The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-23
The Weekly Leader
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PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

AND PARTICULAR.
When the wind gets round, there
comes the whirlwind.
A mule, unlike a gun, often refuses
to go off when he is loaded.
A clock pendulum is bound bound to
keep time if it has to swing for it.
An innkeeper need never be at a loss
for means 10 entertain his patrons, be-
ing always a host in himself.
A game of euchre between the sea-
sons-Spring passes, summer makes it
next, autumn orders it up, and winter
runs the game out.
Every man is the architect of his
W fortune. That's the reason n for
tune always costs him so per cent over
and above his estimates. F.
A correspondent wishes to know the
best way to winter geraniums. The
best and cheapest way is to sling EN-
over the back fencs and buy a new lot
in the spring.
There are about 1900 one-lsgged and
one-armed confederate veterans in
Georgia who will be able, under the re-
cent act Of the legislature. to call upon
the state to supply them with artificial
| limbs.
a bicycle rider was thrown of his
fiery, unframed steed and fatally injured
in Chicago, and the citizens went to the
governor to appoint another Thanks
giving day. All the good things are
coming in a heap this year.
Rev. E. P. Roe, the author, is about
forty years old, has a frank, manly
c~ountenance, with a sad, earnest ex-
preston. His wife takes great interest
In his work, aud he owes much Of his
success to her encouragement.
An English undergraduate at ex-
animation, or being told to recite the
parable of the good Samaritan, thus
did it: IA certain man journeying
from Jerusalem to Jerico, fell among
thieves" Then he stopped. go on,
SIR" said the examiner. "And-"
"And what? Go on, sir" "And the
thieves sprang up and choked himl"
t~riumphantly ended the youth.
An Irish clsrgyman's daughter, aged
twelve, said to her father the other day
that "a certain consequential parson was
"a baste." Sharp parental reproof be-
ing promptly administered, missy re-
torted that papa had used that very ex-
preston himself in last Sundays SER
vice. Certainly not" said the rever-
end papa, with much emphasis. 80,
but you did," persisted missy, 81 heard
you say that he that exalteth himself
shall be a baste.f
what shall l bring you for desert,
sirf" said a polite waiter at a fashion
able hotel, as he commenced removing
a formidable array Of empty dishes
from be fore a guest, evidintly from the
rural districts. Now, young man,
said he, ''jest you give me time; all you
have got to do now is now is to fill all
these dishes up again the same as they
we're before, and bring 'em here; by'me-
by we'll talk about yer pies and yer pud-
din's."
or Mr.. Bret Harte's methods Of work,
the London "World'' says his desk
is a model of neatness; he prefers
note paper to foolscap; lie would
rather write a page a second time than
send it with an erasure or an interlinea-
ton; the works of his favorite poets are
always within reach, and among them
Longfellow usually occupies the most
promineQt place. He knows the liter
allure OF the day, and especially works
of fiction are to be found in his room.
He is fond of a cigar, and smokes often
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