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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-22
THE BULLAND THE DEVIL FISH.
A Combat on the Margin of the Sea
Between SPANS Favorite and Mon
strous Octopi.

Toxic Uapan) Times.
The story given below was COM
municated by a correspondent: 1.-THE
author of 'Schuyukidan, who lived some
sixty years ago, was once travelling in
Muttu, one of the northern provinces.
Walking n day near the sea beach he
heard the below of a bull, and went in
the direction of the noise. He was then
witness of an extraordinary combat be-
tween some cutie fish and a bull. An
enormous poulpe, with bright purple
eyes, and tentacles six feet long, had
attacked the quadruped. Throwing its
arms around the body, the monster
tried to make for the water with its
captive. Meanwhile other octopi, in
large numbers and of great size, warm
ed on to the shore, which seemed to be
alive with their big, round heads. Some
of them assisting their comrade, soon
like him attacked the bull, dragging
him down to. the sea. Their quarry,
however, made a brave resistance and
succeeded in goring its first foe in the
head and belly and shaking itself from
its embrace. Before it could escape,
however, it was firmly held by a still
larger monster, while others took solicit
GUS care of the wounded one. The UNI
fortunate beasts believing attracted a
crowd of fishermen to the spot. One of
these, stronger and Drawer than his fell
lows, his limbs swayed in straw band
ages and a sharp knife in his hand,
boldly rushed to the rescue of the bull
and cut through the tentacles which in
it. Other poulpes than attacked the
fisher, to whose aid his fellows hasten
ed, and a fierce fight ensued between
men and monsters, in which the former
we're victorious, many of the squids be-
ing killed, while the rest escaped into
the water. Two of the tentacles wound
round the bull were SO heavy that one
man alone could not carry them. One
WAS twelve and the other six feet long;
the larger of the two was subsequently
boiled in sections at different times in a
big kettle. Some years previous to this
battle, cattle had disappeared in a my
sterious way from the same shore. The
fight between the cephalopoda and the
bull enlightened the proprietors as to
the cause of their loss.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-22
SPECIAL MEDICAL ADJ
Dr.. FLATTERY

formerly Of New
York. Australia
and Call ornia,
has established IA
private medical
and surgical Of
Ice al Cheyenne,
Wyoming.for the
cure Of private
and chronic dis
eases, spec ner-
v o 3 debility,
S p ermatorrhoea,
seminal W k
ness. ~self-abuse,
exhausted vitali-
.ty, impotency,
paralysis.
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= .Ea.s or eMnarnnEn..


sweet roses aid lilies.
Eac1 ,hi,e aud Puillis
By the poets 81 I'D have besn settled to De,
Ih-y ve 50 riieG Of flowers
1hc groves needs, and bowers,
there scarce is one left for poet liae me.
Yet if the dear CREATURE res, mblss flower,
IT'S sprig Of sweetbrier. where blossoms the
rose
an emblem 1t opcs Of their sweetness and power,
For it scratches your face while it eokles your
nose.
With maid young and coy
II you wish for 10 toy
he disdaius with frOwn what woula give hr
heart ease;
9bie widow Of slettle
Resembles a net,le;
The closer you press her, the less you dispIease
Yet the whole Of the sex most resemble my flower
The sprig OF sweeibrier, where blossoms he rose
AN emblem at once OF her sweetness and power,
For il scratches your face while It ticsles your
nose.
By ail b7rds tits agreed
An old mans dry weed,
Who itrgets While she blossoms HAT lies but a
span;
And the sly hand Of Time
Having wasted her prime
She resolves, when too ate 10 take pity on man,
Yet msidens, wives and widows resemble my
flower.
The sprig Of sveetJrier, where blossoms the
rose
An emblem at once Of their sweetDeTs and power,
For it SC atchss your face while it ticsles your
nose.
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Carbon Grows Of Vera Cruz.
vers Cruz Cor. n. Y. Post.

vera CrJZ COFs n. I. E0sr.
These black vultures, called 2apistes,
are an institution of Vera Cruz. Tame
as domestic fowls, they circle about
singly, in pairs, and ia great focks,
rOOsting upon the towers, cuPOlss and
housetops. They act as the scavengers
OF the city. cleaning the streets Of offal
snd refuse, and, in fact, descending upon
anything edible within their reach.
They quarrel with hungry dogs for the
possession of bone, uttering many gut~
tural protests during the struggle, and
cliDging rertinaciously with beak and
talons to their end of the prize They
haunt the fish market when the sun has
begun to do its work upon the finny
merchandise, and steal surreptitiOusly
up behind the vendor, when his head is
turned, to abstract fish. Their ex-
preston, when detected before the theft
takes place, is that of unimpeachable in
nocence. They seem TO say, "Ohl l
won't take anything; Pm simply looking
on" No one is allowed wantonly 10
destroy them, five dollars fine being the
penalty for shooting or otherwise killing
a sapitote. Those within the city walls
are of the species known in the southern
states as the carrion crow (CdthGrtes
atratos), though two other kinds exist
upon the coast--the common turkey
buzzard with plumage of more somber
cast and red en- neck and legs of livelier
tint, and the king vulture, monarch of
his tribe. One of the most common
roosting places of the vultures are the
crosses on the church towers, and the
sight of three of these black coats perched
upon either arm and on top of these
white emblems forms a novel if not
cheerful spectacle; one involuntarily
thinks of the crucifxion and the two
thieves.
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A Lost EeiresS.


On the G5h OF August, 1874, woman,
who cave the name of Sophia Jansen,
was committed 70 the aims house bv the
insanity commissioners of this city,
under the impression that she was of un-
sound mind, but harmless. On the June
following her Commitment she was dis
charged at the request of the Swedish
consul, OF which nation she wss supposed
70 be a representative, but subsequently
her insanity assumed dangerous form
anu 81 was sent to the Stockton insane
asylum. Previous to her appearance in
this city 1t was known that she had
walked the entire distance from Omaha,
scaling precipices and mountains, plod-
ding ravines and crossing the dizzy tres
ties over which the railroad passes be-
tween here and that city.
Although destitute on her arrival
here, she refused to make known the
object Of her visit, ami never did volun-
teer any information Of her early history,
except that her name was Jansen, that
she was horn st Smaller Sweden, in
1885, and had been in the country five
ears, having come to Eyanstown, LII
with her brother, and Joined her father,
who was Methodist minister, at that
place. Subsequently she stated that she
had left home eleven months before, but
she refused to give any reasons for doing
so. Communication was had with the
mayor of Evanstown and other parties
mentioned by her as residing there, and
the result was that her story was found
to be untrue. The mystery surrounding
this strange wayfarer excited consider
able public interest at the time of her
arrival in this city, but after she was
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CurIOsitieS of Crime.
New York sun.


Mrs. Mack was convicted of murder
ing her husband in GAINESVILLE, Wis, in
order that she. might marry a lover
named Dickinson, who helped to commit
the crime and it was Dickinson's testi-
mony on which the verdict was obtained.
Mrs. Cobb is accused of numbering her
husband in Norwich, Conn, that she
might marry lover named Bishop; and
if she should be convicted it would be on
Bishops testimony. These strikingly
similar cases naturally excite the remark
that women are more constant than men
in murder as we'll as in love. But the
hanging of Thomas Dowdi in St. Andrews,
n. B., Oh Monday, furnishes q contrary
instance. Dowd and Mrs. Ward muir
dered Mr.. Ward. Neither turned states
evidence, and both were convicted.
D0wd maintained to the Last. in the face
of most convincing proof that he alone
was guilty. Although few believed
him, his pcrsisteucy gave pretext for
avoiding the hanging Of a womsn and
her death sentence was committed 10
imprisonment. So DOwd died with the
Consciousness that he had saved his
criminal partner from the gallOws.
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committed 20 the alBi-~hrG-, 81 efforts
o aJhom the occasion or her peculiar
behavior having proved truitlsss, she
was SOON forgotten. The second link in
he queer chsin Of her history appears In
the fact that not many days ago young
man visited the alms-house, gave de-
scription of poor Sophia Jansen, correct
in many particulars, and asked concern
ing her whereabouts.
This young mani formed Snperinten
dent Heating that the strange woman
was his aunt, and that some years ago
she, while in fit Of insanity, wandered
from her home rear S.. Louis, No, and
had not been heard OF since. 10 addition,
be stated that the woman was the sister
John G.. Kahman, well known resi-
dent of thi. city, who died here in De-
cember, 1877, leaving property worth
nearly 100000, AID which yields an
income Of nearly 5000 per month. The
unknown woman was, therefore, an heir
to Kahman's estate, the only Others be
ing a brother and sister, who reside ST
ST. Louis, and the children OF 8 deceased
brother, living in this city.
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Honor the Scissors.

Some people, ignorant of what good
editing Is, imagin the getting up OF selec-
Ted matter to be the easiest work in the
world to do, whereas it is the incest
work that is done on paper. If they
find the editor with scissors in his hand,
they are sure TO say, Eth that's the
way you get up original matter, eh 20
accompanying their new and witty
questions with an idiotic wink or smile.
The facts are, that the interest, the
morality, the variety and usefulness Of
a paper depends, in no small degree,
upon its selected matter, and few men
are capable of the position who would
not themselves be able to write many of
the articles they select A sensible ed
tor desires considerable selected matter,
because he knows that one mind cannot
make 80 good paper a. Eve or six.
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An Actors Face.

London Theatre.
Johnson once remarked that no mans
iace had had "such wesr and tear" as
Gsrrick S and the expression could be
applied generally to most actors. Bar
listers and physicians-men who seem
to turn their faces, like their minds, to
the critical questions they have to work
out-siiently acquire the intelligent air
AZ those who think and have thought ;
but the actors face shows this wear anu
tear mere pointedly, because he has to
consider his face as he THINKS and feels,
and tries, often instinctively, TO make 1t
correspond with what is within. These
efforts, this old purifying the passions
with pity and terror" form a process
that tells upon the lines and cordage OF
the face, as training does on the athlete !;
all the uninlelIigent fat and flesh seems
to wear off IL JIG, moreover, some test
of the truth OF physogomy that all great
actors have come to their profession with
fine faces, that is, with effective features,
large and well cut, that offer shadows.
Hardly one fails in this respect. Ga1rick,
Kemble, SiddOns, Kean, Macready, Miss
FAucit. and, in our day, Mr.. Irving, all
present faces that could be called remark
able. Talma. Rachel, Viardot, Garcia,
Frederic Lemaitre, with many more,
are equally distinguished on the foreign
stage. But this characteristic Is capable
of extraordinary development with long
and varied practice, the subject of this
practice being the current of passions
and emotions that belong to the regular
and legitimate drama, be IL comic or
tragic. Hence, with course OF burlesque
or the placid, verbal humor OF comedy
of our own day, there is no wear and
tear; there is nothing working within to
disturb or influence the expression OF
the features Garrick's face, in pictures
or busts, is truly remarkable, much, OF
course, being owing to his foreign bloc d
his father being Frenchman. Ii Is
massive face, not fat, though rounded,
with a quick vivacity in the movements
of the neck; eyes of startling brillisncy,
with a darting, searching expression
which he was lend of applying with
recesses about his lips, where lurked the
humors OF comedy ; while in his brow,
full and over arching, lay vast tragic
forces. The muscles OF his cheeks seemed
flexible to an extraordinary degree, and
were as expressive as any other part OF
his action and his voice. These were
prodigious advantages, but it is often
forgotten that voice and gesture are but
one department OF acting and expression
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Mans Age.

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with HI. mind and -soner T1o &C.,,
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mos. oans-.Ilv tlai- n7e.c,;hsd ,un,bar
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mi Is iniand) and try to unesrtn and
convey the plate ard jewels 70 the
schooner sud ct away VITA it,
Now, NV friend knew we'll enough
the house in which the interment wa
msde, but, to his surprise ard mystifcs-
ton. a new village, PhS1ix-like. had
risen from the ashes of the burned aud
razsd one, and he was completely lost IS
to ire locality o. the house wherein be
expected TO uuearth without difficulty
80 great a prize. They rented every
house on the street and probed the earth
in every conceivable and inconceivsble
place until the pOor captain was led to
disbelieve his own indsntity, anu lost
faith in everything. Finally, he and his
companions became objecEs of suspicion,
we're arrested, and considered themselves
fortunate in escaping with whole hides
rom the country. In discussing the
question OF locality, the writer SAID 10
the captain:
Why, captain, I well Dered
the house where you guarded the
ehurch-plate, and, by George, 1 could
spot it.
80 thought l." said he, but it Is
not the same town, and, should you
revisit the place, yon wouldn't know it.
much less the house. There is only one
way to find the treasure" continued he,
and that Is to dig bitches all over the
place until we strike it, and what good
would it do you or me? The govern
ment would take it away from US, and
would IN all probability dispose of us
with less formality than did Walker ais
those who disp.eased or crossed him in
his plans"
Ned Lyons, who informs the New
YORK Herald of the buried treasure, is a
first-rste fellow and a particular friend
of the writer hereof, and was here in
Los Angeles about four years ago, on his
way to lower California 10 Inspect a gold
mine of fabulous richness discovered By
him while there with Walker in 1853
Ned came b.ck with his pocket full OF
rocks, and made my old legal friend, Fred.
Stanton, millionaire By giving him gra-
tuitOusly few shares in the new bonanza.
Ned also acted the part of the generous
beneiactOr toward ais Old flibuster friend.
the writer, by taking MIN in as well a
Fred. A fiibuster has a grand soul, and
be viii take MS friends in at every la
vorshle opportunity. Ned Lyons was a
iibuster, every inch of him, ana / am
more than happy to hear from him, even
If he is living on the laurels of his past
achievements on the field of adventure
and spinning yarns about the buried
treasure, which believe to be a reality
but which l greatly fear, like the swag Of
he ancient Kidd, or like Ned Lyons
wite's cousin, will become a misty tra>
ditiOn or mysterious myth
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The Cow Tree.

No tree aroused the Imagination of
Humboldt 50 keenly as the COW tree,
which grows upon the slopes of the
Cordilleras Of Venezuela. As the nu-
tritious juice of the tree is allied very
closely to the rubber tree of Brazil
and, indeed, may yet come to supply
rubber to the European rnsrkets-the
following account of its composition,
communicated to the French academy
of science by NJ. Boussingault, may not
be without interest. The COW tree grows
to a height of from fifteen to twenty
meters; its leaves are oblOng, alternate,
and terminated by points. The creamy
Juice is obtained by cutting into the
inner bark. 1t is used by the natives
instead Of cows milk. -.-4 s.
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LEE TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river on the lii
Lieth a village white and stHf
All around II the forest trees
SILVER and whisper az the breeze
over il sailing shadow 10
OF soaring hnwk an screaming crow
And mountain grasses. low ani sweet,
Grow in the middle Of every street.
Over the river under tho hill
Another viIare seth stlll;
There z zee in the cloudy uight
Tr.uE 1g stars o. nolsehoid l-hti
Fire tl1t z.eala from the smithg'a door
Mis,s tnat curl ou the river shore;
And flo the roads 30 grasses gov
For the wheels that aasten 10 and fro.
IN that village on the hill
Never Is sound Of Fnithy or nail:
The tousas are matched with grasses and flowers
Neve-s clock 10 roll the hours;
The marble doors are alwavs shut;
You canno- enter IN han or hut
AL the laees De asleep;
Never grsln 10 SOW c reap;
Never r dreams ro u1ac or Sigh
Silent aBa Idle, and lav, they be.
Ir taa- village under rse nil
When -as RIGA. Is star- sud stli,
Haay weary eI -ia prayer
Lg.E. -o Che % e- vi LACE tlege,
aud -seairs and ayh.n-. 'oug' to g.
Up to tsat aoms from tlis a. lc~i
Lor-s 20 sleep IN tle fo-et wi'd,
yvh--as. have vanished vitz and cl.l5.
And DE eth. nrsvinc tt'7 answer fa'l
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ALL SORTS.


. What make your lips so awful sore r
Assea sasah's eso-s-sye,i pan,
And sarall TO the IL man said:
"Its eau ell BY small chap"
Then Ssrsh-s youn est brother
As yet unsnowa 70 fisns--
Looked sarah i. she eve aud asked:
'Whar ISL su all cdap's maze -
A READING, Pa, confsctioner has
manufactured q candy elephant weighing
eight hundred pounds. Il is FIVE feet in
height, seven and half 'eet ia length.
and two snd ball iest wide
SAUSAGE bees are now the fashion in
Kentucky, young men snd maidens
gathering to grind neighbor's pork
into sausage meat.
We no longer questionable propriety
of considering vessels in the feminine
gender. They run each other down
almost every day IN lhe English eaAn-
mel
What this country most needs at
present is species or honey bee which
viii work all winter AMI give US spring
honey The idea of a bee ioa6ng away
six months OF the twelve IS absurd.
THERE ia said 10 be an Old Turk
named Pavsnovie, living ct Bihs'z,
Croatia, VINO is one bUndIed and twenty
five years old and able % carry sack Of
one hundred pounds OF wheat t. marx t
The other day there was barrel o.
Johannisberg wine sold at Cologne Tor
So 600 forms. 1t sixteen hundred
bottles to the barrel, it was estimated
that this wine brougat about Sl75O to
the bottle.
CT notice." said Prince Metternich
to his wife, the best dressed woman of
the second empire, that your bonnets
grow smaller and smaller, and your bills
larger and larger One of these days the
maker will bring nothing but the bill"
Mastic or putty and its darker shade,
that is not like unburnt sugar, are the
shades which, being worked with gold
thread, or which again, being trimmed
with mara5Out fringe, make the hand
soonest mantles snd dinner dresses, and
are found most convenient mixed with
the other new col0rs of the season. Plush
and astsn are used tor morning dresses.
A GIRL at Guelph, Canada, while driy-
ing home the cows IN the dusk Of the
evening, noticed some dark objects about
a stack of corn and went to see what
they were. She Immediately found her
self attacked by SIX large racosns, but
having a stick in her hand, she laid it
about SO valiantly that the animals fed,
leaving two of their number dead.
A NEWFOUNDLAND dog at Worcester,
Mass, persisted in inviting some gentle
men TO follow him towsrd pond, till at
last they did so and found another dog
of the same breed in the water with his
head and paws on the stone coping OF the
basin, almost exhausted and unable TO
get out. The gentlemen rescued the
animal, which, With its companion,
evinced the hveliest gratitude, shaking
gallons OF water over the preservers' new
OvercOats, etc.
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A Great Lawyers Estate.

Washington Letter in Chicago Times.
The great cOnundrum here now is
How much property did Gushing
leave" And no one is able to solve the
question satisfactorily. His large landed
possessions in the Northwest, which
gave him so much trouble, were taken
off his hands year before last by Gen.
Butler, who thus earned the vote for
Governor which Gushing gave him at
the NewburypOrt polls. His Virginia
estate, an old Church-Of- England psrsOn-
age, about FIVE miles from the city, he
sold some time before his death to the
man who had carried it On. His house
at Newburyport and his good law Ii
brary will realize something, and it to be
hoped that he has lett besides enough to
give a support to q nephew and two
nieces who are in destitute circumstances.
He has at times received large fees, but
his OUTLAWS 10 connection with his West
ern land operations haze been constant
and considerable. There was another
constant drain on his purse, but, as we
told not to expose the pecadillOs Of
the dead, I will not enter into particu-
lars. More general information is bur-
led in Cushing's grave than any living
American possesses, yet he has left moth
ing behind him to show pOsterity how
rare and varied were his attachments
except some opinions delivered when he
was Attorney General, a book Of travels,
and his scathing criticism of old Cock
burn. his adversary at Geneva.
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Kossuth's Presence of Mind.

Writing in the mldwinter Scribner OF
narsops and especially of the sailor
nraacber Father TAYLOR, Edward Eggles.
TON tells the following anecdote of
K,ssuth. Mr.. Emerson compares TaYS
lor with Kossuth in this gilt of natural
and unchecked oratory. ! remember an
incident that happened during the great
Hun,arisn's PROCESS through the coun-
trv. IN Madison, Indiana, he spoke in
the church of which my stepfather was
the rastor. After mis- address in English
the Americans were all turned out IT.
make room tor the Gsrmaus, hut /
climbed. oov-like, from the parsonage
ward through the church window; and
rot = p1acs on the steps Of the high, OLD
fashioned uului., where, hanging over
the baiuste-s, l sw, rather than under
stood the wonderful oratory OF Kossuth.
The Germans were wrought into a freDe
~ Of excitement, but just a. the speaker,
danict,nc the coming liberty OF Ger
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AN old man in Hanover, Penn, lost
his well.flled pOcketbOok month ago,
and diligent search failed to recover it,
On Saturday morning, however, his dog
was heard barking at the door, AMI on its
being opened the pocketbook was found.
The suggestion is made that the old man
dropped it, and his dog, which is always
with him, carried it away and hid it and
afterwards brought it back to make the
day as pleasant as possible.
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Put a boy in cast iron boots and
he'd get his feet wet just the same.