The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANAh SAk
The London TIegrapl's daily circu.
lation now amounts to 2S5, 900 copies.
The balance of trade in favor of THU
country for the last year is $120, 00O, 900.
Glass was early discovered. Glass beads
were found on mummies over 5000 year.
old.
Horses are fast taking the place of oxer
even in the toughest portions of New Eng
land.
The wealth of Iowa, equally divided
would give S501. 70 to every person in thu
State.
The first National bank in the Unitec
States was Incorporated by Congress Decor
Der 81, 1888.
Pennsylvania supplies one-ifth of III,
rye produced in this country, or 3,577, GIl
bushels out of 16, 91S, 705.
tobacco tax is to supply the Deficiencies
of the Berlin exchequer-probably rs ur.
popular an impost as could be devised.
When n tramp arrives at Dallas, Texas,
he is taken in charge and put to work on o
farm which the city has bought for the pur.
pose.
Many people put n fancy sign in theiI
parlors asking God to bless their home, and
then they themselves do all they can tc
curse it.
The gold product of the Black Hills for
1877 is thus estimated From quartz,
81, SOC. 900; placer mining, 81, 900, 900
total, 81, 500, 600.
The Sultan is having n marble staircas.
built at q cost of 81 ,25u, 0UU. These urt
valuable steps without doubt, but hardly
in the right direction.
Of the fifty millions of our population. the
ten million who are heads If fumiiies are
taxed less than ten cents n day for the sup
port Of the Federal Government.
A Swedish paper proves that Europe i,
growing colder Mt the rate of one DECREE
for every hundred years. but she cant
beat this country with any such gait Il,
that.
As a rule the quality of the h~urkwhent
raised in the Atlantic States is much hsttrl
than last year. At the mills the Iric.
ranges from $3.50 to So per hundr e"
pounds.
In Russia a husband may appeal a. ,
witness in n lawsuit against his wife, but h
wife is not heard against her husband
neither has she any redress against him il!
he deserts her.
Last year n Chicago dealer failed, amons
his assets being 5000 worth of ice. Tn,
marshal kept watch over the estate till IL
melted away, and then brought In Q bill
for 1914 for doing SO.
From trustworthy figures Just compiled
regarding the liquor traffic, it appears this,
there are nearly twice as many drinking
saloons in New York Us in any other State
The exact number is %, 03s.
The English feed for fsttening shecr
consists of cotton-secd and t%uruips. They
claim that it will put on tho most fat, j.
the safest feed, makes the best mutton al
iless cost, and produces the best and stronD
est nure
A humber Of Whitehead, or fish torpedoei
AVE been shipped from England to tho
Mediterranean The test in the canal at
Noolwich shows that each one may ls
depended on to make a straight run OF at
east half a mile.
III. euti, mass of tobacco which is annu.
Jir Consumed in smoking, shutting, and in
1hswins on the earth is 1000, coo, 900
peun1s-manifestly too high an estimate
70. from 1,200, 0OO, 900, to 1,5OO,0 900 ,OOU
~ Inhabitants.
The incomes OF the leading surgeons in
Iondon are enormous Sir Henry Thomp-
,on performs the operation of lithotomy
ninety times q year. on m average. His
byth IhilgC HUN q WV " C~sDOb, uiNl
amount TO about $3.50, 900 per annum
The Roman correspondent of the London
fInes apostrophizcs the Queen of Italy ms
that STAG whc has, by her charms and
wisdom. reclaimed, and, as it were, con.
luered hcr husband, aud fitted him for the
exalted station which she is to share with
him"
More tLan II thousand persons were in
N.,shI lie, Tenn. last month looking foI
homes i'll tie famous farming country neat
~. They were from half the States in the
Union. a tide OF emigration to that region
,as set ia that makes kentucky green with
.nvy. =
From 1870 TO 1914 the Austrian Govern
ment realized nearly $35, 600, 600 from the
ruh!ic.p.!er;cs the ticket-holders won Sl6,.
800, 900. In Italy he net receipts of the
Government lotteries in three years reached
$40, 800, 900. while the sum won by the
people was $4,000 900.
The Governor of Louisiana Is in favor oI
licensing gambling houses. lie has presented
IL bill to that effect TO the Legislature. HI,
idea is that games of chance ought not &c
be forbidden, but that cheating ought to bt
guarded against by close official inspection
and severe penalties.
The King of Italy is said to have mndC
but one alteration in the Ministers draft Of
his accession proclamation. In the sentence,
Z" Italians, o first King is dead. Iii.
successor must prove that institutions do
not die" the King, it is said, at his wife's
suggestion, substituted will" for must. >
Near Berlin, Germany, is n church build
ing, circular within and octagon without,
and capable of seating 1000 persons, whose
rcliefs outside and statues within, roof,
ceiling, and Corinthian capitals, are papier,
mache, rendered waterproof by saturation
in %vitriol, lime water, whey, and white OF
eggs.
What n few years of good rule can dc
for the colored men in n Southern State il
cvinccd by the fact that the 81, 1874 coloret
voters of Georgia own 457, 635 acres of lane
worth 3i.2H, lOi, city property worth 81.
1Hg, -. personal property worth S4SG, 522
stock worth sal 106, and other property
worth $3.50, 900.
The following bill has been introduced il
the French Legislative Assembly Tn
French national song is the Marseillaise.
The functionaries of the republic in France
and its representatives abroad will tax cur
that this song is solemnly performed, anl
that no other is substituted for it in cere
monies where the national hymn should b.
heard" This bill is not likely to become
law for, should it pass the Chamber, il
would fail in the Senate.
Lew Wong, a Chinese murderer recent,
hanged in California, sent for n %clergymal
in order to nave the Christian religion ex
planned to him, 80 that he might decid,
whether it was better chan his own. H.