The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-22
OUR CHIP BASKET.
Filled Here and There Among our Ex-
changes.

The proper time for a girl to marry
is after she has counted up her cash
and finds she has enough to support
herself in case her husband turns poll
tician.
Brigham Young, being a little lame,
wisely departed in season. He would
have been dreadfully bothered as a dis.
ciple Of Kearney, whose order is, Pool
your issues"
In Pennsylvania the crop OF apples
exceeds anything before known. In
Washington county an entire orchard
has sold at two cents per bushel, hand
picked and delivered.
Industry does not always pays. Let
n husband be seen oiling the hinges of
the doors in his house, and his wife will
at once charge him with intending to
remain out till midnight.
The island of Cyprus at one time con-
tanned nine different Kingdoms, and
more than a million inhabitants. Ow-
ing to the alleged peculiar tempera-
ment of its people, it was called ''the
home of love and beauty"
"Who," asks an inquisitive editor,
rs paying our national debit" Well,
there is no use of keeping the secret any
longer. We are paying it; We have
paid millions and millions of it since
the war closed, but we intend to stop it
Mt the end of the next fiscal year. 1t
makes a frightfully large hole in our
salary.
A correspondent of the Cape May
Wure groans Mt the change that has
come over the style of the bathing
dresses. mo skirt below the hips, and
tights, scarce reaching the knees, may
DO In place at common concert saloons,
but such display by persons who claim
to be respectable, shocks the modesty
of your humble servant.n
The Butler movement in Massachu-
sets is rapidly taking on the proper
tions Of a tidal wave. Not only is the
announcement of the Generals candida
cy hailed with delight by the plain peo-
pie, but the most experienced and as
tute politicians of the State are making
haste to give in their adhesion and to
take the lead in the work of organiza-
tion.-[N. Y. Sun.
Courtship in Portugal is queerly con-
Quoted. When n young man there gets
sweet on a girl he never hints ice cream
once, but stands around the curbstone
in the broiling sun and permits the
damsel to feast her eyes on him from
an upper window. IL the girl heaves
ont a painful of ashes on him, he con-
cludes that his addresses are not re-
quired, and he moves on to the next
house.
While Adam and Eve were yet in
Eden, when our fair young grand
mother knew there wasn't another liv-
ing soul In all the wide, wide world but
herself and her snoring husband, we
don't suppose she ever went to sleep
without first looking under the couch
OF moss and leaves ''for a man." and
rousing Adam from his first sweet nap
to ask him if he was sure he had locked
the front door. f1
The Chicago Times notes as an Incl
dent of the desperate condition of the
labor market, an occurrence which
took place at the stock yards in that
city. Six men applied at a packing
Ing house for work. They were offered
employment at 81. 80 per day, the rate
that has usually been paid for the kind
of labor offered. They shook their
heads and walked off with the remark
that they..would starve FIRST. They pre-
ferred TO tramp.
The hereditary King of Cyprus has
turned up at st. Petersburg. He wants
to sell his birthright to England. He
claims to be the last of the Lusignans,
descendants of the Kings of Cyprus and
Armenia, and has had some sort of
recognition from the Russian Imperial
family, on whose bounty lie has lived
since his fortune was swept away in the
futile instruction Of 1927. By the way,
the last Of the Lusignans, a penniless
artisan, was said to have died in Italy
last year, leaving several daughters,
who were adopted by charitable folks.
At the funeral of an old lady, aged
81, in Brooklyn, some striking symbolic
decorations were noticed. The parlors
! OF the house were thronged with mourn