The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Republicans of New York de.
clare that they ''are sure of carrying
the State in November, no matter how
Indiana m ~ 60 in October. Tney are
very confident.
Divers have explored the exploded
Hell Gate reef and pronounce the work
Of last Sunday a complete success. The
rocks are loosened up and a be easily
removed, rendering the passage between
the ocean and New York by Long Is
land Sound safe for the vessels of the
heaviest burthen.
When a st. Louis Horse pricks up his
ears q little, and acts as though he
would like to start up a little faster gait
than q walk, his driver Immediately
lays down the lines and crawls out the
back end of the buggy.
New York continues to assemble be-
fore the Hotel Brunswick to see the
Pelham coach come in and hear the
footman toot his horn. To have seen
and heard these things is considered by
the average New Yorker as more neces-
sary than a college education.
A suppressed laugh must have been
INDUCED in by the New York thieves
who lately broke in and took $500
from the treasury of the New York
Society for the Suppression of Vice.
When you have to take up with a
blue jean suit of clothes, and eat pud-
ding with a pewter spoon, remember
that Professor Swing says display is
barbaric, but true greatness is always
plain.
81 would have been left all alone v
night at that out-of-the way station if
! had not been lucky enough to catch
that train. Fortunate, wasn't it?"
Eyes; did you have to run very hard to
get it?r '.Oh, mol l sat there fifteen
minutes before it came along. "lNew
York Evening Mail.
One day recently an officer connected
with Greenwood Cemetery, New York
arrested two well-dressed women who
were picking flowers from graves and
~concealing them in their umbrellas.
They were taken to the station house
and locked up over night, and probably
went forth next morning madden If not
wiser women.
Captain johnson, the daring naviga-
tor of the Atlantic in a dory, is turning
a pretty penny in Liverpool, where the
adventurer and his little craft are the
lions of the day. The exhibition fee is
sixpence, and the room is thronged day
and evening by those who wished to see.
He says that nothing on earth would
tempt him to repeat his experience.
Spotted Tail signs the treaty, but
with a sort of mental Sioux reservation.
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A Japanese native illustrated comic
paper-the Niphyn Ysche-has come
out in Yeddo, and displays considerable
humor in c~aricatures Of British man.
ners and customs.
Piecing up centennial bedquilts is
Just now the fashionable folly among
frugal housewives. 1t takes 800 pieces
to make one, and when done they are
miracles of ugliness. Boston Globe.
The Memphis Avalanche rushes down
on poor. old Peter Cooper with four
columns Of minion and a convict-look-
ing cut. PETERS hopes of holding the
keys of the White House are done for
now. Louisville Courier-Journal.
A s~ubterranean forest has been dis
covered in London, consisting of peat,
with trunks Of trees, most of them
standing. AL are of a species still
found in Britain, the oak, alder and
willow being abundant. In the peat
are found bones of the great fossil OK.
He (Tilden) did not tell the horse car
conductor he had paid his fare, but he
kept his hands on his pockets and look
ed unconter ledly at the conductor, as
fhe had, and the effect was the same.
When the conductor detects such a
passenger, he generally wants to put
him off the car. When the American
people find him running as a Republic
c~ancandidate for the Presidency they are
going to vote for the other mm.(N.Y Y.
Tribune.
Two-thirds of the willow for the man
ufacture of willow-ware in this country
is imported from Europe at a cost Of
y S5,000,000. The cultivation of the
willow is contemplated by some Ameri-
cans, they thinking that by cu~ltivating
superior grades Of basket willow they
can make q profit per acre Of $3.50.
manufacturer asserts that fully 5000
articles are constructed from willow
shoots-chairs, sofas and baskets being
the most common.
The streets are full Of them. TIL,
hotels bulge out with them They jos