The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-07
SUNDAY. OCTOBER Z, 1877.
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Cal1ornla Is ABOUT l,UUO rect ABOVE tne
sea level.
Thirty mustangs have been sent to
England, and thirty E%nglishmen will
try to play polo with them.
Missouri papers report that figs and
almonds mature in the open air in the
southwestern portion of the state.
The Suwanee river in Georgia and
Florida, that the old song tells about,
has just been opened to steamboat
navigation.
The Telephone is being rapidly put
into use at Boston. About 100 mer-
camille houses are already connected
with every express office in the city.
A raft of timber measuring 1882 s
cubic feet passed through Lake Cham
plain the other day. 1t is said to be
the largest that ever went through
those waters.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. of Philadelphia, advertises that
it has opened an Inebriate Asylum for
women of the upper and middle
classes"
The California colony, which went
to the Argentine Republic eleven years
ago, have resolved to emigrate to Texas
finding that they are losing money
where they are.
They are trying to get together II
mass-meeting of housekeepers i'll New
York city, to take measures to reduce
the wages of domestic servants to the
former standard.
1t is a mark of good breeding to sit
still. When a woman trots her knee,
or swings her foot, or drums with her
fingers, it is a sign her early education
has been neglected.
Boston is importing her gas coal
from England, for the first time in FIVE
years, refusing to submit to the btu
minous monopoly. ARed Star steamer
has arrived with 1,600 tons.
The careful observer of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer has noticed ''the alto
gether unaccountable fact that no dog
owner has ever been kept awake
by the noise of his W beast"
Young ladies are employed in the
O~bservatories of Washington and Har-
ward. They make calculations, and do
the mathematical part of the work. but
do not take observations with the tele-
: scope.
The little gratis in the New York
aquarium like flowers. They are un-
able to distinguish between artificial
and the real. Many n woman has flow
ers nipped from her hat by these gi-
RATES..
A Pottsville pa woman, thinking
she had heard IN unusual noise in her
parlor, stepped into the room and there
discovered her COW contentedly chew
ing her cud and complacently looking
at herself in the mirror.
81 want five cents worth of starch"
said a little girl to a clerk. The clerk
asked: "What do you want five cents
worth of starch for?' "Why, for five
cents, of course" she answered, and
the clerk concluded to attend to his
own business.
"What do you think of the eight
hour law?" inquired one workman of
another who had made his mark and
won n position in life. az Think was
the reply, ''that no man ever made any
mark in the world who didn't work
eighteen hours"
Turkish women do all their shop
ping at the doors of the stores in Pera,
and the merchant-generally the Greek
or an American who speaks Turkish
must go to the carriage window with
the things the women wish to purchase.
An ordinance by the Minister of Police
prohibits a Turkish woman from enter
ing any store in the Frank quarters.
We infer from a paragraph in the
Philadelphia Press that it is customary
in that city for the whole family to rush
TO the door when any one rings, to ''see
who is there" One family did it, but
found no body in sight, and when they
returned to the sitting-room they dis
covered a visitor-a baby in a basket,
which had been put in through the back
window.
Phantom ships and phantom crews
haunt the Gulf of st. Lawrence. Some
Of the superstitious Canadian fishermen
say they have seen illumined craft, on
board of which marines of wild aspect
moved to and fro, speaking the old
Irish tongue. In '4S and '49 many fugi-
tives from the plague and famine in
Ireland came to the st. Lawrence, and
they fancy they know the old Irish
tongue when they hear it.
Walter Chaplin, a Jerseyman IS
years of age, is at Tieonderoga, engaged
in his fifth attempt to find a box con-
tanning $50, 900 in specie, which he
claims was hidden at Osmand's Bay in
1853 by the French Paymasters who had
tn dpearf tho hopfoolu No cattIod a.