The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-23
PRESS G~LEASISas.

Make your life SO that .there will al.
ways he a heaven around you.
Delaware, Virginia, Nevada and
California. use the whipping-post.
The Mormons are said to be increas-
ing at the rate of ten thousand a year.
A year of pleasure passes like a fleet
ing breeze, but a moment of sorrow
seems an age of pain. +.
The deepest mine in America is at
present lying in California; it makes
a hole 2,640 feet deep. ng.n
In 1916 the I'VE rage yield of wheat in
France was eleven bushels to the acre,
now it is fifteen.
Japan is now manufacturing boots
for sale in the United States from leath-
er brought from American ports.
The average temperature of the south
literal branch Of the Sutro tunnel is
102 degrees, at a depth of LOCO feet.
The drinkers of the German empire
during 1873 drank s41, o5s, 76s gallons
of beer, or about twenty gallons to each
person. - Arrem
Anew Jersey paper carpeting facto-
ry recently filled orders from Germa-
ny and South America Formerly ia
pan made all such goods.
1t is said that a vulture can fly 159
miles in an hour; wild geese, ninety
miles, and swallows ninety-two miles;
common crows make twenty-five miles
an hour.
George, dear, don't you think it's
rather extravagant of you to eat butter
with that delicious jam?n mo, love,
economical. Same piece of bread does
for both"
you fiatten me- as the orage said
to Judge David Davis when he sat down
upon it. -[Haukeye. "You injuce me
to RISE" responded the judge, as the
oranges life blood penetrated the dome
Of his pantaloons.
A patent medicine man the other
morning posted hand-bills in every
available spot in the village of Turner's
Falls, and, according to the reporter of
that place. before night Is goats had
enough medical information in them
to run an electric college"
Some one called him lazy and it rous-
ed him. Lazy You don't know vat
yer say. 1 don't vas lazy. I vas work
so hard as 1 can 1 guess l know vat I's
about. A man gan be as lazy as lie
bleases off he wants to aint it,
A Dutch saloonist, when asked why
he hung a beer-mug in front of his
place; replied: "Don't dot constitu-
ton of the United States say Hang
out your banners on dose outside
WALSH So l puts mine flag on de front
wall of mine shtore."
A hundred years hence some beiated
congressman will introduce a bill in
creasing the pensions of the veterans of
the civil war of 1864, and the news
papers will estimate that there are only
$4,000 such veterans still living.
An agent who had sold n Dutchman
some goods was to deliver them at the
residence Of the purchaser. The Dutch
man gave him the following directions:
'sYou shoost goes behind de church den
you turns up de right for a while till
you come to a house with a big hog in
the yard. Dots me.
The following anecdote was told by
an American preacher for a fact; lie
was praying, and in his prayer he said,
~ pray that the power of the devil may
be curtailed." Just then an old darkey
in the congregation cried out, Eyes;
amen! Bless mel Cut him tail right
smack, smove off,"
A member at a fashionable uptown
congregation called of a music store
and inquired; "Have you the notes of IA
piece called the Song of Solomon'?"
adding: sour pastor referred to it
yesterday morning as an exquisite gem;
and my wife would like to learn to play
it,"
A horrid paper down east ventures
| to say that IL it hadn't been for plucky
Nine. Anderson, lots Of girls wouldn't
have known that they had any legs
worth mentioning.