Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-17
BREVITIEs FROM EuERYWHERE,
A Swimming Dress-Terrible Slaughter
of Game by an English Lord.

of Game by IN English Lord.
There is no known antidote for chlorate
of potash poisoning.
Kerosene oil is responsible for nine
tenths of the fires that take place in China.
The Japanese are cultivating a taste for
beer and porter al well as for European
costumes.
The amount of loss to creditors in Eng.
land and Wales through bankruptcy last
year was 81, lila, 9O5.
Labouchere says that "the American
girl has almost entirely cut out the Eng
lish girl in public favor"
Sembrich, that loveliest of all singers
after Patti, is studying for "Otello,"
"Semiramide" and Norma"
A French electrician claims that he will
soon be able to produce a thunderstorm
wherever and whenever it Ia desired.
A swimming dress to enable the swimmer
to blow up mines and hostile boats, has
been tried in. the German navy. 1t ia q
sort OF modified Paul Boyton affair. :
Sir John Lubbock, speaking of bees be-
fore the British Association, said that
there seems strong evidence that the
mother can control the sex oil the egg
During the Prince OF Wales recent visit
to Hamburg he initiated some wheelbar-
row races, with ladies in the barrows.
trundled along by tie highest English no.
bility.
The greatest shooting ever done in D.
single day was by Lord Walmingham, on
his moor, on August 80. He killed 1,O5S,
grouse in thirteen hours, there being forty
drivers.
A timber raft 700 feet long, ITO wide,
carrying ITO men and worth $50, 600
went down the Rhine. It was nearly
wrecked when passing the famous curve of
the Lorelel. 50
The only recognized g.. A. r. post out.
side Of the United States is said to be in [
Honolulu. It is called Post George W, De
Long, and always observes Memorial Day |
sitting ceremonies.
Two fishermen in the Dee, in Enelaad. |
have caught a sturgeon weighing 200 |
pounds, over five feet long and as thick as
q mans body. The best previous record |
is a 15O pound sturgeon, two years ago.
Jacob Perkins, after endeavoring to alle.
viate the sufferings of a friend who had
fallen down stairs and injured himself, fell
down the same stairs and in the same
manner at Fort Scott, Kansas, and was
killed.
The International Hygienic Society oil
is starting street stands in differ
parts OF that city where ladies NAV
'end their parcels, leave their cloaks. and
arrange their toilet when on shopping
The Chinese Government has refused an
firm permission to set up cotton
leaning machinery in that country The
is made that foreigners have no
light to start manufactures on Chinese
oil. |,
In Tashkend, says a traveller, the Chi. I
pR1 hQ va ImnnGo6 a fuv NV Ill r--.--
Tho marry. All merchants who visit
lashbar are obliged to take q wife. As
Don as they leave the woman obtains an
ther husband, and thus the tax affords a i
considerable revenue to the government. t
A Pittsburg contractor and engineer, SO
is given out, has closed the contract for III
erection OF an immense iron and steel | 8
liant, at Sabinos, Mexico. The plants to !,
,st $4,000, 900, and will consist oil two q
asst furnaces, a Bessemer rail and NALL
late mill, and structural iron works. =
In Paris q man picks up a living by 60.
g about the streets playing on q clarion. :.
through q canula. placed in a hole in his u
after the operation of tracheoto- a
y. When he has finished a little tune he b
,kes the canula out and exhibits it TO n
audience, to show that there is no de- a
ption. -
In England the proper ratio Of doctor to
'pulation is said to be one to 1000, but
this rule there are 1,943 too many doc
rs in London, and while 600 die every :,
ar, l,SOO new ones are turned out. Com. u
tition is SO great that in some parts of g.
9 city doctors will see q patient. pre-. q;
ribe, and supply medicine for sixpence q n,
lit.
4 regulation has been adopted in the
chigan State Prison by which hereafter
nvicts may earn the right to wear plain
" suits instead OF the prison stripes.
who obey the prison rules for six Y
,nths may discard the stripes, but il or
er that period they become unruly 20
ain they must once more don the OBJ. ia
tionable clothing. be
! Birmingham, Alabama, man made a
ok which he intended as a present to
nd. He set it running, and it went ali
for awhile and suddenly stopped. It
8 afterward ~ascertained that the person pc
whom it was intended had died at the tic
y time indicated by the clock. Il has AN
n set going frequently since, bat always on
ps at the same hour.