The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-15
H WORLDS FAIR.

A Minnesota doctor charged a Woman SIS
for curing an ingrowing toe nail. She re-
fused payment and stood suit, but when the
jury saw her foot they allowed the doctor $50
for the job.
"Shall the husband keep a wife informed
of his affairs ?" asks an innocent. There is
no necessity. She will find out five times as
much as he knows himself, without the least |
trouble.
A Rockland man calls his hife "green
fruit" because she never agrees with him.
Rocklund Courier.
I've received a billet-doux
From my charming little Nell
Writ in ink of truest blue
Here and there a blot Or two
Lovely as a wild blue-bell.
Oh my soul, it feels as gay
IS a monarch dressed in Samite,
will rise up right away,
And I'll take her to the play;
And III run the social gamut.
Stop l haven't read the brief,
But I know it's Nellie's certain
i"To one hundredweight of beef,
S15. (SignedaO'k eefe,
Butcher."l ThunderatiOn! Curtain.
american Punch.
A bill is before the French Chamber to
establish the civil status Cf women. 1t makes
a distinction between married women and
spinisterS, and starts from the principle that
tine rights of unmarried women should be the
same as those of men. 1t also greatly en-
krges the legal status of married women.
A wealthy manufacturer of Connecticut
having built an elegant mansion and wishing
to take a second wife, said to the architect
(which agrees best with brick and brown
stone-a brunette or a blonde -
None of the Cincinnati snobs raise their
hats to a lady until they have passed her by
nine feet.
The lace mittens this year are of two kinds.
Those in delicate colors-pearl, lilac, salmon
and strap-woven in the stocking net. with
open-wOrk wrists, and those in the real lace
mesh, of the old french lace, which comes in
evening colors and the glove shades.
Mrs. Hayes has completed the reform be-
gun at the White house by Mrs. Grant, and
has suppressed the use of wine and spirits
entirely at the private dinners. In recogni-
ton Of this, the Women's Temperance Union
propose to erect a drinking fountain III
Washington city to her honor.
Fashionable women are following the GUS
toms of Queen Anne so closely as to adopt
the habit of keeping monkeys for house pets.
A London ladies' paper announces q consign-
ment of Marmoset monkeys for pets. They
can't be uglier than the bull terriers with
black muZzles which are the much beloved
household pets Of young ladies here, and
probably are moi so subject to accident as the
porcelain monsters which makes rooms
hideOus.
Queen Victoria Is described as appearing
~'snlall, Insignificant, cross and Indifferent
at her drawing rooms.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is to give an address
on "Changes in American Society," before
the American Social Science Association at
its meeting iii Saratoga next September.
When Artemus Ward was exhibiting his
show in Salt lake City his complimentary
tickets to the city officials read as follows
admit bearer with one wife"
!. Lady Burdett-Coutts lately gave a tea
party to over two hundred London cabmen
and their wives, as a means to induce the cab
men to treat their horses with kindness.
Success is the card that wins. Even the
successful fool is applauded, while the phil
osopher who fails is Kissed. -
A Meriden man has a Bible 142 years old
Strange how long a Bible may be made tc
last by temperate usage.-BostOn Transcript.
doctor" said a gentleman to his pastor
show can | best train up my boy in the way
SELF blandly replied the pastor.
The soldiers of the Turkish army have moi
been paid a cent for fourteen months. They
could not be worse treated if they were moth
ing but schooEteachers.
The most of men who fail in any undertak'
ing blame the weather, the system of trade
the r~ascality of other men; anything but theil
stupidity and prodigality.
The need of many an editor,
From long time immeHlorial,
Is a pair of double action. shears
That can write an editorial,
1t seems difficult to account for so small
creature as a bird making tones as loud, il
singing, rs an animal one thousand times IL:
size. But it has been discovered that in bird:
the lungs have several openings ~columuiiicat
ing with corresponding air bags or cells
/ which fill the whole cavity of the body from
the neck downwards, aud into which the All
passes and repasses.