The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-04

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land have been set to work on the new
parochial buildings at Greenock. They
get 90 cents an hour and are guaranteed
work for two years.
The Hell Gate explosion destroyed
the scene "a one of Fenimore Cooper's
best narratives. The description of the
chase of a smuggler through He'll Gate
by a British frigate in his "Water
Witchn is a fine piece of writing.
In a single district in Japan seventy
one Buddhist temples have been con-
verified into dwelling houses or used for
other purposes since 1873, and during
the last six years upwards of 600 have
been diverted from their original OBJ
ject.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
"Birs Sally Beers, of Clinton county,
Mich, works a farm of 100 acres and
has nine children. Ifthere were a few
thousand such persons in the world as
Sally, more of us might escape work"
All LEGO st. Louis, is what his name
implies-a Chinaman. His wife is
Irish. OF their progeny the boys are as
unmistakable Pats as were ever baptized,
and the girls are rs clearly little Celes-
tials as eve had their feet cramped in
babyhood.
There are not above three or four
brands of California wine deserving of
any serious consideration at present.
Whatever the cause, it is certain that
our grapes produce very crude and heavy
and earthly flavors, as unlike the light
wines of Southern France as shark-meat
is unlike halibut. Sacramento Record.
The French who settled in Canada
formed one of the happiest, best-ordered
and most peaceful communities in the
world, and after a history of Il hundred
years, and after suffering conquest by
the English, that community remains
French, still unabsorbed, with a life
and n society and a mental atmosphere
all its own.
The Brooklyn Argus announces its
third anniversary thus: With this is
the Argus celebrates its third ami
versary as a daily paper. Born late, but
weaned early, it was strong enough to
climb q ladder from the start. 1t now
sits upon the top round, taking such
satisfaction as any live American would
feel who achieves a difficult ascent with
out tearing things.
An English magazine says: "Scat-
tered about the earth there are supposed
to be 10, DOC, 600 or II 1000, 900 of Jews
alive. Thousands of the people are
Tich;some of them own colossal fortunes.
Rothschild could buy up the fee simple
of Palestine, Goldsmid might rebuild
the temple of Herod, Montefiore has
money enough to cast a golden statue
of King Solomon. But of these wealthy
Hebrews not one is willing to go back
Twelve years ago, three ladies living
at No. 80 Belleville avenue planted the
stones of three large peaches. The
germ in n of them grew into u tree,
which has borne fruit for seven years,
and the tree is now fully twenty-five
feet nigh, and this year bore three
bushels of fruit. Many of the peaches
weighed eight and nine ounces each,
and the pressure upon the limbs was so
great that they We're propped up to pre-
vent their breaking. Newark IN. J.)
Advertiser.
The German Government has built
the mammoth kitchen. 1t is 1000 feet
long and constituted of stone and iron,
and is designed to supply food for the
army in times of war. Two / ,S00-horse-
power engines drive its machinery,
which is capable Of boiling down and
condensing for transportation 1877 oxen,
and will grind $50 tons of flour, and
make 300, 800 loayes Of bread daily. 1t
can also supply enough preserved oats
for one days feeding of the horses be-
longing to an army Of 2S0, 1000 men.
The French President MacMahon
was lately preparing to get into the