The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11
NEWS NOTES.


There is project to revive ancient
Roman games in the Coliseum.
The army of the King of the Ha'
waiian Islands consists of forty-nine
men.
The Oil City Blizzard suppose
that Macduff was hen, because he
was told to lay on.
Senator Joseph j.. Brown has pre-
sented $4,000 in bonds to the Uni.
yersity of Georgia.
More than $50, 1000 have been sub
soribed for the Burnside monument
at Providence.
After July 1st the duty on oil
,aintings will be 80 per cent. instead
Of 10 cent. as under the present
law.
After a long discussion in the news
,apers it has at last been settled that
ifthe girls mother keeps boarding
house a man can marry on $40 a
week.
Fifteen hundred varieties of fish
ware shown at the exhibition of ma
ripe products and fishing imple-
ments, which opened at Toxic on
the lst of March.
Jefferson Davis, ex-President of
the Confederate States, will deliver
the opening address at the meeting
Of the Southern Historical Society
in Nashville on May I'd.
That this is a great country is in
cidentally illustrated by the fact that
while, three weeks since, the ice in
tbe Straits of Mackinaw was twenty
feet thick, corn was ten inches hlgE
in Georgia.
The latest advertising swindle is
that of a man who advertised sew
ing machine for twenty-five cents in
stamps. He found numerous dupes,
who, in return for their stamps, re-
ceived cambric needle.
bah Jovei" exclaimed young
Dudaboi, "the weathah is getting so
mild, yer know, that I must have
the ftrrule taken off my cane. It's
too beastly heavy for warm day,
yer know
One tenth of the money which has
been expended in bringing John
Howard Payne's remains home
would have been sufficient to have
induced him to remain in this cour-
try.
Lord Coeridge, Chief Justice of
England, in expectation of being
able to visit the United States by in
vitation of the American Bar AssO-
citation, has asked several leading
barristers to accompany him.
When the total population of the
United States was 1900. 900 there
were 100000 persons engaged in
agriculture. This was in 1910. Now
with population of 50,0O0,0OO the
number of farmers s 100000.
Amateur boxers should beware.
A young man name d Carr in Boston,
the other day, was knocked down
during friendly spar with soft
gloves and burst blood vessel in
his brain, death resulting in short
time.
The Missouri Legislature has
bill providing that no railroad COM
pany in that State shall advance
freights without giving twenty days.
notice of the proposed change by
posting the new schedule in three
conspicuous places on each of its
freight and passenger depots.
The British returns for the finan-
cial year ending March 3lst show
that the revenue of Great Britain
was ES9,oo4,O0O; expeditures, Esq.,
osS,ooo. Commenting on the figures,
the Times says: We may assume
that the greater part of the additional
funds quoted for prosecuting the war
in Egypt were betrayed from the
total expenditures. The prospects Of
lne Budget for the coming year thus
appear very satisfactory.
Athleticism, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer, has been overpraised and
underyaluei. There is, however, no
doubt that a number of collegians
who have shown activity and muscle
nave also distinguished themselves
IN their studies and in later life. A
record has been kept of the annual
ooat race between Oxford and Cam
orldge, which sets this fact in clear
'lsht. The total number of partici-
pants in these contests, from 1929 to
1881, inclusive, was 4s5. Among
These rowers were five men who sub
seqaently became bishops, 16S clergy
men, seventy-tive lawyers, three emf
hent jurists, head master of Elton, a
president of the Royal Society, and
M. Waddington, ex-Premier of
france. This is very good show
,as for the muscular oarsmen Of the
English universities. /
The Cincinnati Price Current pub
''shes report on the condition of the
wheat crop throughout the winter
~heat belt of the West, III compare
% son with last years crop, the condi-
''0h OF which is placed at 100. The
report shows the present condition a.
'0ilows: "Ohio, 81; Indiana, 80; Illi-
no's, so; Missouri, SO; Kansas, 81;
A'cnisan, IS; Kentucky, 70; Ten
nessee, SO. The winter wheat Sec
.''ns OF Wisconsin promise we'll, the
general average being about ten per
cent below last WAR Tho snrinp