The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-05
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visible every evening this month.
Two widowers in Perry county, Tex,
married each others daughters.
Irish people in Boston have the past
year sent to their home friends, through
mi office alone, s114,57a.
School savings banks, first introduced
by Prof. Laurent in 1866, have proved
very successful in France.
The Boston and Maine Railway Di-
rectors say that not n of the men
who went into the strike last February
has been taken back.
An old shoe was found in East
Haven river, recently, which contained
about 500 little oysters, being complete
lycoveredw with the bivalves. New Haven
Register.
OF all the nuisances who infest the
public halls and places Of amusement,
says the'Peoria Transcript, the worst
is the terrible young imp who applauds
by giving q short, sharp, ear-piercing
whistle.
The Japanese get their medical
knowledge from Germany; their mill
tary system from France; their naval
science from England; their engineer
ing from Holland; and their finance
from America.
The Vicksburg Herald says: Com
mon laborers are now earning in this
State and Louisiana from $50 10 S75
per month, yet we are constantly hear
ing of strikes and starvation in the
North. Laborers, come South"
The great autumnal cloth fair at
Stuttgart suffered heavily this year by
the state of affairs on the Continent.
The first day no trading a tail was done,
and the vendors found themselves COM
PEELED to come down to very low prices.
1t is the general rule that birds hav-
ing open nests lay colored eggs, while
those which occupy covered or con-
cealed nests lay white ones, and
further, that the %coloring of eggs laid
in open and ground nests has for its
object protection from hostile observa-
ton.
There is a law in Portugal %forbidding
widows of above 80 to marry, because
experience has shown that woman of
that age commonly marry young men
of no property, who dissipate their for
tunes to the prejudice of the children
and oGher near relations TO their
wives"
Grand Duke Michael and the Emper-
or William are the only two wearers of
the Cross of st. George of the first-class.
The order was instituted in ITO, and
since that time there have been only
twenty Knights of the first class, among
them Suwarrow, Butcher, Wellington
and others.
The snobbish influence of'the age is
felt even among the janitors of Paris.
Advice given by one of them to his on:
For the first story, always bow, holding
your cap in your hand; for the second
story, only uncove yourself; for the
third and fourth, just make a sign of
the head, and as to the fifth, wait until
the occupant bows to you.
The General Superintendent of the
Berlin theatres lately ordered that the
ladies should not be allowed to appear
on the stage with their hair covering
their forehead, according to the present
fashion. No attention was paid to the
order, and two of the ladies were pun
ished, and the fact published in the
daily papers, together with the eypla-
nation that they had appeared on the
stage in demi-monde style.
One of the swindlers who advertise
remedies for consumption free of cost,
but with pretended disinterestedness
offer to send the ingredients for SO, has
been exposed in Philadelphia. His
room was Uttered with letters that had
inclosed money, and two women were
hard at work getting circulars and
packages of the nostrum ready for mail.
The peculiar wickedness of this swindle
lay in the character of the mixture
sent, of which a physician said: This
wonderful remedy is virtually hasheesh,
the primary effect of which is exhilara-
ting, but its continued use is highly
injurious and facilitating"
The Scottish American talks in this
charming manner: go where You will
there is sure to be one oma over. No
matter whether the observer be casu-
ally travelling, in the railway carriage.
on the steamer, or by any other mode
of transit, or whether he mentally
pairs off the sexes as they congregate at
a private party, on the deck of the
yacht, or even riding in the park, still
there remains the odd lady. The fact
is patent to all who will take the
trouble to look for it. Those who have
the ordering and arrangement of any
social gathering where it is desirable,
in the fitness of things, that equal pro-
portions should prevail, are only too well
awake to the difficulty of excluding this