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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-19

The Dead Gear.

IG. A. Sala. in London Telegraph, March 22.l
There were probably not fifty strangers
within the church when | entered it, although
there may have been fifty times that number
waiting patiently outside. Those who were
admitted branchcd to the right and the left
when they came to the front OF the catatalque
and, ascending the steps of the dais, bent over
the open coffin, reverently kissed the baud of
the dead car, slowly retreated down the
steps of the dais, and were carefully piloted
to the door of departure by the gentlemen
ushers.
Nothing had been changed in the decora-
ton of the cathedral since it received the i'm
perial remains yesterday. The great cata-
falgue of cloth of gold and ernAne yet seemed
to fill the center of the nave with its
Yastness and made the church look very
small.
A line of beaded priests, in black coats,
were ranged at the foot of the coffin, grooming
their mOnotOnous chants and the atmos-
phere was heavy aud oppressive with the
fumes of many waXen tapers at the head of
the coffin. At It's sides, on the grades OF the
crimson colored dais and at stated points on
the pavement Of the nave were ranged in
mathematical precision Of correspondence, to
right and left, generals, aides-dc-camps,
chaInberlains, marshals of the court, cadets of
the corps de pages, ushers, groom of the
chambers and herald Of arms, some with
swords drawn, others with swords sheathed,
some with lighted tapers, Others with batons
and wands, but all stock still, silent. rigid,
like the knights and pawns on some great
chess-board.
l assembled the steps of the dais, bent over
the verge of the coffin, and did as others did,
but what | saw III the bier l forbear to dwell
upon for decays effacing fingers had sci
their marks there all too surely.
Thn haaH lpptaI yary email Tho ln nd xvnc
covered by a thin veil of white gauze. This
is how Alexander III, the car OF all the Rus
sias, really lay in death.
And so-noiselessly, and deeply touched
by an eyer-memorable sight-we came out
again into the SNOW.
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Tn. nos. su,,,o. sn,pn,.n,.

In answer to a query as to the largest
weeks yield Of the Bonanza mines the Gold
Hill Neps says:
There were during the years 1876 and 1877
several bullion shipments from the mar
mines which excited the wonder and admira-
ton of the world. 1t would take time to
look over the list of these shipments for the
largest amount turned out in any one week
by a single mine. Your question can be
answered, moreover, without it.
The biggest bullion shipment ever made at
one time from the C0mstock was by the
Bonanza mines for the week ending Decem-
Der 20, 1877. 1t was as follows:
Con. Virginia shipped at that date l33 bars
of bullion, weighing 16,66S pounds, and val
ued at $40. 1876 Us.
The California shipped 100 bars. weighing
16. 100 pounds. and valued at S55s,9O5 10.
Summary-Dec. 30, 1877, bullion ship
ments from the Bonanza mines 262 bars OF
bullion, (16 tons, SIS pounds valued at ST.
900, 900 II.
This was one shipment aud made for that
week, but really included s days run of the
mills. 1t was loaded Oh flat cars like pig
iron and sent on the Virginia 4 Truckec
railroad without any special guard.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-19

DR.. Delaney, in a paper read before the
rails on the history and limits of the human
voice, which he obtained after much patient
research. According to the doctor the print
tive Inhabitants of Europe were all tenors !;
their descendants of the present day are bari
tones, and their %grandsons will have semi
bass voices. Looking at different races, he
calls attention TO the fact that Inferior races,
such as the negroes, etc, have higher voices
than white men. The voice has also a ten
dency to deepen with age-the tenor OF IL he
coming the baritone at %, and bass at 80.
Fair complexioned people have higher voices
han the dark skinned, the former being usu-
ally sopranos or tenOrs, the latter contlaltos
on BASES. Tenors, says the doctor, are slen-
derby built and thin BASES are stoutly built
aud corpulent. This may be so, as a rule,
out one is inclined to think that there are
more exceptions TO it than are necessary to
prove the rule. The same remark appiles to
he assertion that thoughtful, Intelligent men
have always a deep-tOned voice whereas
rrifing ard frivolous persons have weak voices.
The tones of the voice are perceptihly higher
he points out. before than after a meal, which
is the reason why tenors dine early, in order
that the voice may not suffer. 1t was almost
superAuous for him to remind his learned
hearers that singers who were prudent es-
chewed strong drink and spirituous liquors,
especially tenors, for the basses can cat and
drink generally with %impunity. The south,
saws the doctor. furnishes the tenOrs, the
north the BASES in proof of which he adds
that the majority OF French tenors in vogue
come from the south OF France, while the
BASES belong to the northern Department.
Scientific american.
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y correspondent writes: '.The engaged
couples o 1881, are not commanded to hide
their endearnents under a bushel. They
may even kiss in company il they are chaste
about it. l saw a daughter OF one OF the
wealthiest and most refined of our families
touch lips with her hu%sband-to-bc, before at
least a hundred persons in a picture room of
the Academy of Design the other day. He
had been out OF tow for a week, l was told,
and their meeting here was by chance. She
greeted him atfectionately but without much
ado, and put up her mouth in the most self
possessed way imaginable. He was not so
cool about it, yet he gave her a smacking
salute with a good grace, right in the pres
tnce Of his future mother in-law. The girl
did not blush nor shipper. Such 4 public
kiss would have been scandal0us in March,
$50; but IN 1881 it issfashionable, and there
fore proper.
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lust One More.

It's about time to ring down the curtain
on cat stories, but before the bell sounds
there is just time for one good one. A man
now living in Kingston emigrated TO the west
many years ago aud bought a house winch
bad stood unoccupied for a considerable time.
The first night he heard sounds which con-
WINGED him that there were rats in the cellar
and on investigation he found that hundreds
OF the creatures were disporting themselves
there. Having eaten a quarter of beef down
to the bone, they were playing tag among
shelves ana boxes. He offered to introduce
the family cat but she declined to be present.
ed. The next day she was piss,ng and the
family supposed they had lost her; but on the
fourth day a familiar s'nleow' was heard, and
there was tabby at the head of a column
OF three dozen cats in light marching order,
their backs up and their tails rampant. The
iront door was opened and the detachment
moved down the cellar stairs in good order.
The next morning a -four barrel full of dead
rats was buried behind the house and the cats
returned to their homes.
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~GONkLlNG-S PLAN.

1t is asserted that when the worst
ONE to the worst Senator COnkling will ask
the rejection OF Robertson on the score OF
Senatorial courtesy, to which Senators have
rarely appealed in vain. This courtesy is a
sort OF mutual understanding that no appoint
Inents shall be confirmed where both Sena.
tors of a State wherein such appointments
are made are hostile thereto. This custom
has been generally observed. 1t is stated
that no mar has been a greater stickler for
this courtesy than Mr.. Blaine while a Sena-
tor. An ex-senator relates a circumstance
illustrative of this which is parallel with the
case in point. The break Blaine had with
President Hayes was brought about, he said,
by causes exactly the s~anesas now operating
with Conkling. President Hayes nominated
ia District Attorney and United States Mar
for Maine without consulting the Main Sena-
tor. On the night of the day these nominal
tions were sent to the Senate, Mr.. Blaine was
invited to a state dinner at the White House.
As he had previously accepted there was no
way for him to get out OF it. He attended
the dinner with Mrs. Blaine but the latter was
so eXasperated at the treatment her distin-
guished husband had that day received at the
hands Of the president, that while she sat al
the table through every course she refused to
ouch anything offered. The Inner over, Mr.
Blaine n his wife retreated, and the Sena
tor never put his foot in the White House
again while President Hayes was the occu
pant. In the senate Mr.. Blaine claimed thu
courtesy of the body to reject the nomina
lions because he had not been consulted
concerning them, and they were both re
jected.-Phiiddelphid Times.
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A more ungainly, strange aud awkward
figure than that of Thomas Carlyle in the
last days OF his life can hardly be imagined.
The stopped and thick-set frame was attired
in rough, ill-ftting and almost shabby clothes.
His face was rugged and sombre, set in a
hush OF gray-white hair and beard. Beneath
the heavy brows, within deep hollows lined
and wrrn, shown dull the BLUSH gray eyes
His nose was a handsome Scotch nose, straight
fine and bold.
Jefferson Davis writes to a friend concern
ing his promised book: although l have
been working steadily of late, and have sent
a good deal of manuscript to the publishers
| am not yet so near the end as to be able to
see it." General Robert Toombs is re-
ported by the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
to have said in conversation in that
city the other day: jeff Davis
wrote for my picture to put in his book along
| with some others. l wrote him that l would
not be found in such company. | will bet
$500 that his book will not appear by the
first of April nor while / live"
Mrs. General Gaines, the great litigant, now
wears deep mourning for the daughter who
died over a year ago, but her face is still
cherry. She wears a red wig curIed in front
and looks more youthful than would be sup
posed possible for a lady who has so long en-
gagged in lawsuits. She had a little speech
cut and dried for Mrs. Garfield when she ap
preached her at her first public reception
After grasping the president very cordially b,
the hand, she turned to his wife, saying
"You made a favorable impression on M
the first time l ever saw you. / said at once
Here is a pure and noble woman"
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ny JesIAx.

Things has come to . pretty pass
The whole wide country over,
When every marrird woman has
TOhave q friend or lover;
1t ain't the way that / was raised,
An l hain't no desire
To have some Teller pokin' round
Instead o. my Josiar.
/ never kin forget the day
That we went out a Walkin'
An sot down on the river bank
An kept on hours a talkln';
He twisted up my apron string
= An folded 1t together,
An said he..thought for harvest time
Twas Gurus Kind o. weather.
The sun went down as we sot there
Josiar SCENE | uneasy,
An mother she began to call;
"Looweezy on, LOOweezy!'
An then Josiar spoke right up,
As { was just a Startln'.
An said. "LooweezN ! what's the use
OF us two ever partin !"
1t kind o. took me by surprise,
An yet 1 knew twas comm
I'd heard it all the summer long.
In every wild bees hummin'-
I'd studied out the way I'd ACT.
But law l couldn't do 1t,
l meant to hide my love rom him,
But seems as If he knew it.
An lookin' down into my eyes
He must have seen the fire,
A nd ever since that hour I've loved
An worshipped my Josiar.
| can't tell what the women mean
Who let men TOOL around EN-.
Believer all the nonsense that
They only say to Sounu 'em:
/ know, for one, I've never seen
The nah thai l d admire,
To have a haligin' after Inc.
Instead of my JoSiar.
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How n Rip Shorter Acts in IsI

About Is cool thing as is imaginable
in Dimmitt county a few days since.
who gave his maize as zone Of the 4
rode into Lieutenant Ed English
camp on the Pena, and asked for Sd
TO eat. On being told oy Jose Ensl
Jack Foster, the inmates OF the cd
they bad nothing cooked, he with
hand said swell, cook something
id quick, and don't give me any BAD
Foster says Hord couldn't have I'd
that meal quicker than he did. Will
his meal, Taylor was interrupted by
rival Of Lieutenant Ed English, of y
mitt Rangers, and proprietor of tb
who rode a fair horse, seated on a g
die. After a careful survey of sad
horse. the stranger proposed 10 I
horse and saddle for Eds horse and
to which Ed demurred. Taylor ono
with gun in hand, said "WeIl, by G.
have got 10 trade. Git down." Ed
Taylor lit, and lit out, leaving Cet
horse, worth about SIS. He went N
and when near Lomavista he met a 50
man Everett and demanded a hon
fiom him. Young Everett kicked, !
avail, as Taylor had the rop,'
change made, Taylor rode of, first S
would like to fall in with King Fl
Jim Cossin, as he would make Il
dance and then a sand out OF the
CdstOTriUe, Texas, Quill.
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A Brokers' Romance.

1t is il very touching incident. We heard a
southern editor telling it on AN elevated train
yesterday, and he was in a great hurry to get
home and put it in his paper, and make an
affidavit that it was true. The scene of the
romance opeI 8 in a palatial mansion IN New
York. A lady sits in a parlor filed with the
most costly luxuries. Diamonds as big as i'll
berts glitter in her ears. Lace costing S56 per
yard almost hides the color of her dress from
sight. A clock costing $4,000 strikes the
hour of A p. M. At this moment her hus-
band rushes into the house, pale, haggard,
suspenders broken, hat bunged up, and his
boots all m d.
shave y~ou--haye you caught the opizoo-
tic ?" she gasps, as she starts up.
so, wife we are Observation-Disclosures up
smashed as fiat as a shingle =. he moaned,
in reply.
allow ?"
81 invested $4,000 in the Crooked River
railroad at 90, and it has declined to 4! Jay
Gould has bought and consolidated it. We
must leave this place and all these lnXuries
and works of art and take two fourt,-story
rooms over in Brooklyn"
She laughed merrlly and long. Had the
sudden news crazed her. He thought il had
but he was green. She left the room for a
momen' and then returned with a pillow-cast
containing $2O0,O0O in ~greenbacks.
"Let the Crooked River railroad crool
away 20 she laughed as she emptied the
money at his feet. "You have given m
this money during the past five years, a few
thousand dollars at a time, to buy ilttl'
articles of toilet. l mad saved it up to get m'
a pair of stockings for Sunday, but cheerful
ly hand it over to my good husband to Sc
him on his legs again. Take it my darling
and if you can get a whack at Jay Gould bit
him hard and I'll back you with the $J0,OO
l had laid away to end TO the heather Oh
Christmasr'
Wall Street News.
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Produce Market Rep

BUTTE, April 10
The following are the wholesal
paid by merchants and hotel keeper
commodities enumerated, delivered
wagon. Price list carefSlly correct
Monday
Flour, Ruby Valley, INK, $500
Mill Creek, XXXX, sou
Union Mills New Process Crea
Valley, $500.
Union Mills XXXX Snowflake, $
Utah, choice, $3.50.
Graham, $3.50.
Wheat, per h.. 5 cents, fair DENIAL
Oats, per h., 81 cents, in demand
Butter, per h., 80 to 40 cents.
Eggs, per dozen, so cents.
Corn meal, 5 to g. cents.
Beef, on foot, &c.
Beets, 8 cents.
Hay per ton, $22.OO to $500; in
Fresh fish, 20 cents per pound.
Cheese, 10 to Is cents.
Barley, So SO to 2 IS per hundred
Dried beans, Montana, 81 cts.
Mutton, 0 cents per pound.
Pork, dressed, Is cents per pound
Veal, Q cents per pound.
Venison 6 cents per pound.
Chickens, 500 per dozen.
Wood, ST per cord.
Rutabagas, &c.
Potatoes, Sc.
Onions, Sc.
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r.. w..ssri.gse~

The story Of the Wandering
generally supposed to be q mediav
al widespread as other myths Of u,
That it is later than the Keforn
protestant origin, and restricted to !
Scandinavia, the Netherlands. and
has been very clearly shown by Cad
in q recent monograph, lie Jui1|
paris, 1890. The sources Of
legend are to be found in q story
Matthew Paris, and In an Italian
the second half of the sixteenth cenlj
former (sHistoria major Anglorum,
1871, p. 470) relates thatin 1928 an
archbishop came to England, and
other wonders which he told of hist
spoke OF ''that Joseph who was pres1
Lords Passion, spoke to HIM, and
to testify to the truth Of our fail
archbishop asserted that he knew thj
wEo had eaten at his table just befoI
parture, and whose story was as full]
the time of Christ's condemnatiod
Pontins Pilates porter. When ca
the plGtorium the porter, then cal1
philus, struck him in the back aud NJ
on. Jesus answered: ~ go, but n
wait until l come" Cartaphilus wa
time about thirty, and lived on andi
hundred, then became i'll and fell \
Of trance, and when he recovered vi
same age as when he saw Christ, A
cess was repeated when ever be-
the age of I'M hundred. The ad
went to Cologne and there reiold I
which we find in the rhymed 'Chld
Peillippe Mousket, who wrote at
about 1243. The other legend, ord
Italian origin, relates how a JED
MalchuS gave Jesus a blow with
gauntlet. He was condemned to Id
underground abode, always walkins
a column, against which he dashesI
but cannot kill himself, tor he is ID
suffer until the last judgment. The
ing jew as we know him first 'appe,
work dated August /. 1913, writ
certain Dudu:Hus, Of Westphalta, vi
ever, puts his story into the mouth
o Eitzen, a friend of Mclauchton,
diedin 1903. CASTOR Paris consoles
of Cartaphilus a transposition or,
compromise between the legend offs
immortality and the story of the puI
| Of Malchus. The writer has presen
clearly and briefly GO pp.) the sou
development of the legend, one of tb
of which he deems the desire OF OBJ
"tradition," of which the Catholics
a much more authentic testimony.
contemporary of Christ. As a suppl
this monograph the student should {
review by Professor A. Damon
MORA AntolOgi0, October, 1880 e.
genda DELI Ebreo Errante"). |
proves the Italian origin Of the
Malchus, and shows that, although
of the Wandering Jew is known in
has never been popular there.
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AMY-sIlvERsMIrH STOCK 70

A limited amount of the stock of
Siiversmith Mining Company will
for sale. For full particulars call
Hyde, at the MINER Office, or on ]
Carey.
Butte, NJ. t., April 10.
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IN pulpit eloquence the grand difficulty
lies here !: To give the subject all the dignity
it so fully deserves, without attaching any
importance to ourselves. The Christian mes
senger cann.t think too highly of his Prince,
nor too humbly OF himself. This is that
secret art which captisates and improves an
audience, and which all who see will fancy
they could initiate, while most who try win
fail.
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a PiOUs ~AdsnOnitIOn.

They attended me same little Episcopal
church, and D-'s pew was directly i'll front
of that of Judge Kent. Now. D. had a very
slow and impressive way OF repeating the
responses, and sometimes Jagged a little be
hind the rest of the congregation. Judge
Kent waited one morning quietly till he got
at just the right place in the service. and then
as the creed was being SAID he leaned forwaru
and whispered into the car of his friend
Judge D., ont loud enough to convulse the
immediate circle with unseemly laughter:
Judge D., | wish you could manage to de-
scend into hell Il little quicker
--- --
The term bric-a-brac probably come from
the old French EXPRESSION, lie brio ct de
brOquG, which means from right and from
lefJ-from hither and thither. The word
brio signifies IN old French All Instrument t.
shoot arrows to birds; and some ctOmologis's
derive the word brac from br0c0nier-to sell
or eXcilange-the root of which is Saxon and
also the origin Of the word 'brokcr.' It,
Specification in pure English is secondhand
goods, but it has, of recent years. been used
to indicate objects of some artistic value made
in olden times. and which are much esteemed
by modern collectors. This century is one
Of collections, ranging in value from defdced
postage stamps and wax impressions of seals
to watches and snuti-boXes of rare metals,
ornamented with precious stones.
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INEYARD HAVEN, April lG.-Tbe
heaviest northeast gale experienced in ten
years passed over this place last night, accom-
panied by a rain and snow storm. Three
vessels laying at the wharf broke their fasten-
ings and drifted ashore.
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The following is the official text OF the res.
oIutions to be submitted to the international
monetary conference to be held at Paris on
the 10th inst. {:
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-19

The trial OF The Brush and Siemen's cleo
trio lights in London were highly satisfactory
ADD there is consequently a great decline in
gas shares.
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LONDON, April 16.-Beaconsfeld is much
improved. The doctors are now nfide OF
his ultimate recovery.
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02

A SYNDICATE mas been organized
in Philadelphia TO construct smr
canal ACROSS the State Of Florida
through the everglades, thus ac-
comprising the dual object Of re
deeming $l2, 100000 acres OF rich
land and shortening the distance
bet q cen tho American ports on the
Atlantic coast and all European
ports to New Orleans, Mobile and
all shipping points on tie guis OF
Mexico, and also avoiding the dan
gers of navigation winch are ex-
perIenced ON the countless keys
and coral reefs of the southern ana
southeastern coast OF Florid&. j his
Is a gigantic undertaking, but
"there's millions in IL"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02

The King ot Denmark - sixth On
the list the Czr, seventh, Queen
Victoria, eleventh Dom Pedro, Of
Brazil, sixteenth, aud the Emperor
OF Austria twenly-iourth, the two
soverigns under 80 being Prince
Milan, of Scrvia, born Aag. 10,
1854. and king Alfonso XII, Of
Spaln, born Nov %, 1857, who in
his short life has assisted at two
revolutions, has bren married twice
and shot Ut twice. But the posi-
tons are materially changed when
we come 10 regard the length oi
each rulers reign. Dom Pedro, OF
B'azlI, heads the list, having ascend-
,ril 7, 1881, 1t the
age OF u; pHc 4>dke Of brunswick,
April 20, 1881 comes 49, ,l.s4pn
Victoria is third-June 2p, 1887
Francis Joseph 4 Austria is sfy,h
Dec. ., 1913; the King of the
Netherlands seventh-AIarch II,
1870, The Gar is twelfth, aud tie
Emperor William (as King OF
Prnssi") i oiiy nlnctepn;h. King
{Ta0T,rr If tEa IT4Ii..nas ,.,,,.t..4