The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-24
NEWS NOTES.

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NEWS NOTES.
The official count of immigrants in
1882 sets the total at 1882.
The funded debt of the United
States on March l, was $l,354, 1895, $50.
Women are now eligible for certain
positions on the Belgian State rail-
roads.
The Irish societies of New York
are arranging for the reception of
Parnell.
The new ALEXANDRIA Theatre in Lon
don, which is to be completed before
Christmas next, will cost Ell, O0O.
The bottom lands of the Mississip-
pl r being rapidly. drained, and all
fears of further disaster from water
this spring have passed.
Easter bonnets will be covered with
birds, say the milliners, which is
equivalent to saying that there will
be more bills to pay than usual,
Proctor Knott, Congressman and
humorist, is also an artist and pro-
duces fine sketches. He is also a
modest man and shuns notoriety.
It has Leen decided that before the
LIST of May Sitting Bull and his 14O
men, women and children shall be
embarked at Randall and sent up the
river to Standing Rock.
If all Europe is ripe for anarchy,
as Herr Most asserts it to be, why in
the name of all the gods at once does
he not 60 over and begin the har-
vest ? asks a Cincinnati paper.
Some idea of the cost involved in
Mr.. Irving's forthcoming tour in
America, may be gathered from the
fact that no fewer than 1000 new
wigs are being prepared for it.
The Belgian Academy offers el20
| for the best essay on the destruction
| of fish by the pollution of rivers, and
the best means of preventing it. Es-
says will not be accepted after Sep
TENDER 80, 1885.
A western paper says Robson will
present a melancholy sight as he
walks alone OH the, jersey coast
watching for fragments of the ship
of State, which he is certain will go
to wreck now that he has been dis
| charged from the crew.
Wagner, it is now said, possessed
a very tender heart under his rude
and naughty manner and main
tanned many poor families at Luz
cerne. Nobody suspected it while
he lived. Wagner made more peo-
| pie afraid of him than any other
composer living.
Stena,s .Yamakawa, the young
Japanese girl who was president of
her class at Vassar, has returned to
| her native land and is becoming
again accustomed to the ways of liv-
ing there. She writes that she can
eat and dress in japanese style east
~, but she cannot bring herself to
arrange her hair in true japanese
fashion.
IA Taylorsville (Ind.) dispatch I'M
der date of the 10Th inst, says: EN-
ma Bond, the. victim of lastsummer's
outrage, mysteriously left her sick
room Friday night and was discover
ed lying on the ground north of the
house in an unconscious condition.
There is a suspicion that an attempt
| at abduction was made to prevent
her appearance beforethe grand jury.
| Her recovery is doubtful.
The Japan Gazette says: The un
certainty in regard to the probable
action of China towards Japan still
prevails; but, although the Govern
ment of this country is adopting pre-
c%autionary measures by strengthen
ing and improving the naval and
military forces, there is an absence OF
energy and activity which seems to
indicate that there is little fear of any
immediate rupture of the friendly re-
lations between the two countries.
1t is reported that the daughter OF
Edwin Booth is betrothed to a young
American, who, three or four months
ago, was almost asphyxiated by in
haling coal gas, His blood seems to
be poisoned. and it has affected his
brain in a peculiar way. He is not
insane, but he cannot remember as
formerly, and has to be directed ant
watched. He has lost all interest in
his profession, anu III lis co'i'ein'
plated marriage.
About this season of the year many
people are asking what it is that de-
termlnes the date of Easter. The
answer is that it is the moon OF
March, which Tennyson calls 1.-THE
roaring moon of daffodils." The Ole
rule is that Easter shall fall on the
Sunday after the full moon which
comes after the vernal equinox
That brings Easter this year on tn
22d of March-the earliest date posi-
BILE. It will not fall on that dat
again in this o r the following Gel
! tuPV.