the Introduction Of false teeth the
ratio of good looking women has Increased
90 per cent.
A Chicago girl vino. four years ago. madca
romantic marriage with a Chinese laundry
man, died recently in abject poverty in San
Francisco from excessive use of opium.
Mrs. A. H.. H Stuart, of Olympia, W. r.,
Is now holding, for the third consecutive
tei.n her commission as President of the
Board of immigration for that Territory.
Queen Isabella of Spain is exceedingly
anxious that her oldest daughter, who is now
twenty-seven, should find a husband imme-
diately.
The Grand Duke of Hesse. the widower of
the Princess Alice Of England, is 10 marry the
Princess of Asturjas. King Alfonso's eldest
sister, whose husband, Count Girgenti,
brother of the ex king OF Naples, committed
suicide IN despair IF the re-elevation of his
family.
Two sisters in Massachusetts, have lain in
bed for forty years from lack of vitality, and
one OF them has just died.
Two Carson women recently quarreled,
and Ope Ell fire on each other with Roman
candles. A policeman tried to march in, but
was chased down the street with his coat-taiiS
badly burned. When the ammunition gave
out he returned aud captured the enemy.
The negroes of Bolonda, in Africa, are adj
vanced woman sltli agistS. Their woman sit
in the Councils Of State bring their husbands
to their villages when they marry. have the
sole right of pronouncing a divorce and of
retaining the children lii that event and govern
the opposite sex in the smallest matters of
domestic economy.
"This may be fun to him. said one of
Gen. Hancock's staff at the Army and Navy
club the other night, ahont his chefs nom
ination, " but it isn't to me. IT he should be
elected president, | would have to 60 back to
my regiment on the frontier, and l haven't
seen a man of it in Is years.
outside this city, after having been CALAMITY
amid all the glories and rlgors of the war
with Mexico and occupied the presidential
chair. In that regiment Frederick Il. Dent,
Drother-in-law of Grant, was a I'd lieutenant.
The last OF the list of I'd lieutenants was
Winfield S. Hancock, who had just graduated
from West Point, with Grant.