The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-06
Personal AND PARTICULAR.

General Burnside loves farming, ant
is rich enough to enjoy it.
The duke of Argyll was favorably i'm
pressed with this country.
Ex-Secretary Bristow is up at Port
land, Me-, arguing a law case.
Pink pond-lilies are quite fashionable
now for decorating the table at dinner
parties.
n. p. Banks, of Massachusetts, is
about to assume the role of a temper.
ance lecturer.
The beauty of American ladies' abroad
continues to be the theme of foreign
correspondence.
A book that will be likely to sell
well-Jeff Davis forthcoming "History
of the Rebellion
Ex-senator Ramsey, of Minnesota. is
said to wear a bland smile, and to be
popular with elderly ladies.
Mr.. Tennyson has been requested to
write the inaugural ode for the Austral-
ian international exhibition.
Mrs. Ex-Governor Catlin, 20 a of
age, is put down as the most graceful
swimmer at Watch Hill, r. |.
Another man unhappily married.
the Rev. Newman Hall, of England, is
seeking a divorce from his wife.
Bret Harte has a new California
story in press in London. 1t is called
1.-THE Twins OF Table Mountain
Tom Thumb came so near being
drowned the other day that he at once
started off on another farewell tour.
Tennyson has been known to rewrite
a poem thirty times before being sufi-
GENTLY satisfied with it to give it to the
printer.
William H. Vanderbilt has just salt
ed down 81, OOo, 900 in United States 4
per cent. bonds as an Investment for
his family.
General Noyes, our minister to
France, presided at the recent banquet
given at the Grand Hotel, in Paris, to
M. de Desseps.
Whitelaw Reid, visiting the southern
coast of California, will, after his re-
turn, breakfast with the members of
the San Francisco press.
George Washington Jurisprudence
Bagwell is the mann of a colored man
who is stamping Lehigh county, Pa,
on the subject of labor reform.
The president begins work shortly
after 9o'clock in the morning. His
son, Webb, sits on his left hand and
his stenographer behind his chair.
The Prince of Wales and other menu
bers of the royal family will visit the
Melbourne exhibition. The duke of
Genoa will go out in a man-of-war
DR.. W. II. Russell, who has gone out
to the cape as correspondent of the
London Telegraph, received, it is said,
before his departure a fee Of $4,000.
Edison wants a peculiar kind of plati-
num-. He can't use his electric light
to look for it, because it is the element
necessary to perfect the electric light.
The Prince of Wales has purchased
Sara Bernhardt's picture, LA Dor
mense," and has ordered from the art
list a new picture and a piece of statu-
airy.
The first toxophilite of whom histor-
ical mention is made, was Ishmael. "He
dwelt in the wilderness and was an ar
cher. "-[Genesis, xxi chapter, Goth
verse.
Wilson the legless soldier, discharged
by sergeant-at-arms Burch, of the Unit
ed States senate, to make room for a
confederate, will visit Ohio and stump
it for Foster.
In a New York court the other day
a nan testified that he had drank 1O5
glasses of beer without becoming in
toxicated. What could that fellow
have been made Off
Within a few feet of the spot where
William Lloyd Garrison was once at
tackled by a mob of pro-slavery men lin
the Merchants Bank Building, Boston,)
a crayon portrait of the great agitator
has been hung.
A son of the late Colonel Colt, of
Hartford, will soon come into possession
of the very large fortune left him by
his father. The young man has just
gone to Newport with his ine horses,
his beautiful dog-cart and his Inverted
servants.
Sir John Mcdonald, prime minister
of the Dominion of Canada, is said to
bear a likeness to Earl Beaconsfield that
is quite startling; and, either conscious
ly or unconsciously, assists nature with
a few touches of art. The whole shape,
color and expression of his face are
phenomenally like those of the earl, and
he is also very like him in many social
and political qualities.
Prince Jerome Napoleon's nickname
of "Plon-Plon'' was, it is said obtained
in his childhood at Stuttgart, where he
was a great favorite with the late King
William of Wurtemberg. The king
used to amuse himself by asking the
little prince his name, and the child,
who could not then speak plainly, al
ways answered, :" Plon-Plon," instead
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