The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-24
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

MOIlu, tudl VI tuc NOItu DilliSn lldll-
way over the estuary of the Tay, was
formally opened Sept. 25.
A Canadian priest lately sued a
young man whom he had married, for
his wedding fee, which he stated at Sl5.
The jury found for the defendant.
The Oldest church in the Christian
world is said to be at Orieansville, in
the diocese of Algiers. 1t wa erected
A. d. 1928, soon after the conversion of
Constantine.
Says the Fireside Companion: The
older we grow the more we realize that
fifteen cents will buy more fish than a
business man, whose time is worth fifty
cents an hour, can go out and catch in
a whole day."
The Superintendent of the Foreign
Mail Service Is advised that letters from
the United States for the Argentine
Republic will be forwarded via England
at a total postage rate Of Is cents per
half ounce.
A missing Kentucky juror wal found
by the sheriff ten miles away, cutting
tobacco. lie said he thought he would
" his crop from the threatened frost,
and let them put some other fellow in
his place.
An erroneous impression has got
abroad that the Secret Service of the
Government is wholly confined to the
Treasury Department, when, as, n
matter of fact, each department has its
own secret service force.
1t is proposed to make the Secret
Service Division of the United States
Treasury a regular bureau of the Treas
ury Department. In this case the chief
will report direct to the Secretary in
stead of the Solicitor as he does now.
The troubles in FL Paso county,
Texas, over the salt lakes have been
chronic. Samuel Magonin, of Ken
lucky, claimed their ownership some
time ago, and in a fight with Mexican
disputants his party killed one of the
latter.
1t is recorded that one of sam Patch's
greatest feats was jumping over n bill
board seven feet high. Sam will please
take a back seat. We have n man in
Oil City who thinks nothing of Jumping
a board-bill twenty-seven dollars high.
derrick.
A prosperous merchant said the other
day that you could not prevent people
from buying if you have got What they
want and give them the worth of their
money. He said the only difficulty he
had ever had wa with his clerks. They
usually came to him with the idea that
trade was full of lying and tricks, and
quite willing to adopt these methods as
part of the business until after n period
of training. He said 1t was almost i'm.
possible to get them to speak the truth
and make their representations of
things exactly as they were. [Jennie
June.
The Protestant missionaries laboring
in the neighborhood of Shanghai, China
have passed resolutions declaring that
the sale of opium by foreign tradera to
Chinese, is the most formidable obsta-
Gle to the Christianization of the coun-
try, and that 'tle labors of those in
Great Britain opposed to the opium
trade may at present be most practically
and benefcially directed toward the
effort to sever the direct connection of
the Indian Government with the growth
manufacture and sale of opium; and to
oppose any attempt to obstruct the ac-
ton of the Chinese Government in all
lawful endeavors to regulate, restrict,
or suppress opium smoking, and the
opium trade in China.
While a collection was being taken
up at a colored meeting in Detroit the
other day, Brother Gardner said to the
congregation: ''Please remember,
bredren, dat zone oh us kin take our
riches beyond de grave" just then the
hat came back empty, and Brother
Gardner continued: "But il pears to
me dat dis crowd is gwine to try mighty
hard to do it.''
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that the Mayor of Hot Springs, Ark,
lectured himself very severely in court,
the other morning, for getting drunk.
"You are old enough, Linde," said he.
'sto know better. 1 am panied beyond
expression that you have thus disgIaced
yourself and the city you, as its chief
executive, represent. 1 must fine you
s2o, and see to it that hereafter you con-
duct yourself more properly"
As near as we can ascertain, there
are in the States of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia
$4,000 more females than males in n
total native population of 3 ,00o, 900, and
in New England a like overplus of 90
600 in a native white population of
100000. These facts indicate that
We shall, perhaps, by the time we write
1900, have a 2 per cent surplus of
females nc on onuraoota &c Az ,,t,,1,