The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-02
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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The northerners travelling in Mexico
say they never met SO free-and easy a
people.
While in England General Grant was
seriously tempted to become an Eng
lishman.
The day after his ecent reelection
Senator Don Cameron made the first
speech in his life.
The Detroit Free Press takes up the
''fonetik' system, and settles that
troublesome violinist's name by SPELL
ing it 'sWmi.'' AD
The soldiers on the plains dig holes
in the ground at their barracks, and
sleep in these subterranean nests during
cold weather. .gfg
Reindeer and sledges with relief
stores are nearing Professor Nordeosk-
iold's Arctic expedi ton at West cape,
| Siberia.
Whistler, the American artist in
England, does not love critics. He vir-
tually says Of them: "What greater
arcasm can a critic pass upon himself
than that he breaches to men what he
cannot perform? Why, unsatisfed
with his unconscious power, should he
choose to become the type Of incompe-
tence by talking years of what he has
never done?"
Col. Thomas Keitt sued the New
York Times for $50, 900. He received
6 cents. Keitt is a mulatto member of
the South Carolina legislature, and the
Times published a dispatch in which it
was intimated that he was a biga-
mist. EEI4ff
Adolph Sutro owns the Sutro tunnel
in Nevada, and proposes to hold it un-
til the mine n around about him
come to terms regarding its use as q
big drain for their "diggins.''
Spinner and his autograph say they
will never leaye Florida.
Six fair maidens are sueing a Free
hold, N. j., man for breach Of promise.
Thoughof Freehold, he is a ''loose hold
man, evidently.
1.-The Hair Torn Ont of. n Wife's
Head Nine Years Ago Produced in
Court" was II recent head line in i
Cincinnati paper.
Mr.. Bret Harte, since his German
consular appointment was bestowed
upon him, has been twice in England.
Princess Louise says she likes the
United States and its people. She is 4
nice little m
The Lowell Courier marks down Gen.
w. 7. Sherman as the original arm,
Bill.
DR.. Miller, editor of the Omaha Her
aid, is lecturing in Nebraska this win
ter, on "Sobriety." The theme is q
strange one for so ardent a democrat,
A female tramp in Columbus, Ga.
stole a drink from a bottle that happen
ed to contain carbolic acid. The mis-
take got her into trouble and the hos.
pital.
A clock made entirely of bread hal
lately been received in Milan, Italy
from Peru. 1t was constructed by al
italian, who, having no means of pnr
chasing material, saved a portion Of tn
soft part of his daily bread for the pur
pose. lie solidified it with n certain
salt which rendered 1t very hard an,
insoluble in water. The clock keep
good time, and7the case, also hardened
bread, displays artistic talent!
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: use at a military post. A small cabint
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