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

Man made law, but law never iyet made a
man.
Nothing is eyer done beautifully which is
done in rivalship, which is done in PRIDE
Ruskin.
Virtue never was and never can be incor-
porated; it exists only in the individual. A
vi-tuous corporation is a thing unknown.
The t'sweet singer" from Michigan has been
heard from in the following terms:
o mighty Garfield thou dost fllcst
The seat which for thee people wlllest.,
Thy fame resounds through all the land,
From palace great to peanut stand.
An American, after dining at a London
restaurant, paid his bill and was about leav-
ing when the waiter suggested that the
amount did not include the waiter. "Ah,"
said the man, s.but l didn't eat the Maiter."
Ayoung lady was caressing a pretty SPAN
iel and %murmuring, 81 do love a nice dog ~
"Ah," said a dandy standing near, ~ would
| We're a dog !tNever mind" retorted the
young lady sharply, ''you'll grow
Recorder (to witness with bandage on his
head): "Dld he have any provocation when
he struck you?" Witness: ale may have
had something of the kline consayled about
his person, but it was a brick he struck me
Wild
The trouble about taking a medici;e war
ranted to cure all diseases is that it may not
know exactly what is wanted of it, and in
that case will go fooling around in the system
trying to cure you of some disease that you
have not got.
Mrs. Marietta Davis, widow Of the late Gen
eral j. c. Davis, Of Indiana, is the.owner of
Emperor Maximilian's scarf pin. 1t IS set
with a hundred diamonds of fine water and
is valued at S. $500. During General Davis's
journey in Mexico he purchased the pin for
$3.50.
Genevieye Ward is shocked beyond all en-
preston because men and women are COM
PEELED to sleep in the same sleeping car. 1t
is dreadful. We have often worried over the
same thing, and been afraid to go to sleep,
lest some woman should chlOrofOrm us and
kiss us Ia our dreams. No man is safe in a
mixed. sleeping car.-Bmlington Ha~kcye.
Love at zero: Two sulky lovers sat- with
averted heads for half an hour without speak
ing a word. At last he ventured to ask:
elbow do you like it my dear?" "First rate"
said she, SIT keeps my back warm."-Brook-
Ign Eagle,
Voltaire 1t takes twenty years to bring
man from the state of embryo. and from that
of a mere animal, as he is III his first infancy,
to the point when his reason begins to dawn.
1t has taken thirty centuries to know his
structure it would take eternity to know
something of his soul it takes bat an in
slant to kill him.
A Scotch clergyman at ayr, a few Sundays
ago. prayed. so Lord. bless the Established
Church and the Free Church, and tile United
Presbyterian Church, and all the other
Churches. Thou knowest the various nick
names. Lord, by which they are called bless
them all"
Intellect ':Do you really believe that an
ass eyer spoke to Balaam ?" luiried a man
who prideu himself Oh his intellect. Coler-
idgc, to whom the question was put, replied ::
sMy friend, | have no doubt whatever that
the story is true. | have been spoken 10 in
the same way myself The man Of IN
curing mind retired for meditation.
~ on have travelled a great deal, have YOU
not :"' inquired a young man of a New Or
leans girl who had just returned from a tour
in Europe, and who was a graduate of Nassar
College. "Oh. yes" she replied, ii have
travelled OH every railroad in this country and
Europe. but do you know l have heard so.
much about the equatorial line that I'll never
be able tie realize that l have been anywhere
until l have travel I'd from one end to the
other of that railroad"
"Johnny,'' SAID his father, as the boy look
the primal biscuit from the plate, ''don't you
KNOW tnaL IL IS lNpOllIe tOnelp yOuTSeN DelOIe
your elders ?" 'Why, pa, mother told me to
help myself before you" "What do you
mean, sir?' asked his father, while his mother
looked up with astonishment depicted in
every feature. "Why, l heard mother tell
Aunt Hannah that she hoped l would take
after You, and So l thought l would take my
biscuit first
Postmaster General James wife made ehcr
debut as a 'cabinet lady" Oh Monday, receiv-
ing at the Arlington Hotel. where herself aud
husband have rooms.. She was assisted by
the agreeable wife of senator Plat, of New
York. Mrs. James is a middle-aged lady
with iron-gray hair. a plump, well-prOpor-
toned figure, and cheerful expression of face
and tone Of voice.
The only Cabinet houses where there are
young people now, are those of Secretary
Blaine, who has sons and a daughter in socie-
ty of Secretary Window, whose wife has a
young girl, a Miss Norton, of Minnesota, with
her, and Secretary Hunt, whose wife is still
young, and who has a daughter in society,
and in addition, young lady guests of the lat.
ter. Mrs. Hunt regularly has our or five
young ladies to receive with her, and evident.
ly enjoys her new mode of life and likes tC
have others enjoy themselves in her house.
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