The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-24
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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Plumbers will soon begin to live on
plum pudding.
John Brown, Queen Victoria's favor.
lite servant, has laid by Ss5 600.
Adirondack Murray has decided to
let Boston struggle along without ''the
perfect horse"
Will Carleton, the poet, is engaged
to be married to a charming young
lady of La Crosse, Wis.
A half dozen waiting-maids are re-
quired to trot around for Princess
Louise when she travels.
General Grants agent has reserved
the cottage at Long Branch for the
family's occupancy next season.
A pig-tailed Chinaman who is to
teach Chinese at Harvard College for
three years is to receive 5000 a month.
Some over-enthusiastic admirer pro-
poses a demonstration ON the arrival of
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris in New
York harbor.
There are a number of men in this
country going around kicking up such
a dust that no one can keep track of
them half the time.
The watering places are looking for
the close of the season, and so are their
shiyering patrons-looking for the
clothes of the season.
H%enceforth the people of the south
can never think otherwise than kindly
Of the Octopus of Wall street-Jay
Gould.
General Sherman is ready to fight the
thing over again, and settle once more
the question of whether or not we are
a nation with a big n.
What is needed just now as much as
anything is an improved variety Of
grapes, one in which the seeds are pick
ed out and kept on a separate stem.
Because Princess Louise cannot
cook, wash and sew, the Detroit Free
Press concludes that her girlhood was
thrown away in being Queen Victoria's
daughter.
Ira d. Sankey was present at the
gospel temperance meeting in Cooper
Institute, New York, las. Tuesday
evening, and accepted an invitation to
step forward and sing.
There were three Rowland Hills.
One preached and made jokes; another
was commander-in-chief; the third in
vented postage-stamps and has been
buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Okolona States, edited by Harp
err, is doing so much good work in
showing up the true animus of the
south that many think it not inappro-
pirate to refer to the same as Harper's
magazine.
Henry Ward Beecher preached his
last sermon of the season in the White
Mountains Sunday morning. The sub
ject of the discourse YVES How Shall I
Inherit Eternal Life2''
The ivory tusk, seven feet long, sent
by King Cetywayo to Lord Chelmsford
as a pledge of faith in negotiation and
an earnest of submission, has reached
London, and will be presented to the
Queen.
Rev. Samuel Scoville, of Norwich,
N. Y, who is married to the daughter
of Henry Ward Beecher, has been call
ed to the p~astorate of the Congregation
al church in Stamford, Conn, at a.
salary of $4,000.
Mark Twain is lame, and carries
about a cane which he is forever losing
or hunting up. His cane is a straight
bamboo stick-a sort of joint.stock af-
fair-and If he had half as much of a
crook at the top of it as he has in the
middle of his back, he could hold to it
better.
President Hayes, while enjoying a
railway journey into Kentucky the
other day, was the object of many in
teresting comments by the country
people. One enthusiastic dame, after
shaking hands with his excellency, re-
tired a few stops, and, gazing at him
admiringly, observed: "Well, this is
the first real president 1 ever seen, and
what u handsome, nice-looking man he
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