The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-04
VARIETIES.
In Maine there is one divorce to ever,
twelve marriages.

Boston has to assist about 1000 poor
families every year.
There are now s., $50 Federal oflce-hold.
ers, or one to every $50 of the population
of the country.
The number of Jews in the United States
Is estimated at 100000, of whom one-third
are in New York.
To a man who served four years in the
penitentiary, convicted of a crime which he
never committed, the Iowa Legislature paid
$4,000.
An exchange asks: What is it that
gives a greenback dollar its purchasing
powery" Why it is simply the fact that
the fellow you a to purchase something
of would rather have the greenback dollar
than the thing you want to purchase.
Communistic feeling is the greatest and
nearest peril of this country, and of social
order and safety everywhere, and those who
Encourage it are doing q mischief more ter.
rible and irreparable than any ordinary in.
cendiarism. -MdidHGpois Neios.
1t is said to be "a curious fact about
gas" that the less you burn the more you
will have to pay for; " but the fact has
been so long and so universally known that
1t is the next thing to defamation of char
actor to call it curious.
Thousands of good people never half en-,
Joy even enjoyable homes. because they
are always looking ahead, and never learn
the beauty and value of to-day. They 90
through life expecting enjoyment by and
by, but without the art to take it as il
comes. They learn too late that they
passed happiness on TIE road without re.
cognizing her.
The Spectator says that there are artisan
families in India and Damascus who have
worked at the same work day by day for q
thousand years, peasant families who have
not only titled the same fields, but have
gone into them and left Them at the same
hour, according to the season, from a period
before the birth of Christ. They have nc
wish for change, no ambition to do better
no inclination to roam, no sense of failure,
because they are as their forefathers were,
and as their sons will be.
There are forty millions Of people in the
United States. II each one economies but
ten dollars-saves that amount in food OF
clothing or travel or luxury-the sum Of
that economy is a withdrawal of $500, 000,.
900 from the circulation of the country,
and worse than that, a subtraction Of
$4OO, 900 900 from the necessity of produce
ton. In other words, it is n p~aralytic
stroke. If this is lone several times we
have a succession of paralytic strokes, and
this is probably the secret of hard times. -.
FH"ddeph'd PTess.
The value of the fruit crops in the United
States is estimated by the Government sta
tisticinn at $140,00 0 900 annually, or about
half the value of the wheat crop. The
value the annual crop of Michigan is put
acres az v;nevarls nrod,o;nm IN mo 400
gallons of wine annnalIv besides yineSor
raisins brandy and fresh arono0 IN
other states nrodnca : 0oo 400 oa,ro,s 40
vine annually Tbe sinoIe nort ~ Wan,
Va renorted q 00O 0o6 onorts 90 80
berries last veor UIirois whosa sr,;t
growing ;s of recent or;a;n now hos aon ono
acres az orchards 0''V'
The large female anaconda fE,ln,ct,Ls
muItnus) now IN the Zooiogical Societys
repthe mouse, London, purchased on the
10Th OF fenrnary, le.I mas invariably de-
cIneo tne most tempting oIers OF iood IN
I'll the otner day when she Killed and
swallowed a duck. 1t Is impossible to say
now long she ma nave Deen without 1000
previous TO her ARRIVAL at the gardens.
one thlng Is certain: however, That she
could nob nave taken 1000 whlie IN the box
IN winch she arrived from south America,
as sne was SO CLOSELY packed as 70 DC barely
aDle 10 move.
There are plenty of newsnaners in Mex;co
Init thew are typocraphicaliy and editor;alIv
oueer specimens. Thew have neither local
telepraphic news To- sneak of Init are
nonderous in the way of "leader1 and IN.
erarv lore The absence Of local neyvs 10
n distressing feature You scan their nogea
in vain for accounts of fires. murders. n1h.
lie meetings reviews of troons n%ol;tico,
meetings. court reports. or any other events
which with us 90 to make nm the local col.
umns. A bull fight, il it is n good one. is
eulogized to the extent of a dozen lines. If
a poor one, the Monitor of Monday will dis.
miss it with a paragraph like the following
90 The bull fight at T~ialnepanlta on yester.
day was mald ma;ssimd. HEADINGS Neai.
can Notes.
81. iieIIe ohoe NlslOeu irienu VINO hao n
sister greatly ADMIRED IN society u whom
ne hau never previously seen Shall !
Ien you sa"r lhe author OF a ana
'nsniia, W IN Ihh' piohue nay OIL SLOW
mmoSneiHeh's, VI haNeh a ~ clue eyes
mnioh ene . ySur llanf aum1rerS nnas
ene o9 80 ouo INC Inaiu-
en- olusl po GuS showing that -. flerre
was "ithouI iioLinatton as 10 her soCla4
~ go oIPoi SLnS 70 answer ms
W. IIsS ~ nc noI you most au'
~ M"s $500, "iuCee' active
~ IN. - III 80 oiPps @ WIN
t1rnod 10 bar hrotbar % ,aa Ie Hiaiuen
WI 80 WI al no 10 a . vi rage,
pnt tho ~ $780, anS my secteoI
q W roroIa.;on maa w"I ~ .es'eIs rePneu:
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