The semi-weekly miner., 1883-11-10
GENERAL AMI PERSON AL.

King Ohio, of Greece. and the EN-
peror of Russia are each thirty-eigh'
years old.
Boston poet makes ''whacked if''
rhyme with attractive. Where 1s
Sullivan?
An Iowa woman has spent seven
years in embroidering solar system
on quilt.
A life Of J I'M G.. Calhoon is being
written by Cot. Pickney Stark, o1
South Caro-. na.
Never i'espise a man because he
wears q ragged coat. 1t may have
money In tna pockets.
John Russell Young, Minister t.
China, writes that he is now able to
speak Chinese readily.
NJ. Spurgenn's publications have
an enormous sale in Scotland, where
he is venerated.
NJ. julie Verne is getting old. His
hair and beard are turning gray, and
els getting fat.
Clara Louise Kellogg is now said
to he engaged to Royal NJ Basset, Of
Birmingham, Com.
Mrs. White@ide, who has owned
the famous Lookout Mountain in
! Tennessee, is about to sell the huge
pile Of rocks.
"M ,dern Shams't is the world
wide and suggestive subject which
Miss Emily Faithful has selected tor
| her winter lectures.
In Belin forty-eight people in ey-
cry 1000 are Hebrews, and of every
1000 Hebrews, $50 are established in
business on their own account.
Rich Mr.. Flood, in Sa Francisco,
is transporting browsstone clear
across the continent for the purpose
of building palace on Mob Hill.
Darwin says that che monkey can
blush. He certainly ought to when
he sees the way his descendants are
cutting up,
The last piece Of timber IN the
Bourbon dynasty is gone. It was
only poor figurehead anyway-Only
a Chambord.
Ex-Governor Proctor recently pre-
sented ground for cemetery to the
| town of Sutherland Falls, Vt, anr!
the body of his own daughterwas the
first to be buried there.
Young Maurice Bernhardt want to
fight two Paris editors because they
have slandered his mother; but they
have REFUSE d te accept his challenge
because of his "sbady antecedents."
Mr.. Clinton A, Snowden, editor Of
the Washinton ReDubticnn, has in
vented pototo peeler and engaged
himself to be married to the daugh~
ter Of Assistant Postmaster-General
Hatton.
While drawing water from a well,
Robert HANDY, of G0liad, Tex. drew
up snake coiled arou' d the bucket
and rope. The snake bit his cheek.
and held on so firmly that Mr.. Han
cy had to pull it OFT.
Mrs Edison is lady OF :eesthetie
tas3es. Tie floral designs which are
now being utilized and beauti-
fully elaborated in the stands, chan
dileers and brackets of her husbands
electric light company were her own
original suggestion.
The cars of one Baltimore street
=
"Drivers must not over-croWd their
cars. When a car is conf ,rtably
filled they will politely refer persons
to the next carr One end of the
millennium seems to have struck Bal
timore.
Mr.. Lytton Sothern, son of "Dun.
dreary," is not achieving much sue
cass in his effort to produce through
out the country the play made IA
nous by his father. The man who
undertakes to initiate distinguished
father has a big contract always.
Mr.. Edwin Booth, when told that
"guy hooter" was a regular attache
of a girls baseball nine, and was
hired to make b";aterously funny re-
marks in order to excite the crowd to
laughter, said that it was a good idea
for comedians. PUT good infec-
tuous laughter into an audience,'
said he, land it would he q tremen-
dons help for farcicai performance.