The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-17
GLEAXlNGs.

- lAlE lONtl ti-tA VI
The jackson Times is the only Re-
publican paper published in Mississippi.
The lion and lamb have laid down
together in all ages, but the lamb was
in the lion.
Master Harry Huller, OF Texas, is Is
years old, is 6 feet ) inches tall, and
asserts that he is still raising.
There isn't a vegetable says the
enthusiastic Worcester Press, that
can ketchup with the tomato"
\ Dartmouth boy threw 4 torpedo IN
front of a Professor, and the faculty
threw the playful youth out of college.
The Princeton lKy.) Echo threatens
to tell on two young ladies of that
town if they do not quit chewing to-
bacco.
y Rhode Island court decides that
pigeons are not covered by the word
.'anlmuls'' in the Prevention Of Cruelty
statute.
The bills presented by the lawyers
who have had connection with the Con-
tinental Life Insurance Company
amount to $4,000.
The Patent Office clerks are in great
tribulation. \ number of discharges
are to be made at an early day. Cause:
Want of funds to pay them.
An intoxicated passenger on Viz
ginia railroad showed his total absti-
nence pledge when asked for u ticket.
The conductor punched the pledge, and
wrote on il ZONE drunk"
q 1t was a Boston man who went home
early in the morning, and, meeting the
sad, %reproachful eyes of his wife,
apologized, ''Ny darling, / think you'll
be sorry for this when you git shober."
a Nebraska Judge decided to give a
horse-thief one more chance to re-
form. As the fellow left the neighbor-
hood to begin a new and better life, he
took along the Judges horse to help
him.
A brass cannon sunk in the Hudson
by Burgoyne during his retreat Il hun
dred years ago is soon to be raised. 1t
is n ~12-pounder, and lies in ten feet of
water, 200 feet from shore. under three
feet of mud.
Since the P~rohibitory law went into
effect in Maine private liquor clubs
have been springing up rapidly in the
cities. There are now at least twenty
eight in the city of Bangor, one of them
with a membership of seventy-five.
a drunken man jumped off Il moving
train in New Hampshire after his
dog. The train was stopped and people
rushed back expecting to find a corpse,
but they found that six cars had III
over and f%earfully mangled the mans
coat tail.
q If young Wade Hampton, when he
takes his seat in the Mississippi Legis-
lature, wants to put Il feather in his
own and his fathers cap, let him see
that those Kemper county murderers
are followed up to the bitter end. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Farewell, Mary, my dear, you have
driven me to the grave" wrotea Ware
ham Narrows man three years ago, and
left the note inside of his hat on the
banks of the Waukinco. He was ar
rested the other day in Boston, living
with another woman. Eastern Paper.
The postal statistics for the last two
years show that New Haven proper
tionally mails more letters than any
other city in the country. Her popula-
ton is 50,si0, and 4lG,6J4 letters are
mailed there every four weeks, so that
while she is the twenty-ffth city in pop
ulation. she ranks eleventh in the let
tiers sent.
The Utica On. " Herald has Just
received Il quantity Of ripe and delicious
red raspberries, the second crop of the
season, raised near that city. Double
crops of black raspberries are reported
in many places in Oneida county, and
many more are ready to ripen. Apple
trees in full bearing have displayednew
blossoms. 4 Rome man is enjoying n
second crop of green peas, grown from
his first crop of Il few weeks ago. The
season has been n remarkable n
throughout the country.
The value of Il reliable and ably
conducted newspaper to any town or
community can hardly be estimated,
and yet it is perhaps never thoroughly
appreciated. We become SO familiar
with it that we look upon it as some
thing to be expected rs Il matter of
course, but it is only when we find our
selves deprived of its medium of COM
~munication that we realize its value.
1t is not only the information contained
in a paper that constitutes its value. 1t
discusses faithfully and fearlessly the
live issues of the day, and is a power
full means of education. For this reason
it demands Il higher Iegree of talent