The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-08
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
Playing Billiards is anti.fat.

Mrs. Secretary Sherman has arrived
in London.
Archbishop Purcell will have his
debts paid for him.
Mr.. Moody has preached 275 time.
since going to Baltimore.
The Yale crew this year averages six
feet one inch in height.
The Emperor of Germany is regain
ing his health and strength.
There may be room for one more veto
before congress disperses.
General Joseph Hooker has been
visiting old associates in Cincinnati.
Vice President Wheeler has no liv-
ing relative nearer than n cousin.
European and Eastern churches keep
calling for Chicago preachers.
Senator Hills smelling works in Colo
roda are paying 81, 900, 900 u year.
The sultan has also given the Prince
of Wales two handsome Arab horses.
The Paris Figaro refers to him as
Senator Mark Twain, of America
Theodore Tilton says the lecture
business grows better with him every
year.
Marquis Lorne and Princess Louise
will visit the United States some time
this month.
Gambetta dwells in a magnificent
house, keeps the finest horses and best
cooks in Paris.
Ex-senator Sargent, of California, is
feeble, and he has gone to Oregon for
his health.
Hot weather is what this country
wants. Nothing but hot weather can
make congress adjourn.
"Forty years is the old age of youth,
while so years is the youth of old age"
-Vic;or Hugo.
The Detroit Free Press wants Paul
Boyton to try swimming Niagara river
from Buffalo to Queenstown.
Mr.. \. L. Stewart preserves her
youthful appearance in a remarkable
manner. She has not a gray hair.
The artist, Brumidi, is doing admir-
able fresco work in the rotunda of the
capitol at Washington this season.
A wealthy lad of New York has left
the society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals a bequest of S25, o00.
The story of the traitor, Benedict
Arnold, is left out of the revised edition
of the Encyclopedia"
Brumidi, the Italian artist, who has
worked in the United States capitol SO
many years, has reached his 18th year.
General Garfield and Mr.. Abram S.
Hewitt have been engaged to lecture
before the Hazard Finance club next
year.
A one-legged pedestrian of Canada
stumps the rest of the timber-toed
world to a match for the universal
championship.
A company of Georgia darkies can
visit a shed crowded with watermelons
and find plenty of room after being In
there a few moments.
A patent has just been issued to Miss
Harriet G. Hosmer, by the United
States patent office, for her process of
making artificial marble.
The wife of General Sherman, the
Syracuse Journal says, rebuked an I'M
mannerly couple for carrying on a dis
turbing conversation in the gallery of
the house the other day.
George Balford, of the Carson City
New Mint, has the most complete COL
lection of flags in America. He began
talking an interest in flags about eight
years ago, and he has in his house
every flag of note that floats.
The saying Of an old philosopher,
that If he has a lever long enough he
could move the world, leads u country
correspondent to write that If he had a
dried apple big enough he. could soak
up the Pacific Ocean.
Governor Fremont, of Arizona, has
been urging a plan to reclaim the lands
Of that territory by cutting two canals,
I ten miles long and the other fifteen,
which would lead the waters of the
Gulf of California to the great basin.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
laura Mitchell, formerly the slave of
Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers, has supported
her old mistress for fourteen years, and
paid her funeral expenses when she
died In Columbus. Ga. last week at