The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tennessee niust'either give up her dogs
or her sheep. It's a question of bark rs.
wool.
Osman Pasha, to an GStent, is a Brigham
Young. He has seveh wives in Constants.
nople.
Postmrster. General Key is talked of foi
Governor of Tennessee, by the anti-repudia,
tion psrty.
Egyptian finances are still in n bad way.
A dollar ever thers is worth about thirty.
one cents.
Ben Hill. Of Georgia, writes to his constitu.
enbs hat tho only panacoa for our hard
times in specie payments.
Travellers candlesticks, to hang on the
lapel Of a coat or on the hack of a car
seat are tho latest device.
II is well. known fact thnt printers ink,
judiciously used. is calculated to build VI
any kind Of II legitimate business.
Baruum writes TO q friend. that being
sixty eight, ready TO die, and doing the
work of ten men, he wants no now enter
prisoa,
The kingdom OF Portugal has already in
formed the Vatican of its indisposition to
~renounce it, right OF veto in the next Papai
election.
There is talk of n State law in Georgis
TO prevent minors from chewing tobacco.
Why not have a law to prevent girls from
chewing gum.
A Baltimore man, instead of laying NJ
treasure in heaven, has experimental until
he can announces thai n creased needle viii
float on water.
Sweden dosa an enormous business in the
manufacture OF friction matches Ono fac.
tory alone employs 253 men, $40 women,
loo boys and 14i girls.
The Kaffres of Afghanistan have such q
deadly hatred for their Mohammedau
neighbors in the Swat valley that their
young men are obliged each to kill n No.
hammedan before he can take a vito.
A little Florida bow, says n religious paper,
taught an alligator 70 come to tho shore and
take food from his hand. 1t became SO
fond of the boy that one morning it took
the food and the little Florida boy 100.
A number of skeletons were lately I'M
earthed near the famous mound at Canton,
in Twigg county, Ky, and the sku0 and
jawbono of ono of them evidently belongt
to a race of ginnts, being of very great size.
Recent statistics show that the rate OF
mortality among grocers is rs "a to 10C
among the general population at equnl
ages, while the death rato among diapers,
adds the Sanitary Record. is rs 10S to 10C
ly the anne standard.
One or the largest shoe firms in Boston
has just concluded an arrangement with
the Peruvian government TO furnish IS, 00t
pairs OF men's shoes. The firm had previous
ly filled an order for the same government
for 10, 600 pairs Of shoes.
Mr.. Joaquin Miller is described as visit.
ing Pos's grave at Baltimore. He says thai
OF all American poets, Poe was the greatest
he was superior In merit and originality u
any other, and that he was more read il
Europe, and translated into foreign Ian
guages than any other.
Spurgoon says he has often thought
uhsn hearing certain preachers Of a higl
order speaking to the young, that they
must have understood tho Lord to say,
Feed my Gamelcopards, " instead of Feed
my lambs" for nothing but giraffes could
reach any spiritual food from the lofty rack
on which they place it.
Ths number of parishes in Russia is said
10 be 30, 900, and the aggregate of the in.
come of their clergy about $23, 500, 900. of
which the Treasury contributes SO, 900, 900,
houses and properties belonging to parish.
ss yield $500, 900, and the rest arises from
the contribution of the practitioners. The
average income OF the clergy of each parish
amounts, therefore, to about $3.50.
Dir. Judah p. benjamin, who was lead.
ing counsel in \ case recently tried in Lon
don, began an argument, 1t is said, emphat-
ichlly, with the ndjuration - In the name
of Heaven" The Master of the Rolls
instantly stopped him, saying very quietly,
Il do not see that Heaven has much to do
in this case, Mr. Benjamin the proper
appeal Is 10 the Appellate Cont
Ii was Epictetus who said IF evil bo
said Of thee, and il he true, correct myself;
il it he a lie, laugh at it." 1t is a curious
law OF human nature, hat the man who
argues on the weak side, is sure the fist to
get angry, and if n man becomes furious Mt
a story that is being circulated about lin,
and dehes the Whole world TO prove it, it ia
generally because there is some truth in it,
and he lie afraid you will find It ont.
The happiest piece of intelligence wo
have read in many u leng day, il a despatch
stating that a man in Moinphis shot and
killed another man for saying, What do
you 10Y " to him. Send that man to
Burlington, Wen pay his expenses, guarau-
teO a two weeks engagement, and furnish
LSNtlNNIa hlI ulLllllIlllltls All We NAnL Is
the man.-BlHangtoR HIukeye.
There is another sweet singer. She lives
in Connecticut, and, to deceive her husband,
she caused her death to be announced. The
effect upon the poor wretch is thus de
scribsd by the sweet singer herself =
Talf aboHt your pionics and say, what lots % nm
While l talk Of my EAiy, and how after him l run;
tell you, hos worth having, is suoh u man ~ Ell,
wA- danced a sailors h-rnPipS when he heard his vito
was dead.
Eight hundred and seventy-four fixtures
III New York last year, to say nothing of
the men who ought to have failed but did
not. 1t is a bad show. business has been
done in a loose and dishonest fashion. The
times are not yet good, though mending.
The community has not struck the hard pan
yet, but there has been n good deal of
pile -driving.
An ingenious but simple mechanical ok
pedisnt has been adopted in Glasgow FOR
scattering the crowd that usually assemblies
at n fire. Attached TO the engine is n small
hose which is under charge of ono of the
fireman. He begins operations as If he
were trying water a small space around the
engine, but he gradually cnlarges the circle
until the rotreating crowd gives ample
room. This clear space is kept open till
the police arrive and form q Gordon.
A German photographer. located in
Yokohama, Japan, carries on the business,
assisted almost entirely by natives. He,
however, instructs zach person in but one
branch OF the art, for he finds that rs soon
ns ons gets an inkling of the several
branches he goes off and commences
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