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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05
Hosiery Department.

This season we can offer more bar
gains In every kind Of ladies and child.
rem knitted yea than ever before.
ol4tf MARKS & MYERS.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

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circulation and is the best paper west.
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

SAdcersisr5s oil paks o q nz
o. faa ha THE LkADKR has a larger
sreslaaon han any Ota1 paper pub
t.sAed On Wyomin0.9
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

Cures Colds, Pneumonia, Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Group, Whooping
Cough, and all diseases of the
Breathing Organs. 1t soothes
and heals the Membrane of the
Lungs, infamed and poisoned by
disease, and prevents the night
sweats and tightness across the
chest which accompany it. CON-
SUMPTION is not an incurable
malany. 1t is only necessary to
have the right remedy,a and Halls
Balsam is that remedy. Don't
Despair Of Relief, for this benign
specific will cur you, even if
professional aid fails.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04

this fatty matter, and its behavior with
acids and alkalies, prove that its chemical
composition differs from that OF all other
oils known. Like all drying oils, it forms
by the action Of neat Il glutinous substance;
but, while heat is indispensable to make
such oils more siccative, the Min grease
loses portion of this property through
heating. The elastic substance of oils is
soluble in ether, and especially in turpen-
tine, but that of Min is nearly insoluble in
these materials. In some localities i'm Cen
tral America this oil is largely employed
for painting wooden utensils, such ladies,
ETC., u mass being made with color, chalk,
and the grease, and applied precisely as in
ordinary oil painting. 1t has been observed
that articles painted with it may be pre-
served for long time. Guitar manufac-
turers also use this greese in vanishing
their Instruments. AS yet it has received
no application in pharmacy. 1t is probable
that the ancient race which formerly peop-
led Central America used this greese in
painting their buildings, and it is for this
reason that, after a lapse of several centu-
ries the decorations are still to be seen in
that perfect state of preservation which
caused the admiration Of Mr.. Stevens when
he visited these ruins in 1912.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
American Birds,

The Duke of Argyle says in his Impre
slons; "With regard TO the birds Of Mort
America, / cannot doubt from what | saw
and heard that as songsters they are inferior
TO our own. This is the testimony of Mrs.
Grant of Laggan, who was familiar with
both. 1t is curious circumstance that be-
tween one Canadian bird and the CORES
ponding species at home the only difference
| could detect was that the American spe-
cies was silent, whilst our own is ALWAYS
talking. refer to that charming bird the
common sandpiper, abounding on the
banks of every ream and lake in the high
lands. Its American cousin is equally
abundant on all the rivers in Canada; but
whilst at home its call notes are incessant,
and the male bird has even a continuous and
most lively song, did not hear a solitary
sound from the sandpiper of Canada. This,
however, may have been an accident, and
the sandpipers are no where reckoned
migratory thrush (robin) everywhere, in
the midst of the gardens and villas of towns
and cities, and in every little clearing of the
forest on the outskirts of human habitation
1t is a pleasant song, but decidedly inferior
TO any of its cousins in Britain. 1t is in
ferior in power TO the missal thrush, In va
riety TO our common 'mavis, in melody 10
the blackbird. Near Niagara heard one
very broken and interrupted song of fine
tone and of considerable power. But al
though | was in the woods and fields of
Canada and of the States in the richest mo-
ment of the spring, | heard little of that
burst OF song which in England comes from
the blackcap and the garden warbler and
the common wren, and (locally) from the
nightingale. Above all, there is one great
want which nothing can replace. The
meadows of North America were TO my eye
thoroughly English in appearance-the
same rich and luxuriant grass, the same
character of wild flowers and even the same
weeds. The skies of America are higher
and wider and more full of sunshine. But
there is no skylark TO enjoy that glorious
privacy of light. The sweetest singer in
the Heavenly Fathers choir Is wanting in
the New World | cannot help thinking
that il might be introduced. Ofcourse the
winters OF Canada and of the Northern
states would compel it TO follow almost all
the other birds which summer there, and
TO retire with them until the return of spring
TO Virginia or the Carolinas. 1t would be
an interesting experiment do not know
whether it has been tried If not, | would
suggest it to my American friends as one
worth trying. 1t would be ahappier intro
duction than that of the London sparrow. -
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
Havana.

Havana Is cosmopolitan. One sees IN her
streets almost every nationality and hears
many tongues Coolies are employed for
much of the work along the harbor front
and also swell the ranks of the peddlers
The vanity bred in the Castilian is evinced
| by the many varieties of gorgeous uniforms,
meeting the eye. Almost every third man
is in uniform, and u score or go differently
triCked out may be seen at glance. Some
of the officers wearing side arms also carry
Maacca sticks with golden brown cord
and tassel, which strangely suggests Cock
neylsm. One of the commonest types is Il
swarthy bearded man dressed in very
neat light blue striped material, with white
vest, low cut, exposing gorgeous shirt
front small panca Ike cap with straight
tortoise shell visor, gold bowed eye glasses,
and all the decorations in cap and uniform
that his rank will allow. The ladies sell
dom go covered in the street. Their coiff-
ures are most elaborate; and only film of
lace is occasionally worn on the back Of
the head. Some of the poorer classes wear
even less than the traditional Topsy, and
during the mornings drive our company
passed several groups of negro children
with only nature covering. In the even
ing the social life of Havana begins. The
long lines of tile Prado are anlaze with
light, the numerous cafes overflow To the
sidewalks, which in many instances are
under arcadcs, and the theatres and the
circus furnish amusement Brilliant pri-
vate equipages and less ambitious victor
las dash along with their loads of dark
bearded men and smiling senoritas. The
Iacon theatre has probably world wide
reputation. For some cause it is closed AT
present, and the fashionable house is the
Theatre Payret de la Paz, handsome new
theatre, standing in square nearly oppo-
site the Tacon. The Payret is probably as
large as the Boston theatre, which il very
mnch resembles. There is parquet circle
and four tiers above; two of which are di-
vided into boxes The theatre has a fair
company and remarkably large orchestra,
which discourses excellent music. The
curtain remains down about fifteen minutes
between the acts, and the parquet is entire
ly emptied. The men throng out into the
the lobbies or the adjoining cafes, smoke
cigarettes or drink coffee. The American
bar is feature of the Havana cafe, but not
the prominent feature. Ii is found on one
side or in IA corner, while most of the space
is devoted to the handicapped tables for
coffee drinkers.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
A Flying Leg of Mutton.

In the good old days" at the Haymar-
ket Theatre, London, they were running
the musical farce of No Song, No Supper" !"
and the exigencies of the piece required a
real boiled leg of mutton every night, which,
according to the law of property, or rather
the property law in theatre,
went after performance, almost untouched,
to the official named.
But the ''hymen, perched up aloft, did
not like this, which occurred night after
night 10 their growing dissatisfaction, for
they, too, had wives and families, TO whom
boiled leg of mutton free of charge would
have been thing to be remembered. So
they hit upon plan, and one night Mr.
William Farren, who had the carving of
the aforesaid leg, was solicited to fix hook
that would be let down from the ''flies"
into the mutton and leave the rest to them.
Farren, always ready for practical joke,
consented at once, and as the scene was
coming to termination, deity fastened
the hook into the leg, and cleft the rest to
them. As the scene -shifters were prepar-
ing to 'close in," and the property-man
stood at the wings ready to seize on his
perquisitc, the leg of mutton was seen
slowly TO ascend, without any visible agency.
The audience laughed, and the employees
all gave vent to their feelings in ill-sup-
pressed merTiment-all save the property
man, who remained miserably serious, and
gazed at his fast departing supper with
woe-begOnc COuntenance. Suddenly, as
the scene almost closed in, the hook, which
Farren hac unfortunately ony fastened IN
the fat, gave way, and the muchcoveted
mutton came down on the dish with a ter
rife splash. The audience now roared, the
employees roared, Farren at the table roared,
and as the ''fiats'' hid the unrehearsed tableau
from view, the now delighted property
rushed on the stage, and securing the ill
treated supper, joined in the general roar.
Our fly fishers were never known to try a
hook again,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
Marrying at Large.

A New York justice of the peace was re-
Gently called To a German house in that city
to marry couple. Putting a marriage
certificate in his pocket, he started for the
festive scene. Arrived at the house, under
the direction of blue-lcgged little boy,
who pointed out the place, he knocked and
went in. In the middle of the floor stood
stout German girl, sorry and plump, her
blue eyes rolling ont tears as large as butter
pats.
whats the matterl" said the sympa-
thetic judge.
"Matter!' said the girl, ''dat Gotlei6
went off and wouldn't marry me, amt it,
The justice said he supposed ii was, and
intimated that Ne had come to marry some
one, and requested the old lady to bring on
the lambs To the sacrifice. Old lady said,
Dare vos no. lambs-Gotleib ish run off,
and vii not marry my katarina."
"Well, said the justice, "Gotleib isn't
the only man there is-send for some other
man to marry her
AT this katarna's face frightened up,
and she calculated, "Yah-dat is goot-
send NIT Hans.
Hans was sent for, but couldn't come
When her messenger returned, Hatarina,
determined not to give it up, said, Send
NIT Shoseph."
Shoseph was sent for, but he couldn't be
found. katarinas looks fell at this news,
and the justice was growing impatient.
Just then Katarina looked out of the win
dow and saw a short and thick young
German going by, when she rushed to the
door and nallooed, Fritz FRITZ
Fritz shortly made his appearance at the
door, when Katarina's S mother said, Fritz,
you lofs mine Katarinat'
Fritz, allowed he did, "more as sauer-
kraut."
''Then stand up here, cried the justice;
and before Fritz could realize his position,
he and katarina were man and wife, and
katarina's arms were around his neck,
and her lips pressed to his, she crying the
the while. "Mein husband-mein Fritz"
Our duty as correct historians compels us
to say that Fritz hugged back as well as he
knew how. The justice, with head erect,
stepped smiling out leaving the lovers to
themselves, and walked away meditatively,
a holy calm stealing all over his massive
proportions, the consciousness of having
done his duty cleaning in his eye, and
honor, honesty, and rectitude In his foot
steps.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
Lake IJwellers.

This class of persons lived before the
time of the Pyramid-bulders but in their
progress and their discovery, first of bronze
and finally of iron, they may have been
slower and later than the ancient Egyp-
tians. The only knowledge we have Of that
strange people, who once lived in curious
rounded houses built on platforms erected
for some distance from the shore out into
the lakes of Switzerland, is derived from
archaeology. In 1854 the waters of Lake
Zurich (and of some other Swiss lakes) re-
ceded farther than they had ever been
known TO sink before during the historic
period; and a farmer, digging the rich
muck thus exposed for his garden, was as
tOnished upon coming upon masses of piles,
and, mixed among these, bronze imple-
ments-knives chisels, axes, etc. In other
localities subsequent explorers, digging
down into these lakes and in other places,
came upon implements of stone as well as
bronze; but it was found i'm every instance
that the stone implements lay below those
of bronze. Whether the age of bronze came
for the Lake Dwellers at the same time
that it did to those wonderful people in
habiting the valley of the Nile, is very
than the Egyptians, they were also slower.
and probably later in arriving at the age of
bronze. But they reached that age. They
had lances, fish hooks, sickles, axes, all of
bronze. 1t was an age in which men did
not know the use of iron. And the bronze
implements they had were cast in the forms
in which We find them. In some localities
we come upon articles of bronze and of
stone IN others of stone only. The ques-
tion arises was there ever period
IN which mankind used only implements of
stone. There is no doubt of il. From one
lake alone in Switzerland no fewer than
2, 643 axes have now been recovered, I43 ar
rows, and variety of other weapons and
domestic utensils, all stone. Other Swiss
lakes yield similar suggestive revelations.
And 1t was the same in Great Britain-it
was the same in France-it was the same
throughout Italy, Germany, and most parts
of Europe-it was so even in Egypt? Not
even the Egyptians knew, at one time, the
use of iron or bronze
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
Weather News.

January.-Will be rather warm, but not
very warm; somewhat moist, but not very
moist; just moist enough. There will be
some cold weather, and some not quite SC
cold; just cold enough.
February-The weather will be like that
of January, only more so, with slight var
iations.
March-Can't say whether we will have
any weather this month or not. The game
is blocked and the machine won't indicate,
but it is safe to say it will rain, and it never
rains but it pours
April-People will be greatly fooled on
the weather of this month. We know
what it will be, but don't propose to spoil
all the fun by giving it away.
May-We may have some rain this month,
but it will not rain all the time. The sun
will shine.
June-By the time we have got along to
this month we will all begin to see the ef-
fects of the famine. Oh, but it will be hot
some of the time; but it is well enough for
some folks to become acclimated.
July-Some dust, rain, clouds and wind.
but more sunshine; it will be quite hot.
August-Considerab fair and warm
weather, but not more than we can use.
September-Some rain, at least enough
to supply milkmeR. Sunshine.
October-Talk of a boat race will pre-
vent storm this month.
November-Some snow and rain.
Deeember-More snow.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04

A duke walking in his garden one day,
saw Latin copy of great work on Mathe-
matics lying on the grass, and thinking 1t
had been brought from his library called
some one to carry il back.
at belongs to me-" said the gardeners
son stepping up.
''YoursI" cried the duke; "Do you un-
derstand geometry aud Latinl"
Il know little of them, answered the
lad modes:ly.
The duke, having a taste for the sciences,
began to talk with the young student, and
was astonished at the clearness and intelli-
gence of his answers.
But how came you to know so much?"
asked the duke.
Zone of the servants taught me to read,
answered the lad; lone does not need 10
know anything more than the twenty-six
letters in order TO learn everything else one
wishes" But the gentleman wanted to
know more about it.
after | learned to read" said the boy,
'the masons. came to work on your house,
! noticed the architect used rule and com
passes, and made great many calculations.
What was the meaning and use of that?
asked and they told me of a science called
arithmetic. | bought an arithmetic and
studied it through. They then told me
there was another science called geometry.
/ bought the books and learned geometry.
Then | found there were better books
about these sciences in Latin. bought a
dictionary and learned Latin. ! heard
there were still better ones in French. |
got dictionary and learned French. 1t
seems to me we may learn everything
when we know the twenty-six letters Of
the alphabet"
They are in fact, the ladder TO every
science. But how many boys are coGtented
to waste their time at the first two or three
rounds, with not pluck nor perseverance
enough to climb higher! Up, up, up, if
you want to know more, and see clearer,
and take a high post of usefulness
IN the world. And if you are a
poor boy and need little friendly encour-
agement to help you on, be sure, if you
have a will to climb, you will find the
way, just as the gardeners son found it
afterwards in the Duke of Argyll under
whose parentage he pursued his studies
and became distinguished mathematician.
stones Mathematical Dictionary
for Stone was the young gardeners name
was celebrated book published IN London
some wears ago.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04

little one climbed in my lap last night
A fair little creature with shiny eyes,
That seemed to have taken the ir radiant light
From the fairest hue of the summer skies
And down on my shoulder she laid her head,
And settled herself with quaint little twirl;
And then, looking up in my face, she said
Now sing me a song of a baby glrl."
"Of taby girl ~ How my thoughts dew back
To another time and another scene,
Far, far adown on my memorys track.
With many Joy and sorrow betweeu-
To another time, when at evenings close,
Tired out with the long days busy whirl,
i, too, climbed up for sweet repose
On my moth RS lap-a baby girl!
How we change, how we change, ~ the years
so on
There are silver threads in my hair to-day
And the loving and cherished mother is gone
To the pleasant land where angels stay.
O, / wonder, wonder. if e'er she looks down
From the beautiful city with gates of p arl, y
From Tho sounding harp and the cleaning
crown"
To follow the fate of her baby girl
What is this, little one ? All. her head droops
low,
And her fingers have loosened their clinging
clasp,
For the innocent slumber bu: children know
Holds her baby brain in its soothing grasp,
And l gather more closely her form to my
breast
And tenderly toy with each clust ring curl,
When our labor is done; may our final rest
BE as sweet as the sleep of my baby girl.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
A Fair Duel,

In 1894, an English judge delivered the
following charge to a jury in duelling
case: at is now a painful duty which
jointly belongs to us; it is mine to lay down
the law, and yours to apply it to the facts
before you. The oath by which l am
bound obliges me to say that homicide,
after due interval left for consideration,
amounts to murder. The laws of England
in their utmost lenity and allowance for
human frailty, extend their compassion
only to sudden and momentary trays; and
then, if the blood has not had time to cool
or the reason to return, the result is termed
manslaughter. Such is the law of the land,
which undoubtedly the unfortunate gentle
man at the bar has violated, though he has
acted in conformity to the law OF honor.
His whole demeanor in the duel, according
to the witness whom you are most to be-
lieve Colonel StanwiX, was that of perfect
honor and perfect humanity. Such is the
law and such are the facts. If you cannot
reconcile the latter TO your conscience, you
must record verdict of guilty. But if the
contrary. though the acquittal may trench
on the rigid rules of the law, yet the YER
dict will be lovely in the sight of God and
man." But finer still was the direction OF
the Justice Fletcher in 1912, on a similar
occasion, when addressing an Irish jury, he
summed up in two minutes: Gentlemen,
it is my business to lay down the law to
you, and shall do so. Where two peo-
pie go out to fight duel, and one of, them
falls, the law says it is murder. And tell
you, by law this is murder; but, at the same
time fairer duel l never heard of in the
whole course of ny life. "
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-03-04
Oil Producing Insect.

This insect, which has considerable eco
monte use in Central America, belongs to
the same genus as the cochineal, and is
called by the native name of ''ni-in." Be-
ing unknown to science, the author names
it Coccus adpofera. The females are Of
coral-red and are covered with a fine whit
ish powder They live on trees belonging
to the genus Spodias, and known as ''hog
plumbs.n They adhere to the trees by
means of their beaks, remaining motionless,
and existing in such large numbers that
they frequently cover every portion of the
plant There is extracted from these fe-
males 26 to 90 per cent. of their weight of
a bright yellow fat having an odor suige
neris, and which when recently melted is
homogeneous, but in a short time becomes
granular and of a lighter color. 1t is the
most quickly drying oleaginous substance
known, since " it becomes Immediately
covered over with pellicle full of wrinkles
and folds and, if this pellicle be dipped
into the greese to exclude its surface from
contast with the air, the whole mass shortly
becomes transformed into an infusible an
insoluble resinous substance. Applied to
paper or any other surface, this greese dries
in six or seven hours so as to form smooth
lustrous surface and almost odorless. Mixed
with copal, or any other resin. and turpen-
tine, it forms a golden-yellow drying var
nish. Its melting point is $50. Heated
to temperature of 200 Q to 2lO0 until it
becomes glutinous, it changes on cooling
into bland elastic mas" (caoutchoue of
ni-in) which is almost insoluble in spirit of
turpentine, but insoiuble in bisulphide of
carbon. In 80 per cent. alcohol it is but
slightly soluble. The various properties OF