The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-08-13

Those folks who have been puiled into
believing that the car of Russia is a mis-.
ahthrope should be around when he goes
10 button his shirt behind and discovers
That the button isn't there.
A Bath, Maine, minister oficiated Mt the
funeral OF a forme lady member of his
cnurch and prayed earnestly in behalf of
tne Dereayed husband and the one to
come who shall fill the place made vacant
by the death Of our deceased sister,
You can't tell who your friends are until
you have had q stroke Of bad luck. When
the financial sugar is gone the flies go too
a lost pocketbook is pretty sure to make
startling revelations about those who have
progressed to love You for yourself alone.
They have just found a dozen mummies
IN a cave in Kentucky. Nobody knows
who they are, but the feeling prevails that
they are Old Line Wings and hat early in
the fall they will be fumbling about trying
70 get a chance vote.-PhRddaphia Bulletin.
Now, Joannes, Jacobus, Gulielmus, Ar.
chibaldus, Georgius, Carolus, ct Samivel,
Th do you propose doing for a livingi
Inc professions are played out, classics
dont pay, the press is crowded. Take our
advice and learn q trade.-N. Y. CONNER
cidi Adce,tiser.
#H# EHHH
No ONE PERFEcT.-One day Won will he
pleased with a friend, and the next day
disappointed in him. 1t will be SO to the
end and you must make up your mind to
1t, and not quarrel, unless for very grave
causes. Your friend you have found out;
and You cannot expect to get much more
Than you give. You must look for much
weakness, f~oolishness, and vanity in human
nature; it is unhappy if you are too sharp
in seeing them.
The place for Americans to be educated
IN is America. The notion that a boy will
be better educated in Germany than in the |
United States is q delusion and a snare.
The notion that the German university
affords better preparation for a useful life
than an American college is a more pardon
able form of the same error.-Christian
Union.
h dread of poverty is, within certain
bounds, a very wholesome feeling it is a
great incentive to industrious exertion. but
II 1t be allowed to wax too strong. then.
a river which overflows or bursts its
banks, within which it is SO useful, it be-
comes a nuisance, and a source of enormous
evil. 1t is to be feared that in American
society it has assumed this Formidable
magnitude. The horror of poverty has
surpassed almost every other horror. Prac-
tically speaking, to thousands upon thou
poverty is hell moderate income.
purgatory; and great wealth, heaven.
WHAT is HOME" Tome" savs DR.
Claiming, is the chief school of human
virtue. Its responsibilities, Joys, sorrows.
Smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form
the chief interests of human life. Go where
q man may, home is the center to which
his heart turns. The thought of his home
nerves his arm and lightens his toll. For
that his heart yearns when he is afar of.
Ihere he garners up his best treasures.
God has ordained for all men alike the
highest earthly happiness in providing for
the sanctuary of home"
THE FUTURE. The future ia always
fairyland to the young. Life is like a beau
lfu! and winding lane on either side
bright flowers and beautiful butterflies and
tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to
and to taste, so eager are we to hasten
an opening which we imagine will be more
still. But, by degrees, as we ad-
vance the trees grow bleak. the flowers and
butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we
ind we have arrived at n desert waste, in
The centre a stagnant and Lethean lake,
over which wheel and shrek the dark
ed birds, the embodied memories of the
past.
A SMILE.-A smilel Nothing on earth
,an smile but the race of men. Gems may
lash reflected light, but what is a diamond
lash compared with an eyeflash and a mirth
flash? Flowers cannot smile. This is a
charm which even they cannot claim.
Birds cannot smile, nor can any living thing.
It is a p~rerogative of man. 1t is the color
love wears, and cheerfulness, and
ioy-these three. 1t is the light in the
Of the face by which the heart