The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-01

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troops are ready TO start from Bombay,
at short notice. The Elswick ordnance
works were recently ordered TO manu-
facture one hundred %torpedoes for the
government with all possible speed.
The order has bcen increased to eight
hundred.
WORD comes from Boston that in
view of a disturbance which occurred
at performances of Count Johannes at
| New York and New Haven, the alder
men Of that city refuse to grant an ex-
hibition license to thr Count and his
company.
\ LONDON correspondent at Pera
| says that Russia will make n great pre-
tence of eagerly defending her condi-
tions before the Powers, but will finally
yield enough to satisfy them, and then
arrange a programme for Il Russian
~protectorate yer Turkey in Europe
and Asia, according to the terms of
their secret agreement.
A PEEA dispatch says that the Rus
Sian and Turkish lines at San Stefano
are separated by the little river Karasu.
The Russian and Turkish scntries are
stationed ut either end of n bridge one
hundred feet long. The officers and
men of the two armies fraternize in n
most remarkable manner
The bullion In the Bank Of England
has decreased e2s3,O0 o during the past
week. The proportion of the reserve
to liabilities Is 42s per cent. Amount
Of bullion withdrawn on balances, el600.
The specie in the Bank of France has
decreased 100000 francs during the
past week.
The people of Washington, Pa, are
much excited over DR.. LeBIoyne and
his cremation projects, and threaten "a
blow up his crematory. The cremation
Of the body of Baron de Palm caused
much feeling against LeMoyne, and
this was greatly increased by the Gre
nation of the body of Mrs. Pitman.
Sheridan's solicitor, calling one day,
found his wife alone, and walking
about in a state Of violent excitement,
He asked what was the matter. Hell
only reply was ''that her husband wa
a villain" After q time she added
with some hesitation: "Why, l have
discovered that all the love letters Ii
sent me were the very same he sent Il
his first wife"
A new story about President LincolI
comes out in the Merrill contested will
case in New York. During the wa
Mrs. Merrill called on the Presiden'
with her adopted son, who was an Office
IN the army. Mrs. Merrill compliance
that many letters which she had writer
to her son had never reached him, ant
asked il there was no way by whicl
soldiers could get their friends words
Mr.. Lincoln turned quickly and said
" Madam, l would give ten cents 70
every letter addressed to me that di
not reach me
Life is a good deal like II grab-bag
after all. Sometimes merit is taken b
the hand and told to come in out of tn
, cold, but not always. It's the cNcep
tlon, not the rule. The great bcnefac
tors of mankind have been hut rarel,
appreciated and required, while thu
Fourth of July fellows have carried of
the honOrs and bouquets. What a'sad
commentary it is upon II civilization
TO admit that the man who gave soft
soap to the world is still sleeping in an
unmarked grave.
y New Orleans paper tells OF aprint'
er who, when his fellow workmen went
out to drink beer, put in the bank the
exact amount he would have spent if he
had gone with them to drink. He did
this for FIVE years. He then looked NJ
his bank account, and found that he had
laid mp five hundred and tw%enty-on6
dollars and eighty-siX cents. Just so,
and when the bank presidents wife re-
turned from Paris with a beautiful dress
on, valued at five hundred and twenty,
one dollars and eighty-siN cents, that
printer leaned his weary head on the
composing stone and sighed forthe beer
he had lost.
An old man may smoke a pipe and
he respected, hut a young man-neyer.
When 4 young man puts a pipe between
his teeth it is because he is out of mon-
ey, because he has lost his personal
pride, or because his nerves are shat
tered from previousIeXcssive indulgence
of the weed, or all three. ~Penny-grabs
are more costly than smoking tobacco
and a clay pipe. and though fifteen
cent cigars are more ornamental than a
pipe, they cannot yield the narcotic
strength and odor necessary to appease
the cravings Of Il nerve unstrung. The
young man who smokes n pipe is Il
goner. In II year his brains will be
cooked, and while other minds In the
world are revolving on the axis of
thought at the rate of at least once in
every twenty-four hours, his will man.
age to complete the circle only about
once in a year.
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