The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-01
THE FAIR.

Miss Jones was about to marry a military
officer, much to her mother. dspleasure.
"Why, my child, SAID the latter, "don't you
know that war may be declared at any
moment, aud Il bullet take him away, for
ever ?" VERY WE'LL" was the answer, "a
widow Of seventeen. what could be more
p0etic?"
Hear the Chicago Tribune: THE young
man who wants to get up with the sun must
not Sit up too late with the daughter"
The battle of life-Courtship is the engage
ment or siege, the proposal is the assault, and
matrimony the victory.
An observing man has discovered a SINH
larity between a young ladies' seminary and
a sugar-house, as both refine what is already
sweet.
When a Canada girl loves, she does love.
In a breach-of- promise suit the other day it
was shown that a young lady wrote TO her
lover eight times per day.
Congress ought to make an appropriation
for Salt river. A number of parties must go
up that stream this fall, and the members Of
Congress know hsw it is themselves.
A school teacher who had been telling the
story of David ended with "And this all hap
pened over three thousand years ago. A lit
tie cherub, its blue eyes opening with wonder,
said, after a moments thought, "Oh dear
hsih, "hoo . aShaoi Sou - Eob.
sis it becoming to me ?' asked she, as
she paraded in the costume of one hundred
years ago, before the man who is not her lord
and master, but is hel husband. eyes, my
dear" said he, meekly. "Don't you wish l
could dress this way all the time ? ; she
asked. "No, my DEAR he replied "but l
wish you had lived when that was tho STYLE"
A Jersey widower who had taken another
rortpnr ~ oorsnoInI IN HE w~I1;pr rjobt
The parties brought a phonograph, in which
was preserved some Of the objurgations of his
first wife, and when they set it going unde:
his window, the happy bridegroom broke out
into a cold sweat, ana cravled upthe chimney
on a bridal tour.
An old negro man of Oglethrope county,
Ga, when on his death-beu, recently. sent for
his wife and told her that if she married again
he would haunt her. She believes him
capable of carrying out the threat, and has
ever since his death firmly resisted all siege
laid to her heart by her dusky admirers.
A young lady in Indiana was suddenly
kissed at a party and was so greatly shocked
and mortified That she became insane. Thi.
will probably put a stop TO kissing.
A two-faced female child has been born ir
Indiana, and when it grows up to be a young
lady she can see what the woman who Just
" oh ibiiO oily SlouoiC.
"What are sealed proposals, Tom"'
Archly asked a bright-eyed miss,
| Whose mouth upturned. like a rosebud sweet
-, Seemed asking for a kiss.
why Fanny dear, I'll illustrate;
'Tis plane as a, b. c,
Give me your hand-youh have my heart
! And now r. Y Il It's sealed, you sce"'
Michigan has six female lawyers, and ever.
l one of them dare stand up and ''sass back
. when his honor rules against her.
= In Georgia the ladies often hunt rabbit
with shot guns. Nobody thinks it out Of tn
way. 1t does the rabbits no harm and keep
:. the ladies from having the dyspepsia.
At Davenport, Iowa, Joseph Liebel, six fee
e high and weighing 225 pounds, asks for a di
: vorce from his 90-pound wife because she
guilty of such cruel and inhumsn treatmer
3 that he is afraid of his life. On the contrar
the woman asserts that Liebel is a libel o
5 manhood whom she has been compelled t
support by her hard labor for twenty years.