The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-03
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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Afghanistan grapes are as large as
walnuts.
Mr.. Bug Hash is a resident of Leba-
non, KY.
India contains 24O, GOO, 900 inhabi-
tants. and 20, 900 priests.
A Lowell baboon died of fright. Saw
himself in the glass.
There is no wife so young that a dia-
mond ring will not induce her to cease
calling her 75-year-old husband grand
pa.n
Herr Wilhelmj receives for this sea-
sons engagement in America 5000 o
and his expenses.
The folks at the white house had a
Christmas tree.
Charles J.. Moore, of West Virginia,
has invented a machine which prints
without type-setting, and a company
in Washington will manufacture the
novelty.
Mrs. Ole Bull is the business head of
the concern, making all her husbands
contracts and his programmes. She is
a Wisconsin girl.
When a man dies suddenly ''without
the aid of a physician, " as an Irishman
once said, the coroner must be called
in. If a man dies regularly after being
treated by a doctor, everybody knows
why he died, and the coronor's inquest
is not necessary.
A resident of Washington, KY, took
a vow that if ever he got drunk again
he would whip himself all the way home
from the tavern. He got drunk, and
fulfilled his vow with such vigor that
he could not stir out Of bed for two
weeks.
"Water you soy?" as the milkman
remarked to the customer who accused
him of dilutiug the tactical fluid.
A man is going to have his name
stamped upon 80, 900, 900 toothpicks.
The mans name will he in e~yerbody's
mouth.
The man who sits down sudden and
hard on the sidewalk, thinks the world
is all a fleeting snow for mans illusion
given.
An indianapolis barber's overcoat
was stolen, SO he called in a captain of
Police and a patrolman, gave them to
hold on their inger-tips a key, the
wards Of which were fastened in a
Bible, and then recited Ruth's words to
Naomi and the names of suspected per-
sons, till at one name the Bible turned
and fell. The man whose name had
been mentioned was present, fell down
and confessed his guilt and was march
ed of to prison.
There is a great change in the style
of pockets. They afe not worn nearly
SO full as previous to Christmas.
The inebriate's song-This is the way
1 long have sot.
Mrs. Van Colt weighs 257 pounds,
and complains of overwork.
When a halter fits a cap to your era
mum he cap sizes your head, doesn't
he?
Sitting Bull passes his time in add
ing to his stock of wives. In fact, he
is getting up a little Canadian court on
his own hook, low-neck style and all.
The women clerks in the Treasury
department are said to excel as count
ers of bills, quicker than men to detect
counterfeits, but not so good at figures.
Marshal Douglas, son of Stephen A.
Douglas, and marshal of the western
district of North Carolina, is visiting
Washington. He appears much as did
his noted father, in form, face and
manner, but is more of a wag.
Club skates are not intended for club
feet.
Robert Bonner never runs a horse;
he only runs a horse nunnery.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode
from Washington after the murder of
President Lincoln is now owned in
Pomfret, Conn.,, and is 1s years old.
"Consistceny, thou art a jewell" as
the Office boy said when he got the
paste the right thickness.
Phil Sheridan belongs to the Chicago
jockey club. Phil is well acquainted
with the science of running.-Atlanta
Constitution Had hard work getting
away from him, did you?
In st. Joseph, Mo-, a city of 10000
Inhabitants, a big gray wolf came out
from its den under a slaughter-house
one day last week and attacked a boy,
who beat it off, got a gun and killed it.
The skating of the American gentle
men residents in Florence, Italy, at the
new skating rink recently opened there,
is highly prased and applauded by the
! nobility and others to whom such
things are rare.