The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-09
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PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Vienna bred: The man raised in the
capital of Austria.
Ole Bull is the Oldest yiolinist and
owns the Oldest violin. lh
Vassar College has three Japanese
ladies among its students.
Maria Turner, formerly a slave, has
died in st. Louis at the age of no years.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Davis, of
Mississippi, is studying for the ministry.
John Browns soul had been march
ing ON just twenty years the I'd of this
month.
Governor Mcclellan, of New Jersey,
has the hardest kind of work trying to
to keep well.
The comet which was coming this
way a few months ago, has gone of
again and lost itself.
Weather prophets are predicting that
skates and sleighs will be of little use
this winter.
Professor Proctor alludes to the earth
as the mere mustard seed on which we
animalcule live.
Congressman Springer, of Springfield,
ILL.,, is one of the heirs of the Springer
estate in Delaware, valued at S100, 000,-
900.
Secretary Schurz tells Miss Grundy
that Mrs. Hayes likes to entertain a
crowd. We shall soon visit Washing
ton with our family.
In January next, Whites famous and
historical club in London will enter up
on the 150th year of its existence. 1t
is the Oldest club in the world.
Christine, Queen of Spain, is very
girlish looking, a pretty, fair, fair-hair-
ed, shy and slender young lady, with a
pleasant smile and amiable
Mr.. John B. Clay is the only child of
Henry Clay who is living. He has a
comfortable home at Lexington, Ky,
owning 200 Of the paternal acres.
A scientific periodical has an article
on Secondhand knowledge" An
expert whist-player says his knowledge
of secondhand" is always to play low.
Professor Aughey, of Nebraska, is
going around predicting that the earth
will come to an end either by fire or
frost in two or three millions of years
from now, or "a little later.
Captain Howgate, though unsuccess-
full in obtaining from congress support
for Arctic exploration, does not give
up his idea. He has determined to
equip a private expedition.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's declar-
alton of his belief that there is no eeter-
nal punishment" for the wicked, and
that there are no lost souls, has created
much excitement in orthodox circles.
Old Raddles says the reason why
there is getting to be a scarcity Of SER
want girls is the fact that the temptation
to hurry up the kitchen FIRE with the
k~erosene-can has, of late years, been
too much for them.
The German officers who attended the
French manenvers two months ago
have been decorated with the Legion of
Honor. This is the first instance of
military courtesy between the two
countries SINCE the war.
Queen Christine has received from
a Madrid tradesman a perfectly unique
pair of stockings, made of onion skin, a
present as singular as the pair of stock
ing made of the boards of mussels pre-
scented to Benedict XIV. in 1854.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, a minister
of the Baptist church in Hartford, has, |
says the New Haven Register, apnounc-
ed his marriage engagement to Miss
Ida Gatling, the only daughter of DIR.
Gatling, the inventor of the gun which
bears his name. Mr.. Pentecost is de-
scribed as an agreeable young man, and
is a brother of Mr.. Pentecost, the ev-
angelist.