The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-08-28
MISCELLANY.


Ca, is q widow at the age of Is.
The humorous book Of Mr.. Alden, of
the New York Times, is out.
The Pope loves music and is sung to
sleep by the Vatican choir boys.
The Mexican greasers are slipping up
in some of their cattle stealing plans.
Rev. Joseph Cook will commence a
series of lectures in New York Octo-
Der /.
Henry Clay Dean is lecturing down
amid the imported c~lay-eaters of
Missouri.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
will hold a great convention at Boston
in October.
King Alphonso is supposed to have
received Minister Lowell in Madrid
Saturday.
If Colonel Joyce wants to go into
literary work, why not go to London
and join Oakley Hall?
Mr.. E. ]. Smith, Surveyor General
Of Montana, has been suspended. Mis-
demeanors in office.
The Berlin gorilla has become such q
topper that it is feared he will early fill
a drunkard's grave.
And wicked Cardinal Antonelli was
ambitious to be Pope, and might have
been had he survived Pho Mono.
1t is n Of Mr.. Webb Hayes especial
duties to write his fathers autograph
for people who send asking it.
Cardinal McCloskey has been serena
ded at Newport. He likes such atten-
tons, for he made a felicitous res
ponse.
1t takes a smart man to keep track of
the reports from the war in Europe.
They are not s animated, but so min
ute.
The Mayor of Scranton, Pa, is right
when he says that a mob is not a sacred
thing that its feelings should be spared.
The Nez Perces tribe is mostly COM
posed of squaws. children and old
Indians, but is hard to whip as a school
of scorpions.
The unfortunate Madam Titiens
seems destined to fall an early victim
to the cancerous disease which has
found root in her system.
Rose Eytinge has been im%personating
Lady Macbeth in Salt Lake City, it is
hoped to the effective instruction in
spirit of the wives of polygamous
Mormondom.
1t costs as much to keep an army of
$4,000 men ION the wing,'' as the Gov
eminent is compelled to do itat present,
as it would to keep a genuine ''stand-
ing army of 100, 600 men. Here is
more Bourbon economy.
Next month, the 14th, President
Hayes will be at Fremont, o., TO attend
the reunion of his old regiment, the
Twenty-third Ohio. Generals Sheridan
and Sherman and other high officers of
the army are also expected to be pres
ent.
If this week goes by without seeing
either General Howard or Chief
Joseph annihilated, we shall be forced
to feel that neither one or the other is
a very great man.
DR.. Bernstein, of Germany, says it is
nonsense to believe that words with
consonants can be transmitted by
telephone. What says Professor Bell
to this foreign sayantp
Gail Hamilton is the Mount
Vesuvius of womandom. "lChicago
Journal. And it is reported that no
man has ever been neal the mouth of
the crater. New York Graphic.
No fine city horses are held up with
the cruel check-rein as once. The man
who checks up his horse with a stiff
check-rein should be gagged five or six
hours to see how it feels.
Alexander Dumas, the novelist, late
ly remarked in Paris that the eason
rich people are not SO happy is because
they do not sufficiently devote their
wealth to making others happy.
Count Won Arnim, the man hated by
Bismarck, is yet alive and improving
in health. He is at Ragatz, Switzer-
land, but will soon return to Carlsbad,
avoiding German territory.
Major Sterling, aged SO, is a retired
officer of the army, who lives on the
Pacific coast, where he has been located
the most of the time for ifty-seven
years, his first visit being in 1920.
Rubinstein has been playing the
piano in st. Petersburg for the benefit
Of the Russian wounded in the wal
against Turkey, and for this generosity
has been raised to noble rank by the
Gar.
Governor Hampton has made a
speech at the White Sulphur Springs,
saying that he does not believe in a
standing army. Wade never did. You
remember how he worked all through
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