The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-16

10 peihB ueluSeu by OVeT-mucn
rain.
Nantucket has more visitors than AZ
any time in five years.
Archery is growing greatly in popu.
larity among the ladies.
NJ. Krauss, of Munich, has made a
two-storied railway car.
Sir Henry Bessemer's new gigantic
telescope cost $500, OOo.
The old political feud at east st.
Louis has broken out again.
A base ball club is not u battery,
though it consists of nine Founders.
The Hon. It. A. Hendricks, of Indi-
ana, is at Rock Island-presumably
after clans.
We hear of men sowing wild oats,
but who ever heard of a woman sewing
anything but tares?
What hit you Michael?u s'Sure,
your 'anner, it was that bloody police
man there, wild his big assegevay."
Senator Blaine has six children. He
owns a handsome house at Augusta,
Me. He does not keep a carriage.
For the first time an American fri
gate, the Wyoming, has passed into
the Black sea through the Dardenelles.
President Hayes may possibly go to
the Indiana state fair. The condition
is that they must not ask him to make
any speeches.
The queen has been photographed
while seated with the children of the
late Princess Alice, and the picture is
said to be very pathetic.
Josh Billings has noticed that the
man who rides on the cars every day is
satisfied with n seat, but he who
rides once a year wants four.
r. G. Woodville, the artist of the
London Illustrated Ne,cs, is engaged on
an equestrian picture of the prince
imperial on his first reconnaissance.
The mayor of Scranton, Pa, recently
complained to a circus manager be-
cause he did not raise the American
flag higher than all other over his pa
vilion.
"Sprat'' and Herring" are the
names by which the Prince of Wales
sons are known to their messmates.
Rather undigniied titles for scions of
royalty.
An exchange says: ''There is no
royal road to matrimony." Correct;
both king and pauper have to walk
right up to the captains office and in
terview the old man.
The ''Rev." Ann Oliver is said to be
one of the most attractive pu~lpit-orators
in Brooklyn. She is about % years of
age-tall, slim, dark, not pretty, but
exceedingly graceful.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is still
ahead of his enemies. The Yucatan
revolution and that in the state of Mex
leo have been suppressed, and the lead
ers are in irons at the capital.
The Albany Journal says: 1.-The
Tribune is publishing a series of papers
on "The A B c of Finance" The p.
A. Y. G. of finance can be condensed
into the four words Pay AS Y-ou,G-o."
An exchange-one of the awful class
of papers-says: ''Those two Illinois
sisters who committed suicide together
were probably frightened into it by the
report that Brick Pomeroy was looking
around for a new wife,
A tonic.-Smallest boy: Better
give in at once, cos I'm bound to lick
| YER" Small boy: "How dyer know
yer a-going to lick meP" Smallest boy:
Cos I'm stronger than you; l chew to-
hacker and you DON'T"
"Ma." said a little girl, "do men
want to get married as much as women
doP" "Pshaw! what are you talking
about?" "Why, ma, the ladies who
come here are always talking about get
ting married; the men DON'T"
saw, it is not to be wondered at"
remarked MI. Toplofty, as he adjusted
his e~yeglass, ''sea- bathing has grown
unpopular, because, you see, aw, the
vulgah herd took to the watah, and it
has become very much soiled."
According to the Contemporary Re
uiew, the ''interesting young man. is a
thin, pale, consumptive-looking chap,
who c~aptivates young women by max
ing himself mysterious. 1t says no
thing about side-whiskers, eyeglasses,
or parting the hair in the middle.
General Grant spent the Fourth OF
July with the emperor of Japan. AL.
though the general was smoking and
had a pack of Chinese crackers in his
left coat-tail pocket, his knowledge OF
international matters and his courtesy
prevented him from touching off
single one.
A gentleman in a draper's shop had
the misfortune to tread on Il lady's
skirt. She turned round, her face
flushed with anger, but seeing the
gentleman was IA stranger she smiled
complacently, saying, II beg pardon,
sir; | was going to be in Il dreadful
passion, | thought it was my husband.
spa" said a little boy who wa look
ing at pictures of strange creatures
IAN aux is a bird which III would b'