The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-11
6LEANINGS

Sitting Bulls force is being increased
constantly by struggling lodges OF. Siou,
Indians.
The Detroit Free Press wants to see
Mexican raiders used as fertilizers fol
Texas grapevines.
Bass, the great English brewer, pay:
5000 in taxes every day. He's an ale
fellow with his taxes well met.
Gambetta lets his long dishevelled
gray locks struggle on his forehead,
which shows his combative disposition.
The daily criminal column is grow
ing uncomfortably long. Too much
murder and suicide business by hall.
Providence and Messrs. Moody and
Sanky T wrestling together. Rhode
Island is the scene of the conflict.
Andrew johnson, it is said, preserved
all his papers and died leaving them in
the upper story of a shop Mt G~reenville.
Sir Charles Tempest, of England,
whose wife eloped some time ago with
Mr.. Hungerford, has brought n divorce
suit against her.
George Francis Train is in New
York starving himself to death. Glad
he is in New Yopk. We pay enough
coroner's fees.
The man who gets his fuel housed
now will not be houndering around in
the snow with the mercury down to
zero, n month hence.
Maine has a strict prohibition liquor
law, and opium-eating is increasing in
the State. Now, what is to be done,
brethren and sisters?
Mr.. Ruskin is engaged to lecture
before the Oxford students this Winter,
but outsiders crowd in and keep out
the members of the university.
Mrs. General sherman renews her
crusade against the round dance
through a letter, in which she pro-
nounces the custom immoral and in
decent.
Mr.. Samuel Dowles' condition re-
mains unchanged. His physicians
doubt his entire recovery from the par
alytic stroke which has visited him.
Hon. William Williams, of Indiana,
will deliver an eulogy on Senator Nor
ton, at Warsaw, the proceeds to be
donated to the monumental fund.
William Shakespeare has again been
indicted at the assizes of the Midland
circuit of England, for poaching. His
tory is a ~breechloading repeater.
1t comes out that the Michigan man
who lived forty days on water alone,
colored the water a little, which takes
the phenomenal features all out of the
thing.
Hot lemonade is coming in ahead rs
agood temperance drink for Winter.
Good for colds, too. Put a little gum
arabic in it when used rs n drink for
croupy children.
EX-Delegate Burleigh, of Dakota,
contracted with Pittsburgh builders
for the construction of n light-draft
steamboat with which to navigate the
Yellowstone river.
Mr.. John II. Flagg, who, for the
last seven years, has filled the position
of principal Legislative Clerk of the
United States Senate, has resigned to
enter upon the practice of law in New
York city.
Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll, who was
denounced after his recent lecture in
Albany, N. V, by twenty-three local
clergymen, has been engaged by local
managers to repeat the lecture in the
same city.
The fashion of wedding the man with
n ring, as well as the woman, has been
started in strong-minded New England.
But the bridegroom is expected to fur
nish both rings, which doesn't look so
much like equal rights.
A solicitor of large practice in Lon
don says that while out Of every twenty
men who have 1000 a year and up
ward, or happen to inherit Il fortune,
nineteen open an account at some bank,
not n woman in twenty can ever be
persuaded to do so, preferring to lock
the money up at home.
A citizen Of Newburyport, Mass, is
fattening 500 frogs upon which he
expects to feast. He keeps them in a
barrel and feeds them with Indian
meal.
1t is said that at 3 years old we love
our mothers; at 6 our fathers; at 10 our
holidays; at 16 dress; at 20 our sweet
hearts; at 25 our wives; at 40 our chill
dren, and at GO ourselves. Boston
Globe.
A disappointed tourist in Asia
Minor writes that the few mud walls
marking DIR. Schliemann's site of Troy
and its remains,'' look more like the
palace of Priam's pig than that of the
illustrious Trojan.
A Wisconsin landlord is mourning