The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-21
WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1879.
THE sanguine twins-Edison and

laborn on the Denver Ners.
TILDEN wishes that the gods would
fall in love with his opponents.
CHICAGO needs a new constitution
before Sunday laws can be enforced.
OHIO still holds the national capital,
the Oklahoma States to the contrary, etc.
THERE are too many great men in
congress. The standard will have to
be raised.
SAMMY I. is short and stoop should
cred, but his aspirations reach to the
timber line.
THE English are greatly Boered by
by the descendants of Dutch settlers In
South Africa.
SENATOR VEST, Of Missouri, pulls
down more ability than the average
Missouri senator.
SOCIALISTS should be allowed to reso-
lutte to their hearts content. 1t is a
sort of safety valve.
SINCE his 'biggest run on record" in
a recent billiard match, Schaefer is a
bigger NAM than Davis in Illinois.
WHEN David Davis gets the collie, it
requires three quarts of paregoric to
satnrate his system before he finds re-
lief.
MATT CARPENTER has gone to
Florida for health. The brigadiers
would like Zach Chandler to follow
suit.
1.-THE ingenuity of love'' is a late
poem. Seems to us, that the ingenuity
Of love is in blaming it all on the
woman.
OMAHA is ~endeavoring to find out
the cause Of the late removal fiasco.
"Never mind the why and where
FORE"
DoN CAMERON, in soaring after the
presidency, looks like a small sized
sparrow fitting about the cloud cover
ed eyries of the eagles.
"WHAT will the democrats do?n
asks the Inter Ocean. What can they
do? They are like the man who caught
hold OF the panther's tail.
THE Denver Times should remember
that in coming out on the half shell
these days it is prolonging the season.
There is no ''r'' in MAY"
THE elevated railway of New York
city is a candidate for the presidency.
At least the wealth it holds is the
handspring of Tilden's power.
BLAINE is browsing within the cloak
room and wondering whether to go
mending worm fences in Maine, or stir
up the confederate menagerie.
SENATOR HAMPTON is continually
on the defensive. 1t is up hill work to
defend the attacks on his fiery speeches
delivered during the past three years.
IT staggers Indian philosophy to ac-
count for the desire of the white man
- emigrate into Indian Territory when
most of the Indians there want to emf
crate elsewhere.
BEN HILLS late speech is in demand
for a campaign document. One hundred
thousand copies have been ordered.
But it is the republicans who intend to
use them, in Michigan.
ELLIOT, the English champion soul
Ter, who is to row against Hanlon on
the 10th of June, is learning the latter's
long sweeping stroke. His own stroke
he discovered to be n. e.
A BOY has turned up in Colorado
who has claw-like fingers and pockets
growing in his sides, like the pouch of
an opossum or kangaroo. 1t is thought
by some that he was born in Sidney.
A FIRsT-cLAss specimen Of yellow
fever, or an imported sample of the
Russian plague, judiciously located
near the capitol building, would ad-
journ congress faster than a dozen eau
cusses.
THE last lays of the editorial min
strel of the Denver Times are quite
tuneful. They are not yet written in a
minor key. The minor strains will be
in order when the editor is minus a
tripod.
BISMARCK will worry the reichstag
into passing a tariff bill, if he has to
stay in the capital all summer. His
friends in that body faithfully do his
bidding and the opposition vainly kick
against fate.
DIR. LUKE BLACKBURN, the forth
coming governor Of Kentucky, is the
man who conspired to introduce yellow
fever into northern cities during the
war, and to poison the Croton water
works, New York.
ISN'T it strange that if the veto of the
military interference bill by President
Hayes twas inst the thing to unite the
democratic party and lift it out of its
troubles" that the party wants to get
into trouble againp
THE bungling sheriff is omnipresent.
OF several executions of late, the ma
jority Of the victims had to be dropped
twice before they were successfully
strangled. Reform is necessary. Eth