The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-14

DIR. Gordon Holmes advises singers
to wear hannels. Without being q
doctor, we advise everybody to wear
hannels.
Baltimore calls her approaching 150th
anniversary ''the sesqui-centennial. -
sesqui is classical and tony like, you
know.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin, during his sum-
mer sojourn at Cummington, Mass,
has been writing q memoir Of his father
in-law, William Cullen Bryant.
Mile. Belle Gabrielle, of the Humpty
Dumpty troupe, recently fell from the
stage to the floor in Syracuse, and was
severely bruised, but will recover.
Wade Hampton has been injured
again while deer hunting ut Dagger's
Springs, Virginia, but this time be rode
a horse instead of a mule, and was only
bruised.
Colonel Ben Brownfeld, of Union
town, Pennsylvania, the Oldest man in
Fayette county, aged 101 years, @
months and 10 days. died the other
night. He leaves a large estate.
The presidential party has returned
to Portland, Oregon. The president
visited the Chinese quarter Of that city
and then started for Puget sound.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival as
ISOLATION offers a prize OF q 1000 in cash
for "the most meritorious composition
for chorus and orchestra" TO be per-
formed at its festival in May, 1882.
Says the Boston Transcript. which is
a philosopher: "Bear carefully in mind
that betting proves nothing, for those
who bet know no more Of the future
than the rest Of mankind"
In 1867 q Syracuse man died and left
a diamond to n of his daughter. She
has had several chances to sell 1t for a
thousand dollars, but took it to New
York the other day TO find out that it
was only paste, and not worth 50.
James Coull, who steered the British
boat, the Shannon. in the action against
the American boat, the Chesapeake, Off
Boston harbor in 1913, died the other
day in London, and was buried with
military honors.
Tho New Orleans Picayl1ie doesn't
believe in the youthfulness OF a we'll
known singer. 1t says: Chicago
claims William Castle, the tenor, as a
Chicago boy. Chicago is too young a
city to make the claim good"
George Magee, ST., known as the
Lone Fisherman" and one of the
most expert swimmers In Canada, was
drowned in the canal at welland a few
days ago. He went into the canal at
noon to battle, and was found soon after
standing upright with his head above
water, but quite dead.
It is nothing in a purchaser so easily
deceived as in cabinet work. II q piece
Of cabinet furniture is well made, IL will
last a hundred years or more and still
be in fair condition. But IL badly
made in the first instance, 1t will be a
source Of annoyance and expense from
the day it is purchased to the not
distant period when it is at only
to be banished to the attic or lumber
room.
A New Yorker predicts that ''the
time is near at hand when a race Of
honey-bees will be introduced to the
American people who have no stingers. y
But the American people who have no
stingers-who and where are they? Or,
who and where are the Ameri-
can people who have stingers? Per-
haps the American people who have no
stingers will object to the acquaintance
a new race of honey-bees.
Public attention has recently been
called to the number Of clipped and
p%unctured coins in circulation at the
present time. While there is q heavy
penalty provided In the case of any ono
detected in mutilating n coin, there is
for passing it. But such coins
are refused in all the governmental off,
ces, and now the car and railroad COM
panies are following their example. If
the community in general would do so,
the practice must necessarily cease.