The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-31
NEWS NOTES.

NE"0 NO1GS.
Kentucky has a colored female
temperance lecturer.
Twenty-three smacks and 135 per-
SONS were lost in the recent gales.
There is a ten-year-old boy in
Cleveland, Ga, who has never had
a tooth.
1t is said that David Davis gave
his bride half million dollars in cash
and bonds.
John Bright was recently presented
with the freedom of the city of Glas-
gov.
1t is said the straight Democrats of
Rhode Island will nominate Charles
r. Cutler for Governor.
Don Carlos, by manifesto, calls
upon his partisans in Spain, as Cath
olics, TO oppose socialism and an
archy.
The Atlanta Constitution says the
supposition is that the False
Prophet of Central Africa" graduated
in Brooklyn.
The reigning beauty of Ireland is a
Belfast mill-girl. Crowds, it is, said
surround the mill daily to see her as
she takes her departure.
members 6 the nobility are scarce
in Pennsylvania" says the Philadel-
phia Record, "but we have more
Dukes than we want"
The Latransigednt, Rocheforte's
journal, urges France to support
with all her forces and money the
'revolt in Ireland"
The New York Suns Philadelphia
special says: John Tuck er, a few
nights ago won $54,O 200 from young
Thomas A. Scott on one hand at
poker.
DIR. Hammond claims that a healthy
adult should eat per diem forty ounces
ofsolids, of which two-thirds should
be vegetable and one.third animal,
twenty ounces of water, and eight
ounces of tea or coffee.
The money order business Of the
Pos!oftice Department last year
amounted to $l2O,OOO,OOO, with a
profit to the government of $l65 900.
This system was established May II,
1864, and the fifth year of its exist
ence the business amounted to about
$25,OOO,OOo.
In the town of Woodbridge, Conn.,,
about SIX miles from New Haven,
there is an oak tree said to be from
1000 to 800 years old, the oldest of
its kind known in America. 1t is
thirty feet in circumference at the
base, and some of its branches spread
sixty feet beyond the trunk. 1t is
yet vigorous.
A colored man named Zach Tay-
lor, living in Beaufort, South Caro-
lima, who never went to school in his
life, can build mill, repair watch,
tune piano or print newspaper.
The most remarkable gift he has,
however, is the ability to repeat
scripture, which he can do for hours
at time without making a mistake.
A French chemist claims to have
invented an odor that will hold any
fort and the land within half a mile
of il for week. The smell is not
deadly, but no mortal can stand it.
The new agent is expected to work
revolution in the art Of war, be-
sides serving in obstinate civil cases.
1t produces sensations of nausea and
disgust like the worst sea sickness.
1t is stated that in the North At
lantic waves have been observed OF
"a and 80 feet height, the highest
being 43 and the mean Is in western
gales. In the Pacific 81 feet is
recorded; South Atlantic, %; Cape
Horn, 80; Mediterranean, 144; Ger
man Ocean, 131, and the French sail
ors mention 36 feet in the Bay OF
Biscay.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, can
be seen almost any fine afternoon on
the fashionable Pasea of Saville,
sometimes unattended, sometimes
with sixteen mounted guards. The
crowd ray little attention to her as
she has nothing but her notoriety to
make her draw attention. In figure
she would he good match for David
Davis, as she pulls the scales at about
25O pounds, and as to beauty, the
least said will please her the most.
A newspaper correspondent writ
ing from Florida, says: ION our
journey we met Mrs. Frank Leslie
with her artists, and was surprised to
see SO young and pretty woman
Her diamonds were simply immense
brilliants, and 1 should say equal to
the gems in the Queens Crown.
The lady is still in Widows garb, but
did not see or hear her sigh, and
rumor says those days are over, and
she anticipates the white VEIL"
After the Newhall Hotel fire, Mrs
+. Wilson of New York could moi
sleep for fear of being burned, but
finally in troubled dream, she
invented a fire escape, which she has
perfected and put to use. There Is
an iron platform, with a movable
railing attached to the window-slll
and also an iron ladder, all OF which
folds up and forms AL ornamental
piece of furniture. Several heavy
New Workers have walked up and
down the escape, pronounced it good
and think Mrs. Wilson will coin hel
dream into money.-Andustriat.
General Grants sons are all In
business in New York now. Jesse
who is said to have the best CONNER
cial haa6 - .uuavod in OD0ratiOns