The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-15
LIEN AND THINGS.

Mr.. Farjeon. the novelist, and his wife
are expect, d To arrive here next week in the
steamship Italy.
General Fremont is said TO have so little
money that he is obliged to live close and
dress stability. That French swindle didn't
pan out well for him.
-Wenden Phillips was told by a fortune
teller a few days ago that he would die in a
strange bed. HE therefore refused to leave
Boston for a single night.
The EmperorW William is to hayea golden
wedding next spring, aud verygreatfestiyities
are expected in Berlin. Many poientates arc
to attend it, and it is even hoped that Quee,
Victoria will appear.
MIR. Spurgeon gave his congregation the
other daysome peraonal information concern.
ing hats. He sa d Ilat in his younger day.
tho chimuey-pot hat was indispensable If Il
rrHacherwisht dtomaintnin his respsctability;
bat that ha nowwore any kind of lat, r gard
less of consequences.
The Evil Eye" in Wallachia. What is
called the EVIL eye" is supposed to be very
potent in Wallachia- A Roumaniau think
,hinksthat the greatest injury you can do tc
his or her child is to admire it, for then til.
evil eye" has passed from YOU TO the child,
and il will fade away and desc it is be-
lieved. The ''evil eye" also effects bullocks
and horses. There is one preventive most
people a ten to. A child or adult or ANNA,
decorated with red ribbons is 'imprevious to
the EVIL eve." aud hence most people wear
something scarlet abou them, and even have
gen, rally a red flag about their horns.
-Charlts Reade, in a letter that has Just
appeared in the London Telegraph, makes n
vehement appeal for mercy for the two men
and two women who were recently convicted
at Perge, England, of starving to death
Elizabeth Staunton. He says that while a
Jury e~ighty-seven years & declared q man
guilty of starving O boy to death through
criminal omission" to give him food, there
Is no precedent of as many as four persons
being found guilty of such neglect of duty !;
and he asks: docs this case, looked into
and understood, support the new theory Of
criminal responsibility, infinitely divisible,
without diminution of guilt" Mr.. Reade
also charges that illegal aud improper evil
dence WINS admitted-''such as no prisoner
with his mouth clo-ei has ever been assassi-
mated by in my time"
-BrainStlmulant-The bestpossible thing
Tor a man to do when he feels too weak to
carry anything through, is to 60 to bed and
sleep as long US he can. This is the only re-
cnperation of brain force; because during
sleep the brain is in a state of resin q co.,
ditlou to receive and appropriate particles Of
nntriment from the blood, which take the
place OF those which have been consume | by
previous lnbor-since the very act of think
ing burns up solid particles, Us every tan {:
tue wheel or screw of the steamer is the re.
SUIT Of consumption by fire of the fuel =. tbs
furnace. The supply of consumed brnia-suL
rance can onlybe had from the nutritive par.
Eies in the blood, which wereobteined from
sae food eaten previously and the brrin is
so constituted that it can best receive and az.
proPrinte 10 itself those nutri.ive particles
curing the state of rest, of quiet and s%tillness
Of sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in
themselves. They gotd the brain. and force
!: to n greater consumption of its substance,
un'ilit is 80 exhausted that there is not power
sIongh left to receive a supply.