The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-02
SABBATH sUNBEAMs.

SPAN, was " years OLD last saturday.
Though a tenor singer, it is common
ly reported that Brignoli is a base de-
ceiver.
Elihu Burritt's physical condition is
improving.
What's become of the anti-Mormon
movement
Mexico and Haytiar r running a race
in revolutions.
Tilden claims that the Eden of New
York city is Gramercy Park.
The Chinese encyclopedias meets q
long-felt want; no family should be
without it. 1t Is published in Pekin,
and has only 5000 volumes. Price,
1850.
John G.. SAKE, the wit, who has been
in delicate health and has done nc liter.
AIRY work for some time, is now confin.
ed to his room in Brooklyn, suffering,
1t is said, from chronic melancholia SUI.
~perinduced by illness in his own case
and among members of his family. lie
will, If he lives, be sixty-three in June
of this year.
A marriage notice in an exchange
commences "Lynch-Pynn," which is
quite appropriate for u married couple
rs any felloe can see.
Barkeeper to Tramp-"Get out OF
this or IN give you the grand bounce
Tramp to Barkeeper-"Aake II plain
cherry bounce, and I'll go ye."
The United States has an estimated
population of nearly 90, 1000, 900. and the
appalling fact has been discovered that
il every man, woman and child should
be seized with the cramp collie at the
same moment there is not enough para
goric in the country to supply the de-
mand.
A certain resident in North Adams,
Mass, recently buried his wife, Il wo-
man Of unusual size, and a few days af-
ter the sad event u neighbor attempted
a little in the consolatory line by re-
marking, "Well, Mr.-you have met
with a heavy loss. 2" YES" replied the
mourner with a sigh, ''she weighed
most four hundred pound.n
Mr.. John Mccullough has been re-
membered in a will left by one OF his
California admirers. The sum is
$1,000.
The solid heavyweight litter is a st.
Louis barber. He Is a delicate-looking
little chap, but has been known to
lift" a 200-pound man clear out of the
chair without any effort whatever, or
even laying his hand on him. He uses
a dull razor.
A citizen went irtoa Norwich hard
ware store the other day and inquired:
''Ho~ much do you ask for a bath-tub
for a childP" ''Three dollars and sew
enty-ive cents" was the reply.
"W-h-e-wl' whistled the customer,
Guess we'n have to keep ON washing
the baby in the coal-scuttle till prices
come down."
In n of the Detroit schools the
other day a class in English history
was being questioned by the teacher
about Henry the VIII, and she finally
asked: '.Did Anne of Cloves, H%enry's
fourth wife, die a natural death2"
There was an awful silence for half a
minute, and then one miss stammered
out: mo, ma'am-she was divorcedi"
One Of the members of an Albany
baseball nine, according to the Journal,
has Joined a singing class SO as to learn
how to pitch his voice. He will of
course become n bass-bawler.
A school master in New Jersey sends
us u poem entitled Lovely Spring."
and asks us, would $40 be too much
for thisY" No; $40 wouldn't be a cent
much. Send along the money.
A holiday is q breathless and awk-
ward halt for five minutes, leaving
your business to get SO far ahead of you
that you can't catch up with it until it
is time for the next one.
lie said he was n linguist, but upon
i~nterrogating him in regard to the Ian
guages he spoke, he said they were
Turkey Coachenchina and Gum
Arabic.