The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-16
CHIPS.

Domestic behavior is the main test of virtue
and good nature.
Those who trample on the helpless are dis
posed to cringe to the powerful.
! A good definition of a gentleman:
"Defne a gentleman did you say? Well, yes,
think can;
He's as gentle as q woman, and as manly as a
man."
Cover nor elect Porter, of Indiana, is a Wild
over of wealth. His only child is a daugh-
ter, and she is said to be the prettiest girl IN
indianapolis.
A New York scribe has discovered that
IN. b." attached to the postscript of a Boston
invitation to inner means "no beans"
The discovery of collaborating quartz near
| Westminster, has caused quite a commotion
in Carroll county, Maryland.
The favorite day for marriages in Paris is
Saturday. In this country Saturday is term
ed sNlggers' day" for marrying.
Murmu ing puts gall and NORWOOD into
every cup of mercy that God puts into our
hands. As to the hungry SOU every bitter
thing is sweet, so to the murmuring soul ev-
cry sweet is bitter.
Bernhard will introduce to this country a
hat designed tor her, upon the ribbon Of
which are painted the most exquisite flowers,
and her Monogram. THIS style will open a
way to utilize old book marks.
The Detroit Free Press says a Kansas
woman who was called as 'homely as a hedge
fence' sued the slanderer and received only
six cents damages. Kansas hedge fences are
not so bad looking.
To be Sc fish and sordid, and hence indif-
ferent to the wants and necessities of others,
is to make ourselves just about as truly mis-
cradle as we have the capacity of being.
No man or woman of the humblest sort
can really be strong, gentle, pure and good
without the world being better for it, with
out somebody being helped and comforted by
the very existence of that goodness. Phil
lips Brooks.
1t is reported of a seminary graduate just
married, that wishing to impress her husband
with her ability as a housekeeper, she bawled
out to the servant, as she entered the door,
"Matilda, bring me the dashboard, l want to
wash the potatoes for dinner"
The Princess of Wales, when at Stranding-
ham, has little parties for which she herself
makes the butter in a silver churn, and
spreads it on slices of bread which she cuts
with her own hands. While she is at work
she wears a chintz dress and a little white
apron.
Cremation has become so frequent at Mi
Ian that it has been decided to build by the
side of the cremation furnace in the cemetery
a cinerary temple or ash house, in which the
remains of the dead may be deposited and la
belled off in jars made like the old Latin
urnsr The Milan press is in favor of the new
temple.
The Albany Argus says a Boston girl can
take seventy-tiye rents worth or lace and
make herself look 50 pretty that all the local
poets call her an angel. A st. Louis girl can
put Oh $40 worth and only be rated as that
"interesting Miss Bunkett."
The lives of other men should be regarded
as a mirror, from which we may take an ex-
ample and a rule Of conduct for ourselves
Terence. The accurate observer of human
life, in witnessing the follies of others, will
thence derive to himself so many lessons of
caution and correctness.
1t is a curious fact that every prince of the
royal house of HohenZollern, when young is
taught some useful trade or other, for the
purpose of SOLDERING the mind and bringing it
face to face with the material world and the
realities of life, and among the profusion Of
curiosities aud artistic relics which crowd the
emperor's private cabinet may be seen speci-
mems of bookbinding, carving, carpentering
and other handiwork performed by his sons
and grandsons.