The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

up.
The Florida fig trees are overladen
with fruit.
st Louis has cut down its teachers
salaries u per cent.
Liverpool contributed $4,000 for the
st. Johns sufferers.
Coal oil was discovered by the Jesuits
in New York in 1927.
One hundred thousand free baths
were taken in New York last week.
A reduction Of freight rates from st.
Louis to New York has been or
dered.
Cornell University is reported to have
sold $780, 0O worth of its Western lands
during the past year.
''Can nothing be done for the sal
walton of Mr.. MoodyY" is the somewhat
startling query ola Unitarian paper.
A Frenchman defines suspicion to be
a sentiment which incities us to look
for something which we do not wish to
find.
a legacy of 80, 900 from the estate
of the late Chief Justice Chase hRs been
received by the Treasurer of Dartmouth
College.
The receiver of the American Popu-
lar Life Insurance Company, Of New
York, states that the books are full of
irregularities.
Frank Warner, who attempted to
kill his fatheri In Batavia, n. Y, has
been sentenced to the Auburn Prison
for ten years.
The Indian Agents are writing to the
department ut Washington laying all
the blame of the outbreak in Idaho on
the savages.
The Vassar girl has left her chews of
gum sticking to the ceiling and has
gone home to climb wild cherry trees.
New York Herald.
The daughter Of one of the Siamese
twins has lately procured a divorce
from her husband, Nathaniel Bolejack,
in North Carolina.
Ella McCloud, n Georgia negress,
ported to be l20 years old. She out
lived seven or eight husbands.
II you go In swimming and get
cramps in the legs, turn your toes up
toward the knee. Someone says that
the movement gives instant relief.
Alexander II. Stephens, IN a recent
conversation on the war questions of
the times, said: 81 hate all wars"
You remember he went through the
rebellion on the other SIDE, and he got
enough.
All that Brigham Young said about
the Mountain Meadow victims was to
order his ''Avenging Angels" to ''use
'em up, curse em!" And yet some
people want to see the old man tried
and executed.
John Habberton has left the New
York Herald editorial staff, to give his
entire time to book-creating. He is
taking Il vacation from all work just at
present.
Problem: If a planter near Savan-
nall, Ga, sold his cucumbers on three
acres of vines for 81, 250-which is said
to be a fact-how much will the COM
bined doctor bills be, after the cucunl-
bers are distributed?
The Fourth of July commenced
under the window Of u certain West
Side householder. at about 3 O'Clock III
the morning, 10y the firing off of what
the suddenly-awakened man took to be
u gigantic krupp gun.
Tomorrow General Grant will bid
adieu to merry England, and proceed
to Belgium, Switzerland, Norway and
Sweden and Russia, in the order named,
and on his return from Russia he will
spend some time in Paris.
Susan B. Anthony will Summer in
Rochester, n. Y. She hasjust returned
from Il two-months visit with her
brother In Leavenworth, Kan. In the
Fall she will work for the Woman Suf-
frage cause in Colorado.
Secretary Thompson occupies the
y Sickles mansion on Lafayette square,
in Washington. a snowy building in
comparison with its plain and somber
%neighbors. Sickles lived there when he
shot Key, and Schuyler Colfax occupied
the house while Vice-President.
That young Vanderbilt who laid in
the New York Tombs last Sunday
night, for stealing a watch, has an in
come of $1,000 a year from his grand
fathers estate, but more than spends it
all. His latest crime vas peculiarly
significant in that the watch he pilfered
was from an abandoned woman.
Mrs. Evangelist Van Colt tells her
hearers, at the Sea Cliff cump-meeting,
that she is never going to die, but only
by and by to move into her heayenl.
mansion on H%allelujah avenue, Eter
nal CITY, County Of Heaven, and ask
them to call upon her there. In till.
way the widow gets religion laughed
at. and sho MS herself Of as more ex
cellent material for a stump-speakel
than for q pulpit-preacher.