The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
The Daily Leader.
PUBLISHED AT
CHEYENNE, WYOMING,
Pioneer Paper of Wyoming.
HUMOROUS NOTES.


Cardinal Antonelli left fortune of
over 81 ,000, 900. And yet his salary was
only "a 600 year. What politician
he would have made.
Charles Francis Adams holds it to be
a self-evident truth that four of kind
beats two pairs like him.
Clergymen are complaining that the
donation parties this year are too much
like picnics. The visitors bring only
what they eat up during the evening.
Five hundred young men of Chicago
have sworn of from using wine. They
have substituted whisky, and that is
just as bad, though somewhat cheaper.
Miss Braddon says of her last heroine:
Her eye chained him to the spot"
Must have been links eyed. Graphic.
And had "cast' in 'em-cast-iron,
for instance.
The Graphic boils down all that has
been said on the Eastern question in
two lines. 1t says 'sthere will be war
in Europe unless the efforts to preserve
peace should prevail"
A Cincinnati man, supposed to be at
the point of death, was asked by
friend at his side: "Shall send for
clergyman?' NO." said the sufferer,
''send for cocktail
The Rochester Democrat says: "Lucy
Hamilton Hooper says the average
American husband is niggard. Would
you have your daughter marry mig
gard?n
A Chicago girl, while crossing Lake
Superior, last September, lost one of
her shoes overheard, and now captains
of vessels arriving at Duluth are telling
strange stories of a mysterious marine
monster which they sighted during their
trip.
Grace Greenwood's husband is fifteen
years younger than herself. She took
him to bring up, but has failed, or
something. and now wants the courts
to take himsoff her hands.
The average farmers wife does about
one-half more work than she is able to,
taking the year round, except during
harvest and threshing time, when she
does three times as much as at other
times.
The prettiest girl in York has stock
Ing winch noluS nalr DuShel. \ Ork
Dispatch. We don't want you to pub
licly boast of the superior attractions
and talents of your girls. but we have
curiosity to know how many bushels
the stocking of the ugliest girl in York
will hold.
A Worcester clergyman prepared an
elaborate lecture recently, according to
the Norwich Bulletin, ON the ''Moral
Responsibility of a City Government" 7"
Before he had chance to deliver it,
however, the Common Council changed
the grade of his street, raised the side
wqlk fa tho laval Of hn o.
windows, and dumped four tons of loose
rock into his back yard, and, as he
couldn't swear, he found relief in re-
writing his lecture. When finished, it
was as follows: "a City Government
has no Moral Responsibility. 1t is
said to have been fine piece ofconden-
sation.
Offenbach cites funny instance of
the influence of stage tradition. He
went to the Bouffe recently to hear
the Princess de Trebizonde'' and was
surprised to find that they only sang the
first half of the duo in the second act.
Going behind to ascertain the reason
why, he found out after much difficulty
that when Mime. Peschard was singing
in the role she was suffering from a
cold and her voice gave way at the end
OF the first half of the duo, so they had
to cut the remainder Ever since then
the cantatrice playing the part has cut
it religiously, though without knowing
why.
1t is announced that George Alfred
Townsend is about to lecture upon
"How to Write Poetry.n He should
draw full houses, for what this country
most needs at present, next to a pacific
solution of the presidential problem, is
a knowledge of the construction of
poetry. Tupper and Walt Whitman
should occupy front seats, and those
young men who write in ladies albums,
and make heavenly rhyme with 'srap-
ture" should be invited on the stage.
Let Mr.. Townsend teach the country
how to write poetry-and let editors
augment the capacity of their waste
baskets. Nor. Herald.