The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-22
GLEAsiNGs.

A Brunswick (Ga.) letter says that
probably nine-tenths of the white popu-
lation there have had the yellow fever
A "down east" paper says that there
is fog bell on the coast that is s'no
more use than a boiled carrot hung in
a bootleg"
The Boston Pilot exhorts the Irish
not to buy farms in New England,
which is decadent, but to go South and
West.
The "cubic air law'' in San Francisco
is persis.ently evaded by the Chinese,
who seem to delight in growding them
selves into spaces where white men
would be suffocated
A Boston preacher said to his congre-
cation the other day, in reference to
Mrs. Woodruff, that there are ''two
Victorias in the world, one at the top
and the other at the bottom of her
sex.n
One of the largest droves of cattle
ever seen in any place was driven from
Texas a few weeks ago from Captain
Kings ranch, ,Neuces county, to Kansas.
The herd numbered 10000 horned cat
tie, and was attended by 700 drivers.
The Worcester (AIass.) Press has
come to the conclusion that 'the inde-
pendent voter seems to occupy about
the same position in Massachusetts poll
tics that the sea-serpent occupies in
natural history-his name is much more
familiar than his form"
Then she went sadly into her bou-
doir and kissed the photograph of her
first husband, whispering in soft ac-
cents, sob! how changed is the world
to me. He promised to give me new
silk, and he's ordered home only calico.
Why did marry again?"[On Dit, New
Orleans Bulletin.
The Dublin Nation concludes an edi-
torial note on the Hell Gate explosion
with the remark: sHenceforth the
traveller from Europe will be able to en-
joy an unbroken view of a bay which is
spicturesqueth than that of Naples. 7"
Our Dublin friends evidently thin k it
was Staten Island which was blown up.
New York Herald.
A Kansas orator talks in this strain:
"Where is Europe with America? No
whar! Where is Great Britain? No
whar! They call Great Britain the
mistress of the sea, but what makes the
seap The Mississippi river makes it,
and all we've got to do is to turn the
Mississippi river into the Mammoth Cave
and the British navy will be founder
ing in the mud"
They have year-old Lying Society
| in Colchester, Conn.,, one of whose laws
| is that, if the word of any member shall
under any circumstances, be construct
ed by any other member as bearing any
resemblance to truth, the offender shall
be expelled. They are in trouble now,
for, at the present election of officers,
nobody dared to believe the President s
declaration of the votes, and they don't
know what to do about it. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Every one has heard the story of the
Edelweiss which grows in the Alps in
such dangerous places that the Swiss
lover, at the risk of his life, procures it
for his sweetheart to show her his de-
votion. 1t is very pretty legend, but
it will have to be gathered to sleep with
the story of William Tell, for there is
no truth in it. One doesn't need to
balance himself on the edge of chasm
to get the flower, for it grows where Il
child can pluck it in safety.
Says the Clermont (O.) Sun: "He is
now in his 125th year, and has never
voted. Etienne Gauldinot was born in
1852, in Canadian hamlet, between
the st. Charles and Montmorenci rivers
below Quebec. The great battle be-
tween the French and English was
fought near hisfathers cabin, and though
he was only years old he remembers it
perfectly. In 1775, having come from
a scouting expedition down the lake, he
was captured by Ethan Allen. He sent
his mother, wife and children to Canada,
where they remained until the close of
the Revolutionary war. In 1893 he
trapped for furs in the vicinity of Mag
ara river, and served three years during
the war of 1912, being wounded twice
in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and be-
ing complimented by General Scott for
his bravery. He is living with his
granddaughter now near the mouth of
Bullskin creek, in Franklin county, O..
He talks but little, hobbies about the
house with cane. smokes clay pipe,
| is quite deaf, but has good eyes,