The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-21
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

AEhoUNdL AM hhlIJULhh
Stanley is roaming around in Africa
once more.
Modjeska is writing an article for a
coming Scritnsr's. /,
A famine is reported in Siberia
what grows there anyhow?
Wilhemj 1.-THE violinist, has purchased
the Glen Mitchell property at Saratoga
for S12, 500.
Den Thompson is taking a vacation
in the neighborhood of his old home at
Keene, New Hampshire.
Governor-elect Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, is fat, good natured and hospit-
able, and nearly 20 years old.
An old Scotch lady thought that Tai
mage was talking the deaf and dumb
alphabet with his hands and feet.
M. De Lesseps, of interoceanic canal
notoriety, is 70 years old and has eight
children under 10 years of age.
Cardinal Bonaparte is trying to in
duce Eugene to come to Rome and en-
ter tue convent of the sacred heart.
A fortune-teller known as "Metta,' u
died recently in Vienna, leaving S40,-
600 and the business to her daughter.
The two daughters of the late Gener-
al r. E. Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred.
are spending their summer in Norway.
These wheelbarrow men are getting
to be a good deal of a nuisance. Can
anybody tell just how many are on the
road now?
Louis ]. Jennings has become Jay
Gould's travelling companion. White
law Reid had better look out for his
editorial head.
Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut,
is said to be an aspirant for the seat in
the United States senate now occupied
by Mr.. Eaton.
The ex-Empress Eugene sends a let
ter of thanks through the London
Times to all who gave her expressions
of symhathy in her great grief.
The desperate attempt to kill the fair
reputation of Senator Conkling seems
likely to fail; Sprague himself is the
real villain in the whole affair.
Some one says it would be an inter-
esting and valuable calculation to as
certain just how much solid theological
good campmeetings accomplish. We
think SO. too.
The head waiter at one of the hotels
in the White Mountains is a Harvard
graduate of the class of 1876. While
experimenting the dining-room he has
prepared for the ministry.
Governor Crosweil, Of Michigan, is to
be married September Is, to Miss Lizzie
Musgrave, the belle of Charlotte, Branch
county. The governor is a widower
of "a, and the bride but 81.
Queen Victoria received last month
the fine salmon, weighing twenty-five
pounds, from Canada, which was caught
and landed by Princess Louise during
the Duke of Argyll's visit.
Brigadier General A. H. Terry is
peculiarly we'll satisfied with Colonel
Miles success, and is confident that
Miles is able as we'll as willing to keep
Sitting Bull and his followers across the
line.
Miss Annie Louise Cary vas surpris-
ed at her home in Maine the other day
broiling a nice steak for herself. Her
cooking was said to be as fine as her
singing. What a glorious wife she
would make!
The General Wool monument, weigh
ing $50 tons, being only a few feet
shorter than the famous Cleopatra's
needle, destined for lakewood. Cemetery,
Troy, N. Y, is about to be taken from
Rockland, Me.
Carlyle has been very i'll. His condi-
ton is now said to be so much improv-
ed as to relieve the anxiety of his
friends. At the same time the doctor
still visits him daily, and by medical
advice Mr.. Carlyle drives out as fire.
quently as possible.
One of the sailors of the steamer
Montana, which sailed yesterday for
Liverpool, arrived at the pier a few
minutes too late. Nothing daunted,
however, he threw his coat to a COM
panion, jumped into the river and
struck out for the steamer. He was
picked up by a boat in the middle of
the river and succeeded in rowing along
side his ship, and was soon taken on
board. Plucky fellow.
A Narrow Escape.
During the campaign of 1900 Napo-