The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-26
PRESS PICKISes.

Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will sail
for Europe next Wednesday.
Immigrants are rushing westward
through Omaha by the thousands.
Stanley Matthews has settled down
in the easy chair of his old Cincinnati
home. 1n
1t is all over with the widow Oliver;
and likewise, with the other reputation
involved.
Lent drags along more exasperating-
ly with each passing year-to the world
ly sinner.
All the authorities of Chicago have
agreed to join in the coming authors
carnival.
Gerster says that she was born of
very humble people, and is not ashamed
to own it. i
The NATION (nl.l Journal refers to
it as Archbishop Purcell's s'clandes-
tine management of church funds.
The poet, Longfellow, passes the
most Of his time knuckling down to the
demands of his pet disease-the in1u-
enza.
Hunting back to the source Of the
traffic, the Detroit Free Press has dis
covered that Virginia is the father of
the peanut industry.
All the weather prophets have given
up the struggle and retired from the
prognosticating- business except old
Prob and the almanacs.
The French president wears none of
the nonsensical decorations common at
Partisan receptions; still, he has in his
possession a boxful of them.
Prof. Swing says that while no ma
chine has yet been invented for picking
a goose or shearing ASLEEP, the arrange
ments for plucking a poor man are toler-
ably complete. lsl
The shower of sulphur or pollen
which fell on st. Patrick's day, in
Pennsylvania, was a bright yellow sub
stance, and naturally made the emerald
processiohis1s a iittie mao.
Anna Dickinson has more trouble
over her plays than any living author.
The one she wrote for Mccullough Is
back OF her hands, and neither she nor
Mac VIII explain wherefore.
The church of the Messiah, of New
York.in which DIR. Below has a per-
sonal interest. a just lifted Its debt OF
Sl24,ooo, and the worship OF the Al
mighty Will now go on unincumDered.
Simon Cameron will ever remember
his S0th birthday anniversary. 1t was
celebrated by the opening of the breach
of-promise suit against him. A large
party of friends were present, including
Mrs. oliver.
This is New York Tribune poetry:
"For more than q fortnight the tiny
white bells of the snow-drop have been
swinging in the wild March weather,
and yesterday morning the lilac and
gold of ~bulbocodium and crocus were
100 much shirt collar and too little
young man." is the girls verdict on the
average beau of the period.-Siou1 City
Journal. TOO. little collar and. too
much young woman" isHthe young
mans verdict On the average belle of
the period--omahd Evening Ne,cs.
n When a palace sleeping a goes
through certain state capitals with its
passengers comfortably resting and es-
Gaping the fatigues of travel, it makes
the Legislators hanging around the de-
pot SO desperate that they swear a
solemn and vicious oath that this sort
of luxury has ''got to CO." Then they
go to legislating against it.
A professor in Cornell %Iecturing on
the effect of the wind in some western
forests remarked: "In travelling along
the road even found the logs bound
and twisted together to such an extent
that a mule couldn't climb over them,
so l went around"
The Chinese encyclopedia, published
at Pekin, contains over 8 ,O0O names,
and costs 4 500 per copy. The reli-
pious weeklies of Pekin will not show