The Ely miner., 1896-03-11

money at this price. Hence James IS
obliged to keep batch" and do his
own cooking, and although he is an
industrious miner and makes good
pay, he is always in Strengthened cir
cumstances, as it requires every
penny he can earn to keep him in
groceries and meat. 1t Is related OF
him that on one occasion, when work
ing in mine near Florence. he came
into the clearinghouse, where the
table had been provided with eatables
for eleven hearty miners midnight
supper, but James sat down and
cleaned the board and yearned for
more. On another occasion board
ing-house keeper at Crystal Falls, who
had a mammoth range, wagered that
he could make one ''pasty"-a sort of
meat pie peculiar to the Cornish
miner-which would be sufficient for
one meal for James. The pasty, as
large as could be baked in the great
oven, was made, and as no man could
carry it down the narrow ladder-way,
| it was sent down in a skip to James,
who was working below. Then the
clearinghouse man smiled bland
smile of satisfaction, feeling assured
that the gastronomic wonder would
not be capable of slowing away the
enormous pie. Soon, however, word
was sent up from James to send down
more eatables, as he could not sustain
| himself On such a meager allowance.
Then the clearinghouse men gave
up in disgust, and since that time
James has been an Ostracized man,
and compelled to manufacture his
own pasties. James is modest man
and is in no way proud of his wonder
full capacity to absorb provisions. In
fact. he rather regards it as a acalamity
and himself marked man, and his
only ambition seems to be to secure a
sufficient quantity of eatables by
working hard every day."
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In Dakota queer wedding gifts are
in vogue. Following is list of pres
ents received at recent wedding: A
bull pup, yellow dog, water SPAN
iel, meerchaum pipe and tobacco
pouch, good shotgun, a bowie knife,
a rifle, three dogs, game rooster. one
fiddle, one banjo, one spotted pup. one
English mastiff and pair of silver
mounted pistols.
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That able, refined and aesthetic
and scholarly and unselfsh and
gentlemanly specimen of human in
telligence and progressive journalism
that has the misfortune to have his
intellectual ability hemmed in by
narrow limits OF the Buffalo Journal
as its editor, manager, proprietor, and
chief grammatical constructionist,
arose from his corner Of filthy in
spiration last week and administered
one of his characteristic slaps at the
new management of the Eagle. That
is what most Of his readers pay him
for doing and we presume it is all
right for him to make some effort to
earn his dollar once in a while. We
have recovered from his blow and
take pleasure in turning the other
cheek. If the aforesaid specimen of
human intelligence and journalistic
wit enjoys such spasms he is welcome
to his free indulgence therein.-De-
lano Eagle.
| 1t is not an uncommon thing for
newspaper to be asked to withhold
this or that bit of public news. as it
would 'look bad for the town." to
have it go abroad-would be "a bad
advertisement" The MINER has
heard the expression many times, and
is glad to find in an exchange the case
forcibly set forth in this way: Don't
blame your newspaper for what hap
pens in the community. II there is
anything in the life OF the place that
you do not wish to get abroad to the
world blame yourself il it exists-not
the paper for saying anything about
it. 1t is the editors duty to make a
typographical photograph of the town
each week, and if you have homely
picture, don't kick the instrument,
but try to get better expression on
your face the next time.
The work of putting in the new 100
ton railroad scale at Tower Junction
has been completed. The new scale,
which replaces 40-tOn scale. is said