The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-15
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Man corrupts all that he touches.
A shoemAker's .'last" hours are when
be Is freeing a boot.
II Is more c0mmendable TO favor the
humble than 10 pAmPer the naughty.
II is well TO be confident; it Is better
TO be organized.
Nine thousand bushels Of wheat have
been raised on n farm in Parker
county, Texas.
The daily circulation of the Partisan
one-sou papers aggregates n million
copies.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
sounds the tocsin for a healthy breed Of
''honest boys"
Imagination successfully completes
with the Pacific railroad, for it carries
you a long way.
Ashland. the Kentucky home Of
Henry Clay, has been leased at IS an
acre.
Bailey's new book Is called ''The
Danbury Boom" 1t ought to be a
sparkling production.
At the restaurant on Mount Vesuvi-
Us, tourists will lava chance to get a
hot drop OF the ''~crater."
An American Misunderstanding belle,
on a foreign quest, is often over anxious
to be called to a count.
Sunken canal boats are stubborn facts.
-Er. There's a hull lot of stern wis
dom in that.
1t Is a difficult thing for a dog with
out n tail to show his master how much
he thinks Of him.
Seth spicer calls the oyster tho game
bird Of America. Now we always
thought a Tennessee mule deserved that
aP~pellation.
1t is poor policy to count on the
riches which you expect to have. The
Italian says that the man who sells the
bearskin before he has caught the bear
Is a fool.
IF you grasp a rattlesnake firmly by
the neck he cannot bite you," says q
western paper. To DO perfectly safe 1t
will be well to let the hired man do the
grasping.
AL anonymous correspondents are
requested to invariably sign their
names, not necessarily rs an evidence
OF good faith, but to prove that the
letter was not written by some respect
able person.
"Oh, for = thousand tongues" she
sang In the church. choir, and two
hours afterward one tongue was found
sufficient To scandalize four-nfths OF the
women in three counties.
my DEAR" said she, what is the
meaning OF the dead letter Office in
Washington" at is a place where
they file away civil service orders"
The Boston Transcript evidently
means to intimate that when a Cincin
natl pork raiser goes abroad he is very
indefinite when he speaks OF the pro-
auctions Of his pen.
The field of Gettysburg seems to be
the Garden Of Eden Of recent politics.
Up to date, however, General Long
street, minister to Turkey, seems to
have all the gate money.
A member of the Bengal Asiatic So
ciety has a monkey which he taught to
swing a punkah, and the monkey did it
as well as . coelie could do 1t. He
thinks that monkeys might be employed
at domestic service.
The Arab horse is not broken until
his fourth year; that's where they diff
fer from teacups. But then Arab
horses are not washed by the average
kitchen girl.
Play spades IL you would win pota-
toes; play clubs IL you would deal with
a %rufian; play hearts If you would win
friends; play diamonds IL you would
win a woman.
A scientist informs us that ''skulls
Of African negroes are dolichoce, phal-
ic, unacceptable, prognatus, pl%atyrhins
and mcsoseme." No wonder the West
Point officers think Whitaker dubbed
himself.
The story is again going the rounds
that the site Of Chicago wal once pur-
chased for q pair Of boots. This &C.
counts for the fact that ever since that
time Chicago people have been so proud
that they have eve been able to get
boots and shoes large enough.