The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-18

Jenny Lind IS 50 years old.
Lord Beaconsield was four years in writing
''Endymioa."
King kalakaua, Of the Sandwich Islands, is
reported TO have expressed an intention of
soon revisiting this country.
Michael Munkacsy, the Hungarian painter,
has just received a patent Of nobility from the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
Lord Odo Russell, the British ambass ador,
it is reported, VIII sosn be raised to the peer
age, his present title being Il courtesy title
only.
Senator Hamlin is the oldest member ofthe
United States senate and Senator Bruce the
youngest. Senator Anthony, now i'll his
fourth term, has served more years contlnu-
ously than ANY other nan in the present SEN
ate.
Miss Genevieye Ward is III no way related
to Mr.. samuel Ward, the ex-kipg Of the lob
by. but is the daughter of = Kentuckian still
living at an age several years beyond 70, who
married a daughter OF Gideon ee-no Lea,
as the n. Y. Tane has it-sometme mayer
of New York city.
Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, will shortly marry
Miss Mabel, the daughter CT Mr.. Francis W.
Hill, of Exeter, Maine. The lady, who is de-
scribed as beautiful and accomplished, is 20,
while her future husband is 81. The we'd
ding will take place, it is announced, in Au-
gusta, and the ceremony will be performed
by Bishop Nealy, of Maine.
The midgets, Lucia Zarate and Gen. Mite,
| accompanied by little Jennie Qulgley and
Commodore Foot, by desire of tie Prince and
Princess of Wales, went to Marlborough
house OIL December 18th and were there seen
by the Prime and Princess and the Duke and
Duchess Of Edinburgh. They have been eX-
hibitlng in London fer some time under an
American manager.
1t is = curious coincidence, but Senator
Csnkllng had no sooner ~announceda at Albany
and in the Commercial Advertiser his inteu-
ton of holding himself neutral in the senate
rial fight than President-elect Garfield an
nounces in the Tribune his intention of see
ing that no harm comes in that fight to the
New York delegates who voted against Grant
and the 3OS at Chicago.
Prince Karl Theodor, of Bavaria, the broth
er of the Empress of Austria, having gone
through a regular course Of study at The Uni
versity of Vienna, and taken his degree of
doctor of medicines, is deyoting himself zeal
susly to the practice Of his profession, in
which he is gaining reputation rs a surgeon.
He has lately performed all operation very
skilfully upon a patient in one of the Vienna
hospitals.
The Russian ambassador III England, dur
ing a recent visit to the Prince Of Wales al
Sandringham, while coayersing with. Mrs
Gladstone tripped over a tiger skin ard upset
his coffee all ever her black velvet dress. The
tiger skin was brought from India by tht
prince as one of the trophies of his Indian
tour. II. r.. H.. with his usual tact, set every
one at ease by pointing out that Russia hat
tripped up over India and disconnected Eng
land.
Elbridgc T. Gerry is the richest practicine
lawyer in New York city, and OWES the fines
law library. He is a nephew of the late Pc
ter Goelet, in whose Immense estate he had
share. Gerry occupies the GoeleL house, cor
ner OF Broadway and nineteenth street, bu
one misses the fancy poultry which once
. formed so interesting a feature i'll the grounds
The old capitalist, isolated as he was from
his race, found company in his cow, his hors
and his chickens; but his pets, like himself
have passed AWAY. Y. Letter.
f t. appears that we know netting abou
Geerse Eliot after all. A literary man VIII
| went to the pains to collect the different ne
moirs published in the daily press, and sem
. them to Mr.. Lewis for correction has received
the following reply with the document: g
= beg to assure ysu that every single detail II
it is wholly imaginary ; birth, parentage, ed
ucation and history are not distorted or eXag
cerated they are totally wide of all resena
u blalCG 10 Inc ldCtS. IL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
history might have had Mrs. Smith or Mrs
Brown for its subjects with equal veraclty.
This hits the biographers rather hard.
Mile. de Montgoltier, who died Decembe
y 10th at the age of 81, was the daughter OF tn
inventor of the balloon, and his dauShte
: survived him for 81 years. She lived to SCI
communication maintained by balloons dur
ing the siege OF Paris. III 1870 Mile. d
Montaolfier resisted all persuasion to qui
Paris on the approach Of the PrnsSians. on
lived Oh the south side of the city-the sid
. exnosed to the Prussian batteries and sh
remained with her maid and a youth in he
q service, the only tenants of a large, Old h0us
. of many flats whence every other had neu
Old as She was, even then she Went lncessant
Iv to visit the wounded in. the ambulances
and was found at the end of the seige to haV
given away all of her house linen and ever;
a article useful for the sick. Mile. de Mortgol
= fer lived in the summer at La Celle st. CLOUD
In her house is a fine medallion, by Hiouulu
of her father aud her uncle, Joseph de Mcht
oolfer. The medallion was unbroken durlh
the occupation of the house by the Germans
hut th. names of the two famous FreIcilmeI
q were carefully obliterated. Mile. de NOM
golfer was the patroness of Beranger, puo
Iisbed a volume of songs and leaves a IN
!, collection of autographs, including ietter
wr,tten by Silyio Pellico with his blood.