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

LaAA IA Va kltCh to a
dowry to the late Queen Mercedes has
been divided among the poor of Spain.
1t is said that the use Of fruit will
cure the thirst for liquor, and n of
our friends is trying branded peaches.
Never lie in wait for a man that is
heavier than you are, but walt till yon
get even with him. Weigh this well.
Many a ~stif-necked nan has bowed
his head in abject submission to the
demands of so unpretentious a thing as
a cucumber.
All Prussia got scared last month and
went to looking into American bacon
with microscopes. But they found no
trick in it or trichine. "
The only woman to whom Disraeli
pays any attention is tn at nice old lady
over there-what's her name?-Mrs.
Victoria something, widow.
Rev. John Jasper has moved to
another house in Richmond because he
could not pay his rent. The sun may
move, but not for this cause.
Twenty thousand cabin passengers
have left the New York port for Eu-
rope this summer. this being the largest
number during any single season.
A watermelon grows wrong side out.
As 1t is now no one can tell what a poor
bargain he has made until he gets the
green thing home and saws it in two.
A girl in Wilkes county, Pa, was
~overheated when baptised, and died a
few minutes after coming out Of the
water. Her murderer is still at large.
The Cleveland Herald thinks that If
Sunday-school books were not made so
fearfully and dreadfully good, boys
would not turn in despair to pernicious
juvenile literature.
The older the railroad and its man
agement, the safer travelling. On the
lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, out of
1S,3Gl, 039 passengers transported in
1876, not one was killed.
There is a growing conviction in the
minds of smokers that a vest pocket
should be made deep enough to entirely
hide a cigar from the %scrutinizing gaze
Of the man who never has any.
A European consul writes to say that
the only way our manufacturers can
secure a trade in Europe is to send their
goods there. He has communicated u
very valuable piece of Information.
Mr.. J.. Wilson Mcdonald, the
sculptor, has nearly completed the
statue of General Custer for West
Point. The attitude chosen is that of
soldier at bay, surrounded by Indians.
The Hebrew banker, Mr.. Seligman,
who was denied admission to Judge
IIilton's hotel at Saratoga last season.
is living plainly in n small cottage al
Long Branch, with his family, this
year.
Clara Morris is t~remblingly reading
a manuscript play which has been sent
her by Chvrles Reade. She knows that
she must call it good and accept it, or
suffer annihilation at the point of the
authors pen.
II should just like to see somebody
try to abduct me-" said Mrs. Smith at
the breakfast table the other morning.
Him so should /, my dear-so should
l." said Mr.. Smith, with exceeding
earnestness.
The New Orleans Picdynne is of the
opinion that the man who ties on his
wife's Sunday bonnet and helps her of
to church displays a desire to go t.
heaven, Tor off ishing," adds a wicked
Michigan paper
The Harpers demanded a carton of al
Indian depicted as a mean, sneakin,
thief and murderer, and TIL. Mast mad
one. N. B.-But he started for Europ
before the picture appeared and began
circulating West. p. S.-GautiouI
Mast!
There may be beauty in a rose, there
may be rapture in listening to music
floating over silent waters; there may
be lovelincss all around, but a man sci.
dom pays much attention to them
while he is breaking in a pair of tight
shoes.
The London Queen says that the de,
mand OF the time is for ome who
can teach women. Every living mem.
Der of the gentle sex who reads the fore.
going gets up in her heart and says ''I'd
like to see the woman that could teacl
mel" and we want to bet on it..
A New York paper gives the infor
motion that there are scarcely any ole
maids in Russia, and we do not wonder
at it. Russia is a cold and disagreed
BILE country. Most any man would for
swear his liberty sooner than get W
and kindle fires in a climate where the
mercury remains CONCEALED nine
months in the year.
When a women has labored hard or
n hot day, over steaming suds, to get
a large washing done, and then, after
carefully hanging the clothes out on an
almost interminable length of line, sud.
denly sees the thing collapse, and the
entire product of her DAVIS work trail.