The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-12-20

r,,. Traneit OF Venus.-A Grand
Opportunity for tho Light
FINGERED Gentry.
Anokhar Scandal 9uit.-HoW q
Manicure and Ohiropodioe Rosa
to UminenCe and wealth..
and ID said to have
Rall0n.
Why He r. beloved to be lnno-
cent. How . Wall Street
Mans ForgetSulneos
was Cured.
New York, Dec. II. 1889.

New York, DEC. II. 1882.
From our Regular Cosrssg os''ls"'.
The Transit 0f Venus IL. happily
,.,,.,..i. aud the scientists ARE now
(,.r,i Mt work "hgurimg," ~ the
,,i,,,..ls.r w.s,l.l ssy, IN their oleer-
v.Ii.,,,s ~ ~ ~ attain the l,rss'is<.
amount Of mikes the earth. !" away
frusm the sum, and THUS how Long l"is
plauet has still: IL revnIvs before Il
will l,e swall,wel ~ the great merry
lup,,iuary. 1t IL l,arti to xsy whether
the event was = greater treat 10 TIE
astronomers ar to the small l"cy.
Certain II IL that there was u CORNER
im old window glass and lamp black.
Thousands Of people stopped ]" the
streets Ia have their eye. blinded ''y
gazing ut the flaming disk III the sun,
In the hope Of discovering the little
black SPOT an u, which WAS meant I"
represent the fair planet. Of course.
thu. light-fingcr,d gentry rs'se I" the
,n,gaxls,ls, aud they nlanagssl to re-
lieve \ number III intere*ted star
,eaxesx Of their tillsepieceS and packet
ln,oks, It wxs tla, Laaal that the transit
could not be seen NJ night. 1t would
have afforded splendid excuse fi'r
the model husband who now and
then xsws tout with the G6,ys," just
10 see that they do not cut up toO
| much.
The Maitland scandal Is happily
over; the young woman whom rich
young Hebrew Malsisti Levy treated
70 *habl,ily, after leading her astray,
Is now l'ssxy taking steps tn bring
suit Tor the damages against the
wretch who IN order to rid him,~elf
of her, had her indicted fHr perjury.
Fortunately for her the jury were
sensible men aud they acquitted her.
Another affair at an OtliO,is flavor, Is
shortly to come up to the disgusting
Satisfaction Ot those men and women
who tlIrOi,g ct,urt rtOn's. whenever
! moral carrsOn Is disx<c(ed In the IN
tcrpsts Of law and justice. Some two
years ago n lhDct0r Pray, opened =
suite Of gorgeous larlOns In West
Twenty -tllirsi street, and set up ~ u
Manicure aud ('hirOlM<lixt. Now
Chir0lnniy in days gOnc by. w;lx =
science and art l.racticetl mainly by
the old NegrS ''cs,rm DOCTOR" who,
will. his little box nj strongly SMELL
ing salve, leral,ll,l,lMted the streets IN
searrl, Of custom. )r. Pray called
In fashion to his mid. and In his
s,lm,ptnO,,x rOssn the pairing If ones
Gurus AMI cutting 1T ores nails ln.-
came 4 luxury worthy 1T the Orient.
The Doctor Devoted extraordinary al- ,
te,,tiOm t. finger nails, which ht
polished aud f.arysl according I" the
1ata-%: dictates IT fashion.
In summer l,e made Iii. he:.ll.luar-
teri at Saratoga, Tut was we'll repre-
scented ut every other watering
place aud seaside resort ri note In
the country. lie advertised largely !;
lat ju.iitiOuxly. cOnttning himself
mainly IL theatre programmes altI !
ssrcallesi Jenkins papers. OF cs'.ir..s. :
llr became feature Of New York |
life, the wl,l.Ie, llt1kt1l to him. and !
NJ he charged from live tO ten d'l)arx !
y consultation the al.M'tOr made ~, :
ms,,cl, money, that he stands y fair |
chance IL bt.ing quietly shipped oil
ton luna'ic asylum ~ his anxious
relatives. This IL the fashionable.
way Of preventing u rich man aud
particularly y ria.ls lssrvcnu frsMll
making y fx,l of himself. Hut the
fat.~ have slnryl him this ex.
lnri~ntx III least far the present.
They s~t pretty woman ut him.
He claims that she trie.l IL cxtOrt
two dollars from him during l'rO'~,s-
xi0na' visit to his rooms. She charges
him will, what In the mMAl&-st yer
narular of newspapers Ii called un-
gS'ntleDlIanly er',I,lmst." The young
Per.on In question. il nineteen year.
old superb form, ln'.s.,'ses an equally
BEAUTIFUL face, rsjs'iccs In the gent.el
name IL bella Springfield, and il n
nlilliner by trade ar profession. She
says that one day while visiting the
doctor, he tM'k liberties will, l,rr.
Her sister Is her witness. Cnf,r-
tunately the sister was In an outer
rsn,Il, aud the door s4'lsaI ating the
twO apartments denied her even ll,..
privilege Of lssOking through key
hole. All that the sister could tl4ii-
~ To Is that sIIe heard "n.,ix.-s and
screams" Now this may have. just
~ well have l'es.m s1a,,sesi when the
doctor tried tO make l.er feet whi..l,
presumably had l,es'm very fa>l,iO,,-
ALLY tlefSrnesl. resemble something
like work vi nature again. In fact I
Il sounds almost impossible fnr :.
'.l'in'lnnlist to forget himself. I an,
as'surys, that the ~ur~t way IL .ls'il
the illusion regarding a wo.,,an's
beauty, II tO yet lNOk ut ller feet.
Not attirCsl In xcsluh'tive and in,ag-
NATIVE lll'se, Tut IN all their unuml-
nraI curves, and provided Will, y full
vt 1T cOril~ and I,uniDns. An oil
serving lady ut the seaside thi. sum-
|lser explained IL me- that the r.s,st.n
~ many Young ladies get married ut (,
went In latling without bathing .
'1!s,.s. For this rcast,n, for One am !.
willing to hold DR.. Pray not guilty !,
lnttJ he Is proven ND. d. not wist,
~ l'e put down ~ ungnllant In these
remarks, for they aIe merely ~ calm,
MIN l'a.si"netl observations Of facts. ,
however. the scandal /
,lOngerx are eagerly waiting far an
l,y the courts.
One At the leading figures in Wall i /
'treet II Nj. ]. Van f., who has /
IN office Ou lsr,,ad street, MT n mile.
ROM Exchange Place. He IL u genial
'''''~ ".sssS~s sss@Us uS0UCu UU1INAGU :.
'lsOu ut times, Tut none the lt.,s A. !
ways genersNls and kind to the needy. Y
Ne las but One fault, and that ID far :
!etf,Ilmes~. This failing m,amif.sts
eaejf In u peculiar wav. Al eleven :
''cI'n.k In the morning h~ r,,sl,rs y
10n' hts office IL the Exchange with +
handful Of ors)ens, for although, H. =,
M h'nger ye'iinx, he glories in d. !, y
l.x more work than the small fry.
te IL always In y hurry, hut this
|ot's NOT prevent him frDni mailing Y
my OF Ibis acquaintance he chances Z
meet O csDsne into l>eDn,Oui..v'x 4
nti take = drink. He will l,vs(lr the Il
'aitcr, xu)p his cocktail down will, y
apitltty ~ IL hi. sl.n,,ael, were aiirr
nj then with ''xynkl l,yc OLD fellow =,
ny IN hurry, III xer you again. =.
,es'' o1T, NJ .s'urse forgetting IL nav. ~
sow anyl''sly who has l,een IN tie !.
Eteet Tor = week knows Van. ).
Recently, however, y young chan :, :;
s,,!e ttow',, who of course was much -
altered by the attention of the xryst
ssl. They had drink, aud true TO Il
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