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

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questions.
There is new French saying: "a
woman is like an army-she is lost i
she had no reserve.
Robert Bonner bought lot of Lane
on Fifth avenue, New York, no
long ago for $25o,OOo, for which h
has refused an offer of 81 100000.
On the 1st of next August an In
ternational Electric Exhibition viii
be opened at Vienna, and a fine dis
play is Anticipated.
In this country there are 221 trot
ters that have each won in prizes
stakes or premiums, $4,000. Theil
aggregate winnings are S., ,OO0, 900.
italy is keeping steadily active in
preparing for the future. Last yea'
the public works sanctioned by the
government amounted to $50, 400, 600
An apparatus for recording the ex.
act speed Of train during its entire
run, including stoppages and start.
ings, has been invented by M. Pou.
yet.
Boston, New York and Philia-
delphia men invested in eighty-four
bogus Western silver mines last year,
throwing away something like S., 900,
900.
In Paris private building COM
pany are to generate electricity for
their own tenants, to whom they will
supply it for light at very moderate
cost.
50 late as last year DR.. Proust, III a
paper to the Academy of Medicine,
made the statement that there were
no fewer than 2l9,27O houses in
France without a window.
The Italian government have be-
gun to substitute bronze for the steel
guns now used for field artillery,
mainly because bronze can be more
easily worked.
According to the Sanitary Review
the cause of the high mortality in
Memphis has been shown by DR..
Thornton to be connected chiefly
with the negro population.
1t is estimated that John l.. Sulli-
van, the pugilist, has cleared $45, 600
within the past year. Slade and
Mace are also coinng money. Com
petent sporting men think Sullivan
could knock silade out in five min
utes.
The Tribune type is sat by the
United States Art light. The Herald
has the Edison system, and the only
testimony that is an experiment.,
is that the gas fixtures have not been
taken down. There are $50 Edison
lights in the Herald establishment.
There is one thing to be said about
the incandescent electric light, with
all its drawbacks. 1t neither vitiates
the air nor gives the high and often
unbearable temperature of gas. No
doubt one of these days electric illu-
mutation of dwellings will be usual
thing in large cities.
During the last thirty years the
California quicksilver mines have
produced 100, %, ,297 pounds, of which
67,567 800 pounds were exported.
California produces one-half of all
the quicksilver in use throughout the
world. The Rothschilds control the
Austrian and Spanish mines.
Ex-Secretary Evarts turns his deli
cate, thin-soled boots out when he
walks; he holds his hand against his
thin overcoat as if he would aid the
buttons in holding it together; his
hat rests on The back of his head, but
not as far as Charles O'Connor's
famous hat and he walks as spryly
as man of twenty-five.
A Chicago journal says that a
printer has been cured by prayer.
which leads Texas paper to say
that "if he was cured Of extracting
The word in paragraph OH which a
joke hinges and substituting a word
OF his own 10 make sense as he puts
it, We will indorse the prayer cure
and give it a five-inch electro ad.
free, one year top of column, next
reading matter"
The Philadelphia Progress says of
Easter cards: "For the girl who
serves in an ordinary filtration card
worth at the most So is sufficient.
Cards for husbands to give their
wives may be had from a few PEN
MES up. To present to other gentle
mems wives the $50 variety is rec
ommended. These latter must not
be delivered by postman, but by pri-
vate messenger at the lady's residence
during business hours"
The spring poet is in full song as
The following sample from New
Orleans paper shows: "Come, Osong
blrd of the bleak and barren North,
turn tail upon the base, ungrateful
Gather Of your icy home and hie
Thee fondly to the balmy South. In
these bland airs an everlasting ver-
dure waits for you. On tropic wood
shed SUBMITS you may moult your
wing and give it TO the sweet south
Wind by day; at nightfall you may
serenade the languorous moon with
out your mittens or your 0vercoat."
p, The San Antonio Express says that
Iexas law against gambling makes
race distinctions, and it pathetically
laments that while the law prohibits
poker dice, jack pots, high-low or