The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-07

Cronin say it was the climate OF
Oregon, and not the whisky, that col
ored his nose. IN. Y. Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
A statistician in Scribner mentions a
cultured" New England town that
pays 800 more every year for dog Ii
cences than for ministers.
1t is noticeable that people will take
advantage of the slightest pretext to
get panicky in a church and rush out;
whereas, when there is an alarm of fire
in a sample-room, it takes over an hour
to. get three or four men outdoors. Bos-
ton Globe.
The Suez Canal is proving successful
as a financial venture. The profits for
1876 are estimated at more than So
000,0O0. A little more than one-half of
this is required for interest on the debt
of the company, leaving nearly two and
a half million dollars for dividends.
A sanitary survey of the State of
New York is to be made next season,
for the purpose of disclosing scientih-
cally the true cause of malarial diseases
in regions most afflicted by them, and
of indicating the system of drainage by
which such regions may be converted
to health.
The very latest and most ridiculous
case of the s~'insanity plea" has occur
1ed in San Francisco, where u member
of a gang of professional bondSmen, in
dicted and tried for furnishing ''straw
ball." pleaded insanity as a reason for
signing a $1,000 bond, and swearing
that he was worth $4,000.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Savings Bank
has more money in its vaults than it
.nx -.,o,k 80 fha ,NrnHt IF ~. lapnuifnro
and the managers have decided not to
receive any more deposits for the pres
ent. When, in the history of the
try, did n other savings bank decline
tn receive interest-bearing deposits?[To-
ledo Blade.
The st. Louis Globe-D Democrat offers
to send its weekly issue free for one
year to the governor of the Western
State who writes the shortest message
on the assembling of the legislatures in
January. 1t is feared that, with n view
or avoiding the contemplated infiiction,
the messages this year will be of inordi-
nate length. Toledo Blade.
They say Il San Francisco auctioneer
recently sold IA parrot to Il preacher,
who came in just in time to hear that
the bird could sing all of Watts hymns.
The old gentleman started highly elated
with his prize; but when the disreputa-
BILE bird told him to pull down his vest
and 60 to-not heaven-he went back
to the auctioneer and wanted to swap
for Il camel or something that didn't
talk. [Cin. Com.
The Detroit Free Press remarks that:
LAS a jefferson avenue car was slowly
moving up the street yesterday a pas
senger hauled out his wallet to pay his
fare, and a dozen people were electrified
at hearing him exclaim in a hoarse
voice: Let no man move hand or footl
I've lost 4 cent in the strawl' He got
down on his hands and knees and poked
around for a while, and failing to re-
cover his treasure, he took down the
number of the car and a description of
the driver"
John Dunning lived with his family
in a hut in the wilderness in Madison
county, N. Y. One day last week he
saw a bear passing his house, and set
out in pursuit, with a rifle and hunting
knife, and with his dog. Night came
on and he did not return. The follow
ing day passed, and yet he did not re-
turn. His wife. becoming alarmed at
his absence, went to a neighboring set
Element, and enlisted the assistance of
a couple of men, who plunged into the
wilderness to discover the missing a
After a most fatiguing search, lasting
several hours, they came upon the man
gled remains of Dunning and his dog,
while neal him lay three dead p%anthers.
Two of them bore marks of having been
shot, while the mother met her death
fighting Dunning, who had plunged his
~hunting-knife into her body.