The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

an enterprise.
MISCELLANEOUS.
bridge has been landed at the New
York tower and will he raised immedi-
ately.
| A Paris paper defines friend as "A
person whose good qualities we tolerate
on condition that he overlooks our
defects.''
"What, ''said Bonaparte to Las Casas,
lis more overbearing than weakness
which feels itself protected by strength
Look at woman, for example,
| While the school population of Cali
fornia is increasing largely, the number
of absentees is also increasing. There
is accordingly demand for compulsory
education beginning to be heard.
If one could only bottle up the chill
air of these glorious October mornings
and send it to Savannah. New York
Commercial Advertiser. There's prac-
tical sympathy for you'll Syracuse Jour
nal.
"Ladies and gentlemen, . said an Irish
manager to his audience of three, ''as
there is nobody here, ll.dismiss you all;
the performance of this night will not
be performed, but will be repeated to-
morrow evening""
1t is said that when the locusts swarm
ed. in Central China last Summer the
mandarins offered prayers in the tenn
pies, and the peasants in their ignorance
thought them blessing in disguise, and
gathered them a la mamma, and lived
upon them.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
wants the money derived:from licensing
drinking establishments in that city,
appropriated to the support of hospitals
and other charitable institutions in
that metropolis, instead of, as at pres
ent, being paid into the State Treasury.
One of the Boston horse railroad COM
panies, which has been puzzled to ac-
count for the sudden and great falling
off in the cash fares found that barrel
going to sell for old paper, had been
stolen by the conductors, who returned
them for cash fares received.
The Japanese fleet consists of twelve
vessels, one ram, three iron-clads, four
corvettes, two schooners,a "a sailing trans
port, two dispatch boats, one brig, one
gun-bcat, and the imperial yatcht.
There are 1,500 men, including Ill Off
GERS, besides 264 marines and 67 artil-
lerymen. The officers and engineers
are trained in the naval school at Yeddo
which has 250 students.
1t is gratifying to notice that even the
stringency of the times does not tempt
good men from the path Of truth. A
stranger was in town, yesterday, trying
to sell for curiosity boat compass
which he stated had been in his family
for over 500 years, and was reported to
have once been owned by Pontius, the
pilot, though he frankly said he could
not vouch for the last statement. Nor
wich Bulletin.
A good cobbler for years piled his
trade in a little place on the Rue du
Chateau d. Eau, Paris, and at last the
owner bequeathed the little piece of
gIound to him. Rather than sell it
after that the cobbler built a stone
house thereon but ten feet high and
seven feet deep, where he now lives,
surrounded by tall handsome buildings,
his own bearing the distinctive appella-
tioiI VI tHC oiudAlCot uouSC III diio.
The inscription "Sold to the Pennsyl-
vania Museum and School of Industrial
Art'' is exasperatingly frequent on
'just the things you would have liked''
at the Centennial Exhibition, and one
disgusted individual, after being disap-
pointed in this manner several times,
marched wearily up to one of the Tufts
soda fountains and said to the aston
ished attendant: s'If your soda is not
all sold to the Pennsylvania Museum
and School of Industrial Art, should
like a glass. y Boston Commercial Bull
etin.
a man out in Montana,a "A short time
ago, squatted on another persons land
and built small frame shanty. When
requested to remove, he positively re-
fused to do so; SO one night q squad of |
men came around, after the sQuatter
and his wife We're asleep, and lifting
the whole concern with deliberate care,
carried it to the river and set it on a |
small raft. Then they pushed the raft |
into the stream and let her go. When
the squatter got up in the morning to
go out he was surprised to find himself |
about sixty miles down stream, and
making good time in nine-knot cur
rent. This is all we shall say about
that man. 1t would be extremely i'm
proper to report his remarks in full in
this paper. Philadelphia Bulletin.