The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-14
Commercial JOB Printing
D SEPT. IA, 1877.
GLRANINGs.

There are six George Washingtons
in the Pc nnsylvania state prison.
A father of a two weeks old baby
calls it "Ma's n-wly-discovered satel-
lite.'
Parties going over the ocean Ahould
lie warmly clothed. The steamers are
always coaled..
Literary men can never be Ire Of
having said smart things unless they
see the proof"
The New Orleans Times says that
landlords in that city threa ten to in
crease rents 80 per cent, on the ground
that they are now too low.
The Hawk-Eye mates the fact that
the boy who does not know that the gun
is loaded is nevertheless always to be
found at the safe end Of the gun.
Five young English noblemen have
arrived in Copenhagen, carrying with
them canoes, in which they intend to
explore Denmark by padding through
the lakes.
Velvet bags with oxidized clasp and
chain, to be worn pendent from the
belt, is a useful and fashionable novelty
introduced by the Broadway dealers in
fancy goods.
A self-opening envelope, with a
thread in the edge of the upper flap, by
pulling which the envelope is quickly
and neatly opened, IS the newest inven-
tion in stationery.
Fans of gold cloth, with flowers in
crepe of shaded colors and grasses Of
green silk applied, the handles wound
with silk cord, are a Japanese curiosity
selling for $40 each.
An old woman sits on the steps of an
uptown church in New York, and sells
knitted wash-rags to passers by. On
her basket is a card thus printed:
Cleanliness is next to goodness"
Appointing clerks to places in the
departments and allowing them to en-
ploy substitutes at a less salary, it is to
be regretted, has not been entirely
broken up. Washington Nation.
The health journals now say that we
must sleep with our heads toward the
north in order to be healthy. BY and
by a man will need the services of a
civil engineer when he sleeps in a
strange bed.
An enterprising fruit dealer in Paris
has taken to supplying green corr to
his American customers at foul cents
an ear, and so great is the demand that
one must give the order some days be-
forehand.
A bolt of lightning passed through
a hay-mow in a New Hampshire barn
last week, making a hole the whole
depth of the mow as large rs a mans
body, and leaving the hay perfectly
smooth, and not setting it on fire.
Actuated by a desire for the advance
ment of scientific research, u delega-
ton of young doctors from one of the
medical colleges of New York called on
Mayor Ely, of that city, and asked per-
mission to take some live dogs from the
pounds for the purpose Of viviaection.
The Mayor declined to grant the re-
quest.
An English doctor has been writing
a book for seaside visitors OH sea-bath-
ing and its influence on health. at is
no exa%ggeration," he writes, ''to say
most of the sea-bathing at u water
ing places is a farce, neither beneficial
nor enjoyable, destitute of all intelli-
gent aim and object, and calculated
rather to induce pernicious and mis-
chievous results than to promote health
and well-being.
The old Hospital Hotel Dieu at Paris
will soon be demolished and in the place
where it so long stood-a dark dingy
pile-will be laid ont an elegant garden.
Trees aud flowers will be planted there
in, and the beautiful ediice of Notre
Dame will stand out in all its beauty,
unmarried by the neighborhood of the
old hospital. This improvement has
been talked of for over a hundred
years.
The tramway lines now serving Paris
and the suburbs are so constantly pat
ronized, and render such evident SER
vices to the people who reside in the
outskirts of the capital, that the
authorities are planning additional
lines, and ere long Paris will be trav-
ersed in every direction by tramways.
Those drawn by steam are now. work
ing regularly, and it is announced that
for the lines outside of Paris this mode
OF traction will be generally adopted.