The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-06
CHIPS.

Leadville disdains mere colonies. The
usual emark is, ''Senator, shove the Bacon"
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
who never to himself has said-13-14-15?
"What is heavens best gift to man ~ she
asked, smiling sweetly on him.. ga boss" he
replied, with prudence.
The hornet and mule are too tender hearted
to look upon suffering. They always turn
their back when they strike.
The Sherman boom needs a bloody shirt Or
something of that sort, just to give it style.
"Does your mother know your route"
asked a rival 'rhen the bride and groom
started OH their wedding tour.
An exchange has discovered that the Nhoop-
inkoifs are an old Russian family.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says the real
grievance of Cincinnati against Theodore
Thomas, was because he would not beat time
with a ham.
The prospects are good for an appropriation
by Congress for putting the old Mullen road,
through Northern Idaho, in repair, for a mill
tary road.
Agraduate of West Point who went West
to startle the country by some marvellous per-
formances, is now the travelling agent for1a
corset factory.
awhile his mother lives, a man has one
friend on earth who will not desert him when
Ec IS uSeuy. I1GT ducCUlOu uOMS d pure lOuu-
tain, and ceases only at the ocean of eternity"
And who assumes to say that it ceases then?
Several ladies who visited the United States
Senate Chamber a fe days since desired that
Senator Hill be pointed out to them. The
escort, by mistake, pointed to Senator Ham,
lin, of Maine, when one Of the ladies is re-
ported as saying, "Well, well, who'd have
thought it,"
The United States Treasurer has received
$4,000 conscience money-$000 from Balti-
more, marked "income tax - $500 received
by S. B. Chittenden from New York, to be
applied to the Government debt and $500
postmarked St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad,
for " conscience fund"
A drunken man who was looking around to
find some one in the streets of Leadville to
knock a chip off his shoulder, last week, had
when arrested, in his pockets and boot-legs,
four butcher knives, a butchers steel, sharp at
the end, and a seven-chamber revolver.
The C~onsul-General of the United States
in Liberia has informed the State Department
that France has made a formal offer to Liberia
that that Republic become a French protec-
torate. The general expression here is that
France should not have Liberia under any
circumstances.
An indianapolis, Ind, letter says: "a pair
of side lace kid shoes have been made in this
city for a Mrs. Gates of Brown county, who is
twenty-three years old, weighs SAT pounds,
and is seven feet and two inches in height.
The shoes are number fifteen, just one foot in
length, and between four and FIVE inches in
width"
The Philadelphia Chroniclc-H Herald says
that when Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the Wash
ington lawyer, asks a judge for q private in
tervlew, the latter, before granting the request,
makes her sign a paper declaring that she
won't attempt to come any leap year tricks
over him.
Manville Ito his widowed friend Chasuble,
who has views ON art)-"Is it true that YOU
have broken off with Sir Henry daughter?"
Chasuble-" Alas, yes, l was forced to, al
though she is a charming woman" Manville
80 Why ?" ChaSuble-" IncompatibilIty of
complexion. She does not suit my furni-
ture.'
ATowanda, Pa, sign reads: John Smith,
teacher of cowtillions and other dances
grammar taut in the neatest manner-fresh
salt helTin on draft-likewise Goodfreys cor
jail-rutes sassage and other garden truck.
n. B.-bawl on friday nite-prayer meeting
chuesday-also saline singing by the quire.'
A Bridgeport attorney recently took strong
exception to a ruling of the Court that GER
tain evidence was nadmissible. 81 know,
your Honor SAID he, warmly, sthat it is
proper evidence. Here l have been practicing
at the bar forty years, and now l want to
know if l am a fool ~ THAT" quietly re-
piled the Court, sis a question of fact and not
of law, and so l shall not pass upon it, but
let the jury decide"
"lt was years ago, my children" SAID a
silver-hairedo old man to his srandsons, some
time along in 1868, "when an Indian out in
Colorado met the United States Army, and in
the pitiless pride of his own superior strength,
reached out and scalped both of him. And
then the old man went on to explain how for