The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-28
SIDE DISHES.

England's rum bill for 1880 exceeded $780,
100000.
1t takes 10000 roses to produce half an
ounce of ottar.
l. Conger is SAID to be the only senator who
votes through his nose.
An electric railway from Berlin to Litcher-
flelc is in successful operation.
E. E. Myers of Detroit is to build the new
Texas capital at cost of $1,5O0,0OO.
Talmage presides over the largest church in
the country. The communicates number
nearly 1900.
The great German importation to Missouri
Is likely to change the political complexion
of that slate.
Secretary Blaine and ex senator Conkling
have engaged rooms at tue same hotel at
Coney Island for August.
Daylight dancing is to supplant that of the
nIght at the summer resorts this summer.
Which is all very we'll to say.
Prof. Barnard, of Nashville Tenn, has
discovered a comet close to that recently dis
covered by Prof. Swift, Of Rochester.
A fashionable mother in New York is said
to have rouged her bahy's cheeks for the Or
dinance Of baptism, as it was pale that
morning.
CheMal,a "a dwarf Chinaman.only IS inches
high arrived i'll lTew York recently. He is
| smali enough to 60 into ali cvercoaJ pocket.
He is a years of age.
The stale prison at jackson comprises Is
| acles Of which ii acres are in potatoes and
the resi- IN corn, onions, roots am vegetables
'nt convict consumption.
Mr.. Jay Cooke has so far retrieved his fl
nanciai disasters that he has paid all his
creditors il fun and has repurchased his
magnifcent COUNT! oeat Of g Oogontz," near
| Phitade' phia.
| The Pennsylvania State Centennial build
ing in Paramount Park, Which cost $4,000,
was sold at auction on Thursday last for $500.
| The furniture, which was in a bad condition,
| brought $3.50.
The 'Christian Uhurch"-the sect to which
President Garfield beongs-is about to es-
tahlish at Des Moines an institution for the
education Of both sexes, to be called Drake
| University.
! Your average senator, says the Springfield
| hepuIiicdn, when it comes to going into a
| light with the president on the other side, is
good deal like a boy with boil watching
| light. He longs 70 sail in, but prefers to keep
out. Patronage is tender spot with them
| all.
| Recently in Germany thirty occu!iSts ex-
anined 10000 pupilsin school of all degrees
and found that while nearsghtedness rarely
exists at less than five years OF age, 1t shows
| steady growth in the schools from ) to II
per cent. i'll the lowest grades and 80 to so in
the highest. In body of 100 theological
students, - per cent. were myopic. aud 95
out of every 100 medical students in that
country are said by Prof Virchow to be de-
ticent in sight.
The leading members of the English Par.
Lament are nearly all landed proprieturs to
considerable extent, ana, as natural conse
quence, lake pc! sonal interest in ali legisla-
tion relating to the tenure of land. Mr..
Gladstone is the proprietor of 1000 acres :;
the Marquis Of Harrington is heir to 2OO. 900 !;
Earl Spencer owns 27,0DO; Earl Kimberley,
ii 600; Lord Northbrook, 10000; Mr. Dod-
son, $4,000, and Lord Huntley, 10000. Mr..
| Bright is the only prominent member of the
cabinet who is not possessed of large landed
properties.