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

In Ireland last year S7,5OO,O 900 less were
spent for drink than in the preceding year.
Adam and Eve are the names of a Chicago
man and wife. They were born on the same
day.
Col. lngersoll uses a copy Of Shakespeare
as a Bible, having bound in it his family reg
lister, etc.
Apartments have been engaged for General
Grant at Manitou Springs, Colorado, for a
short summer season.
Two velociptdists beat y railroad train lear
Havre, France, in a ten-mile race.
New Zealand has a population Of 100000,
and a debt of $780, 600, 600.
There are more than 100000 people in
Pennsylvania.
There is said to be a cabinet maker in Paris
who fires small shot into his cabinets to give
them an appearance of worm-eaten antiquity.
In this country there are ffty-four newspa-
pers edited by colored men.
Shad are being found in larger quantities
near the mouth of the Columbia each year,
and will no doubt become 4 staple article.
A man who firmly believes that a second
food will come next November to cover the
whole face of the earth is building an ark at
Helena, Texas.
At Arivaca, Arizona, j rattlesnake was re-
Gently killed which measured e feet in
length, is incfIvS in circumference and had
90 ~rattles.
The smelling works at Charlotte, \. c..
will be PR in operation again this week. A
carload Of silver ore from Nevada will be
Observation-Disclosures
The fnai volume of Green's History Of
the English People," bringing the story down
70 the year Of Waterloo, is just out IN Lon
don.
A copyright case in Canada has been decld-
ed to the effect that the American reprint of
the Encyclopaedia Britannica can legally be
sold ia the Dominion.
A new edition of Col. J. W. Forney's AN
ecdotes of Public Men," including sketches
of several hundred additional celebrities in
America and abroad. is about TO be published
by Harper and Brothers.
Midshipman Alger, one of the appoint
ments at large, carried away the pennant at
Annapolis this year, He stood 69l SO out of
a maximum Of 100. At West Point Cadet
Carter passed 1892 out of a possible 1850
one of the finest examinations yet noted.
There lately arrived IN New York city,
from Albany. a horse 20 hands and l inch
high, and weighing 2.450 pounds. He is a
dark bay and without spot or blemish.
The announcement that the Empress OF
Russia died alone, unattended by any MEM
Der of her family, and during even the alb
sence of the one servant who was in her
room during the night, has given rise to much
comment IN England.
Archibald Forbes is about to publish a
series Of sketches under the title Of "Glimp-
ses Through the Cannon Smoke which
will be likely to attract great attention.
Col. Robert Insersoll has a friend who,
when he was asked what were the Colonel's
ecceutricities, answered Immediately that he
had no eccentricities but one, and that was
that he had no eccentricitleS.
When Mr.. G.. W. Childs gave the Philadel.
phia newsboys his annual dinner last Monday
one of the tanners in the procession bore
this legend:-"W We like this kind of Chllds
play
The new oath of the French soldiers con
tains no reference to the Deity or the repub
lie. IL will be sworn on the 18th of July
and is as follows tin the name of the
regiment, l swear on my honor to remain
faithful to the constitution, and to defenc
this flag until DEATH"
John Jacob Astor's old house at Sault Sain
Marie. which he occupied when trading NJ
there in the year 1929, is in a sad state OF
dilapidation. The house, which at the time
it wrs built and for years afterward was thu
finest IN the Northwest, is now a wreck ant
furnishes a shelter for an old half-breed Wit
was in Mr.. Astor's employment more thai
sixty years ago.