The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-15

BY rolling all night in a hot bed q
man finds his sleep done to a turn in
the morning.
Somehow the discovery of Vulcan
does not particularly affect the u
of humanity.
Instead of s'good day" or good bye"
the Eastern watering place people say
"PIl see you later"
John Hancock,s grave in the, old
Granary burying ground on fremont
street, Boston, is unmarked.
Electric lights make diamonds reflect
beautifully. They also make the man
who has to pay for them reflect.
The New York police are greatly
troubled with runaway girls, who have
come to the city from country homes.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is sum-
merlng at Bristol, vt. The widow is
yet young and fascinating, and an ar
dent Methodist.
Gov. Irwin. of California, lately par
doned a convict for having saved the
life Of an officer who was attacked by
another prisoner.
A bold American beauty recently
slipped a piece of ice down the august
back of the Prince of Wales, and then
laughed to see him squirm.
1.-THE civilization of the United
States is twenty years in advance of
that in Europe" says Dom Pedro, the
traveller, and he ought to know.
Somebody has discovered that when
ever the grain is cut and hauled in the
tramp makes his appearance on the
stubble and demands work or bread:
Boston Corbett, who shot the assas-
sin Booth, and never tried to make
money out of the honor, has left Cam
den, N. J., ami settled on a claim in
Nevada.
A Mr.. Keen, of Baltimore, has earned
the. indispensable reputation of being
the best dressed man at Saratoga. Six
suits a day is within the range of his
possibilities.
Indians are in the habit of driving
buffalo into the Rollingstone River,
where they are drowned andthen iished
out for food. The Rollingstonc gathers
no moose however.
While fishing at Nantucket recently,
Miss Nancy Fairbanks caught a shark
seven feet long. The proper way to
speak Of the achievement would be to
say that ''Nan-tuck-et in"
1t is very depressing to a summe
congregation to see the minister, in the
most eloquent and impassioned passage
of his sermon, gesture with one hand
and fight flies with the other.
A big fool at Big Rapids, Mich, out
in a boat with several associates, COM
menced to rock the craft s'for fun,''
and succeeded in drowning two of his
companions. The murderer is still at
large.
Miss Mary Ellen Chase surely did
not mean it when she said that there
will be three women to ono man in
Heaven, because two out Of the three
women wouldn't accept Heaven on
those terms. III
Mr.. 7. A. Post, of st. Louis, urges
police commissioners to take some steps
to stop the newsboys from prolonged
ululation and double-twisted quaver
and infection" in crying their papers
enrly Sunday mornings.
If the milk mans pint cup held a
quart the average housewife would not
feel satisfied that she had full measur
unless he dipped in the second time,
and added a little to her amount to
make up for what spilled over.
Wives are forever giving letters to
their husbands to put in the p~ostofice,
which said husbands always put in, or
say they do. The moral of this state
ment may be found in the following:
A Binghampton, N. Y, wife the other
day found a letter in her husbands old
clothes, given him to mail eleven years
ago, the non-receipt of which has es-
tranged two families ever since.
In the near future the bore, instead
of carrying an autograph album, will
have a monograph concealed upon his
person, which he will produce at the
unhappy moment and request his vic
tim to shoot a few words into it to re-
member him by.
The small politician who hangs
around lager beer saloons screaming to
admiring companions that People, by
gum, sir, get their ideas from a hireling
press, sir, that you can buy for a dollar,
sir" do not usually have the dollar
to buy a hireling press.