The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-10
VARIETIES.
Tho Globe Theatre, Boston, closes for
want of supunrf

Father Bollig, the new custodian of the
Vatican Basilica at Rome, Is said to be the
master of ffty-two languages.
About an acre of snow bank was dug over
near Pittsfield, under the superstition that q
missing girl was in it: but she returned alive,
having been on a visit to a schoolmate.
Russian war vessels in the Caspian are
hereafter to use petroleum instead of coal.
Experiments with the new trial rave proved
50 satisfactory that within a few weeks the
furnaces of seven war vessels nave been
altered to suit the new material.
Not far from Salzburg, Austria, il a great
mountain which consists of nothing but Beau.
tiful marble. The stone masons cut out
blocks and Columns of it, take them to the
great city, and build palaces of them, while
the chips are used to make playing marble.
for the young folks.
Iuckolotoo or Hannah, the E~squimaux
woman, who, with her husband and child,
was among the party separated from the
Poorfs and iioated for $50 days on an ice
foe, has Just died at Groton, Conn, having
never recovered from the effects Of that try
ing time. She had learned to speak and
read English fuently, and intended soon to
Join the Baptist church.
1.-The question is, whether, in this age Of
utilization, We are going TO allow the bodies
of the dead to remain untitled" says the
Scientific american. The writer tells of how
the skin of a human being makes soft, pill
able, hight brown leather when tanned, like
fine calfskin, but more porous. The available
akin OF q good-sized man will make two pairs
Of boots. Another way of utilizing bodies
suggested is TO cremate them in retorts,
converting the volatile matter into illumins
ting gas, and the bones into phosphate.
The French Monthyon prize of 1000
francs. for virtue, has been awarded to an
ancient spinster, Marie Antoinette Quillard,
263 Rue st. jacques. She is an aged inva.
lid, who acts as mother to forty orphan
children. Her only regret is that she doesn't
get the money to spend on her flock, 1t being
reserved In case she should become utterly
incapable of exertion. Miss Quillard recalls
with gentle pride the fact that a sergeant
once proposed to her, who afterwards rose
to be a marshal in France. His name was
Bazaine.
Barney WiIliams's mother is dead. The
old lady, whose name was Flaherty, was
quite 3 character in her own way, and pos
ssssed peculiarities which, to all who were
familiar with them, went far toward account
ing for the quick wit and rolling Irish hu-
MOI of her son. II was one Of the best
points Of the comedians character that his
mothers comfort and well.being were al
ways his first consideration. As soon as he
was able to do SO he bought and furnished a
house for her, and up to the time of his
death in the early part of last summer he
kept her amply provided with everything
her simple tastes desired.
An old man walked through Virginia City,
on his why "to some place where folks
wouldn't crowd" He said that fifty years
go he went to reside on the Missouri River,
n the woods, where game was abundant,
md the solitude suited him. Civilizations
ts westward progress drove him out finally,
md he migrated TO Oregon, whore he sup
posed that he would never be bothered In
hat way. To his surprise, a few years ago,
he noticed that civilization was crowding
him again-this time advancing from the
Pacific. Eowhe is on his way TO the Rocky
Real cannibals have been discovered by
missionaries on the islands of New Britain
md New Ireland, off the northeast coast Of
New Guinea. These natives are nude sava-
-ae of xha N,snptol Nm trpa uha live
more like beasts than human beinas. The
Rev. George Brown, @ Wesleyan missionary,
reports that he saw women roasting the leg
and thigh Of a man who had been killed in
aght. In another he counted thirty-fve
Jaw bones of men and women. Cannibal-
Ism seemed to be Common throughout the
islands, not as q religious rite, but as an or
binary means of subsistence. The natives
assured the missionary that the accounts
heretofore published Of a race of tailed hu-
man beings were true, and were certain that
these strange creatures were not monkeys.
The London Times describes the effect of
excessive ~intermarriage on the inhabitants
Of Portes, O little town in the province OF
Santauder, Spain. Until eighteen or nine
years ago., the village was quite shut of
from the rest of the world. Its inhabitants,
from their eve~r-recurring inter-marriages,
aad become quite q race of dwarfs. On mar
ket days the priests might be seen, with long
black coats and high black hats, riding in to
purchase the simple provision for n weeks
consumption-men of little intelligence and
90 learning, sprung from the lowest ranks.
About eighteen years ago the Galician labor
,rs or Gallegos, from the mines of Galicia,
warmed into the town for lodging, etc, and
tince their colonization the population has
Increased in strength. stature, education, in
sellect and morality. Their intellects, also,
have improved-intellects which had been
tunted, dwarfed and ruined by their fire.
Suent intermarriages.
The sands of the steppes of Central Asia
are the abiding place of many species of
loathsome and poisonous creeping things.
Mr.. Schuyler speaks of phalange (Solpugd
ironeoides), one of the long-legged spiders
Known popularity as the Hnrvestman, or the
Grandfather Graybeards, which has long
hair, land when walking seems as large as
ones two fists" This formidable beast is
given to biting when irritated, and with its
laws makes four little holes in the flesh.
The bite is poisonous though not deadly.
Its victim feels at first no more discomfort
than from the sting of a gnat, but after y
sime the pain spreads over the whole body,
and this is accompanied with fever and great
exhaustion. A Chinese officer states in his
travels in Turkiatan, that the body of the
largest .Soipuga is the size of a butternut.
spiders of such dimensions, with their big,