The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07
NEWS NOTES.

Virgins is thirtS-five and good
looking.
Alexander H. Stevens believed in
personal devil.
Prof. Tyndall has nothing to do
with stimulants.
Bismarck fairly bristles at the
mention of American pork.
Thomas A. Edison cbews tobacco
while at work as a stimulant.
Mrs. David Davis starts married
life with twelve dozen pairs of silk
Stockings.
Extensive gold and silver deposits
have hccn discovered on the northern
end of Vancouver's Island.
There are over fifty sheep farmers
in Otago, New Zealand, with nocks
of not less than 10000 each.
1t is reported that English and
Scotch colonies are coming out to
settle in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
It is stated that Roscoe Conkling
and Tom Platt do not speak to each
other, and have not for two or three
months.
James Gordon Bennett, with his
Yacht, the Namouna, is sailing a
1,45O mile race in the Mediterranean,
with the Duke Of Hamilton's yacht,
the Thistle.
Payne's bones are here, while A.
Z. Stewards are not, though the lat
ter dwelt in marble halls, and the
other had no sweet home at ALL
Gath.
The Italian Government will re-
sumo specie payments April 18th.
Small notes will be payable in silver,
and notes of five Ira and upward in
either silver or gold.
The only coin of the United States
that stictly conforms to the law is
the $50 gold piece. Other coins either
lack something prescribed or bear
some device unauthorized by law.
New York City spends $24 per
capita annually on all it's expenses,
and Paris, which is said to have the |
most extravagant city government
in the world, only $1,000.
The New Orleans Picuyune de-
fines complimentary vote as some
thing that is thrown at a man to
make him feel bad because he is net |
quite popular enough to be elected.
An exchange says, and we have
no good reason for doubling the. as
sertion, that the United States Army
chews up half million pounds of to-
bacco and two Indians every year.
The United States buys more Irish
linens than all other countries put
together. We pay about fifteen mill
lions Il year for them, and buy only
the smallest quantity from any other
nation.
An old lady in Texas says she
could never imagine where all the
Smiths came from until she saw in u
New Eng land town large sign with
the words, "Snlith Manufacturing
Company"
"Yes, SIR" said a wood-dealer, II
prefer tc sell wood to- men who do
their own saving. You can't con-
vince a man who has worked all day
at u wood pile that there isn't full
c,rd in it,"
The Tombstone Epitaph of Ari-
iona tells OF dear little boy who,
when told upon his first day at
school that the first letter in the
alphabet WAS called a." said to the
school-lna am: "How in h-ll do you
know"
An Ohio editor is down IN Florida
eating oranges, and he writes that
appetite seemed to feed upon mex
haustib!e supplies, and the sweet sue
culence OF the golden bulbs spurted
In shining sprays from pressing lips
pouting With pulpy fragrance"
The London Medical Press, in
referring to 4 serious falling off in
the revenue from intoxicating drinks,
states that since October 1880, 1,0OO,-
ooo people in England have put on
the blue ribbon, and 564 900 have
signed TIE pledge.
1t has finally been decided to begin
work on the Washington Monument
on May lst. The appropriation of
s29o,coO reads ito finish," so that the
shaft will, it is to be hoped, if it is to
oe done at all, now be cent up to the
intended 500 feet. It is now $40 feet,
and when finished will be forty feet
higher than any other artificial work
IA the world, topping the tallest spire
OF the Cologne Cathedral that much.
'he most orthodox of the sect.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks
mat the Queen should hereafter
slide do"n stairs on the balusters,
ana II adds: "There is good chance
III London for an Irish informer to
make fat fee. All he has to do is TO
swear that he saw P..rnell greas.
ing the stairs of Windsor Palace
Win piece OF bacon-rind. OF course
rafhel' would try and prove an
a'lol, bat that would only show the
"'al depfavity of the man."
IL Is evident that Maine Green
'ackers need spelling book quite as
=. .,'ucll as they do d political organiza-
.'oh' A notice lately posted in a
so"h "i that state reads: "Strait