Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-05
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SHORT PICK-UPS.

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We learn a great deal by merely finding
out things we didn't know.
Well regulated milkmen do not drink az
much milk as they can.
The horse railroad President is always
on the look out for avenues of profit.
II the Austrians levy a duty on American
petroleum it will be q light tax ANYWAY.
A petri6ed cork has been found in Rome.
Another indication Of hard times.
There is some dispute as to the last"
passenger to leave the Oregon" It was
probabably a shoemaker.
Mr.. Rasin has taken charge OF the Balti-
more Naval Office. He thinks he has &C.
cured q fine plum.
A Deadwood man named Pott has recog-
nized one OF our foremost American indust-
ries by naming his first born Jack.
The most remarkable case OF conversion
on record recently occurred in st. Adams,
Vermont. An entire skating rink was con-
verified into q church.
New York man lately tried to drive a
nail into q can OF ni~tro-glycerine. The
nitro-glycerine returned the compliment,
with thanks.
Prof. Hugo Magnus recently delivered in
Berlin q lecture on "The Speech OF the
Ey0Bs Z EOAs NAhSuu6 OVSdA AuC o0 SACAh
in a drugstore.
"a Strange Disappearance" is the title OF
a new play. The name will be more apprO-
pirate after the play has been on the road
about six months.
A man in the Fourth Ward undertook to
eat two dozen apples in fifteen minutes last
Monday, but had only swallowed two when
the green grocer came out and handed him
over to the police.
A news item says there is a colored
preacher near Jasper, Ga, who conquers
his stubborn horse by butting him. And
yet some persons think there is not much
headwork in the ministerial profession.
A medical college has at it's head a man
by the name OF Hanna. If a whole school,
full OF doctors cannot find out what's the
matter with Hanna the conundrum might
as we'll be given up for good.
Wild Bill Talks to the Observation-Disclosures
go on with thy account OF the thunder
shower" said the Quaker clergyman:
well, as I al telling you," said Wild
Bill. placing his pistol in his pocket and
looking the Quaker Indian Commissioner
straight in the face like q truthful man, II
say as l was telling you, l seen clouds max
ing to north'ard aid l knowed it was going
to settle in for thick weather. / told my
son to look out. and in less than half an
hour there broke the doggondist storm |
ever seed. Rain! Why, gentlemen, it rained
so hard into the muzzle of my gun that it
busted the darned thing at the breech!
Yes, sir. And the water began to rise on
US, too. Talk about you floods down
South! Why, gentlemen, the water rose SO
rapidly in my house that it flowed up the
chimney and streamed 800 feet up in the
air! We got it both ways that trip, up and
down.
DO we understand thee is relating facts
within the scope OF thine own experienced
demanded the clergyman, with his mouth
wide open.
"Partially mine and partially my sons
answered the truthful Bill. "He watched
it 20 up, and l watched it come down! But
you can get some idea how it rained when l
tell you that we put out a barrel without
any heads into it, and it rained into the
bunghole OF the brrrel faster than it could
run out of both ends!'
(which OF you saw that thee OF thy SOM
inquired a clergyman.
I'VE each watched it together, my son
| and me- returned Wild Bill, It'll my son
/ got too near the barrel and WAS drowned.
| Excuse these tears gentlemen, but | can
never tell about that storm without cry
ing
"Verily the truth is sometimes greater
than felton, said the clergyman. Verify
it is."-Eli Perkins.