The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-08-01
PERSONS AND THINGS.

among insurance officers.
Boucicault's new comedy will be en-
titled ssThe Bridal Tour
Pittsburg will never get back the
railroad works, says Tom Scott.
All New York critics write plays,
| which the same are never heard from.
John Habberton's latest book has for
its title, "Other Peoples Children
The English architect and artist,
Ruskin, is in Venice, working at draw
ings.
Victor Hugo expects to be on hand
with an opening ode at the Paris Ex-
| position.
Mr.. Beecher has walked over the
teetery foot bridge from Brooklyn to
New York.
Bonner, the owner of ninety-six fast
horses, is spending his summer at Man.
chester, Mass.
One Of Commodore Vanderbilt's
daughters will join in the suit for more
dollars of her dad.
Ex-Governor Packard, of Louisiana,
is visiting his mother at her home
in Auburn, Me-, his native place.
Such riots spring from an ignorance
of political economy among originators.
Henry Ward Beecher.
There is humanity and heart about
minister of the gospel who knows how
a horse ought to be shod.
John Morrissey sells pools in the face
Of the legislators at Saratoga, who
passed a law against it last winter.
The health of Boston Corbett is poor.
He lives in Camden, n. j., in humble
manner, almost approaching poverty.
The memoirs of Historian Abbott are
being prepared for publication by his
widow, who lives in Fair Haven, Conn.
Without an army the American peo-
pie would become mob. General
Sherman, in conversation six weeks
ago.
At Long Branch the ladies in the
surf say: 'Woman wants but little
pants below, nor wants that little
long,
New York humanitarians are petition
ing President Hayes to present his
services to Russia and Turkey as me-
diator.
Chicago citizens and business men
rushed into the streets and loudly
cheered the regular troops as they came
marching along.
The Turks will regret to learn that
Hon. Joshua Hill, member of the
Georgia Constitutional Convention,
says he is their friend.
Bessie Turner is at Long Branch,
registered as Miss Elizabeth Avery.
Her brother, McDermott, is also there,
registered as hack-driver.
Rome Sentinel:-"Where one youth
depends on his mental ability for sue
cess in life, nine rest their hopes on the
cut and gloss of their collars"
Because Mr.. Murphy, the temperance
lecturer, does not see fit to labor with
the Temperance Union in New York
city, the members turn and abuse him.
A recent wedding near Boston gave
the bride her third husband and the
groom his sixth wife, and yet women
will hold conventions and try to catch
up.
Mr.. w. p. Copeland, Washington
journalist, has, at the request of the
syndicate, been appointed a special
financial agent for the government in
Europe.
You remember B. GIatZ Brown? He
was candidate for Vice President in
1872. He is alive yet, and comes to the
surface as summer visitor in Frank
fort, Ky.
Most cities have got through brag
ging of their population. The last few
days have proved that there may be
such thing as too much population
of a certain class.
Mr.. Edwin de Leon, former Con-
sui General in Egypt, has in London
Ia hahIvn'S
Egypt; or The Old House of Bondage
under New Masters"
There are at Long Branch, Jay Gould,
Fernando Wood, Sunset Cox, George
Alfred Townsend, General Horace
Fletcher Harper, Thomas Mast, Bishop
Wells and Mayor Ely, of New York.
A foreigner writes from an American
fashion resort. 'Undeniably there are
here a great number of women whose
sun is the toilet, for whom no stars but
precious stones and pearls have light;
whose vanity knows no higher aim than
to be admired"
Why don't the actors strike? AS
class they are not well paid. A 'lead-
ing man" commands $3.50; 'leading
lady'' 800; ''low COMEDIAN" $50 to
S120; ''soubrette" from $50 to S75,
and the Juveniles, walking lady,"
"heavy man" and slight comedian"
get anywhere from $50 to 500 week.
The season is for thirty weeks usually,
and the actors must supply their own
costumes. Payment is often contingent
on the business done. When bad the
actor must content himself with much
tinsel and little cash.
Says the New York Tribune: ''The
widow of the late General Custer has
come East, and is in New York on her
way to be present at the final interment
of her husbands remains in the West
Point Cemetery. The gallant Indian
fighter is to lie in the historic little
burying-ground next to Major General
Hartsuff, who, fell in the Florida Ever
glades, pierced by three Seminole bullets,
about the time Custer was born. He
lived to be washed ashore in the Lady
Elgin disaster, and to receive another
bullet at the head of his division at