The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-21
FRIDAY E P 81, 1877.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

de Carvalho, is dead.
A woman in Ottawa, Can, sold her
hair to procure money to pay taxes.
Written visiting cards are the most
fashionable for ladies and gentlemen.
Pity we can't haye President Hayes
at our Exposition, but he can't come.
Nilsson is in Bavaria, spending n
few weeks with their majesties of
Naples.
Among other things that California
is proud of just now is a 20O-pound
pumpkin.
General Forrest, the eX-guerrilla, is
rapidly recovering from his dangerous
illness.
The Arabs claim that Eve was 200
feet tall. Then she didn't have to
stand on a chair to put up a stovepipe.
The Earl of Dudley has invited Gen
eral and Mrs. Grant to spend October
at his magnificent estate in England.
The Presidents journey says the dis
patches, was a complete ovation all the
way from Fremont to Dayton. This
revives the old campaign cry of 1856
''Hurrah for Fremont and Dayton"
An ulster for ladies, recently import
ed, is made of brown cancels hair, or
namented with black velvet buttons.
The price is S23, and these garments
promise to be worn extensively this
. winter.
A large mushroom is said to have
forced its way through twelve inches of
concrete covered with a thick layer of
asphalt in the floor of the Savings Bank
Department of the General Post Office
p. in London.
English newspapers are beginning to
discuss the question how long the
Eastern war will last. Johnny Bull is
evidently growing anxious about the
prospective price of his winter beef and
potatoes.
An English beauty who went to be
photographed Mt a seaside resort, after
taking her seat in the chair of torture
was thus addressed by the in%sinuating
operator: snow, miss, you look at me
as if l was your young man and you'd
met me unexpected"
Mr.. Healey, who lives in Paris, has
painted a portrait of Prince Bismarck,
which is considered so excellent Il like
ness by the Princes wife that she has
commissioned Mr.. Healey to make q
replica. The original was painted for
Mr.. Washburne.
Two notable weddings will close the
season at Newport. Miss Belmont, the
daughter of Mr.. August Belmont, the
banker, is to be married to Mr.. :. S.
Rowland, of New York, and Miss
Marguerite Bates, of Boston, to Cap
tain Dickens, United States navy.
A Philadelphia marble firm are ut
present engaged on n colossal statue of
the late Andrew johnson, which is to
be set up as n monument, when COM
pleted, zeal his old home in Tennessee.
This statue is of white marble, and
when placed OH its pedestal will meas
NE twenty-five feet in height.
Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode
Island, has accepted al invitation to be
in Louisville during the visit of Presi-
dent Hayes to that city. Governor
Cullom, of Illinois, had declined a
similar invitation on account of official
duties, and it is understood that
Governor Carroll, of Maryland, did
the same.
Says General Joe IIawley, of Connec-
ticut: 81 find no trouble in getting
along with Confederate soldiers. Men
who went into the war with the feeling
at their hearts core that they were
right have a bond of union between
them. When we find men who live up
to their ideas of honor and right, we
shouldn't ask them to get down on
their knees or ask them to take back
anything"
The Board of Trustees of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects recommends
that the present Washington Monument
and site be abandoned, and another
more graceful structure be erected
else where. These architects are expen-
sive fellows, any how, and none of
them is ever satisfied with a thing un-
less he has the doing of it himself at
big pay.