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Show SOME BRIGHT MINERS. Chile has a splendid observatory on the crest ft tha Andes. It is so high up that ths atars seem nearer, and last year when the comet made i's periodical visit some splendid notices and photo-' photo-' graphs came from that observatory. Off across the - PaciAn in Australia 'here is another observatory , esllod the Melbourne, which is said to be the moitt important in the southern hemisphere. These are evidences that our friends in the south, whether ' they study the earth as much as we do or not, do at j ', least study th,o tieaven7an(r a"TtKhr"scnsililo "iiiaii : is certainly in charge of the Melbourne ohscrva-, ohscrva-, ..lory.' LhhI summer when the comet was paying its i i respects to trie world a very clever report of it appeared ap-peared in a Melbourne, journal, and it was signed . "A Benda flold Miner." .The director of the Melbourne Mel-bourne observatory was at that vory time urging . the government to get for the observatory a new and effective telescope. - When be saw thia account of the miner he sought him out, and it proved to be Mr. E. J. White, F. It S., and the director, Colonel Ellery, put himself at once in correspondence with the miner, and now he has obtained the consent of tlm government to appoint him assistant at the observatory, which shows that there is now and then a miner with perhaps as clear ideas aa most anybody. ' . ' There is a Scotih settlement in western New York. It was founded about a hundred yeara ago by highland Scotchmen, and highland Scotchmen at Hint time aa a rule were not very well educate 1 and not altogether refined. There were about fifteen or twenty of the old crowd tfmt would go on ter. rifii: Kprees. Whisky was only worth two shillings a gallon, so with a small amount of money a great dml of drunk could 1m; bought. 'When these old chaps started on a spree il irenerallv lasted about ten days, and they would sometimes get down and roll in the mud. They were not particular where tliey lived or where they slept ho they had the regit- . lation drinks. Hut among them was one McPher-kou McPher-kou who was ducHttwj in Edinburgh. lie was a su- : porb' scholar and a wonderful linguist, but he would get juxt as tlruuk as th rest. A merchant came tip from New York and was conversing with a young 8:otuh merchant of Caledonia. By the way, going from New York there was a good deal as it was to go from Ogden to St. Oeorge thirty-flvc years ago. It was all tho way by stage and the man who made the trip and got back to New York was a kind of hero among his friends for a month afterward. Tho trip ia easily made in-twelve hours now, but ik was not then. While tlj New Yorker was talking with thia merchant thia drove of toughs came around the comer. They had been flghtmg and been rolling in the mud aud when the New ". York merchant saw them, with a shudder he turned to the local nienhant and said, "My 0ml, are those human beings V And the young merchant, full ;f Scotch pride, said, "Oh, yes. Speak to one of them. Speak to that first one. (It happened to be Me-I'hersou)., Me-I'hersou)., Speak to him in French. " He did. and Mcl'lierson answered him in (icrnian. Tho man himself was educated and he apoke to him again in Italian. Mcl'lierson answered him iu Spanish. Then the New Yorker turned to the local merchant and said, "My Ood, thut is a miracle. I never tires mod of such a thing." McKay, with a sovereign look of satisfied pride, said, "They are all that way. They- are all the same." when the truth was that not another one of the crowd could read or write. And while we could not make such a comparison, while we will have to admit that there are aome miners in the west who have not classical educations educa-tions there are a great many more who have had scientific educations to make the averse esHte-Ti mining engineer tired than any one would think f who did not luiow. They have the same education in college and 8inee then they have taken a post graduate course in the hills and they know the rocka, the faults and the formations aa they do " their A, B, C'sv ' |