The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-27
4

A rye face-the grimace an old topper makes
after a drink of the ardent.
Montana sports know very well that :.fOu1
liners" are not safe to bet on. When it
comes to ''hve timers'-Who wants to bet on
IA five timer, a fifth tsrmer?
La In New York city a capital of $40, 000, 900
5 invested in floral establishments, green
houses, etc. On New Years day the sales OF
fswers foot up every year to about $4,000
or that day alone.
III Col. Min, who died at Helena, a few weeks
lnce, was buried from St. Bartholomew
hurch, New York, Oh the 18Th, inst. Gen.
Cochrane and Gen. Carleton were among
he pail bearers.
An election 10 the British House of Com
mons costs from $4,000 to $50 900, according
o the size of the borough and the ~closeness
II the contest. When it is remembered that
he services of a member of Parliament are
Together gratuitous, it will be understood
hat the honor is high priced as we'll as highly
priced
80 liz ioo u III Vi
ter prohibiting the existing practice of GER
ain classes of merchants, etc., who send
through the mails printed advertising cards
4 various shapes and sizes, with a one cent
tamp affixed. The postal card of the de-
artment is declared to be the only one for
his purpose.
Of late the republican papers have been
erpetrating some CHASTITY attempts at punning
s,n the name 'sGarfield." The German word
ssbar signifies "dene' in the sense of being
thoroughly cooked. Where it occurs in the
pane of the republican presidential nominee
NJ means that he will be "done brown" that
lis political goose will be well cooked in No
,ember's election.
81 There is crow and crow. Some can be
'wallowed with a crooked face, while again
ONE must be utterly rejected by the outraged
'ystem Of the victimized consumer. OF the
latter kind is the Arthur crow, at least for the
Il. pparatus we had considered proof against
he very worst and toughest of party crow.
but Arthur was too much even for the Tri-
sbune. Since the nomination his name has
never been mentioned IN the editorial pages
Isany more than if no such person were in ex-
Istence.
Fl France has made a dangerous experiment
lin the virtual pardoning of ali the exiled
.'lcommunists, including the educated agitator,
E3Henri Rochefort, a sort of refined Denis
kearney. Ii the returning communists, by
iresorting to their old practices and preaching
their old doctrines, succeed in giving the state
iany trouble, the fact that the decree of expul.
Esion against the Jesuits was adopted almost
simultaneously with the pardon of the com.
munists will pretty effsctually deprive France
8sof the sympathy of the liberals throughout
ssthe civilized world.
Chinese cheap labor will soon be com.
splained of in parts Of the world remote from
&California, and in industrial branches other
Ethan those followed by the working people
Whom the republican papers of the East
never fail to designate as the "heodlums OF
sakhe Pacific coast AFFIRM of Scotch ship
builders have lately established themselves at
.*Shanghae, China, where they employ some
hing over . thousand workmen paying them
as wages . few cents each per day. The
~csmpetition of the cheaply constructed Chi
aess ships is already beginning to affect the
3hipbuildlng industry in the great yards on
he Clyde.