The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

Rossi has been acting in Russia with
great success. He has just returned
to Paris.
Keeping ng-up-appearances-on
money is what has this people by the
throat.
GA man can choose his friends, but
not his relatives" is the translation of
an old French proverb.
Dom Piatt's conversion to Republic
canism is quite unanimously regretted
by the Republican party.
Boys are engaged by farmers in the
northern portions of New York to pick
potato bugs at five cents hundred.
A French chemist has invented
fireman's hat which can be used as
water cooler, chest protector, and
baby cab.
Another argument against the bottle
is the fact that sixty per cent. of the
children fed this way in France do not
survive.
Sitting Bull swears he will go into
the Black Hills and see for himself if
there are 50,000 white men there, as
reported.
The potato bug is as fond of toma-
toes as he is of the tuber, and they are
thinking of asking the farmers to keep
bill of fare.
1t is said the ''bloom is on the rye,"
so that it is quite natural it should
afterwards make its appearance on the
drinkers nose.
Miss Emma Allen, described as mod
est and unassuming, is delivering tenn
perence lectures through the northern
part of New York.
Wild beasts and enormous reptiles
are getting the upper hand in India.
In spite of big English bounties they
are bound to increase.
In England hat is called tile, and
on windy days an Englishman has to
look out or he will get out of fashion
that is, lose his tile.
The mocking bird is becoming rarer
in Georgia, by reason of their capture
by the professional catchers, who sell
them in the northern market.
At the Murphy temperance meetings
in Philadelphia, cups of coffee and
sandwiches are passed around among
the audiences of destitute people.
A kind of spiritualism whose tricks
could not be discovered would be a
grand success. There has never been
one of this variety, as yet.
The Washington Star says it is not
true that Mr.. w. w. Corcoran has
be distributed among the discharged
government employees.
George Alfred Townsend Indignantly
denies that he is a third-rate political
writer. We thought there was mis-
take somewhere. Let it be distinctly
understood that he is simply fourth
rate.
The government will not make sol
diers of the Indians, and so the Indians
make soldiers of themselves. 1t is
their nature to, and soldiers they will
be, either on their own hook or some
ones else.
Historian Motley received from the
Harpers, as copyright, the comfortable
sum of $50, 900. 1t is proposed IN Hol-
land to erect monument on the grave
of Motley as tribute to presented by
tine Dutch nation.
A Cattaraugus county IN. " girl
has sued her father for $500 for breach
of contract. She says that while he
was a widower he offered her $500 to
get him wife. She got him wife
and now he refuses to pay.
In his latest poem, joaquin Miller
says that he must have love or die; but
we don't believe it. He has said this
too often, and people have stood off to
see if told the truth, but it was all a
cheat. Alas! he never died.
Summer tourists will board at the
best Niagara Falls hotel, this season,
for So. so per day. Including hack hire,
and tolls thereabouts, $500 will enable
one at this price to spend a couple of
days at the Falls in comparative COM
fort.
French publicists employ a regular
staff of fighting men, who assume re-
sponsibility for articles rejecting on
individuals, while imprisonment result
ing from censure of governmental af-
fairs is borne by substitutes, who re-
ceive 81 week.
1t seems queer to Bill King to be
passing out lemonade over Minnesota
picnic stand, when he used to pass at
par as an orator in Congress, or sit
down to a saloon table in the basement
Of the national capitol and say to the
man opposite, 81 pass.'
Bayard, who used to be the humor
GUS writer, life, soul, etc., of the Brook
lyn Argus, has been subpenaed as a
witness in clerical scandal case. He
says he never expected to come to this
but no man can tell what day may
bring forth, unless it be the Fourth of
July.
Mr.. A. E. Sweet, the humorist of the
San Antonio (Texas) Herald, and
man who has lifted himself up by the
hair of his own head, as it were, has re-
ceived a call to contribute brain tissue
to the New York World columns. Wr
always knew Texas was too small to
hold Sweet.
Knott strikes ont wildly and swears
by the horn of the sacred Bourbon that
he never did steal his funny speech
about ''the Zenith City of the Unsalted
Seas,'' while Donan stands in cruel ST.
lence and points to the speech in the
columns of paper published months
before Proctordelivered it.
The equestrienne who is trying to