The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-25
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have as many Of them as possible.
woman's tears are usually more powe
iui than her words. Wind Is not 30 powe
Iui an element as water, though very essel
tial In rendering the latter effective.
A Mormon settlement having apparent
begun at shutesbury, Mass, State dete'
ives made a raid on the place Friday an
arrested a number of men who are charge
mn living IN open polygamy. More arres'
are threatned.
To clean greasy beakers and photo
graphic glass plates, DR.. Walk suggests til
use OF an aqueous solution Of permangl
nate OF potash, to which a few drops c
hydrochloric acid are added. The solutio
may be saved and used repeatedly, until i,
oxidizing power is exhausted. -SeientJf
american.
A candidate for the Office Of auditor @
accounts was called upon at u public meet
ing for a speech. He rose and said "Geu
tlemen, you ask ME for 4 speech. I hav
none to make. I don't want to be q speak
er; but: gentlemen, l do want to be a
auditor"
The first dollar coined at the Philadelphi
Mint under the new law was sent to tn
President; the second to Secretary Sher
man, and the third to DR.. Linderman
On march 18th two large coming machine
were hard ut work stamping the new dollars
and on the 18th a third one was set Il
operation; and about 40, 900 pieces ar
being turned out in n day.
DR.. Mary Walker has a rival in Kati,
Brownel, of New York, who exhibits
certificate Of discharge from the First Rhod,
Island Regiment, in which she was regu
LARRY enlisted and served three months
She was with her husband at the battle o.
Bull Run, and on the expiration Of tn,
three months term of service both re-enlist
ed in the Fifth Rhode Island. Her husband
was wounded the battle OF Newborn, ant
both left the service. Mrs. Brownell claim
to be the only woman member in goot
standing of the Grand Army Of the Repub
lii .-Fhika. Tones.
Pope Leo's advice is Of the best. It ha,
always been the custom to distribute almi
to the poor people on the accession of &
Pope. 1t was intended as a boon to rea
paupers, but crowds of tricky, well-to.d,
artisans have, in disguise as mendicants
profited by the Pontiff's generosity. Whe1
they assembled not long ago ut the doors Of
the Vatican, INDUCING in antics BETTING /,
carnival, Pope Leo asked the meaning o.
That unseemly assemblage at his doors, and
on being told, sent down word that 1T WA
Gods will that nan should earn his daily
bread in the sweat of his brow" and hae
the ground cleared of those noisy CLAIMANT
to improvident pontificial lnrgess.
Baltimore Is again agitating a ship cana
between Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.
as O short route to the Atlantic. BY THU
means Baltimore will be brought as near tc
Cape May, ut the mouth of the Delaware, o.
is, and the distance for ocear
vessels between Baltimore md New Yorl
and Europe will be shortened by 225 miles,
with q saving of freight between Baltimore
New York OF about 60c. o ton. Tn.
canal Will be about ~ miles long,
90 feet wide, and is 70 have 25 feet depth
4 water. Estimated cost IS, 200, 900, the
ompany constructing it to be allowed to
barge a toll of 20c. per ton On all traffic
through the canal
A whale was lately bombarded off the
cast of North Carolina. When the first bomb
vas fred it failed to explode, but it made
he whale furious, and he struck one Of the
'oats and knocked it several feet above the
The captain then fired another
,omb which failed to explode. The third
,omb exploded near the heart. The blood
pouted about ten feet high, and Us the crew
ushed up to stick their lances into the
whale the blood fell in showers upon them
nd their boats. The fight was witnessed
" another crew stationed miles away. The
vhale was forty-two feet long and extreme
y fat.
All the world has a morbid fondness for
log cases, and hence n curious trial that
look place in Paris n few weeks ago is
worth a short paragraph. 4 tenant had a
handsome dog, breed unknown and not
material to the issue of the case. His land
Iord hated all dogs in general and this one
particular, and insisted that the beast
should not go up and down the front stair
ease. The tenant retorted that wherever
ne went his dog should go, and that it was
the dignity Of so intelligent and
well.meaning an animal to go up and down
BY the back staircase. The landlord appealed
TO the courts to redress his grievance, but
lost the case. The judge held that as the
tenant paid his rent and staircase keep
ne had the right to use it. and his dog had
the same inalienable privilege.
Alexander dumas, the younger lives in a
houss in Paris, crowded from
ground fioor to roof with objects of art. He
IS fond of pictures, and is the intimate
friend of NJ. Meissonier. He has a hand
fortune, and is very generous to needy
lie writes slowly and painstak.
ingly on blue, highly-glazed paper. with n
NULL pen, the scream" of the latter on
the surface of the former being particularly
soothing to his nerves. On his desk lies an
object which he is said to look upon as in
some sort a tl,lisman that brings him rood
fortune - it is the cast of a hand, large. vet
shar ely. with q broad palm and fleshy but
taperine 6ngers-the hand of his father
wife is a Russian lady, and they
two daughters, Niles. Collotte and
Jeannine, who are said to be chpruing
witty andintenectlil.
Francis Joseph. Emperor of Austria, is
one of the mot aniable monarchs IN
Europe. and is well beloved by the peonle
whom he governs 1t is claimed for him
that he has none OF the ordinary vices of
iespotic rulers-he is neither impatient.
die, nor dissolute. Married to a beautiful
genial Princess, he lives with her a life
Of great simplicity. experimenting the edu.
'ation of his children, reading, studying, and
aking hardly any other recreation than
Many o tourist has met him
trolling unattended in the park of Schon-
orunn; and it always please / him when such
persons, mistaking him, from his Tyrolese
nat and green-co'iared gray jacket. for some
upper keeper, asked him to show them their
way about. 1t is said that au English family
whom he once led over his palace and
grounds wound up by presenting him with
forms, which he pocketed with becom-
ng gravity, remarking afterwards that it
the first money he had ever earned.
1t is not always SO plain with his Majesty,
howeye". We have seen him In state %
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