The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-07
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR
Epitaphs give us ''taffy." q r..
November smiles blandly.

Vesuyius has again assumed its crown
of brilliants. lfFHf1
An air apparent: The wind blowing
in the window.
Voters register in Virginia every
day-with the bell punch.
North Carolina girls go out picking
rattles from r~attlesnakes.
In trying to become n statesman,
Kearney ruined a first class drayman.
Dead-heads ought never to hiss the
play, says the New York Tribune.
Russia will help Afghanistan sub rosa.
that is, under Great Britain's nose.
A little child of Dubuque locks so
much like its father that its mother
pounds II. st
Everybody is opposed to politics in
the pulpit, unless it be thrust at the
other side.
The temperance-talking Murphy has
been filling engagements in Arkansas
of late.
The meanist m%onopolist in the world
is the individual who tries to run n
whole church.
Subject for discussion among young
chickens in the country: ''The broils of
city life."
An Indiana baby died from ov Great
ing gingerbread. Gingerbread should
be handled gingerly.
Hon. Robert Harrison, chief justice
of Ontario, after four years. service,
has died, aged 46.
The New York Graphic has noticed
that it is Mr.. Beecher's uniform habit
to appear before his regiment in full
dress.
There certainly are marked prospects
of an abundance of snow this winter,
but noOn wants it thrown is his face
every day. RI
How to rise: Resolve you will; take
in n long breath kick of the clothes and
make a bound for the middle of the
room, cold or no cold.
When a st. Louis girl sneezes it is n
sing of damp weather or rain across the
river-in about two days, when the
spray comes down.
The supreme co urt of the District of
Columbia decides that a barber shop is
a sanitary necessity, and may be legally
kept open for business on Sundays.
Let the back taxes be collected from
Samuel J. Tilden and the receipts de-
voted to the settlement of the Halifax
fishing award without more ado, say
we.
There isa current belief among the
darkies in Georgia that an alligator
never bites q man more than once, and
then it is the same rs saving him in
two.
The Humpty-D umpty trick of be-
heading a man frightened a II year-old
girl TO death in Oil City, Pa. That
trick should be taken--off the boards.
General Sherman and Lieutenant
General Sheridan. Take them for all
in all, perhaps there are not two great
er soldiers living in any country of the
world to-day than these. They are
very different from one another, as
Grant, who formerly ranked them both.
The three constitute a great trio.
The latest ''what is it?'' ''human
monstrosity," or whatever you have a
mind to call it, is reported from the
wilds Of Tennessee, and described as a
scale-covered human figure, six and a
half feet tall, with red hair and beard,
web-footed, and possessed of an appe-
title for raw fish. The creature was
captured by DIR. Broylen, of Sparta,
Tenn, and is at present in Louisville,
Ky.
1t is currently believed bya majority
of the weather prophets of this land
that in the history of cold winters the
present one will prove TO have had no 4;
that the man who tests it by getting
drunk and staying out doors all night
will think he was born under an unlucky
that the keen winds will pierce a
mans yitals like at; that no form will
be able to stand its EN- -, and that n
fellows time will be all taken up hang
ing around the fire and putting more:.
Simple Lessons in Silence. &