The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-25
NOTICE.
THURSDAY, JAN. %, 1877.
GLEANlNGS.

GLEANINUS.
France exports to this country annu-
ally $500, 900 worth of hair.
Prices of admission to the Cincinnati
theatres have been reduced.
Serve every one as much as you can;
and compete with no more than you
must.
The Cincinnati Gazette inquiries if
Watterson will examine the hip pockets
of his 1000 ''unarmed" men?
The very name of the new Senator
from Tennessee is deceptive-I-sham.-
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Germany thinks of investigating in
American fire engines. and Il commit
tee will come over to inspect and inves-
tIgate.
Jacksonville has grown faster than
any other city in Florida, the popula-
tion increasing within a few years frtm
2 200 to 1900.
The great French publishing house of
Firm in Didot, which dates back into
the seventeenth century, has $50 female
type-setters. .
An freshman, in giving his testimony
i'll court in a riot case, said, The first
man 1 saw coming at me, when 1 got
up, was two nrick-bats."
A Vermont mother remarked: eyes,
1 want my daughter to study rhetoric,
for she can't fry pan cakes now without
smoking all the house up"
A correspondent of the New York
Times tries to convince the public that
human cremation can bebest performed
by the use of oxygen. Well what ofit?
A man in Louisville has been arrest
ed for forging a Kentucky State lottery
ticket. Such a man is dangerous, and
might in time come to counterfeit coun-
terfeit money. New Orleans Republic
can.
A western lawyer who was defending
a man on trial for wife murder, sought
for some %euphonious and innocent phrase
to describe his clients crime, and finally
said. "He winnowed her into Paradise
with a fence rail-
The papers of Northern Texas are full
of accounts of skating sleigh-riding and
snow-balling. The cold weather seems
to nave been regarded as a holiday, or
rather as several holidays-too cold for
business, and requiring fast and furious
fun.
Philadelphia is a very nice city. 1t
has very nice candy, very nice ladies,
very nice terrapin soup, very clean
white marble doorsteps, and the front
window-curtains all have two tassels
and a fringe on the bottom edge. And
yet Philadelphia has no ear for music.
boston Transcript.
The Fort Worth (Texas) standard
says the slaughter of buffaloes is inn
mense. On an average 1000 will APP
proximate closely to the number killed
each day during the pleasant days of
the hunting season, 1900 men being on
the range engaged in killing and pre-
serving the hides and meat.
A Camden IN. j. man has been fig
uring upon the apparent daily income
of the late Commodore Wand rb 1t.
He has reduced it down to an exceed
ingly fine point, and concludes that
every time IL great railroad King drew
his breath, his stocks and bonds togeth-
er realized him the sum OF 90 cents.
Snow drifts in Wayne county, Penn,
are % feet deep. Many cattle were
buried. An old farmer and his two
daughters were digging their way out
under the snow to the road with tin
pans and a fire shovel when relieved by
their neighbors. Their provisions and
wood were nearly gone and they would
have soon persisted.
The snow blockade on the railways of |
Northern New York and between AL
bany and Buffalo isquite unprecedented
and embarrassing to travel. -Four
thousand freight-cars are snow bound,
trains are delayed, and an army of TO-
600 shovelers, with the most powerful
engines, is doing its utmost to keep the
tracks of the Central road clear. But
this is atriiling affair in comparison with
the ice-gorge on the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers and the head-wat-
ers of the Ohio, which threatens the de-
struction of q vast amount of property
and hundreds of lives. The condition
of towns and tue people along the banks
OF these and other northern rivers, now
that a sudden thaw is imminent, is eX-.
ceedingly critical, and the worst thing