The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-29

way.
This years wool clip in Oregon
will be much larger than that of any
former year, and the wool of much
better quality.
To give employment to honest and
worthy people, and to hold them to a
rigid accountability, is the best and
truest benevolence.
Wonder what Hayes looks like
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Looks like he was going to be elected.
Rochester Democrat.
The sum total of spindles in Rhode
Island in 1870, was 70, 500, in 100 miles.
The census of 1875 shows the number
of spindles in that State now TO be
1851
He was bound TO be accurate, and
he described the woman's costume
thus, "She wore. an elegant suit of
something or other, cut bias, and
trimmed endwise."
A Pittsburgh manufacturer has
patented a process for making old
rails over into narrow-gauge rails at a
cost of ten per cent. less than the cost
of ordinary rails.
1t was a little dressmaker girl who
looked out of the window as q drove
of Texan steers went by and remark
ed that their horns seemed to be cut
goring. Providence lR. II Journal.
An English snob, visiting the Phil
adelphia Exhib ition saw a "great sale
of domestics" advertised in the news
papers. "Bless my ~'eart," said he,
"hi thought they'd habol ished slav-
cry ERE you know"
Reports.from Cuba state that this
years crop, just finishing, is small ,on
account of dry weather. About $4,000
hogsheads of sugar and $40 punch
cons of rum have been made. The
next crop promises better, if the rains
continue.
Authors are, as q rule, better re-
Enumerated than when Goldsmith,
Pope and Milton received their mis-
cradle doles. On the first order (10,-
900 copies) of the Exploration of
Central ASIA" Lieut.. Cameron re-
ceives a share of profit amounting to
about 5000.
"Speak up!" has become quite a
joke in the English House of Com
mons. Whenever some member
is bawling out at the top of a stentor-
ian voice, in the hope of roaring
down opposition, he is assailed at
g very monentary pause with the cry
of "Speak up!" followed by shrieks of
laughter.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says: at
is a singular fact that whenever the
Republicans have nominated q Presi-
dent with five letters in his name,
they have elected him. There wa
Grant, in 1868, and then there was
Grant in 1872. and now Hayes,-the
very next letter in the alphabet,
too"
or the 1,141 counties in the United
States twenty-nine are named after
Washington, twenty-three after JEFF
ferson, twenty-one after jackson,
nineteen after Madison eighteen after
Monroe, seventeen after Lincoln,
twelve after Grant and Polk, eleven
after johnson, nine after Harrison,
eight after Van Buren,, four after
Pierce, three after Buchanan and two
after Tyler and Fillmore.
The Buffalo Express man grabs his
well-worn pencil stub and observes I:
"How many of us Woodworking peo-
pie, merchants, bankers, editors, law
yers, etc., know how to enjoy a va.
cation so as to get the most physical
and mental benefit out of 1t? Some
men never take a vacation and never
rest. They go away and make a pre-
tense of loafng, but they keep within
reach of telegraph and market reports
and carry their business with them.
Americans as a race ought to loaf
more, ought to divert themselves
more. A magazine writer said re-
Gently that the average American can
safely do all the loafing his constitu-
ton will permit, and he will be re-
paid for it by a clearer brain, serener
mood, better digestion and steadier
nerves. But then, the individual
American who will welcome this
truth, hang it to his soul and live up
to it, is the constitutional loafer who
never did a square days work in his
lifc."