New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to The Omaha Bee the figure nine Is
curiousy and intimately connected with all tue great
gold mining excitements Of the nineteenth cehtnr
The great Algerian gold bubble 1t says. lOrheu
and broke in 1909. Next came the Mantasah Mouh-
tain craze in 1885, when solid bouldeis OF gold as large
rs flour barrels were reported The California gold
fever broke out in 1649 and ragged until c0unteracted
nv the Pixies Peak boom in 1859. Ten years later, In
1869 odd Virgnny' the celebrated MINER struck tho
lucky lead which made Virginia City ana Nevada
famous III the mining annals OK the world eighteen
hundred and seventy-nine came in on time with tie
LeadviIe frenzy and the famous 'caro0nateS OF Lake
County Col Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine broke
the charm, but 1899 may make up Tor lost Tine there
being two mines in that date
I'll tell you tale of a man who went to general
store 10 spend a ceHt. lie bought the goods lie was
told to get but they wouldn't let hin have them yet
They sent them first TO the entry clerk, weary man
with two mems work. lie sent them up to be checked
and they sent them back 10 be entered again Ihen
came boy with braided cap ana TOOK them d9wh
for a girl TO wrap. one wrapped tnem ught ana Iau
them aside till after lunch, when they were tied The
bundle then was lugged about ron pillar TO post ana
in and out, to be entered and checked examined ana
then TO be entered and checked and examined again, TIL
chaser met them face 70 lace lie spent the remain
ing part OF the day reaching the cashiers desk % pay,
ana 93 peSn toP b s nd nSI Saa
he said TO MS wife, 'twoqld have taken the rest OF
my natural life "-(Detroit Free Press.
The old Boston Farmers Almanack7 for 1886 thus
describes the farmers girl OF that day Give me one
of your ruddy farmers daughters, who thinks OF
the yellow harvests abundance than of the spring
posies--a good, buxom country lass, who knows how
to boil potato, and tell mealy chenangO from
blue nose; that make good brown bread and
Is never afraid 10 be in the dough. Our genuine
farmer girl Is modest but has no afIectatlon. she
affects not to be delighted with the efiuvum OF mari
gold TO DO disguised at the sight Of cow. She
can make butter as well eat II. She can ride a
trotng pony without being strapped on: and, though
she never cut pgcon-wing or whrled In the May
coulon, yet she can leap fence like foxhound and
dance good old Rural Felicity to CHARM
" Baboo- English" It is contemptuousIy called
affords occasional food for mirth among MS but Eng
sh papers appCar to nc rot altoge her barren OF Hike
entertainment for the Habo) mind. An Indian Journal
points out that the rejoicing of an English clerical
organ what 10 calls the welcome news from
India that three Bengal regiments have been con
verted,' together vita IT. observation thai Providence
has, Indeed, blessed our work. comprises a doub!t
mistake. First, tho regiments referred t0 are not
Bengal, but MADRAS regiments, ard, secondly, con
version Is In this case simply technical term i'm
plying that the regiments referred TO have been
abolished. Another home Journal has, II appears
described the late Sennputty a q person d" whose
civilization Is still 50 rudimentary that he feeds on
Insects This mysterious charge having been In
vesugated ny our Indian contemporary, u turns out
that It's sole foundation the fact that the senaputty
was accustomed 10 chew beols-that Is. betel nuts