The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-27
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

the table on crutches.
Another momentous occurrence-Sen-
ator B. II. Hill, Sc years old, has just
shaved off his beard, and consequently
looks ten years younger.
President Hayes gave $500 of the ST.
700 that was raised to pay the claim of
the lawyers against Casanave, of re-
turning board notoriety.
General Hussein Tevft, who has for
seven years taken charge of the manu-
facture in America of the arms pur-
chased by Turkey, is about to return
home.
The Cincinnati Commercial expresses
the opinion that "Wendell Phillips has
furnished the proof that he is the most
able and eloquent fool of the century"
The good people of Baltimore are so
earnestly opposed to Sunday excursions
of all kinds they recently stopped a
a train that vas loaded with passengers
going to a campmeeting.
The sultan is said to be anxious to
get rid Of Aleko a governor general
OF Roumelia. He never forgave the
Pasha for refusing to veal the Turk
ish fez when he first greeted the Bull
garians.
The United States has demanded the
sum of s103, 900 damages for the late
fishery outrages at Fortune Bay. The
whole fishery question between this
country and England is likely to be re-
opened.
Lord Dufferin, the former governor
general of Canada, has proved to be
such a~diplomatist that he is to beremov-
ed from st. Petersburg to Constantin-
ople. Thence to the vice-regal palaces
of is but a step.
There are now only two male mem
bers of the Edgeworth family left, nei-
Their of whom lives at the old family
residence at Edgeworthtown, thouge
they still receive a small annual income
from the heavily mortgaged estate.
The widely circulated Glrterlaubs. of
Lsipsic, Germany, describes what it
calls American surprising parties:''
"After having had their fill OF enjoy
ment, the company take their depar-
ture as suddenly and quickly as they
arrived, after having turned the whole
house topsy turvy. To leave every
thing in the direst confusion is consid-
cred Indispensable" A family that
has a large acquaintance, says the Gar
tenlaube, may be visited in one evening
by two or three of these remarkable
surprising parties"
Thus is described the Archduchess
Christine of Austria, who is selected to
be the future Queen of Spain: She is
81 years of age. Though not hand
some, her face is attractive. She is
said to have the captivating gift of con-
~versation and brilliant eyes. She is
fond of dancing, though she is abbess,
croziered and mitered, of the noble
chapter of Prague, and has twelve can
onessses nnder her Jurisdiction. For
her religious duties the archduchess has
an income of $40. 900 a year. To be an
abbess Of the chapter of Prague it is
necessary first to be born an archdu-
chess.
Mr.. Henry Irving constantly receives
gifts from the admirers of his genius.
At Sheffield, one night in the grouse
season, a man in the gallery threw u
brace of birds on the stage, with a rough
note of thanks and compliment, and an
other workman sent the actor q knife
which he had himself. Mr.. Irving is
the owner of David Garrick's ring; the
cross which Edmund Kean wore in
Orchard ILL.,; !" Charles Kean's prompt
book of Louis XII. and Edmund Kean's
"Hamlet" sword. Mr.. Irving's rooms
are filed with art treasures; the win
dows are glazed in colors illustrative Of
birds: and the mantelpiece is an old
oak cabinet with with a silver shield in
the center.
That boy.murderer, Jesse Pomeroy,
in the Massachusetts state prison, is a
perpetual source not only of newspaper
paragraphs, but of anxiety On the part
of his keepers. When all the prisoners
we're removed from the old prison to
the new one, a camp-folding chair,
which had belonged to Jesse, was left
behind. Al subsequent accidental ex-
animation of this disclosed the fact
that a stone-cutter's steel chisel, ten
inches long and weighing nearly two
pounds, was concealed neatly in one of
the arms, which had been followed out
to receive it, leaving only the bare shell
of the wood. If the chair had been sent
to Concord and placed in Pomeroy's
| cell, it is the opinion of experts that in
| an hours time he would have regained
his liberty.
The stories about the Pope's seclusion
| are revived by a German paper, which
says that no one but his brother and
| his own three secretaries is allowed to
enter his private apartments; while
frequently his holiness works in his bed
room, the door of which he locks on go
ing out. The work of economy is car
ried on relentlessly, salaries having
been cut down, and some eighty feast
days on which Plus TX. exacted no
work from the officials of the vatican
having been struck from the calendar Of
holidays. The higher officials, also,