The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-31
GLEANlN6S.


The English are enormous consum-
ers of sauces and jellies.
Eli Bedgood, a Georgia bailif, can
read writing, but not print.
When a woman has the gift of silence
she possesses quality above the vulgar.
A prominent London lawyer says
that twenty women are robbed to one
man in that city.
A lady should never use her husbands
professional title when she writes her
name, says the Home Journal.
1t is the woman who paints who finds
the greatest difficulty in keeping her
co~untenance.
The Madras famine has left thons-
ands of children orphans. Most OF
them will probably come under state
care until they grow up.
A rich Massachusetts, man died and
bequeathed to his daughter ''four Of
the best hedge-hogs on his mountain
lot" He gave two SOM $4,000 and
$40, 000.
Sandisheld, Mass, is blessed with a
school district containing but one pupil,
whom the teacher generally marries
from sheer lonesomeness before the
term is over.
The man who charged David with
extravaganza for singing "The trees OF
the field shall clap their hands, forgot
that there are such things rs palm trees.
philadelphia Bulletin.
About every country Congressman
in the House has his own particular
plan for extinguishing the national
debt and bringing g~reenbacks to par
within ninety days. New York Com.
Advt.
woman, for bringing bed-bugs into her
house among the furniture, and the
Judge gave her damages to the amount
of 1000 fancs, and the woman who had
bed-bugs in her furniture had to pay
the costs besides.
Reports received ut the State De-
partment from Lyons, France, tell of n
decrease of Is per cent. in the exports
of silk from that place to the United
States. This is owing to the increas-
ing popularity in this country Of silk
goods of domestic manufacture.
An Englishman wants his game to
lie until it smells before it is fit for his
palate. In other words, when it gets
into just that condition where an
American housewife would have it
taken away and buried, it is ready to
be eaten. And SO with certain wild
meats.
Michael Hines, of Lackawanna, Pa,
has been for twenty-five years n patrol
man on the Delaware and Hudson
Canal, and during that time has walked
l20, 900 miles on the tow-path. Now
he is going home to Ireland, with &c.
600 of his savings during his conncc
ton with the company.
The New York Tribune says the place
for Cleopatra's Needle-when it ar
rives-''is that point which is daily
passed by the greatest number of citi-
zens." We should think the temper
ance people of that city would strongly
object to having the ancient obelisk set
up in front of a beer saloon. Norris
town Daily Herald.
Look out for the sharper with the
tin-foil covered silver piece. You will
bet him it's n counterfeit and lose your
money or some other knowing ~ chap
will bet that it is not a counterfeit, and
will also lose. The sharp youth has u
coin of each kind similarly prepared,
and he is W. oh the alert for whom he
may devour.
The fall of a safe at Portland, \. b.,
on account of the c%rumbling of its sup
ports weakened by the fire, by which
two persons were fatally and Others
seriously hurt, has Weakened to st.
John people to a sense of danger in
their burnt district, and there is a
general demand that the walls of the
burned buildings be torn down at once.
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