The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-04
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1877.
GLEANINGS.


the Flat River Baptist Association of
North Carolina, requesting the churches
to report the number Of moderate drink
ers among church members, and the
amount of liquor distilled by church
members. 81 4aE aLEE
Some of the Boston mechanics who
have gone to st. John write that they
expect employment there for at least
two years. The indications are that
st. John will overdo the rebuilding
business, just rs other cities have done
after great fires. h-YgLEru.EE
whats the use of all this sacrifice
of human life, this bloody butchery of
Turks and Russians?" said a Philadel-
phia Quaker to a Cincinnati hog mer-
chant. 81 don't know" replied the
latter mournfully; ''pork isn't riz any
that 1 a see .''tAndrews, Bazaar.
A Russian army chaplain, preaching
to one of the regiments departing from
the seat of war, described the torments
which would await the coward in the
other world, by depicting hell as a place
in which the sufferer would be up to
his neck in brandy, and unable to drink
a drop.
The old physicians used to insist
upon the danger of plunging into the
water for n swim when the system is
heated and pe%rspiration is free. At
present the best English doctors, such
as Fordyce, Currie, Parsons and Sir
Charles Blagdon, say chat then is the
very best possible tins to take a bath.
From under the bluff on which the
town of Huntsville, the capital of Mad
ison county, Alabama, is situated,
bursts an immense spring, clear and
cold, supplying the whole town with
water for domestic uses, for watering
the streets, and for use by the fire de-
partment, 1t is the largest spring in
Alabama.
Somebody in Virginia has discovered
n cave in which there is a lake, half n
mile long by 200 yards in width, and of
unreasonable depth, Of pure coal'oil.
1t is represented to be located very near
Il Summer resort, where the advancing
season has greatly reduced the number
of guests. This may explain the alleged
discovery.
Morn, dewy morn, whose rosy fingers
tint the glowing sky, is the time to eat
fresh fruit, in all its luscious dewy
freshness, but night, night is the time
to put on your trousers left in front,
hang your vest on by one arm-hole,
button your coat wrong as you go, and
tear off at the rate of Il thousand miles
n minute to fetch the doctor. Hawk
Eye.
A case of jilting unparalleled for
heartlessness comes to light in an En-
glish court i'll the suit Of q maiden of
40 to recover damages from a lover to
whom she had been engaged over thirty
years. He was poor, and she waited
and waited, and then the faithless fell
low up and married n well-tordo butch
er's widow. lie was mulcted 81, $50.
An Englishman who has made Il bet
of 100000 that he will in six years walk
through France, Germany, North
Russia and Siberia to China, has started
from Calais on his iourneying. His bet
obliges him to return through India,
Persia and Southern Russia, and from
there over Greece and Italy to France.
He must he in Liverpool 10y the LIST of
July, 1883.
Collections of postage-stamps are
valuable in Europe. The London Times
states that a Middlesex magistrate has
refused 81, 800 for his collection, that n
collection of Il, 200 varieties was lately
sold for $4,000, and that in Paris one
of the finest collections ever made was
sold privately for SO, 200. This in
formation the Times gives under the
head, 'Fools and Their Money
The following communication APP
pears in the New York Evening Post:
''If the well-dressed party who occupied
n large part of Rows + and i, left, in
the Park Theater last evening, and
who annoyed every n near them by
their constant giggling and converse
ton, interspersed with candy eating,
will send me their addresses, | will
mail to them a tract on the way to be-
have in public.-Ticket HOLDER
An enterprising young man on the
plains of Western Kansas, who has
gone into the business of collecting and
manufacturing into a fertilizer the
bones of thethousands of defunct baffa-
Ices that lie scattered through that
region, wrote home to Illinois lately
that he has at last discovered "a rich
b~one-anza.''
Recent letters received by Mr.. f.. J.
Apgar, assistant clerk in the office of
Secretary of State, at Albany, indicate
that Governor Tilden will not return to
New York, before the both or 18th Of
October. The Governor announces
that he will sail on the 18th of that