The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-20

BUTTE
0U1aUcr NDWs 1gor1a.
Lo.den srews l ~ IN pepslat,ea ~.
make >A, So
9ioee laM, II, ,eoaeoo lbesiener, have
arrived In this country.
Gu teaM's book, The Truth and tn
Removal," }" tails to sell.
The nr>t vessel built upoa tho hank.
q the Atsjsstppd was I'm l6l2.
A Maine deer has jusl made . seven.
t<'e''-fo"t jump over . board fence.
Stamre for taxation were invented n
Il" land In he Seventeenth century.
Napoleon Bonxpart died on the -
land OF St. Helena sixty-one yean go.
In 1875 sixty tOOsof human hair ven
exported from China to Europe.
The net funded deht " New York
city on April 3ota was 90, ,0oe, ,3l6.9A
An eletrie light Of 81. 600 candle now
CT ,.to W placed on the tower of the De-
troit City Halt.
The surplus amount Of rice IN Yoko-
hama now available for export b val
ued ut ~, ,OW, ,O0.
Wells, Farxo 4 Co.'S exnrep line
takes In 1900 miles, over which are
scattered lO,OoO agents.
The fashionable hours for evening
calls In Washington now are from nine
to twelve O'Clock.
A clergyman Of Worcester says M
s0nry and Odd Fell0wship are the twin
evils In the world Of the present day.
The con.umption Of rails, for renew
als alone, amounts to half . million Of
t'n. annually on the ULited States rail-
roads.
Several New York drms havesent en-
ergetic women on the rad % drumnlen.
Il IL said that they have been success
full.
Over 7.0oO persons in New York city
have permits carry concealed weap-
Ons, but hy the new criminal code al
permits are revoked.
At ga. moo mile for the co0structi,n
snd equipment, the 10000 miles Of ioad
projected for cUnStl ucti0l this year
would cost $500, ,O0O, ,tU0.
Philadelphia babies With whooping-
cough are held over the purifying pans
ut the gas works, and the fumes Of
ammonia and sulphur often euro them.
In Germany railruad conductors ret
alnDut $3AO = year. In America the
rOatls enlpk,y men to find out how much
the conductors do get.
A baby repository has been estab)ish-
ed at Cleveland, Ohio, where wogking-
woman can leave their Infants and have
then cared for at . cost Of I'VE cents PCT
day.
Philadelphia b growing moee rapidly
at this time, According 70 the ze1tsIe
Record, than any former period, the In
crease not being less than q per cent
per annun.
Chicago has the largest Hebrew pop
lation Of any city Of its sj1e In the world.
There are fiiteen synagogues and . to-
tal average attendance Of about W,OUU
Israelites.-Heru d.
During the year 1881, 100 locomo.
tivey were made In the United States at
eleven establishment, the greatest NUNS
her at any one time being 664, 1T the
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
An English journal says: "AmoDg
American PATENTS In )ist before ~ are
five for Obliteratimg smallpox marks,
etc. The ingredients are pumice stone,
e;der-flower, glycerine, soap and fatty
n,utter."
And now the heirs Of one Colonel j.
cob Boker. who f]Ourished during the
revolution. are laying claim to fifteen
acres Of Land in the heart OF Phijadel-
mia. valued Mt the net SUM Of $8l6, ,OOO, :
O)O.
By m experiment made with chest
nut tree th;rty-five years old, to . leu.
lale the amount of moisture evapOrated
fro1n the leaves, It was found to lose SIX
teen gallons Of water In twenty-four
hOurs. =.
In Maine. and It sells In England for -
N ton. AbDut $40, 100 tons VII! supply
alj England fi,r the season, while New
York city uses alone between :,OOO,UU
and 2 -. .OOO tons.
The three great ports Of the world are
London. Liverpool and New YORK:
During l8SO they reached their h1&nes'
tralic figures, the imports being os LON
1ion almlut 7OO, mn. on, Liverpool, 6OO,'
Ii .sN OoO and New York 539. .O00, ,O00.
America gave the common potato e g
the world. q !, 4 southern Asia, probably
the Malay Peninsula. the sweet potat"
:rh. rtu,;il,on pOtrt' is now found wlId
on tile plateau. between the ridges Q 3
the Andes in Peru and Bolivia but It n \
= small underground stem, scarcely ell
bic.
When the Arizona diamond excite
! n,ent was ut its height, certain part;e'
in Denver formed the ,,.., Ar's"na g. .so t,a. t,s
an.i issued shares ut i've dollars eacn'
Hmm,lrc,ls. il not thousands W these
1*; were .t: taken n*t xt'S: sssa any e. %,s; g:
,n.s "..' % ~ i,iow cold = certain eastern
s;a1 ",sn Who 10 f'"s h"% invested about s.oe9 ar
~.s hanging sround for dividends
dropped '": ,,; The ,1' 0sS wS.! 3. the are '@ TN
p;.my y. 49," .~.'r,i, t,,-.lay?'' "About 81, ! be
s.'~ 1;nve ;, "Hus y dividend been decIaret