The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11
NEWS

fE66kOeAt AEtAIuI ANS IVY SASS
andone brother.
DR.. Tanner, the faster, is living II
jamestown, N. Y.
Motto for a young man starting {
moustache: "Down in 'front.'"
Yucatan is to have two railroads ii
running order this month.
Bonanza Tabor is going to erect {
million dollar hotel in Denver.
John Brown, the Queens late ser
want, left a fortune ofover 1000, 600
Mrs. David Davis nee Burr, is
distant relative of the famous Aaron
Burr.
MI. Tilden is reported to be on his
latest last legs. They last ~everlast'
ingly well.
A Rhode Islander says: ut is q
crime to be politically honest in any
part of New England"
Interesting to married men: An
Eastern firm has just ordered 1000
| 600 broom handles.
Mrs. De Long, wife of the late
| Commander De Long, of the JEAN
| nette, is in Washington.
Olive L. Warner has received the
| commission for a statue of William
Lloyd Garrison to be erected in Bes-
ton.
Barnum has ust lost a rhinoceros
by death. He expects te sell the hide
to some member of the recent Con-
gress.
If the New York Times is rightly
informed Nj. Conkling will be an
active supporter of Ex-Governor Til
den in 1884.
DIR. Schliemann has completed the
excavations at Thermopyl@ without
finding a trace of Leonidas and his
800 Spartans.
The local Indebtedness of the Uni
ted Kingdom is about "a per head,
and nearly all Of it was incurred for
schools and town improvements.
Now that Gorringe has left the
navy, he ought to tell just where he
left it, so that his successor may not
waste all summer in looking for it.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mint for the week ended
April 7 was S163 ,479, against $152, 900
for TIE corresponding period last
year.
A grocer had q pound of sugar
returned, with a note attached to it,
saying: "Too much sand for table use
and not enough for building pur-
poses"
Liberty Hall, the home Of Alexan-
der H. Stephens, is regarded as a sort
of Georgia Mount Vernon, and it is
likely that the State will purchase
the property.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1852: the first daily paper
in 1902; the first newspaper in the
United States in 1890; the first print
ing press in the United States in
1920; the first almanac IN 1860.
Dan Rice, the famous Snowman,
with a most eventful history, will
travel this a with Nathan's cir
Gus. Dan is now over sixty years of
age, and when he had money to give
was a generous giver. No man in
country has disbursed more
money for a charitable purpose.
The public analyst of the city of
London found that the majority of
the samples OF milk tested last year
were adulterated. The teas were
pure, but of inferior quality. Butter
was ure, pepper dirty and sandy,
and d~isinfectants from 25 to SO per
cent. weaker than they protested to
be.
A report comes from Montreal,
that the right of a nun to
ak e off the veil and re-enter society
will 500 be tried in the law courts
here, as the opulent friends of a
young French-C Canadian lady are
sbout to apply for a writ of habeas
corpus to compel the Mother Superior
If one Of the local converts to open
he doors and allow her to leave.
The CzarinB's coronation mantle
will be g marvel of heraldic embroid
Try. The ground will be solid cloth
If gold, from which the Russian
black eagle will stand out in relief,
on its chest the arms of Mos
,ow, while the arms Of the provinces
If Kazan, Siberia, Poland, Astrak-
IAN, Georgia and Finland, and of
he grand duchies of Kief, Vladimir
md Novgorod will be emblazoned on
he wings.
The advancement" of woman, in
direction at least, is we'll illus
rated by the success of 1.-The Queen
# Hell's Half Acre." which is the
title of a Kansas City wife and moth
r whose real name is Belle Payne.
rs a topper, swaarer, and pugilist she
las few peers and no superiors in her
lative town. She used to be arrested
very day. but the police and the
'ublic have become so accustomed to
ler ways that she is rarely molested.
he recently deposited a dollar with
be Chief of Police as a forfeit that no
Ight-weight pugilist in Kansas can
mock her out in four rounds for
$50.
The bill providing penalties for tho