The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-26
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Atlanta, Ga, has . mouse which
sings like q canary.
Mrs John C.. Fremont IL writing
her recollections of the noted people
she has known since her father be.
gan to go to Congress certain years
ago.
A new picture by Alma Tademo.
entitled ''Xanthe and LaOn', Is on Its
way to America, whittier much OF
the best art work of France is coming
for q market.
Nothing is more deceiving than a
good bred horses legs. They look
small to the eye, but when you come
to handle them you often find that
your fingers do not meet as easily as
you expected.
1t is said that. forty zone out Of everv
100 Mississippians is classed as i,lit-
terate. They are not color blind,
however. Thev know q black voter
every time it becomes necessary tn
shoot cne.-Trov Times.
An Arkansas colonel, who shot and
killed an editor, was let of with q
dne of $40. This shows that in one
State. at least, the freedom of the pls-
toll is greater than the freedom OF the
press.-Trenton Times.
A mad princess of the house of
Bourbon, on being asked why the
reigns of queens were in genera!
more prosperous than the relgns O1
kings, replied; "Because under kings
women reign; under queens, men,"
A Worcester, Mass, lady who
went to lock at q tenement lately,
found no fault when asked If she had
any children. She found the limit OF
her patience, however: when asked
If her husband smoked q pipe and
what church be attended.
The attempt in Georgia to preserve
Liberty Hall" as q permanent me-
mortal Of its owner, the late Alexan-
der II. Stephens, is q failure, and the
property Is likely to 60 to a citizen OF
Crawfordville, who proposes to make
it bis private re-idence.
It il an actual, cold, and positive
fact that q San Francisco detective
has resigned. Next thing we know
one of the Democratic members OF
the Legislature will resign before the
close of the extra session. Then, in
deco, will we have fallen on the age
of miracIes.-San Francisco Post.
Prince Bismarck's annual revenues
amount to about SIS 1000. He
lives quietly, but is hospitable and
wishes all visitors to feel at home
under his roof. When living on his
estates he occupies himself with for
estry, and his fav0rite walk is in the
oak woods when his favorite flower,
the heather, is in bloom.
Nobody ever saw a dead dude.
Death goes around knocking out all
old men, decrepit old blind ONE
helpless infants and feeble cripples;
but we reckon when it comes to the
pinch he's kind of ashamed to strike
q dude. There are humiliatiDg depths
of degradation from which eve
Death shrinks.- Baltimore Day.
The negroes of Northern Georgia
are in q great commotion over the
presence among them of q female
tramp named Mrs. Glauter. She pre-
tends to have visions and to tell for
tunes. She is treated with great
respect for several reasons, but prin.
cipaliy because she has a habit of
firing pistols promiscuously when
angered.
The Boston Post tells of some boys
at college who. after dark, took an
entire load of wood from q farmers
sled, left in the road Over night, and
with great labor piled it in q citizens
wOodshed, under the impression that
he would be charged with stealing it,
They found next morning that the
citizen had bought that wood the
night before.
John Ruskin Is rapidly redeeming
his reputation among the fair sex in
England. For years he was conspic-
for his always cynical and some
times COL temptuous speeches about
wOmen's brains, and the weakness of
women in art and literature especial
"; but lately he has taken to fatter>
ing the sex generally and saying all
sorts of sweet things in their favor.
A Vermont farmer wanted to get q
couple of shingles tackled over a leaky
place in the roof, bnt no q dared
it, the roof was SO steep. That
very day the farmers daughter came
home from boarding school, and did
the job before she sat down to supper.
She said she was used to crawling on
steep roofs. 1t was the only way the
girls could get out after 8 o'clock.
Beverley Tucker, Congressman of
Virginia, who has been in public life
over 40 years, and has had an adven-
career, is writing an autobiog-
During the war he was q
refugee in Canada, and kept q hotel.
1t st. Catherine's, near Niagara Falls
and President Johnson offered q re-
ward of So, 900 for his head. He was
also in Mexico, where he supported
An electrician has been explaining
detail how a storekeeper, having
an electric light in his store, and be-
ing fully insured, might easily fix the
wires so as to set fire to the place
without danger of detection. This is
very like the sly suggestion of the
man to the small boy, that !
It would be a shame to heat q penny
md give 1t to the organ grinders
monkey, then about to take up q col.
The shortest letter on record is that
Senator Sumner to Secretary
Stanton when President Johnson was
to Gust the latter from his Cab
met. 1t was; "Stick." That one
word contains a whole philosophy of
life for those who are wise enough to
read it Alright. ''Stick and hang,
young man, says Josh Billings in
one Of his aphorisms. Don't forget
it is the last six inches that wins
the race"
William Washington figures in the
Encyclopedia Dictionary of the
Language" recently pub-