Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

commissions work of reconstruction can
proceed with renewed chances of sue
cess.
HERE AND THERE.
A mountain of copper has been discOv-
cred at Howe Sound, within thirty miles
OF vancouver. Assays from all over the
muntain have been taken and the ore
runs 5 per cent. On the Daisy claim. the
chief showing in the group, nature has
done what a gang of 200 miners could
not do In five years. A stream of water
has worn away the soft chist and ex-
posed a cliff of copper ore 42S feet high.
Surface openings have also been made
with powder, which exposes the big
quarry of copper for l, 500 feet. The tre-
mendous out-cropping Is less tina half
a mile from the famous Brittania group
of prospects which ave just been sold
in London for 81, 500. 900.
Seldom has anyone shown such pres
ence of mind as was, exhibited by VIM.
I. McCracken. who was fatally injured
while repairing a broken telephone wire
in Kansas City. In some way the line
became crossed and McCracken fell
writhing to the sidewalk. Don't touch
me- he cried to a b~ystander who hur-
ried up, you'll be killed If you do Get
a dry board and stand on it and wrap
your hands in a felt hat, then you get
the wire off without hurting YOURSELF"
The man dashed off in search of the
board. but before he came back Nc
Cracker was dead, the wire still grasped
in his charred hands,
Another mode Of treating the drink
habit is said to be in successful operation
IN Paris, where three phySicians-DrS.
Rapelier. Thebanet and Broca-announce
that they have discovered a new serum.
| hf Fl ava aoe,1, 10000 A:-A. 49,
wer cured and fifteen improved only ten
failing to show Improvement. The serum
is obtained from horses that have been
dosed with alcohol until their systems
are drenched with the poison. When ad-
mlnistered to patients the serum revives
natural ~repugnance to alcohol, which
continued use has broken down.
There was rather an odd weddin over
in Lansing, Mich. last week. when j. A.
GreenOugh was married for the second
time to the same woman. twenty-five
years ago, Immediately after his first
marriage, he started for the Black Hills
to seek gold. After a time he ceased to
write home and his wife, after securing a
divorce, married E. A. Zimmerman, who
died three years ago. Last spring the
widow learned that her first husband
was still alive. correspondence ensued
and now they have been joined in we'd
lock once more.
Since 1854 the total vote at each sue
cessive presidential election has shown
an increase over the vote of the preced-
ing contest. From 1854 to 1868 the gain
was 100000; from 1853 to 1872, 700, 900;
from 1872 to 1876, 1000, 600; from 1876 to
1880. 500. 900; from 1880 to 1884, 800, 600;
from 1884 to 1888, 1900, 900, an abnormally
large Increase, not accounted for by the
admission of new states; from 1888 to
1892, 7OO,O 900; and from 1892 to 1896 1,9OO,-
600. This year the probable total popu-
lar vote is estimated at 16, 900, OOO.
1t is said that many French medical
men are abandoning the use of tobacco,
owing largely to the government monop-
oily OF that commodity. according to the
physicians the cigars of the Reggie
Chose made at the government fac
tories) are so uniformly bad and the tax
on all other brand so prohibitive that
the only sensible thing to do is not to
smoke at all.
In the county of Kent, England, it has
long been usual for farmers to lose i'm
mense quantities of fruit for lack of rail-
road transportation. They now engage
automobile cars, which they load in the
evening and take to London during the
night. The arrangement is working well
and railroad officials are busy devising
plans to head off what may develop into
serious rivalry.
A citizen of Lawrence, Kas., ventured
into church the other evening and had
a long-cherished belief rudely shattered.
II never knew upntil I went to church
last night" he said newt morning, 'that
Sodom and Gomorrah were towns. / al
ways thought they were husband and
wife. Funny how a man can get things
wrong once in a while"
Cotton mills in the south are attract
ing illiterate whites from the country,
where they have never had opportunity
of amounting to much and are making
new men of them. AS a result it begins
to look as though the next generation of
"po' white trash" in the south will be
a vast improvement Of those who have
preceded them.
A test of American coal was recently
made by the management of the state
railways in Bavaria. The coal was from
an Ohio mine and resembled in many re-
spects a fine grade of German coal It
was found that the American variety
burned much better han the local ar
ticle, leaving no cinders whatever and
creating very little smoke.
unnecessary apology was published by a
Missouri editor last week in this fashion:
1--WE expected to have a death and mar
riage to publish this week, but a violent
storm prevented the wedding and the
doctor being sick himself the patient re-
covered, and we are accordingly cheated
out of both"
Milton. N. :. owes it's existence to a