The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-11-28
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Great Britain has 10000 veloci
pedists. =
Philadelphia has a paper called the
Puzzlers' Own.
Florida oranges this season are Ie-
markably thin-skinned and unusually
sweet.
The work Of cleaning and deepen
ing the port of Buenos Ayres has been
begun.
A Boston gentleman is delivering n
lecture entitled ''Three Weeks on a
Camel"
The warfare ON unlicensed liquor
shops in New York city is vigorously
continued.
The Peoples Saving Institution oil
Newark has bowed to its depositors
and retired.
A flight of butterflies passed through
Falls county, Tex. They numbered
millions.
A firm in Rondout, N. Y, has made
and sold over 10000 sleds this season,
Boston Post.
Ninety years ago Madeira shipped
upward of 10000 pipes of wine; now
she ships but 1000.
A young man in Mobile was ar
rested for putting a sheet over his head
and soaring a woman.
There are seven officers in England
who were in the battle of Trafalgar,
ten years before Waterloo.
A reward of 5000 is offered for the
apprehension and conviction OF the Ba-
.tavia TO- treasury robbers.
Hawks Nest and Gauley River Rail-
road is the poetic title of II line just
chartered in West Virginia.
The cultivation of tobacco in Ger
many occupies some $4,000 acres, prin-
cipally in the Southern States.
Two London detectives, lately found
guilty of bribery and COLLISION with the
thieves, have been on force for thirty
years.
About forty Northern prospectors
pass through Decatur, Ala, each week,
many of them settling in the Tennessee
valley.
A number Of professional rat-hnnt-
lers want the Ohio Legislature to au-
thorize a bounty of 10 cents for each
rat slaughtered.
The London Lancet is of the opin-
ion that in all public institutions poi
son bottles should be distinguished by
some glaring popularity.
A Rochester poulterer has sent n
dozen bantam chicks to a Kansas farm
CT, for which the latter pays 800. They
are Of very diminutive size.
A Bridgeport man has a coal-box
standing in his parlor in the shape of a
piano, so that he will not be obliged to
run down into the celler during the
winter.
Twenty pairs of English pheasants
have been put on Goat Island, San
Francisco Bay, for propagation, and
are said to be the first ever introduced
into this country.
Oneida county IN. " diarymen are
watching with interest the issue of the
suit now on trial in Rome, to o a
penalty for taking diluted milk to the
cheese factory.
The Free Press mentions an inno-
cent Detroit boy, a Doctors son, who
pointed to the skull in the Office Of his
father, and earnestly asked, 'Did you
kill him, father?"
The first free town library in the
country was established at Peterbor-
ough, n. H., in 1888, and the town has
made an appropriation for its support
every year since, save 1862.
in washing fine Hannels, make the
soap into a jelly with warm water and
dry quickly. Do not put too near the
fire in drying. To keep shirts from
shrinking, stretch them on a board.
They are at work now on the Straits
of Dover Tunnel. The tunnel will
belong to its proprietors for thirty
years, then the two Governments will
be able to take possession of it on
certain. conditions.
The Jackson MISSY Times, a lonely
Republican sheet, says: ave have a
great notion of converting the Times
into a first-class Sunday-school journal.
Politicsin Mississippi are altogether too
one-sided."
Few things strike the European
mind with more establishment than the
undertaking of an individual to create
a town. Such an enterprise is almost
unknown in Europe, but it is not I'M
common in America
A Hotel Ease Decided.