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a city and county-seat of Silverbow co., Mont.; on the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and other railroad railroads. It is one of the largest largest mining towns in the world, the mining industry being principally confined to copper mining, although there are valuable gold and silver mines. The Anaconda copper mines are located here. The city is the trade and jobbing center for southern and western Montana; has an extensive trolley system; gas and electric lights; National banks; public the State School of Mines, etc. Pop.

BUTLER, SAMUEL, an English satirist, born in Strensham, Worcestershire, in February, 1612. He was educated at Oxford or Cambridge, occupied his leisure in studying music and painting, be- library; daily and weekly periodicals, came a man of wide and curious learning, and gained his living as secretary and clerk to aristocratic personages.

His famous poem, "Hudibras," a witty and sharp satire on the Puritans, secured instant favor with the King and the public; yet after the appearance of (1910) 39,165; (1920) 41,611.

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