The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-21
MINOR MENTION.

yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff Arnold, of Denver, is
still dangerously ILL.,
Fourth of July will come whizzing
along in less than two weeks.
The life of the governor of Colorado
is made continually interesting, to say
the least.
The grand jury expect to complete
their work to-day and get an honorable
discharge.
The sociable at Prof. Wells last eve
ming was an enjoyable affair, and was
well attended.
The young idea can count on his fin
gers the number of days that precede a
'.jolly" vacation.
Gov. Spates recommissioned yester-
day E. S. Whittier, of Evanston, a
notary public for Uinta county.
Young men are SC scarce in Laramie
City that the young ladies have nobody
to take them out walking for ice cream.
Anew London young lady, we are
told, recently took her lover home on q
wheelbarrow. He is probably used to
her dumps.
Beethoven, when writing music,
went over every bar a dozen times.
Many more recent musicians stick to
the same bar all the time.
A little girl managed to upset a baby
carriage on the corner Of Sixteenth and
Dodge streets last evening. The infant
therein relied out on the sidewalk and
was bruised slightly.
Marshal Ryan says that times are
rather dull now In the police circle. Sc
for a change he arrested a COW the
other night and gave her a comfortable
cell in the cattle pound.
A good sized bovine puncher got too
much spirit in his hide last evening,
and became disabled from steering his
broncho. As a result he rolled of the
quarter deck OF the animal into a water
ditch.
do you mean to call me a liar?''
asks a ferocious old gentleman. "Well,
no; not exactly, temporizes his young
friend, shut IL l saw you in company
Of Ananias and Sapphire, / should say
you were in the bosom of your family
Ask a wise man to write poetry and
he can manage to make a fool of him
self at short notice, If verses are out Of
his line. A dignifed Detroit judge, tc
oblige a little girl, recently wrote in ar
album: "My pen is poor, my ink is pale,
my heart it trembles like a little dogs
tail"
The Boston Transcript says you may
lead young persons up to the piano
but you cannot always make then
practice. We find it different in thu
locality where we reside. The Difficult
ty we experience is not to make them
practice, but to make them stop practic
ing.
Teacher-What bird did Noad sent
out of the ark? Smallest boy in the clas!
latter q pause)-A dove, sir. Teacher
Very well; but l should have thought
some Of you big boys would have known
that. Tall pupil-Please, sir, that DO.
ought to know, sir, cause his fathers
a bird ketcher, sir.
The st. Louis Times-Journal say.
the eighth wonder of the world has beer
discovered in the editor who, in writ
ing back to his paper, pulled a city tav
ern without once abiding to ''min'
host" The ninth wonder will be dis
covered when the editor or reporter il
found who alludes to the firemen of his
town without calling them fire
laddies.n
The readers of the LEADER will re
member an article published in thes'
columns last March about the Austria
lian method of making sheep uncon
scious for a long period, to enable theil
being shipped to England in bulk
Well, that article has just struck tn,
eastern papers, and they are publishing
it as something positively true.
Capt. John Finnerty, well known t
our people as a correspondent of thu
Chicago Times, who has visited Chey
enne frequently during the past thre,
years, arrived here yesterday. lie ha:
been in the Indian territory during tn,
past six months, and recently in tn,
Bad Lands south of the Dakota line
His letters from the Indian territory
have been perused with much interei
by the many readers of the Times il
this section. Finnerty is one of thu
best pencil-shovers in this country, ant
withal a right good fellow.