The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-01-31
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The enduring odor OF musk is marvellous.
When Justipian, IL 53S, ebuilt what IL
DOW the mosque Of st. Sophia, the mortar
was charged VT: musk, and to this day
the atmospb.r- o! tie building is filed with
TIE odor.
Tn. funera: .. IN. late Henry MeigCs in
Lima was OF -. iaost imposing character
His death 10 s.'Ss-sal!y regretted through
all the South American States, anG sub
scriptions sic ou foot to raise a monument
over his remaiL,.
II il said 20 70 . .4asichi fact that every
orchcstrs. .~on!Atn, at .sast Two musiciaE'
with noustash-., enc It srcctacles, three
with bald heads. ard one rcrg modest maj.
IN n white craya6, who from force of cf
cumstances, it may be observed, plays on .
trass instrument.-LoHd0n Figure.
The fate of the first Chinese railroad ha,
been sealed. 1t has been Geizcd by the
Government and the traffic stnrpcd. The
road is a short one, Ittnut a few miles
out of Shanghai TIN opror4tion to the
new enterprise was great ard the English
men who obtained the confession had many
difficulties to encounter on account of the
opposition of the local officials and the pre-
JUDGES of the populace.
Ex- Alderman T. Smith. Jr.. of Chelsea,
Massachusetts. has been arrested for mutt
lating United States silver coin. His plan
has been to take. for instance, fifty silver
quarters, fasten them together on n stick,
and dip them into a certain acid prepara'
ton. This process thinned the coin by re.
moving the silver without crasing the let
ters or figures. He would then rub the
coin with a pumice stone. which would re-
move the marks of the acid and bring
out n sort of dull brightness lie would
then use the silver nn in his britain
mia business. ami would dispose of the
coin.
CoRroRAL PuSIsIIMEHT.-An argument
against corporal punishment, says The n.
Y. Express, was brought up before the
Board of Education, in the case of n child
twelve years of age who had been made
seriously i'll from an ear-boxing received at
the hands of the vice principal of the school
he attended. 1t appears that the child is
partially paralyzed, and the punishment
aggravated the disease. All of which goes
to prove that there should be quite rs
thorough n supervision over the teachers hs
those whom they teach.
There ave been nearly ffty-three steam
ers and seven hundred men engaged in porgy
fishing on the Maine coast this season, but
fewer fish than usual have been caught, us
the fish have been smaller and have escaped
through the net meshes. The largest school
seen was five miles long and a mile wide,
and was estimated to contain millions OF
barrels, but the largest single catch wao
fourteen hundred barrels. There are six
teen porgy oil factories in the State, each
employing from twenty-five to sixty men,
and involving a capital of over one million
dollars.
AFTER PosTMAsTERs.-The bill in
troduced by senate Edmunds. to prevent
abuses in the sale OF stamps and stamped
envelopes, provides that no postmaster OF
deputy postmaster, or other persons en-
trusted with stamps or stamped envelopes,
shall dispose of them otherwise than in the
regular course of official business, Mt the
face value and for cash. Violators of the
foregoing to be deemed guilty of embezzle-
ment, and punished by n fine not exceeding
81, 900, or by imprisonment not exceeding
one year. or both. The bill requires an
affidavit to be attached to the quarterly re-
turns,