The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-09-02

THE Madison Square Theater Company
will arrive in Butte at 6:lO this evening.
WHO OF our rich men will immortaliz,
himself by erecting q large hotel in ButteP
The West Side races will be unusually in
teresting this fall. The entries are yer,
large.
"THE Private Secretary" should crowd
the Butte Grand every night OF their en-
gagement.
SOME OF the mourning drapery still out
in portions OF the city is significantly shabby
to be removed.
THE newly devised hustle absolutely de-
forms the fashionable woman. 1t is being
introduced in Butte.
The dramatic season has neither begin
ming nor end in Montana. Cool nights pre-
vail all the year round.
DIVORCES are easily obtained: this may
have something to do with the low matri-
monial fees OF the clergymen.
o.
THE city is in excellent sanitary condi-
tion, thanks to the energy of Mayor Frank
and his efficient committees
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WHAT Butte needs above all other things
is a commodious, frst-class hotel. Such an
institution would pay largely.
FRUIT is cheap and in fine condition.
More fruit and less meat is a wholesome
diet for this season Of the year.
IT is dawning upon the the public mind
that what the School District needs is
little more blood-life. It is trifle befogged
now.
IT is facetiously said that mineral
water is found in quartz" Too much |
quartz" water is making she doctors look |
80 happy.
1T is said that it has been fixed that Com |
missioner Kessler is to be chosen County /
Treasurer, vice D. j. Welch resigned. Is
this slate?
In this era of reconciliation and general
iorgivingness, would be pleased to see the
allopaths and homeopaths fall upon each
Others necks, kiss and make up.
JUDGE IRVINE says he will appoint a Dem
ocrat to the vacancy if Commissioner Kess-
er elects himself Treasurer and then re-
signs the comnlissionership. That's what
he ought to do.
EARLY in the week there was lemon
famine in Butte and the citric fruit went to
premium. The receipt of carload by
Denoon relieved the stress, to the delight
OF the saloon-keepers.
In these piping times OF peace, the Bap-
fists and non-immersionists should compro-
mise upon medium course, in which am l
told lies truth. Water is the scarcest |
thing in Butte now, anyway. II
NOWHERE in the world do good men go
to pieces as quickly as they do ''out West" 9
once they get started. 1t is a noticeable /
fact that young men OF wealth are usually
the ones who go fastest down hill.
Ar the rate the Police Court is grinding v
out cases the office OF City Attorney is a q
pretty fat take Quite a number of our :
legal luminaries are beginning to realize A
that the place is not to be despised.
NEVER before has there been so much
activity in building in Butte as there is at
present. The carpenter, the mason, the
plasterer, the painter and the paper-hanger
are busy and correspondingly happy.
V>u1xH NH 90 nf that i
Mrs. Behrens, who wrote to her lover, 81 N
wischet hot wings dis minuet wot fiei too q
you and skwis you on my heart and tell M
you how fel dis moment" evidently spells q ..
by ear. te
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Few pc ople realize that the lemon has M
become one of the necessaries of life. 1t is " y,
IL part of our civilization and few people
could live with comfort beyond the reach he
Df the lemon. The modern bar would be m
lowling wilderness without it. m
CONSIDERABLE interest was taken in sc
Butte in the Sullivan and McCaffrey fight, cl'
out no pools were sold, as the prevailing th
opinion seemed to be that Sullivan would m
Use up his opponent in the first two ROUNDS. tn
That he did not do SO, caused considerable m
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Miss MABEL PEARL, the accomplished te
artistic at the Arion, is not only charming TO
ady, but very fond OF ioke-even when at de
ner own expense. She is rather plump and on
Will snap the scales close to 200. The other D.
vening she was approached by dreary th
ooking sort of an individual, who said: mi
In the first part this evening you said in
hat the Bible says all flesh is grass?'
lid, what OF 2" replied Miss Pearl. "Oh,
lothng," said the melancholy looking in
lvidual, "only if [ were as big and aeshy