The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-23

meet, new orleans courier.
One OF the crack riflemen writes to
ask the Chicago press not to speak of
the savings bank failure as a Spencer
ride.
One fellow down in Cairo spells kero-
sene thus: "Cairo-seen"-and another
going one better, spells 1t "Cairo's-
sim"
A philosopher me- said: 1--WE may
despise the world, but we cannot do
without it," But you1l have to by and
by-what thenp
Judge Dillon, of the United States
Circuit Court, is about to remove from
Davenport to st. LOUIS with his family
for the winter.
Captain Joshua Wheeler, u Kentucky
soldier of the war of 1872, boasts that
he never took a dose of medicine in his
life. But he may forget.
Sothern, a comedian, has made II new
hit, said to be almost equal to his
Lord Dundreary." The play is called
THE Crushed Tragedian." 1t Is very
funny. t-
The Emperor Aleck, of Russia, is
beginning to feel like a big white bear
that tried to hug somebody at II I'M
brace that could be Rugged only in sew
earl installments.
Grandma, why don't you keep a
servant any longer?" well, you see,
my child, | am getting old now, and
can't take care of one as i used to, you
know. "[Ex.
Charles ID. Evans, a New York law
yer, is under arrest for defrauding a
widow of several thousand dollars, in
trusted to him for her benefit. If he
did it, he ought to be hanged.
A Michigan man lately applied to
General Sheridan for a letter of intro
ductionto Europe and got the follow
ing: "This mans name is Jones'.
Jones, Of Michigan. Very truly, p.
H. Sheridan"
The Prime Minister of the Govern
ment Of Greece-Constantine Canaris
by name-died at Athens last Saturday
of apoplexy. He was Vice Admiral of
the Greek navy, and was 81 years of
age.
We arc asked: what has become
of Smith, the onoe famous razor-strap
MANI" Answer: Since nearly Ill
sensible men have stopped shaving, his
occupation, like that of Othello's, is
gone" --
Rev. H. Alexander d q lecture
about "Woman; Her Creation and
History" The average dress-maker
could talk much more intelligently on
that subject than the smartest clergy
man that ever was born.
Strakosch says of Miss kellogg: she
knows forty operas, and knows them
well. She is I student, and learns
everything new that is published. She
has worked her way to her present high
position step by step
Virginia's oldest white ~inhabitant is
dead-Daniel Ward, of Stickleyville,
aged ITO. lie was a wealthy farmer,
and himself superintended his business
during 4 part of every day up TO the
time OF his death.
The trains of new walking dresses
are at least ten inches shorter than
those now worn, and some of the more
useful autumn materials are made up
with so short a skirt as to require no
holding up. Getting sensible at last.
The London Court Circular speaks
truth when it says: "Of all the false
pretenses that pervade society none are
SO productive of humiliation and misery
as the keeping up an appearance of
a-uence when all foundation for it is
departed"
General w. S. Rosecrans is visiting
st. Martins, o.. where his daughter, an
Crsuline nun, is dying. She has been
slowly sinking with consumption for
several months. Mrs. Rosecrans has
been stopping with her daughter for
sometime. L-
The ex-rebel General Hood has organ
lied a new brigade, on the peace basis,
since the war. He has nine children,
all under the age of s years, and three
pairs Of them twins. They are differed
by four nurses, g%oyerness, his wife
n his mother-in-law.
Mr.. W. W. Story, the sculptor.
writes picturesquely in the Atlantic
about John Lothrop Motley, with his
eyes flashing Summer lightning, his