The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-06-17
SUNDAY JUNE IL, 1877.
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Key West employsl 500 cigar-makers.
There are in this country nineteen
libraries containing each $4,000 or more
volumes.
The latest investigator gives Jeru-
salem 5000 Christians, 1900 Jews and
10, 900 Mahommedans.
At a Georgia fair there was a boz
quet containing $50 flowers, each II
being Of a different kind.
The best Summer resort for babies
Rockaway. The best for bad boys
Long Branch. Norristown Herald.
The Providence (R. I.) Journal al
ludes to the prevalence of CHAMBERS
among horses in that city as frightful.
The Emperor of Japan has received
from the Car of Russia a magnificent
vase, four feet high, and cut from a
single block of agate.
A Paris paper states that the aver
age number of vehicles which daily
cross a certain bridge is II, 500; that of
the foot passengers, $4,000.
Matthew Baird one of the proprietors
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia, left fortune of 50, 0 900
and heirs by three marriages. Several
years ago he gave each of his children
100000.
The sentiment of Miss Celia Thax-
ter's little poem, entitled ''The Sunrise
Never Failed Us Yet" in the June
number Of Scribner's Magazine, has
caused its reproduction in almost every
newspaper in the country.
Ayoung man in Philadelphia, whose
wife died last Fall, leaving him a small
child, has Just walked all the way to
his fathers home, in Keene, N. H.,
carrying the infant in his arms. He
was two weeks on the journey
AT q sale of autographs in New York
the signature of John S. c. Abbott sold
for 10 cents, and that of John Quincy
Adams 10 cents; Professor AgassiZ's
handwriting sold for Sl.25; Cakes
Ames' name brought 2 cents, Benedict
Arnold's (tr~aitor), S1.25; n. p. Banks,5
cents.
Rhode Island is the only State in the
Union which requires its Governor to
preside over the senate. That body is
exercised whether the presiding officer
shall be addressed as Mr.. President, or
in the old form of MAY it please your
E~xcellency."
1t is easy enough to keep q goat out
of q flower-bed. Drive 4 stake in the
center Of the bed and tie the goat to it
by a rope that will reach just beyond
the margin. The perverse quadruped
will never allow the rope to become
slack. Worcester (Mass) Press.
The Rochester Express tells this story:
A young girl in Meridian, Cayugo coun-
ty, gave her canary to a sister in AL
bany last Fall, and the canary has just
found its way back to its old house in
an exhausted condition, and being adj
mitted to its cage, seemed to be happy"
The hotels Of Maine have suspended
the publication of a wine list on their
bills of fare in Difference to the new
liquor law, which makes such publica-
tion a hollow mockery of a criminal Of
tense. The Bangor House, one of the
leading hotels in the city OF that name,
keeps up the head line, wine List"
and publishes beneath it the sadly: sug-
gestive line, 1--WE would if we could"
The Navy Department recently or
dered q survey of the United States
steamship Yantic, lying at the Norfolk
navy yard. This has been completed,
and it was found in boring her timbers
that instead of being a rotten and
worthless ship, as stated by her officers,
she is comparatively sound and in good
condition. She will be fitted ont and
ordered to sea again.
Mrs. Sherman, one of the most cold
blooded murderers the world has ever
seen, says that while she was stopping
at the Central hotel in this city, ,she
went out to East Providence, to see a
widower with three children, who
wanted a housekeeper, but he was alb
sent from home. She says significantly:
~ guess 1t is a good thing I did not go
observation-disclosures (R. IL Journal.
We understand for some time past
the italian residents in this city have
been collecting funds for the erection
of a monument to Joseph Mazzini. The
bust has been cast in bronze, is now
ready to be set up in Central Park and
will probably be put in place there
within two weeks from the present
time. 1t is six feet in height and
stands upon a pedestal of italian mar
BILE sixteen feet high. New York Tele-
gram.
A Norwich man who went to the
Black Hills a year ago has written
home that he has been captured by the
Indians, and probably will be unable to
return for fifteen or twenty years. His
wife believes it, and is trying to get the
government to organize an expedition
to ave him from torture and death.
Woman's confidence in man seems at
times too beautiful to be exposed to the
rude criticism of the world. Norwich
Bulletin.
The liquor manufactured by the Car
thusian monks in the Department of
Isere, France, has obtained a world
wide reputation. The manufacture of
it is a secret which is known only to the
head of the monastery, the recipe being
kept sealed under a stone in the great
altar. The death of the chief has rem
dered it necessary to break the seal
which is done with great pomp. The
sale of ch~artreause is immense, and
nearly a hundred thousand dollars OF
the profit is annually sent to the Pope.
Tfia fbraa~ onpturiaa since the man.