The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-03-20
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Get ready now for cold weather. to go.
Candidates for base ball umpires will
soon be in the field.
Young lady. before marrying look TO
the fellows anteeedents.
Gen. Grant and family are expected
at their Galena home some time In
May.
Ralph Waldo Emerson accuses Joseph
Cook Of having slandered Theodore
Parker.
Queen Margaret of Italy looks apa-
thetic. duh and III. She Is subject to
hysteria.
Every hoodlum in San Francisco is ON
a strike. Their idea is to strike some
Chinaman.
American export Of butter almost
counteracts her import Of wine in a pc
cuniary sense.
TOO busy at other things" Is Mr..
sharon's excuse for his absence from
the United States senate.
Being the .'Hub of the Universe
should not Boston be expected to have
a felloe feeling for all mankind?
Senator Harry G.. Davis, OF West
Virginia, whose term does not end till
March, 1885, is said to be the richest
man In his state.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch intends to
give up his New York house in May,
and return With his family To their
home near Washington.
Sitting Bull Is losing much OF his for
mer influence with the hostile Sioux.
Ills sitting-posture policy does not coin
eide with their war-path views.
Mr.. W. ii. Vanderbilt has bought a
water-color picture by Detaille. repre-
senting the interior of the tower of
London at parade time, for 5000.
Sheriff Desmond, of San Francisco,
Cal, was formerly a Dubuque tIowa)
blacksmith, working ut $25 per week.
His present Office is worth from $J0,OO0
to $4,000.
The receipts at the twenty-five prin-
cipal theaters Of Paris for the twelve
months covered by the last annual re-
turn to the tax Office, amout TO nearly
s5,OO0,000.
Truth says that among the ladies' pre-
scented Mt Queen Victoria's last draw
ing-room reception, Mrs. Wheeler and
Mrs. Mahlon Sands, Of New York, d.
vided the suffrages for personal grace
and beauty.
IL Is only a matter Of fashion: In
China the women comb their hair
straight back from the forehead; in
America they "bang'' 1t down over the
forehead. II it were n matter OF good
taste and good sense, the Chinese wo-
men would appear to have the advan-
tage.
A monument erected in q PhHadel-
phia cemetery to Mrs. Whitaker is con
structed of a red stone base, a central
shaft OF white stone and the upper por-
ton Of blue stone. In ordering 1t the
husband explained that his wife had al
ways been n very patriotic woman.
The late Gen. John Brisbin, OF New
ark-and who was SO long the standing
counsel Of the Delaware & Lackawanna
railway ccmpany-left a provision in
his will ''for the care and maintenance
Of his carriage horses even to their
liberation from all labor during the
term of their natural lives"
Eefore Gen. Grant sailed for Cuba he
ordered from Tiffany an elaborate silver
pitcher, to be made of hammered silver.
On the bottom Of the pitcher is en-
graved the following. Ellis E~xcellency,
Ii Hung Chang, viceroy of Chilli, from
U. S. Grant, $780," Its cost Is $500,
and 1t has been sent to the Chinese en-
bassy at Washington for transportation
abroad.
ASan Francisco letter to the New
York Tribune contains q paragraph
aptly illustrating the habits and tastes
of the larger class Of suddenly rich men
In the former city. 1t states that in
the residence Of the late William S.
O'Brien, n Of the original bonanza
kings, the furniture cost over 500, 600,
while the books in the spacious library
were valued ut only $3.50.