The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-09
GLEANINGS.

Southern men appear to enjoy the
pastime of shooting each other.
Three hundred tramps were vaccinat-
ed in New York the other night.
a new theater is to be built in
Brooklyn. 1t will be opened in Septem-
Der.
Two-ffths of the inmates of a
Russian prison have died within four
months.
A colony of New Hampshire shakers
tapped 1900 maple trees this spring.
The Boston %sub-treasury carries
S400, 900 in gold coin and a round mil
lion in silver.
Hartford, Conn.,, enjoys cheaper gas.
The price has been reduced to $50 a
thousand.
Alexander de Lavaissie de Lavergne
novelist and dramatic author, of Paris,
is dead.
Colonel Price, so years old and blind,
is the most active temperance reformer
in Indiana.
Gen. Hancock is the richest man in
the army.
Kentucky and Texas are ahead as as
sassin states.
Gen. Garfield likes to compose and
read Latin poems.
Senator Call, of Florida, has a little
face and looks like a revictualed Egyp-
tian.
Between disasters in Afghanistan
and Africa the British army is being
gradually wiped out.
The bridge between New York and
Brooklyn stands a monument of in
completeness.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has reduced the
city debt, during the past twelve
months, s31, 900.
A reduction in the price of gas to
private consumers from 1926 to 80 has
gone into effect at Boston.
Farmers report that the spring has
been very unfavorable thus far for the
manufacture of maple sugar.
A devil-fsh was captured at Santa
Barbara, CAL, last week, which meas
ured fourteen feet in diameter.
The exodus of negroes from the
south, and consequent arrivals at st.
Louis, show no signs of abatement.
The newest impertipence of counter
letters is to remove the bandage from
the eyes of justice as she appears on
$50 notes. Is it IN attempt at sar-
casm?
Surgeon Reyes, who won a national
reputation by going down the Missis-
sippi river on the relief boat Chambers
during the yellow fever epidemic, will
be placed in charge of the hospital in
Cincinnati.
The Detroit Free Press ispuzzled to
know whether a man a sustain a
principle by voting from principal for
an unprincipled candidate.
The Brooklyn Presbytery, which de-
plored the undigni6ed methods Of Tai
mage in the pulpit, has itself turned
into a literary, if not a literal, circus,
A glass mandatory in Hanover,
Germany makes glass which is 2 close
imitation of marble, and tables and
foor,tiles which are preferable to marble
on account of hardness.
A neutrality-suspicious. pilgrim to
Mount Vernon has sent 81 to the Super
intendent for a cane which he cut on
the estate and did not pay for, saying
it was the meanest thing he has done
in five years.
House plants that look dropping and
starved should have the surface soil
removed from the pots and replaced
with a top dressing from the compost
heap, prepared by mixing it with suffi-
Gent sandy loan to make it light and
porous, after which it should be sifted.
The guerrilla warfare which the hill
tribes Of Afghanlstan are said to be
waging against the English troops
stationed there is a fresh example of
those teazing and useless ''small wars''
upon which England has wasted blood
and treasure for years past without
glory and without gain.
They still continue to be sleepy in st.
Louis. The Journal OF Commerce says
that s'from present appearances it
might as well be announced that there
will be no exposition held in st. Louis
this Fall. The Fair association is
either dead or sleeping, and no amount
of self-respect seems to avail in bring
ing them to their sensibilities. Mean
while exhibitors throughout the country
are making preparations to take their
wares to Chicago, Louisville and Gin
cinnati expositions this year, and the
people generally are preparing to, make
their Fall visits to those cities"
1t is well to remind people that when
they commence the periodical renov'
alton of their domiciles, especial at
tention should be given to cellars,
They should not only have the benefit OF
thorough ventilation, but they should
be whitewashed, and any particle of de-
cayiDg vegetable matter or other objec'
tionable substance removed. Scrupu'