The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-31
NEWS NOTES.

A German writer in the Bdde-Blatt, a dali.
published in Wlesbaden, calls the Negro
Ministries 'tthe minnesingers of the New
World," and traces the origin of negro
minstrelsy to the tendency in human nature
to laugh at its own m~isfortunes.
i Some of the relics of Pompeli are so i'm
moral that, although they were seen by the
public of that city that was destroyed they
are not exhibited to modern travellers without
a special request. About one-third Of Pom
peii has been uncovered.
Dipping parties have become fashionable
among the ariStocratic ladies of England. II
does not relate to the practice of dipping snuff
and rubbing it across the gums, nor yet 10
bathing. The process consists Of filling a
huge grab bag with valuable presents, and
allowing each guest to take one without see
ing it. The amusement is quite exciting, IS
sure to attract guests, and gives a fine opporttl-
nifty of.the display of wealth.
A person with a turn for curious statistics
has calculated that the 1O,OOO,O 600 barrels of
beer reported by the Brewers Congress as
sold last year would have filled a canal
twenty-one feet wide and five feet deep, en-
tending from New York to Philadelphia, and
that it would take a pump throwing thirty
gallons a minute running night and day
twenty-one years to pump it out. 1t was
all swallowed, however.
The second of the many husbands of the
late Adah Isaacs is q pauper in st. Louis.
His name is Daniel X. Russell, and when he
married the famous Mezeppd, in 1866, he was
a promising young comedian. Drunkenness
has laid him low.
An Ottawa young man did not elOpe with
the married woman with whom he had fallen
in love, but went boldly to her husband and
ns1-a1 1nrr ,,n1 p,nrnu rpI,1 an,rtn ,Sofn
him for the loss of his wife. The husband
thought that $40 was about the right sum,
and the lover paid it, taking the woman
away.
A Chinaman was three days without food
in a California wilderness, When found, he
said he had been fed ~abundantly by strange
beings, who supplied all sorts of delicacies.
His Imagination had been affected by hunger,
as IS frequently the case but his country
Nell believe that lie has been in the hands of
devils, and they are putting him through a
purifying course of ceremonies.
A Utah writer says that John Mackay, the
mining millionaire, walks about Virginia
City in a thirty dollar suit of gray clothes,
goes to work in his mine at 5 o'clock in the
morning, and lives in the plainest style. The
most glaring fault about Mackay is said to be
that he lies so regarding his charities. He
distributes about 100000 a year to the poor,
and, if any body questions him about the
matter, he swears that there sis nothing in
it."
A petition was recently presented to Parlia-
ment from the British Medical Association,
signed by 1000 medical men, against ~vacciLa-
ton.
The "~ffteen' puzzle has been brought to
the attention of so learned a body as the
Ppy,l Spciaty Eliphu rub AT fha moatinr
on June I, Prof. TAFT sent in a note on the
theory of the puzzle, and gave a rule for
whether a particular arrange
ment was solvable or not.
The committee appointed by the French
has recommended that the prize
of $4,000 be awarded to Prof. Graham Bell
for his invention Of the telephone, and that a
prize of $4,000 be given to NJ. Gramme for
his magneto-electric machine.
The Jews quarter, a picturesque feature of
Amsterdam, has been robbed of its chief
by vendors being TO, hidden to ex-
pose their wares in the open air. The enforce
Of the order caused a riot.
A Mobile accident insurance company has
paid fifteen claims, as follows: One man
killed by tall, two by ID railroad mishap, one
by drowning, one by lynching and ten by
bullet wound
General Grant, during his nine days trip
II the Gunnison country, proved himself an
accomplished frOntiersman. One day he
ode a mule, and as he has some reputation
or obstinacy himself, the incident afforded a
mint for an "equestrian" statute. Another
lay he drove a mule team. He has not yet
the offered chief Office in a mining
John q. SAKE has been bedrldden for some
line, and is said to be greatly depressed by
he death of his wife. His only living daugh-
er is an invalid.