The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-29
GLEANINGS.

Newspapers are the merchants best
statesmen.
Cuban ladies still trim their dresses
with living f~reflies.
A halibut weighing 425 pounds was
caught the other day at Cape Cod.
A shark ten feet long was caught re-
Gently at Greenville, Hudson county,
N. J..
The American Bible Society has dis
tributed 36, 226 copies of the scriptures
in Texas.
The census of 1880 promises to be
the most perfect compendium of popu-
lar statistics wei issued.
Four students have been expelled
from the Normal school in M%illersville,
Penn, for playing cards.
A queer old cave has been discovered
in the mountain side near Lewisburg,
opposite Poughkeepsie.
There is a movement to make plain
sewing a regular branch of the public
school education in Syracuse.
Great Britain produces three times
as much iron and nearly three times as
much coal as the United States,
The Atchison Railroad is anxious to
complete a road to Leadville, but is
prevented by It's litigations with the
Rio Grande road.
The Toronto papers attribute the de-
cline in the Canadian revenue largely
to the smuggling of American goods
across the line.
Prominent business men and tax
payers of Wilmington, DEL, have signed
a paper denouncing the practice of
the City Council of contracting a float
ing debt without authority of law.
The Canadian fisheries officers are
strict in enforcing provisions of the
fisheries treaty, which are strained to
apply to American vessels fishing with
in three miles of the shore.
A young clergyman in London was
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refusing to pay his cab hire. He was
fined 8 shillings, and sent a valuable
ring to a pawnbroker to raise the
money.
A French woman, who made a for
tune by keeping a shop, under the EN-
plre, has her yacht and her cottage
painted black, has changed all her fur
niture for ebony, and proposes to mourn
for the Prince Imperial the rest of her
life.
A Michigan lady wants to know
whether or not it is honorable for a
young man to stand idly by and watch
a girl pass out of her teens into the
twenties and so on down to the shady
side of forty still bearing her maiden
name.
Rapid progress has been made to-
wards the completion of the historic
Hotel de Vile in Paris, and it is be-
lieved that early in 1881 the Municipal
Council and the various bureaus will be
able again to take possession of their
old abiding place.
A man is said to be young, even in
this country, where we live pretern-
aturally fast, up to 80 or 40, to be mid
dle-aged from 40 to so, and not to be
positively old, if he be of sound health
and well preserved, until he shall have
been go or thereabout.
In nearly thirty years Of experiment.
ing and careful culture Mr.. Bull, al
Concord, has raised %, 900 seedlings Of
grapes, from which he has saved TWEEN.
ty-two vines worth keeping, and he has
a descendant of the Concord which rip.
ems as early as the 25th of August.
The philanthropists of Boston will
give eight free excursions this season,
for the benefit of poor children. Eight
years ago the cost for each child was
SLIPS, but experience has enabled the
managers to cut this amount down to
SO cents, without abridging the pleas
ure Of the children.
The strangest feature, observes the
London Telegraph, in the history of the
cat-o-nine-tails is that no a~ntiquary has
been able to tell with precision when
the implement of torment was invent.
ed, whence it came, or, if a foreign i'm
portation, at what period it was in
troduced into England.
A new method of laying the flooring
of ground stories of barracks, hospitals
churches and court houses has been in
troduced in France, and is said to pre-
vent damp and vermin and unhealth.
%exhalations from the soil below. In
stead of laying the flooring on %joists, il
is imbedded in a layer Of hot asphalt.
London has a queer sort of literar,
workman, who gathers up the forgotten
works of noted authors and publishe
them, with or with or without the con
sent Of the author. His name is Rich
ard Herne Shepherd, and he recent,
sued the Atheneum, which brande'
him as a literary chiffonier and resur
~rectionist, and got damages in $3.50.
A scamp, who represented himself a
a government agent, excited the ne
groes of Holmes county, Miss, by tel
ing them that d free train would TAX
them on the following Sunday to Kar
sas. He charged every man 81 for