The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-12-22
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Take in your graves over night
says an eastern paper.
Marquis Lorne's familiar name is
Sandy Campbell.
The army of tramps is ransacking the
sunny south.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran, the banker and
philanthopist of Washington, will be so
years of age this month.
Female pedestrians now number
about on an average for each city of
$4,000 inhabitants or more. .
Wade Hampton is engaged in a hand
to-hand fight with the grim.
Women should never under any cir
cumstance laugh at their husbands. A
dreadful warning is contained in the
following dispatch from Newport, r.
l.: T"Joshua Walker last night pur-
chased a quantity of pork, and taking it
home proceeded to salt it down. His
wife o o after discovered that he had
been trying to make brine with white
sugar. She was seized with a fit of
laughter which continued for several
minutes, when she suddenly expired"
Song of the dry goods clerk-Swing-
ing in delaine.
"I'n take another yard of that bind
ing, if you please" said a to a
counter jumper Beg pardon,- said
the clerk, "but I understood you FIVE
yards" CHATS right" replied the
customer, 'sbut another yard will make
it more binding"
A rich old marquis recently died in
Naples, in a house that he had rented
from five very pious sisters. Upon Wis
iting the premises to get possession of
his riches, his sole heirs, who were a
couple of nephews, found such triHing
amounts lying around that they instinc-
lively felt that somebody had been
there before them. They reported their
suspicious to the police. The five sis
ters were duly sifted, and $500, 900 was
found secreted about their petticoats.
Driving through Sackville street,
Dublin, the otherday on an outside car,
the wretched appearance of the horse
suddenly struck me. l said: Pat,
you ought to be taken up for cruelty TO
animals. driving such an old screw as
that" "Be gor, sur" was the quick
reply, ''if | didn't drive that, I'd be ta-
ken up for cruelty to a wife and six
ehilder."
The difference between homicide and
murder depends greatly upon who the
parties are.
A satire or burlesque is a take off,
and that may account for the scanty
wardrobe Of burlesque performers.
gave her a rose and gave hera ring,
and 1 asked her to marry me then, but
she sent them all back, the insensible
thing, and said she'd no notion of men.
l told her 1 had oceans of money and
goods, tried to brighten her bad with
growl, but she answered she wasn't
brought up in the woods, to be scared
at the screeeh of an owl. 1 called hel
a baggage and everything bad, l slight.
ed her features and form; till at length
l succeeded in getting her mad, and
she ragged like a sea in a storm. And
then in a moment 1 turned and smiled
and called her my angel and all; she fel
In my arms like a wearisome child, and
exclaimed, "We will marry this fall. .
Mr.. Bandman in Londor
that he will play Shylock in French, al
Paris, in January; in German, at Ber
lin, in February, and in English, al
London, in March. He also states thai
he has acted Hamlet "over 500 night.
in two languages"
Information comes from Europe thai
a committee Of experts, having exam
ined the documents known as "Lu
theirs WILL" which is in possession o.
the Protestant church in Pesth, hal
declared it authentic. We sincerely
trust that it is not going to be contest
ed and old scandals dug up.