The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-21
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

The monarch of the seize: The sheriff.
Speaking of plain people, all coquettes
are playin' women.
Weston is at a Stamford (Conn!)
farm, training his.legs.
King Alfonso will not be % years of
age until next November.
Queen Victoria reads the great papers
of London every day before noon.
A second crop of Strawberries and
and green peas are maturing in parts of
England.
Who would have supposed that Col
onel Ingersoll would have established a
religio-politico sectp
Matthew and John Gray Vassar have
decided to erect laboratory at Vassar
College, costing $4,000.
The aeronaut, Professor Wise, pro.
poses to ascend from st. Louis next
week, making his 462d aerial trip.
1t is estimated that a yigilant army
of 10000 men would be required to stop
smuggling along the Canadian border.
In England, says a foreign medical
journal, a doctor is considered by the
aristocracy as only a sort of upper trades
man.
Mr.. Appleton, of Boston, predicts
the completion OF the Panama ship
canal in ten years, at a cost of $780,
OO0, 600.
When a stump orator doesn't speak
loud enough in New York, the outer
members of the audience yell, 'Give
US a telephone!"
Sara Bernhard has yielded to. the
pleadings of her manager, and consents
to appear as Juliet-if Dewitt Talmage
can be secured as Romeo.
General Noyes will leave Paris the
10th Of October to visit a part of Eu-
rope and to discharge a commercial
mission for his government.
The architect of the capitol at Wash
ington has contracted for an electric
light of great magnitude and brilliancy,
to be placed On the dome, at a cost of
5000.
JEFF Davis continues to write flatter-
ing letters to southern ladies, but none
of his vast fortune has as yet gone to
aid the yellow-feyer sufferers.
The city of Boston has ordered a
bronze copy Of Mr.. Greenough's marble
statue of Governor Winthrop in the
capitol at Washington, to cost $4,000.
Sir Patrick L. Macdougall, the gen.
eral commanding at Halifax, lately
provoked a row by driving his four-in-
hand through a funeral procession.
Sara Bernhardt, during her six weeks
visit to London, is reported to have real
lied $1,000 by private performances,
and upwards of $4,000 by her paint
ings.
Talmage is reported to have declared
that the only positive suffering inflicted
on him by newspapers is when some
malicious wretch spells his name
"lalmadge."
The New York York Times fears
that its city will be buried some day
like the ancient Mediterranean towns,
unless the street-sweeping department
attends closely to its duties.
Mrs. Matte Potts, of New York,
who has undertaken to walk from Phila-
delphia to New Orleans and return in
five months, has reached Charlotte, N.
c., on her return. She is trying to earn
$4,000.
That was q wonderful exhibition of
self-denial in C~ardington, o., recently,
where a mob destroyed a large stock of
liquors and cigars without sampingthem
''because," as the dispatch says, 'sthey
had resolved not to smoke or drink any
thing, but give all to the flames"
The young telegraph operator who,
during the riots of 1877, in Pittsburgh,
maintained his position at the telegraph
wire lear the station, and sent dispatch
es until the flames drove him off, is a
favorite with Colonel Thomas Scott,
and was with the railway magnate
throughout his recent European trip.