The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-16

Women above fifty cannot marry in
Portugal. The law is designed as a
protection for aged and innocent bach
elors.
Wales is disposed to be very civil to
America at present. He can never for
get that one of u great men taught
him poker.
The young woman who knows how
to paint judiciously is surer of a hus-
band than she who faints, faint she
ever Sc discreetly.
Fashionable young ladies say ''darn
'it."-Boston Post. But when it comes
to a stocking they get their mother or
the hired girl to do it.
1t was OIL entering a barber shop,
says an exchange, that Rienzi said: ~
come not here to talk" Certainly not;
he went there to listen.
A tramp passed through town Tues
day, displaying a flag at half mast, out
of respect for the memory of the foun-
dation of his pantaloons.
The King of Siam has 5000 wives,
all living under the same roof at Bang
kok. And there isn't a single divorce
court in the whole kingdom.
1t has been decided a difficult task to
do two things at the same time, and
that's why, we take it, that many mod
ern clergymen find it difficult to preach
and practice the same religion.
81 wish you had been Eve,n said an
urchin to a stingy aunt proverbial for
her n "Why SOP" because"
said he, ''you would have eaten all the
apple instead of dividing it,"
There is no brighter moment in the
life of a young lady of tone than when
the happy discovery is made that sire
can at last balance a pair of eyeglasses
on her nose without squirting.
At Lowell, Mass, q minister's wife
believes herself to have been cured OF
eve ophthalmia by the Scriptural
method of prayers of the faithful, ac-
companied by amounting with oil.
A country girl, on being asked if she
knew what a fashionable reception was,
replied: ut is a gathering of the sexes
where ONE gossip with women on
the latest fashion, and with men on the
latest scandal"
If you take one of the new silver dol
lars, pour a little muriatic acid on the
figure of the eagle, and set it out in tine
sun for twenty minutes, and when you
come to look at it, it will be gone. And
the tramp who took it will be gone also.
A base ball match has been played
between 2,210 pounds of the population
of Guelph, Ont, and 2,167 pounds Of
prominent citizens of Hamilton, the
former making thirty-four waddles,
while the latter could only pant round
the diamond seventeen times.
The waning of the honeymoon-An-
gelina (suppressing an inclination TO
yawn)-"How nice it would be il some
friend were to turn up; wouldn't it,
Edwin" Edwin latter yawning elab-
orately)-"Y-e-e-s-s! or even some en-
emy."
Nurse-"Did you put that nasty mud
on the doorstep, Master Charles2''
Master Charles-HNo, nurse" Nurse
(artfully)-"But 1 saw you from the
window" Charles (more artfully)-
''That you didn't, for | looked up to all
the windows before 1 did it,"
There are twelve women on the COM
mittee at the Paris Exposition which is
to decide on the merits of tine mustards
Of various nations. The naughty men
use so much tobacco and alchohol that
their taste cannot be trusted. The
mustard which produces the most tears
will be pronounced the best.
An exchange says: The absurdity of
the statement that over 5000, 600 of
men are out of employment in the
United States is shown by the fact that
eiciO 1 pup ~f,ooO,OoO duult uidlcS III
all the cities and towns Of the Union;
and tho total number of those who earn
a living by manual labor is but 3 900, 900.
The total number of adult males who
live on lands is between 1000, 900 and
100000, but it cannot fairly be said
that any portion of these are idle.
A horrible story comes to us from
across the water. Some students at
Kieff, while walking in the woods with
their professor, discovered the body of
a girl of 10 hanging to a tree. They
succeeded in cutting the rope and ap-
plying restoratives before life was ex-
tinct, but they were interrupted in
their humane work by the monks of a
monastery of the Greek Church neal
by, who declared that the girl had been
put to death because she was possessed
Of a demon. An investigation has
proved that the child belonged to an
honorable family, and the monks had
attempted to kill her to conceal the fact
that n of their number had de-
bauched her.