The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-23
OUR CHIP BASKET.
Filled Here and There Among our TX
changes.

"HHHH - aEr 10.
A fair Nebraska maiden spent tw
hours, circus day, trying to get a bushel
of feet into a peck Of shoes.
The world makes no distinction be-
tween a mans disinclinatien to pay his
just dues, and his inability to pay.
Astronomers have calculated that the
mountains and extinct volcanoes in the
moon are higher than any OF our earth.
We should round every day of STIR
ring action with an evening of thought.
We are taught nothing by experience
unless we muse upon it.
1t is proposed to reclaim the desert
lands of western Utah with artesian
wells, which yield water very abundant
ly from moderate depths.
Female communistic platform-No
misuses, and equal division of bonnets
and dresses, unlimited followers, and a
half-interest in the pianos Of the nation.
Let a newspaper give a man a puff,
and he accepts it without a word; but
call him a liar and he Is around to
speak Of it before daylight next morn
ing.
A cynical writer askes when women
will cease to make fools of themselves.
Probably when men cease To admire
and love fools more than women of
sense. W
Jefferson said: "I would rather live
In a country with newspapers and with
out a government, than in a country
with a government but without news
papers.'a
Newspaper photographers are expected
to get up fresh jokes every week, but a
circus clown can run the same old joke
four million years and always find fools
to laugh at it. n-
The Detroit Free Press notices that
the Chinaman pays his debts and is So
Der and Industrious, and wants to know
the use Of letting him stay in this coun-
try to be spoiled.
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of
the New York Herald, has been chosen
captain of the team ofithe Westminster
polo club, which meets the Buffalo cl ib
at Buffalo on September 7th.
The Prince of Wales does not like
familiarity, ana was much annoyed
when he got a letter asking after her
Royal 1Iighness in the following terms;
'sDear old boy-how is your MISUSE"
The examination of candidates for
appointments as cadet engineers will
begin on the 10th of September. and
for candidates for appointment as cadet
midshipmen on the odd Of September.
An exchange says a pretty female
lobbyist, when she commences to weep,
generally wins a Congressman over to
her side. From this it would appear
that our Congress is partially run by
water power.
In England the bicycle business is
assuming large dimensions. There are
. hundred and thirty makers, a mil
lion pounds are invested in the bust
ness, and sixty thousand bicycles are in
existence in London and the provinces.
A steamer plying between San Fran
cisco and Stockton keeps an eccentric
and useful sheep on board. The sheep
Is trained to goout OIL a gang.plan at
q landing when a flock is to be loaded,
to show that the approach is safe and
to act as a pilot.
A Rochester man has sold his family
lot containing the bones of his father,
mother. sister and brother. for s53. 80.
He made no bones about this unfeeling
but gravely pocketed his
money and consoled himself with the
ttDi mortuis nil nisi bone-um.'
IA witty clergyman, accosted by an
old acquaintance by the mama of Cobb,
81 don't know you, SIR" "My
name is Cobb, sir, rejoined the man,
WHO was about half seas over. "Ah,
SIR said the minister, "you have SO
much corn on that 1 did not see the
cob.u