The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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There arc 4Jtwhite males ard : fe-
males, in the penitentiary at F%Tanfort,
Ky.
Washington will lie the next Terri
tory to knock for admission into the
family Of States. Its population now
is $1,000.
The savings banks of Massachusetts,
show a decrease in deposits Of about
$4,000, 900 in the last six months of the
bank gear.
The Boston banks have rctitioned
Congress to call a general international
convention TO establish a standard value
Of gold AMI silver.
Two-thirds of the trade Of Southern
Russia and Cnc-ilird Of That Of North
ern Russia is in the hands Of the Jews,
the richest Of whom is simon ~Iscarioti-
witch, of Odessa.
y stranger stopping nj ono Of the
hotels asked the proprietor what the
people lived on. 1--WE" said the
proprietor-"why we live on oysters
and strangers. "New Bedford Mercury.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation girdles the world. In New
| Zealand there is an association mum
boring 800 members. In all e the
| South. Sea British colonies there are
associations.
Stating it exactly, the amount for
which the city of New York has rccov-
cd Judgment against Richard b. Con-
nelly is 81, 537.17O.15. There is not the
slightest chance of collecting any por-
ton of the amount.
Recent severe storms in the Adriatic
were the of some very successful
fishing in the lngoons Of Venice. Tie
fish were driven up into the shadows
and taken in immense quantities. At
one single point 700, 600 GELS were
caught in Il couple Of nights.
a writer in the Fortnight by Review
says that the eat is more sensitive TO
rariGcd air tltan any other animal or
ganism. Attempts 10 acclimati2c it at
Potosi, Bolivia, $4,000 feet above the
sea, have failed. 1t has remarkable
tetanic fits, beginning like st. Yitus'
dance. and after That spasms, in which
it leaps violently up the side of Il house
and ilies INTO commissions. Cats born
1900 feet above the sea arc deaf.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that if
there is not II change in that city soon,
the public theatricals will be limited to
varietyshows, with liquors" The fail
ure of the Boucicault combination,
which las been playing '.IIarriage'' mt
the East, is announced, and cOmbina-
lions generally are tumbling to pieces
about as rapidly rs the banks. At the
opening OF the theatrical season there
was n general craze to organize travel
ing companies and to secure places in
them, but That epidemic is at an end.
A Georgia young lady, who has re-
sided in Syracuse the past two years,
aud has always beena sympathizer with
the rebel Confcdracy, returned homo in
October, and has since written a letter
to a friend in Syracuse, which the
Northern Christian Advocate quotes
from as follows: sour people still cling
to the idea that labor is degrading. |
could obtain a position us teacher in the
colored schools, but il ! should accept
such n position ! would not he allowed
to commune with any church in tho
city except the colored one"
The Boston Post says: ''Thc prcva-
lencc of dipthcria brings. out many
new facts in connection with the origin
and spread of this dreaded malady. a
New Haven paper says it was introduc-
ed into that part of the country about
twenty-five years ago in IN exceedingly
vlrulent form by the elimination of re-
mains in West Haven. Nearly all who
were exposed to the cNhalaiions from
the graves died in spite of allthat could
be done TO stve them. Tic ~poisonthat
arises from drains and other receptacles
of refuse acts in Il similar, oven If less
violent, manner, and the subject of
ventilation has its extreme Importance
freshly illustrated by these facts.