The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-27
NOTES.
NOTES.
-. boon unite ill at the

Gednsy House. .a4,., will
Georee II. Primrose, the mlns're'' VIII
snend the summer abroad. -
Edw;rSRooth will sumiher at
> + and entertain his bachelor friends
n1;.s Kate Meek. Of the Warde company,
: e-.oilant actress and a most renheo
and accomplished lady. ,os
Iawrence Barrett's good luck continues:
IIa hos been able to secure the SERVICES VI
Ioe levy for next season again.
Miss Hattie Richardson has closed nei
.aason with "The Dreams company ano re.
t,,-ned to her home in Chelsea, Mass'' .
the summer. in ho
All h;s many friends in Montana VIII pe
released to learn that Manager Inaries lopv
! IF ST. Louis has fully recovered rom d very
serious illness. , d+
It is now predicted that arah beln. d;se
is more likely to make a trip " = aa;J tn
than to America next year. o"'
be a perfect wreck.
El,sworth Still. a young American pos,
sose;no a remarkable tenor voice, Will
shortly leave for Italy, for the purpose %
completing his studies. He is only 20 years
old.
Mrs. Agnes Booth Sheffield will be Leading
1.dy NJ the Madison Square Theater neXt
season. Mr.. Palmer is drawing all the olu-
1;mars aronnd him again at the Madison
Square.
/ Adelaide Detchon is making quite a stir
in swell society in London, singing frehch
songs q la TheO, and giving recltatlons Ill
the American style. She poses as a young
American.
Mrs. d. T. Bowers, together with her
daughter, Mrs. May Bennett, her son-ln-
law, and their three children. are summer
- 4 A.. DO,x,auoS uorlufpV GOAT sf MAN.
chester, Mass.
George w. Floyd, business manager
for Mr.. and Mrs. n. C. Goodwin, Jr., was
the recipient of a benefit last evening at the
Boston Park Theater, rendered him by
Managers Abbey, Shoeffel and
Miss Lille Grubb has been advised by
her physician to withdraw from the Adonis
Company in ~nseQuen OF ill health. She
goes to the seaside for the summer. Her
health is quite broken by continual work.
Osmand Tearle has been presented by
Lester Wallack with a sword that belonged
to Charles Fechter. Ii Mr.. Tearle could
only learn Mr.. Fechter's recipe for using it
o the gift would be a valuable one indeed.
Carrie Swain will travelnexts season under
the management OF Fred Maeder: She will
ave two new plays, one called "Dolly's
Luck" by H. Wayne Ellis, which is con-
sidered very strong. Her time is nearly all
filled.
Louis Aldrich has discovered parties
playing piratical versions of "My Partner
and wishes all to know that he and Franz
Sanger are the owners of the play, and
will prosecute any person infringing upon
their rights,
Signor Perugini (Chatterton), the Ameri-
can tenor, lately sang in London at teh
house of the French Embassy, in the pres
ence of the Duchess of Edinburgh, the
Duchess of St. Albans and the Marchioness
of Salisbury.
jill. Haverly has offered J. Carroll John
son the sum- of $500 per week for two years,
and 50, 900 bonus; but he has refused, as
he is interested in what he thinks will be
the greatest minstrel organization in the
Countrywide McNish, johnson and Slavin's
Refined Minstrels.
Miss Sarah Manypenny, one OF the most
beautiful and accomplished ladies con-
with the Warde combination, is the
daughter OF a very wealthy family in
Newark, Ohio. She left her home against the
protest. OF friends to take the sock and
buckskin.
AT the recent commencement exercises at
Princeton College, New Jersey, DIR. McCosh
al address, one of the main points of
which was in regard to the hon&ry degrees
conferred OF gentlemen by colleges in this
He said that the present princi:
pie was extremely unsatisfactory. The
course degrees, such as A. B. signify merely
with results fairly satisfactory to the
instructors and the rules of a college. AM.
means no MORE and is only a confirmation
Of the other in most instances, indicating
it indicates anything, that the A.. b. was
really merited. The more specific degrees,
as c. E., means something definite, and are
a useful label on a mans brains. When
we look at the widely-distributed degrees
OF Phi. D., and the like, we are puzzled, in
more than half the cases, to discover any
valid reason for them. Even LID. is
becoming unpleasantly common, and is
an honor which usually means nothing but
Il badge OF proficiency, and frequently is
on Il politician who has no claim
whatever, in character, life, or learning, to
80 high-sounding a dignity. 1t is to be
regretted that the degree OF y. ID.
be Sc unworthily scattered, be-
slowed sometimes for piety with which, it
has nothing to do), sometimes for hard
work with which it has less concern), and
really, for learning and scholarship,
which, if anything, it means. All of which
causes the New York Mail and EXPRESS,
the language of DIR. McCosh,
TO say that there is a strong and growing
feeling among thinking people all over
the country that the honorary degrees in
colleges are not conferred on sat-
~sfactory principles is not to be wondered
and it is to be hoped that not only DR..
McCosh, but all governors of colleges, will I
10 what they can to confine honorar, de-
frees to those who actually merit them, $
specifically, and not for general character. :