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

NEWS NOTES.
The iron will Of Prince Bismarck,
it is said, is rapidly hing down.
Carey, the Irish informer, has thir-
tsen children and numerous debts.
Suicides of military officers at Ber-
lin because of financial embarrass-
ments occur almost daily.
James Gilhllan, late Treasurer OF
the United States, served twenty-five
wears in the department. -.
Senator Tabor, of Colorado, is prin-
cipally famous for owning six night
shirts which cost $3.50 apiece
Democrat or Republican ?" the
Richmand State says, is the only
question now in Virginia politics.
The Canadian Pacific syndicate
proposes to assist 10000 of the desti-
tute irish to emigrate to the north
west. -.. -
General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, says his grandfather raised
the first cotton crop ever harvested
in the south.
David Davis friends say proudly
that no man ate a bigger slice of his
own wedding cake than David Davis
himself.
Tourists should avoid Homer,
Angelina County, Tex. The last
death occurred in August, 1882, and
people are anxious to see a funeral.
Smuggling is more rapidly increas-
ing than trade in Switzerland, and is
carried on by band of Swiss and
Italians who are aided by trained
dogs.
The Kansas City Times thinks it
very funny to see the Republican
press thank God and take courage"
as they struggle in the meshes of the
tariff.
The society for the suppression of
blasphemous literature in England
is sdesirous ofgetting up cases against
Huxley, Tyndall, Herbert Spencer,
and Others for their esthetical writ
ings.
The editor, proprietor, and printer
of the London Free- Thinker were
found guilty on the 5th, of blasphe-
nous libel, and sentenced to respect:
lively twelve, nine, and three months
Imprisonment.
There is a general movement in
Providence, r. L., to dispense with
binders on hOrses-a reformation be-
gun years ago in England and on
this continent, and now fast spread
ing throughout the civilized world.
The Falls of Minnehaha, inn
mortalized 10y Longfellow, are now
inclosed in a park, in which the
other attraction is q bee< garden. SS,-
says Philadelphia editor, smacking
his lips, one may get his laughing
water and his fire-water at one gulp.
Anthony TrolIope, just before he
laid down his pen never to take it up
again, wrote these words: "Amuse-
ment is good, truth is still better, and
love best Of all. Love gives itself and
is not bought; but all true love is
founded on esteem"
The Philadelphia Record thus
weeps over Virgins:
SACRED
To the Memory Of
E. STONE WIGGINs.
He tioated out on his own Tide,
March II, 1883,
And was Waited from Mems Memories
OH the
Wings of his owD Zephyrs.
According to Les Mondes the con-
sumption of tobacco in Russia, France
and England amounts to one pound
yearly for each inhabitant. In Italy
it Is u, in Austria q, and in Ger
many 3 pounds. In Belgium the
amount rises to A, while Holland
takes the highest place with 81
pounds. In the United States the
amount per head is pounds.
The first instance where physi-
slams are mentioned in the bible is II.
Chronicles, xvi, IL. It is not fiat
tering to the faculty: "And Asa, in
the thirty-ninth year of his reign,
was diseased in his feet until, the dis
ease Was exceedingly great; yet, in
hls disease he sought not the Lord,
but the physicians. And Asa slept
with his fathers"
Wagner's mausoleum at Water
lord was. not a new tomb. When
Tue composers dog, Russ, was poi
'oned some years ago, his body was
paced in the tomb which was then
uestlned to receive, as it now has
aone, the remains of his master. and
wagner had carved by the entrance
Ae efflgy Of his favorite in an atti-
,uue of repose, and underneath the
'eehd, Here Russ rests, and waits"
A banker in Tarrytown allowed a
p'easant stranger to deposit Sc, OO0
'neck, and gave him a check book
gu auo a receipt, but would not advance
v''"o ON the collateral. A few days
thereafter checks of the Tarrytown
.ank began to come in by ones and
WIS and some of them for as much
90 thousands. One Wall street firm
auVanced $1,000 on the Tarrytown
I"uk receipt. The pleasant stranger
s," ''''' travelling, and the checks are
"uil pouring on NarrvtOun