The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-06
PERSONAL AND PART OCULAR

PERSONAL AND PART OCULAR
A surly man is the man who gets up
s'early.
The whipping-post idea is coming up
in Missouri.
The sol-eyed south is a hot place,
take it as you will.
Full dress'' in Canadian court cir
cles means about half dressed.
The ~newly-elected state officers in
Kansas are men identified with the TEN
perance movement. tin
The Attica, Ind, Ledger is authority
for the statement that the tune of
"Whoa Emma is taken, note for note,
from an old church tune. which may be
found on page 224 of a church book
called the ''True Choir Who is the
plagiarist?
Out of the reach of his enemies: The
man who was hanged to a tall tree by
n mob.
Mount Etna must be operating under
democratic pressure. She is belching
forth vast quantities of mud.
There isa great demand for hang
mans rope in New York. A piece
which has seer service readily sells at
So a foot
One of the members of Queen Victor
las privy council cannot be a very ex-
perienced adviser, his age being only Z
years.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says man
wants but little here below, but he gen
orally gets surfeit of it.
A Cleveland woman has corns on her
left ear. She is probably given to walk
ing on that member.
Milwaukee's anchorite is a woman,
possessed of nearly 300, 900, and a
graduate of Vassar, whose engagement
an unnatural brother broke while she
was studying. The blow blasted her
life. and she now lives in strict retire
ment, spending as little as possible, and
cutting off every avenue of commune
cation with the outside world that she
can.
The German army horses are now
fed on biscuits of three parts each of
rye floar, oat -four and dextrinated pea
flour, and one part of linseed -four.
The biscuita are made with a hole in
the middle of each, so they can be
strung on a string and hung to the sad
dle-bow or be carried by the trooper
around his waist. Each biscuit weighs,
when baked dry and hard, about two
ounces. Seven biscuits are broken up
and given to the horse in the morning,
moistened with water, if convenient,
otherwise dry: twelve at noon and
Sc ven at night.
Ex-Minister George II. Boxer is the
possessor of Bayard Taylor's unpubiish-
ed writings, including a number of
poems.
Teacher-''Defne the difference be-
tween the power of will and obstinacy."
Pupil-"Win, sir, will is will; obstin-
acy is won't!'
The milkmen of New York have a
club. But we don't see its use. No
dog with hydrophobia would ever at
tack them.
The pope, Roman gossips say, is SUI
perstitious. One day his salt was tipped
over, and he afterwards remarked to a
cardinal: ''Had the salt been scattered
on the floor Instead of upon the table,
rs was the case, verify 1 believe Ishould
he standing now before the judgment
seat"
Nasty will tremble for the future of
Kentucky when lie learns the terrible
truth that of the 239 towns which have
voted on the license question recently,
2U5 have gone mo license
Mrs. Walton, who invented the noise
killing process for the New York eie-
waited railroad, inherited the idea from
her father, Il blacksmith, who planted
his anvil in sand to modify its melody.
Two or three Texas steers got loose
among the provision brokers in New
York again, one day last week, and for
a while it was hard to tell which the
air was fullest of-coat tails OF steer
tails.
The most successful periodical of st
Petersburg, the capital of Russia, is an
illustrated fashion weekly. Its sub
scribers number 1888. The leading
daily journal is the Golos, with only TO-
983 subscribers.
Charles Francis Adams is tired of
the crowded east, and talks of visiting
the west to stretch himself. We pray
him to stay away. We have enough
billiards. as it is.
Paris mothers coax distinguished
Americans to kiss their pretty grown
up daughters, and the danger of a great
emigration Europeward should be
guarded against by congress.
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