The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
: Charles Dingsley says "If you
. want to he miserable think about
!. yourself. about what you want, what
, you like, what respect people ought
to pay you, and what people think
of you"
, William r. Abbott, one of tt OAR.
: moor , risoners, of whom students OF
/. American history have read, died at
ROckport, Mass q few days ago. Mr..
Abbott, whose age was ninety-seven
years. was q ~privateer during the war
Of 1872, and, having been captured.
was kept at Dartmoor for eight
months. Most of bis life was passed
on the sea.
There is school girl in Marysville,
Ohio, who always reads her book up-
side down and writes backward. A
physician has tested her eyes with
figures, pictures, reading and writ
ing, and finds that she is equally
skilled with her books in any posi-
tiOu, although the child herself had
never noticed her popularity, but
expressed q desire to use her books
as others do.
Paris has lost one of its curiosities
10 the person of M. Bauer, who made
1t his habit every day to feed the
sparrOws in the garden of the Tuil-
cries. The birds knew him by sight,
and as Dor as he appeared would
cluster around him a. tn .ckly as wasps
In August round a barrel of moist
sugar. They would perch up IN him,
allow him to catch and handle them,
and would follow him from place TO
place. M. Bauer is the only sparrow
tanner on record.
The effect of music on the senses
was wonderfully verified during the
mourning for the Duke of Cumber-
land, uncle of George LII. A tailor
had a great number of black suits
which were to be finished IN q very
short space of time. Among his
wOr1men there Was a fellow who was |
always singing "Rule Britannia"
and the rest of the countrymen Joined |
in the chOl us. The tailor made his |
observations and found that the slow |
time of the tupe retarded the work; |
IN consequence he engaged a blind
fiddler, ana placing him near the
workshop, maue him play constantly
the lively tune of Nancy Dawson"
The design had the desired effect,
the tailors' elbows moved obediently
TO the melody, and the clothes were
sent home in ample time.
The EIgin (~Scotland) Courier says
in q recent j sue: While Mr.. Alex
ander Shaw at Kinetia was in the
fields the other day. he heard cries of
q bird apparently in distress. Look
ing up he Saw a lark holly pursued
by q hawk, which by a series of
fierce dashes tried to secure his prey +:
but the lark wa successful in evad-
ing the attacks. The hawk was gain
ing the mastery, and the lark, terror
struck, seeing the ma below, came
down like an arrow and iuttered ac-
tuaIly into his hands. where it cow
cred trembling. The puIsuer fol-
lowed until within six yards, but
seeing what had occurred, he fled in
disgust. After time the lark was
liberated, when it scare 1 upward,
doubtless a song of gratitude
its deliverer. The circumstance
Is remarkable as showing how the
great terror conquered the less-the .
instinct Of preservation in the bird '
over its natural timidi-
IT," .
A new method of driving horses by !
means OF the feet, so as to keep the 1
lands warm in cold, stormy weather, !
las been introduced recently in Eug-
and. The method can be used either
With or without the OF dlnary plan of !
handwriting, the latter being re- |
Orted to in genial weather ii pre- y
erred. The feet rest on a firm board,
md the horse is guided by raising or =
owering the toes, thus bearing on one [
other rein by means of straps in
with them, which pass
yer q pulley mounted on the front =
GARD of the vehicle. The drivers :
ands are quite free, aud may be in
erted in the pockets of his greatcoat.
A Washington correspondent of =
ne New York Tribune relates the
blowing: "A young woman wore
costume at the fancy dress bail at
enatOr Miller's house the other 2
light which produced a sensation
among the most hardened sim
ers. l take it that it was intended
copy the style in vogue during the
.u'ect0are.' At any rate it was dis
lbed as y "skiIt with q belt and NJ
BOULDER straps" the absence OF waist
ing supplied by u profusion Of
wells. the young woman was I,
lOWn to many before removing her
Qok Sh0 HiSo nnU rod ~ocv, %--
pper, and when asked for it was
ii, "Oh, she has gone home to C..
Washington letter says: zone of
D numerous grand,Ons of Brigham
'ung is somewhat conspicuous here *
It now as an assls' ant in the Swain -
lrt-martlal to Judge Advocate Asa 49,
rd Gardner. This young scion of
Is an artillery officer sta
ned ut Governors Island. Hell
'oed law and was graduated at
College. He is tail and is
'sidered gooa-Iooking. He has. of
lrse, but one wife, for though q II
'rlnon he is not a polygamist,
dye Advocate Gardner sent for
q to as list the prosecution, which
itself is a compliment, rs that Off -
Is considered the ab'est lawyer in
army. On Thursday LieuLena1t d
ung distinguished himself by his ~
diness in prompting the Judge
vOcate, aud a smile of admiration
sed over the ordinarily solemn ~
10 Of the uniformed court about U
table. A son of Brigham Young.
duated at West Point, is an Off
IN the Engineer corps, and is, I
told, above b average in brains. Y
too Is married tn one wife only"
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