The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-01
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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Pork and Beans is the name of a
new Iowa paper.
Cain, we learn from the New YorI
Commercial, was the first policeman.
Let $500 dog bite a fifty cent mar
and such a howl goes up as cannot be
quelled until a city is mad dog ordin
anced from curbstone to the top of bill.
boards.
II do not read the newspapers now,'
says Allen Thurman, Jess so, Judge.
You will find something in the scrip.
lures that will touch your case far more
effectually.
Mr.. j. NJ. Clark, of Howell, Mich,
lately delivered a lot of hand-cars, with
sail attachment. He is now filing or.
ders for sail hand-cars from two parties
in New York, one order being for ex-
port.
There is a severe drouth in Virginia
and West Virginia which has seriously
Injured the crops. The James river,
just above Richmond. is so low that it
can be crossed without wetting ones
shoes.
1t appears that the Canadian govern
ment has offered a subsidy of $50, OOO
for a direct steamship line between
Canada and Rio, and it is limited that
the Brazilian government will vote the
same amount.
For 800 years England has been max
ing the bows used in archery in that
country, Two years ago the manufac-
ture was. started in this country, and
now American bows are largely export
ed to England.
A wife wanted her husband to sympa-
thize with her in a feminine quarrel,
but he refused, saying: "I've lived long
enough to know that n is as
good as another, if not better" "And
l." ~retorted the wife. shave lived long
enough to know that one man is as bad
as another, if not worse"
This is a world of curious contradic-
tions, ruminates the Boston Herald.
The gossiping village dame who, upon
the slightest provocatiou, would blast
your life by the breath of Islander,
would also stand and administer to
you at your sick bed like a sister OF
mercy.
There is fruit stand at which green
apples and hard peaches are sold, a
Doctors office, a drug store and an I'M
dertaker's shop all clustered together
on a corner in North Chicago, with
three cemeteries lying a little beyond.
There is nothing like having everything
complete.
A Philadelphia editor who has been
out for a country trip writes: s'The rur-
al female, in spite of the free schools
and the multiplication of newspapers,
still imagines that two railway seats
are necessary for her bundles and her.
self, and only yields grudgingly, after
ibs and frowns have failed her,"
To the Khedive of Egypt-Respected
Sir: Having learned that in consequence
of your recent dethronement you are
troubled about a place to live, we has
ten to offer you the freedom of Cincin-
natl. Rents are very low here, the
Theodore Thomas concerts are in full
blast, and you car get a schooner of
beer for FIVE cents.
Mrs. Many Alice Seymour, formerly
connected with the female seminary of
Knox college, at Galesburg, ILL.,, has
received an appointment in the imperi-
al household of Austria as mistress of
English to the young archduchesses
and princesses thereof. By order of
the Archduke Charles Salvador, the
children are to address her as "Lady
Alice.'' tF l1
New York dealers threaten to put up
the price of ice. They say the crop has
been badly widowed. The next thing
you know some fellow will invent a
bug or a worm that will attack and
chew up half of the harvested crop
about this time of the year. Ice is
about the only crop raised now that
isn't injured by a bug or a worm of
some kind, and it can't expect to enjoy
this immunity much longer.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Talmage has
| yielded to the temptation to belong to
another %riation, and will become an
Englishman, which is hardly to his
credit, though we ourselves have said
it. After Mr.. Talmage's first sermon
on the "Haunts of Vice." according to
this gentleman, a shrewd London man.
ager made him a liberal offer for a
three-years engagement in England,
and the great emotional preacher is
said to have accepted.
AT Roxabel, N. c., last Monday. the
home of Mrs. Adelaide Burton was
blown down, and the lady covered with
the debris. She was finally taken out,
apparently dead, and preparations weIs
made yesterday afternoon for her bu'
rial. AT the funeral, as the casket was
being moved to the hearse, she raised
up and asked what this all meant. Hei
sudden revival created CONSERVATION
as well as joy. 1t was found she hat
only been in a trance. She appeared
perfectly well, and in a few hours wa
superintending wprkmen clearing