The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-14
GLEANlN6S.

Heavy failures in Montreal have
brought business feeling there in to a
ticklish condition.
When a mother goes oil a whaling
expedition she rarely fails to get all the
blubber she wants.
An Englishmnn, recently arrived in
Boston, has distinguished himself by
biting a mans thumb off.
The British troops have subdued,
with small loss, the troublesome natives
on the northwestern frontier of India.
There is no room for American me-
chanics in England, according to the
report of our Consul General at Lon
don.
There are six families in West Mid
dleton, Allegheny county, Pa, which
can march out sixty-eight children on
dress parade.
A tramp who sought TO get warm by
sitting on the top of a limekiln, near
Mageetown, Montgomery county, was
suffocated and burned to death.
Happiness between husband and wife
can only be secured by that constant
tenderness and care of the parties for
each other which are based upon warm
and demonstrative love.
An old hunter says; Fully three
days before u heavy snow-storm the
deer will all quit the mountain tops and
seek the big laurel swamps for food and
shelter, until the storm is over"
The Ballard (Ky.) News says an as
sassin entered a room at Lovelaceville
and attempted to cut Captain H1wle's
throat, but in the dark he cut ut the
wrong end and a%mputated two of the
Captains toes.
The British Government has o
tracted with the owners Of the Bell
telephone for its use rs a part of the
British Geographic system, and the
German telegraphic department is or
ganizing telephone communication for
distances not exceeding fifty miles.
Several hundred women whose fami-
lies are suffering great %privation in
consequence of the %stagnation of trade
and the stoppage of the iron works in
the Forest Dean district of England,
which belong to the Crown. have
petitioned the Queen for assistance.
A bold British tar left his vessel, got
q little exhilarated on San Francisco
gin, and then, a happy thought striking
him, he bought an American flag, re-
turned to Her Majesty's ship, hauled
down the British %colors, and sent the
stars and stripes to the peak with a
cheer. He was properly disciplined, of
course.
Six hundred dollars is the fortune
the average Chinaman marks out for
himself. He knows nothing but silver.
He won't touch checks, greenback or
nickel. The common dollar he will
have nothing to do with. The Califor-
mia coin alone has charms for him.
When his 5000 are earned he takes his
bag on his back and starts for home to
marry and live as n nabob. Quite as
many Chinese leave for home rs arrive
at San Francisco.
Colonel Knox found at a Japanese
tea-house, a woman 20 years old, at
least, who didn't know the use of n pin.
Zone of the party showed her Il pin
cushion; she eyed it, and turned it over
and over, and when he drew Il pin from
1t she continued her bewilderment.
When its use was shown, an expression
of establishment crossed her face which
that she could retain the bit of brass ~
He was a meek-eyed granger, and, rs
he came hesitatingly into our presence,
an uncommonly slinky-looking yellow
dog skunk in between his masters legs.
"hfister Editor said the visitor,
that there dog may be homely, but he
is the best cattle dog in this country;
yes, sir, he is the best cattle dog / ever
saw, but he has n fault-just one
fault, sir-he won't look at the cattle
till they r cooked. "tTurner's Falls
Mass Reporter.
Prince Bismarck likes to find every
thing in his study in disorder and gen.
orally topsy-turyyness, just as he left it
bottle, mugs, cigars and cigar boxes,
odd gloves, books, pamphlets, papers,
letters, spurs, stray antiques, swords,
hand mirrors, pistols, fiddle strings,
fiutes-these are all articles he wants to
put his hands on at short notice, and
see lying around loose on the tables,
floor and sofas. Whenever he discovers
any signs that his wife or the servants
have been trying to set things to rights
a terrible row is raised.
The Texas Pacific Railroad scheme
and the Northern Pacific Railroad
scheme in Congress should act as
antidotes, and render both harmless.
The difference of one letter in a word
or two isoften very great. For instance,
in the words ''dairy butter" suppose
we change the tsds, of the first word 10