The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-22
About Women.

Miss Jennie Sargent, who has late
ly won musical laurels in Milan, It
ally, is a native of Haverhlll, Mass.
A married woman in Washington
calls herself "Oppor.unity," because
her husband is always taking ad-
vantage of her.
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Durham
ton, New Hampshire, a grandaugh-
ter of Gen. John Stark, has been
| elected an honorary member of the
New Hampshire Antiquarian Socie-
ty.
Mrs. Hooper, who wrote the pleas
ing story in the No Name Series en-
titled the ''Tsar's Window" lives at
| Lawrence, Mass. Her husband is
| assistant superintendent of the Pa
cific mills in that city.
Miss Rathbone, who for six years
has been a missionary abroad, has
brought to New York the first Bur
mese woman who eyer landed on our
shores. The newcomer will study
for five years before returning for
missionary work.
Rigidly righteous-A little daugh-
of severely orthodox parents had an
idea that heaven was a pretty
straigbt-faced sort of a place, and the
other day accosted her mother as fol-
lows: mamma, when I die and go
to heaven, don't you suppose they'll
let me go down to hell on Saturday
afternoons to rlay?'-Liberal Chris
Hun.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is, as
her many friends will be glad to
hear. improving in health at her
pleasant summer home on GlOuces-
ter beach. Over the doorway of the
picture sque little cottage. as the visi-
Tor enters, the inscription meets the
eve, Let your peace rest upon it,
The spirit of this gifted woman is
we'll expressed in this greeting.
DR.. Butler, in 1.-THE Land Of the
Veda," relates the following of Lady
Sherman: "Retiring FROM the Tai,
lost in reflection and admiration, she
was asked by her husband what she
thought of the Tai. Her prompt re-
ply was: L cannot tell you what I
think, for [ know not how to criti-
else such a building; but I can't tell
you what [ feel. l would die to-
morrow to have such another put
over me!.'
Florence Marryat lately recited at
London a monologue entitled, Ward
III.-Dangerous." In a white dress
and grey hair she endeavored to give
effect to the rawlings of a lunatic ac-
tress who fancies she has murdered
her rival, and who alternately recites
the sleep-walking scene from Mac
peth and describes the beauties of
PorlocE Bay. Miss Marryat is said
to have been Ineffective.
Az intrepid new paper man, who
has dared to penetrate the Utmost
pene;ralia of a woman's club. says:
Never make the mistake that the
woman's club is a inanish place. It
presents the appearance of rather an
amateur Legislature, a ~petticeated
Senate, and serve as a sort of escape
valve to preserve domestic peace,
where women come bristling with
ideas and go away again with them
pricking mutely their fair bosoms."
A girl at Long Branch speaks with
an acquired London accent. "Me
cawt, me cawt, at 5 O'clock" she
said to the family coachman, in a
voice loud enough for a veranda full
of people to hear. Caught what,
MISC" the man inquired. A repiti-
ton of the order did not make him
understand it, and she bad to say i'll
plain American pronunciation,
though she lowered her voice and
stepped closer ia doing so, My cart.
stupid; my village cart, a ) O'clock"
A lady met a primary schoolgirl
Yesterday, vino is the picture of
health and the ro:np Of her street,
and asked her if she were enjoying !
her vacation. "Oh, yes!" she replied;
II was two weeks out of town. You
know I'm afflicted with the rhenma-
tism, and 1 leave again tomorrow for
a longer stay. My new physician
says Pm troubled with water about
the heart; that the country is the
place for me in\the summer and the
city in the winter.-Boston Traveller.
Miss Lizzie Frazier, a blooming
and pretty yaung lady who lives be-
tween this city and Blue Tent, has
been engaged to take her fathers
machine over to Getchell's
sIickens ranch and cut seven or eight
acres of alfalfa. Miss Frazier left
last year, having obtained a
good enough book education for all
practical purposes, and since then
has been helping her father on the
farm. She is worth a ten-acre lot of
lah-de-dah girls and the young man
who gets her for q " life will get some
thing worth having.-Neuadd (Cul.)