The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-09-12

oe-t ~ cAy LOadOh pnyoAIlaL- -
does not state how the six-pence should
be cooked
Toombs, of Georgia, it is whispered
in southern democratic circles, will
enter politics in 1880, as a candidate for
governor.
1t is said a hornets nest contains as
many as 1900 cells. If any of the
hornets are at home they will show you
around the rooms.
Yellow fever has appeared in Cincin.
natl, and Sunday school scholars there
make five dollars an hour teaching the
old inhabitants how to pray.
The church which drops the heather
business and collects money for the
fever-stricken people of the South will
display both sense and religion.
A modern philosopher says that men
do not go to a pantry to buy pants, and
it may be added that women do not go
to the chemist to buy a chemise.
The old lady who vas asked by the
photographer to-'slook at the spot on
the WALL" after walking up to it, said
she couldn't see it without her specs.
To a man with o head for figures the
letter X represents an unknown guam
tity required. 1t is the same way with
xxx on a whisky barrel, only more SC.
A Frenchman has brought out a de-
vice for stopping a railroad train in an
instant, but the passengers won't stop
for forty or fifty seconds after the train
does.
1t was n great stride in civilization
when cities laid out parks for the bene-
ft of sweltering citizens, and then cov-
cred them with signs of ''keep off the
grass"
The mushroom season has opened.
You can tell them easily. Pick them
and eat them. If you survive, they are
mushrooms. If they kill you, they are
t~oad-stools.
Beautiful, beautiful silken hair, how
/ wonder where you aire, whether you
belong to the head you adorn, or
whether from another girls head you
were shorn.
Disorder in n drawing room is vul.
gar; in an an~tiquary's study, not; the
black battle stain on a soldiers face Is
not vulgar, but the dirty face of a
housemaid Is.
The prohibition lists Of Massachu-
sets are again in the field this year,
but 1t is said that they will not cast
more than one-tbird rs many votes rs
they did last year.
7 g Christopher Columbus didn't discover
America any ooner than all his sailors
did, and it's mean to single n man
out Of q homesick crowd and call towns
and streets after him.
Experience is a dear teacher, is IL?
Somehow the experienced hen always
knows that the foraging in the next
yard is the best, and she never paid a
cent for the experience. either.
Guests of hotels in New Jersey are
not permitted to mash mosquitoes on
the walls, but must get lem down on
the floor and choke ZEN to death and
ring for the porter to draw off the
corpse.
Bereaved relatives, who send in a
long and very flattering piece of obitu-
airy poetry, ask: do you think we
coulu add anything moreP" Yes, you
might add a five dollar bill as u guaran-
tee of good faith.
The rising generation of democrats
Is not hopeful. A democratic paper
reports tue following: Newton
schoolma'am told one of her pupils
that lie would never be president If he
didn't study harder. Never expect to
be president, said the boy, doggedly;
I'm a democrat.'n
Congressman Rainey has spoken in
various parts Of South Carolina, and
reports the republicans well organized,
except in Edgeneld county, where no
republican organization is allowed to
exist. He does not believe that Hamp-
tons tricks, meant to conciliate the
colored people, will have any percepti-
BILE influence. -r rEFn
A mother was trying to break her
h~ve-year-old boy of a habit of lying by
telling him that all liars went to hell.
She gave him a moving account of the
%terrors Of the place, %whereupon he ex-
claimed: 'sWhy, mother, 1 couldn't
STAN itl' ''But you would be made to
stand it" said she. "Oh, well,'' said
the ~youngster, 'if I could STAN it l
don't care"
A Bergen county man pleasantly sat
down at breakfast, and his loving wife
said: Darling, does your head achep"
He replied, with sufficient dignity:
mo; why should you ask?" And she
said back, swell, dear, You came in at
3 O'Clock this. morning, and as you
couldn't hang your hat on the rack,
you put the rack down on the floor, and
said you'd hang every hat in the house
on it; and I thought your head might
ache.