Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-14

Western society reporter got himself
disliked by an item that "Dr. Jones ana
vile we're present, dressed in white t"lie."
Rameses III has just been dug mp near
Cairo, tolerably well preserved. Kameses
did active business about 5000 years ago.
Maine people are luxuriating in Wild
/ strawberries and cream q week or two
earlier than the usua! appearance OF this
delicacv. 4as sgf sffsEa .gE tl-.Gs-L
This world is full OF disappointments:
Mamma" cried d year-old girl, l
/, started to make my doll a bonnet and II 8
come out q pair OF pants.
II you cut Lord Churchill in half and
; throw away half OF him, what remains
may possibly be made s%erviceable to the
says Gladstone,
The New Haven newspapers. the PaHa'
dunn and the Journal and Courier, which
two years ago reduced their p'icc from
three to two cents, ha I'VE gone back to the
old price.
In every essential OF human happiness
and liberty, says Henry Watterson, and in
the better features OF human character
there is no naming England by the side Of
the United States.
One day the talk fell upon Carlyle's books.
poor old Sartor!' eaid Carlyle. tits a
book in which l take little satisfaction;
really q book worth very little al a work
OF art, a fragmentary. disiointed, vehe'
ment production"
Senator Stanford says "there is room
in California for fifteen millions OF people,
but he adds: II have had to feed tramia
upon my ranch the past yeas: at a total
cost of 5000 per month. all the time in
need Of good work hands,"
The housekeeper at the birthplace OF NJ.
Renan, a place much sought by visitors.
replied to reque-t TO purchase a pen with
that she had none, but would go to the
s~tationer's next day and get 2OO.
A New Havener writes OF w. H. H. Muir
rays divorced wife as a doctor: Mrs.
Murray has a fine practice in this city. She
has an excellent location and many warm
friends. She is a bright. energetic. hopeful
woman, and deserves much PRAISE"
The Albany Times will not permit Kate
Stoneman, the first woman lawyer in New
York State, to be called q illegal Amazon
There is nothing Amazonian about her.
it says. ''She is q perfectly womanly young
woman, and when she wins at the bar it
will be by no noisy war OF words"
The Indians gather and dry "sweet
grass" to scent themselves with. In early
times they used to come long distances to
get it, as it is not very plentiful on the
western plains. 1t has quite a long blade
like timothy, is striped and when dried
smells like sweet myrrh.
A reporter, who once pulled q hand
press" on a country weekly, tells this
story: One day, while the paper wal being
worked off, a man iron the country came
in and walked all around the room. finally
stopping near the press and watching the
work very earnestly. "Anything I can do
for you?" asked the man at the lever,
pausing between impressions. Nav
was the reply, Il don't want nothin'. I
jis' come to see you edit
The automatic buoy off Cape Hatteras
disappeared in December last. 1t has
been sighted several times since. and the
various positions have been plotted on the
pilot charts. It's last position was on
May IA, about thirty-fve miles northwest
OF Bermuda. On May 25 it was towed into
St. Georges, Bermuda. by the British
steamer "Britannia.' having been found
about one-half mile northeast OF
North rock, in thirteen fathoms
Of water. 1t appeared to be in
good condition., but that il had been
a long time in the water was made evident
by the large barracks adhering to it.
Once at dinner the Duke OF Altenburg.
who was in poor circumstances, father OF
the Crown Princess, sat nearly opposite
to the King OF Hanover. During a pause
his majesty called across the table:
Joseph, a glass OF champagne; you don't
get that every day at home" One day the
Hof Marshal came in bearing in his hal nd a
large dispatch, with a broad black rim of
deep mourning. 1t was the official an
nouncement of the death of an old arch
duchess Of Austria. The King, who had
sent out cards for a court ball, declined to
realize this interesting fact, anG said, with
out breaking the seal: There, there, take
it away. ! know all about it; let her die
next week.
1t is being whispered that Mrs. Arthur
bronson, who was the beautiful Miss De
Kay, is about to fill the place left vacant by
Elizabeth Barrett in Robert Browning's
home and heart. She is a pretty clever
woman h was known for her wit and
beauty when she was a girlin New York years
ago and surrounded by lovers. Sam Ward
made a famous bon mot apropos of her.
In a florist s one day he was unable to find
any roses of the kind he wished, the florist
saying that all he had had been ordered to
be sent to this young lady. "Ahu" he
sighed as he met a friend at the door, '.how
feeting are the things OF this world! The
florist says his last rose has gone to De-
Kay"