The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-26
MINOR
DON'T fail to see Pinafore.

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An advertisement for a ''sail maker''
appears in q Deadwood paper.
A delegation of Ohio editors who
have no United States offices, will visit
Colorado to-day.
A COW fell into a well 80 feet deep in
Omaha the other day, and strange to
relate, it was killed.
The Cheyenne gun club will hold a
meeting this evening at the office of
Johnson & Potter.
Omaha will have to tighten up its
clamps and screws on the Fourth. A
circus is coming to town.
The military of Denver propose to
parade on the Fourth regardless of the
citizens committee programme.
The thermometer broke loose in
Omaha the other day and few up to
1859 before 1t could be stopped.
Brown-Can you break me a IS bill?
Jones--I should like to break it, but
unfortunately Pm broke myself.
Indian squaws do not sigh for the
feeting show of stockings. Three
stripes of green paint are better and
cooler.
A special passenger train OF ten cars
Is on It's way westward. 1t is supposed
to contain contestants for the Laramie
prizes.
There is a lively little contest for the
chiefship of the Denver fire department.
Messrs. Duggan and Collier are the
candidates.
Next to the modest, shrinking violet,
the most transformations thing in ma
lures vast and variegated kingdom is
the circus poster.
Aiming drill, musketry instructor:
"Now, thenl How do you Expect to
to see the object aimed at, II you don't
keep your heye closed?"
Master-"Why didn't you answer
the bell before2r Slave--"T didn't
hear it, sir" Master-"Now, don't
answer me; / won't have it."
Another royal marriage is rumored.
The opulent groom is In doubt whether
to give his queenly bride a casket of
jewels or a box of strawberries.
Barnum has a capillary attraction
this season in the shape Of a hairy ele-
plant. The beast carries an old-fash-
Toned hair trunk when he travels.
We are cheered by the grateful sug-
gestion that base BALI has seen its
best days. But what fresh afiiction
may not the womb Of future con-
tain?
A promising college graduate decided
to become administer, and a fellow stu
dent studying for the bar at once ap-
piled for the position of counsel at his
trial.
1t is remarked that the elephant is
one Of the few travellers who succeeds
in going through the country without
getting his trunk pasted all over with
hotel cards.
Deadwood had a vigorously contested
election the other day on the question
Of supplying water to the city. The
vote resulted in a victory for the Black
Hills Canal s. Water company
Gov. J. W. Hoyt returned to Chey-
enne yesterday, accompanied by his
wife and son. They will reside in the
suite Of rooms formerly occupied by
d. d. Dare, they having being reftted,I
In checkers the pieces al jump both
ways when they get into the king row.
Some politicians make the mistake of
thinking they can do the same thing
when they get into office and val to
be reelected.
Hundreds of emigrants will pass
through Wyoming this week on their
way to Washington territory. Strange
to say, there are nearly 100 wagon loads
of Indians from the Indian territory,
who are also emigrating to the Pacific
coast.
The Pocasset tragedy is a striking
example Of the works of faith without
reason. Yet we are warned from ten
thousand pulpits that human reason is
not to be depended upon, and that faith
is our only salvation. How few of the
many who assent to this doctrine really
believe it.
The LEADER is in receipt of several
very able papers on medical subjects by
Prof. John j. Caldwell, NJ. d., Of Bal
timore. The leading paper is IN SIN
voluntary action Of the nervous sys-
tenn, y and well supports the national
reputation possessed by the author.
We are requested by Marshal Schnit-
ger to state, in reply to the Suns arti-
Gle on the Wyoming penitentiary, that
the govern ment in August, 1873, |
through Mr.. Chase, its agent, offered
to keep the territorial prisoners for
s~eventy-iye cents per day, and that
within a week past tie marshal declared
his readiness to reduce the amount to
be oh arged for keeping the prisoners to
sixty-ive cents per day. The prison
authorities also supply each discharged
convict with a suit of clothes, and fur
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