The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-07-06
EDS NOTES.

COMPS Land Orner for June contains the
speech delivered in congress by the Hon.
Martin Maginnis against the land commission
bill.
Secretary Schurz has decil'd that the cen
sus erumerators are to receive 81 per day for
their services: at least so says The New York
Edii.
Charles Read is said to have made $4,000
cut of "Drink.' As a general thing" drink
is to be charged, not credited, in the profit and
loss account.
Dickson. the drunken printer who Shot and
killed George Drowu, editor Of the Toronto
Globe. has been sentenced to be hanged on
the 23d of July.
The Jesuits expelled from France have
located at Prague, just acrossth" line. Their,
organs may how he expected t. treat rs to
"The cattle Of Prague : with variations.
The census enumerators throughout the
territory are closing up their work. and the
population Of Utah is about l.}1,Oo0. Ihe
work, we understand, has been well and
faithfully done.--S. L. Tribune.
London papers complain that The wooden
pavements of the city " fill Tie air with tar
This is a mistake. It's the fog; not tar. A
careless observer might readily mistake LOl-
don fog for North Caroi'na tar of a rather
inferior quality.
Chicago is discussing Il city ordinance
whose effect, if enforced. will be to require
the general introduction of smoke consuming
furnaces. The Ordinary furnaces, NOW i'll
use, send forth a cloud OF smoke that settles
down on calm days and hangs like q pail over
the city by the lake.
Earper's Weekly Of July ID gives an Illus
tlation of each Of the four faces of "Clco-
j patra's Needle" the famous monolith. now
on its way from Egypt TO New York. The
needle is a present to the United States from
the khedive of Egypt, and was secured mainly
through the personal influence and eNeltions
of the editor of the New York World.
The presidential contest Of tbs year will
be a championship fight between heavy
weights. Hancock and Garfield are each
about six feet three i'll height, the former
weighing over three hundred pounds. Not
witlstanding his great weight Hancock
sruns " astonislinoly well, as the republicans
a will discover to their cost in November.
The dueIling mania has spread from France
u to Spain, where several bio 'dless encounters
have lately taken place. Some years ago it
was the custom in certain European countries
i to fasten quarrels III travelling Americans, i'll
order, perhaps, to initiate the unSophisticated
i Yankees into the higher civilization Of the
! old world. But the Americans manifested /
very reprehensible preference for the pistol,
4 in the adjustment Of such difficulties, and
their manner of using this weapon was care
4 less in the extreme. Duels with Americans
u for foemen soon went cut Of fashion. There
was altogether too much "business in them
A to suit the supertinc duellists Of southern
y Europe.
Il The Chicago papers are taking up the
cause Of the saieswumen in the d~ry%oUda
b stores, where they are compelled 10 stand Oh
their feet twelve hours a day without being
u permitted to sit dow for a single moment
Il during that time. This would be cruelty,
4 even to men, but it is very often torture to
III NUlltl. NIlD, ia! 'hSh St'i'hiliS wv 4'i'- va
hard floors. receive injuries from which the
III more rugged masculine frame is exempt.
II In London, England, the same subject has
Il lately been taken vigorously in hand. One
q medical journal, the London L0acct, proceeds
Il to such d length in its denunciation Of what
it terms seusel.ss, uncalled for cruelty, that
it has lately threatened to publish a list Of all
II The retail drygoods stores in the city where
VI saleswOmen were employed, huL Where nc
4 seats we're provided fortheir accommodation
n The list, II published, will be accompanied
u with an appeal urging wealthy ladies' to with
II draw their patronage from the establishments
II where their less fortunate sisters are exposed
n to hardship as needless as it is cruel.
III Icebergs aud ice foes in enormous throng
Vi are crowding southwark into the Atlantic
81 coming through Davis Strait, separatin:
~ Greenland from the northeast coast of Nortl
IA America. Nothing at all approaching thos
n ice masses in either magnitude or number
81 recorded in the past history of the storm,
Atlantic, to whose dangers the presence Q
III those visitors from the Arctic adds still an
AZ other peril. Recently, while under fuI
q Roadway and in a dense fog, til
s. British frigate Flamingo sighted all ice
# berg dead ahead. The engines were in
IL mediately reversed, and the vessel saved
bat SO narrow was her escape from destru'
tion that the bowsprit struck the ice wall an
was shivered into fragments before the PR
eress of the ship could be entirely staye'
This iceberg rose four hundred feet above IL
water. and since only one-eishth of a ma
Of ice floating in salt water is projected aboN
he surface, we cal form an idea OF the si
soma of which are half