The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-19
VARIETIES.

Tho Senate Of Iowa has voted to restore
the death penalty.
The North Pole must be found. Ben,
nett's expedition is n fixed fact
Bueksport Maine. claims the largest girl
in that State, She is l2 years Of age and
weighs l92 pounds Her name is Lizzie n.
WaTdwel.
Babies are generally regarded as ties OF
affection between parents Some OF them
arc decidedly cross-ties - Cincinnati En-
gvirer.
The fellow who receives n sentence OF
twenty years in the penitentiary can be
called the victim OF q 4" stay" law Gin.
eiHHati Enquirer.
There was frost every month of the year
lSlG and it was known as the year with.
out n summer" The New England farmer,
allied it eight hundred and starved to
cath"
a drunken policeman in Toledo. Ohio.
fred at a dog and n rrowly missed shooting
an editor in his Office, on the other side of
the street Tn editor wrote that police
man up.
The nbO-igines of Victoria, Australia.
Who, when the colony was formed, some
VA AFt 80 AAAA osbtNsA aAF v
iUinilcd down to 1000, and are decreasing
AZ the rate of t~hirty-fve per cent. n year.
The temperance people of Pittsburg are
focusing the project of building n tenn
porurce tabernacle. Ono prominent citizen
has declared that he could raise $50, 600 for
tho purpose in thirty days.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes with a
broad gold pen fixed into n quill handle.
the pen is said to have lone duty for
twenty years. He writes only in the morn.
ing for three hours n day.
The Baptist denomination is more mn
merous in Georgia than any other demon.
nation. There are ia associations, over
800 churches and l93. GG2 members. nearly
one TO every six persons in the State.-CO.
hHabus, Ga, piper.
Mr.. John W. Wheeler, of Tuscoln, Ill.
was awakened one night recently, by his
log springing upon his bed n clnwing nj
he bed-clothes. Startled at the unusua'
conduct Of the animal he got up. and dir
covered that a FIRE was raging in the lower
part Of the house. and he barely escaped
with his family and the dog.
The first clause in the will of the late Larz
Anderson, OF Cincinnati, is this First de
firing to express, however ~inadeTuatoly, my
Tautude to Him TO whom | owe n long and
prosperous life, and TO testify my undoubt-
ug faith in the Christian religion, and to
Commend its consolation to all who know
nc, and whom my example or authority
an in any way influence.
The order of Knights of Pythias now
numbers over lUS, 900 members, with 81
Graud Lodges and 1860 subordinate lodges.
exclusive Of 81 lodges in the Dominion Of
Canada and other countries. The total
mount of money paiu by the Order during
The year 1877 for the relief Of needy broth.
RS, their widows and families, was nearly
81 coo, 000.
Mayor Ely, of New York, declares that
he is not in favor of reducing the ~salaries
IF the schooI-teachers, policemen and fire.
men now in office, but he is in favor, Us
vacancies occur, of making the new mp
pointments at lower salaries. lie also
thinks it unjust to assail those employees Of
the city government whose salaries are 800
per month or less, while the higher salaried
officials are left unmolcstcd.
The Colorado beetle commission want,
twenty-five thousand dollars more to con
pleto it's report. As this valuable and in
portant commission has nlready succeede,
in perfecting u plan by which the Colorad
beetle can be eXtorminated at n cost O
three dollars and twenty-five cents pc
beetle. and is confident that it can, if it ha
the time and means, reduce the cost {
about n dollar and a half, we think the,
ought to have the money. -BUv{iRgtyi
Hdrktye.
a singular affair recently occurred .
Madison, Ind. A lot of little colored boy
were playing court, and sentenced one d.
their number to be hung. He was accord
strung up by his heels to a door knol
aud left there, while one of the oxecutioner
went down stairs and told his mother of Ill,
She went up stairs and found I'll,
boy in n terrible condition, with bloc,
from his nose and mouth. II
had lost his eycsight, and IN the next d.,
died.
An interesting piece of statistical info
nation places the value of the egg crop La
year al $3.50, 0U0 900, to say nothing of the,
that are bought for special purposes whcr
bouquets will not serve. In view of IL,
fact the Washington Post suggests that
would be better to stamp our coin with a.
cfligy of the wealth producing hen tina
with that of dhc piratical eagle. AS Ii
intent OF those who were instrumental i
making the silver dollar legal tender was
rob every holder of n nominal dollar Of eirl
ccut-. pgrhaps the degign Of the new CO
is the most appropriately typifed by Il
thicyiug eagle.
Count Andrassy told the Hungarian de.
cation what he understood by Austri.
interest, and what changes could not I
permitted, and the subcommittee of IL
Hungarian Delegation, thereupon unau
mously adopted 4 motion to grant H.
credit OF ,iNty millions tlOrins asked for /
Count Audra.sy. What the Count told Il
lIungaI.ama we are not permitted to knoN
it &. wei known that the Hungarian
arc friends OF Turkey and very hostile
ltu ian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. II in this cGs
two lEd two should not make four. it wi
b. cause Count Ardrassy's remarks al
H.. hungarian Delegations vote are MAJ
tie diplomacy instead of mathemntic