The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-15
PERSONAL AND PARTICULARS.

A smile on the face is worth two in
tumbler.
A young mans first razor-his faith
er's boot.
Did you ever see an Indian Pawnee
overcoat?
Taylor, the president of the Mormons
possesses the nature Of a brute.
Why did the boy stand on the burn
ing deck? Because it was too hot t.
sit down.
George Bancroft daily rides his new
thoroughbred through the avenues Of
Washington.
Among other habits classed in in En-.
gland as dangerous is the long-skirted
riding-habit.
Ex-Governor Routt, of Colorado, is
on his way to New York to sell his So.
600, 900 mine.
The late Jules Fayre, while a most
eloquent pleader, is said to have hardly
ever won a case.
In time most fabrics will be made
waterproof without affecting the ap-
pearance of the goods.
Governor Howard, of Dakota terri
tory, is visiting his old home at Detroit,
Mich. His health is poor.
Mr.. Gilmore's national anthem is to
be performed this week in Albany, I'M
der the direction of the composer.
David Stuart, the noted merchant of
Philadelphia and Liverpool, who recent
ly died in England, was 10 years of age.
Neal Dow attributes the peaceful
solution of the Maine peril to the fact
that there was no drunkenness in the
state.
Hayt was once removed from the
board of Indian commissioners by Gen
eral Grant at the request of Secretary
Chandler for meddlesomeness.
Colonel A. c. Botkin, United States
Marshal of Montana, has gone to Phila-
delphia for medical treatment, having
been stricken with paralysis of the legs.
The betrothal of the Austrian Crown
Prince Rudolph and Princess Mathilde,
daughter of Prince George of Saxony,
brother of the king, has been arranged
A fashion magazine says: ''Ulsters
will be worn somewhat longer this
winter" Well then the.men who wear
them will have to use stills. That's
all.
Speaking of presidential dark horses,
etc., Tilden has been so painted and
beaten that he may be appropriately de-
signated as the 'black and tam can
didate.
If you are not the person who first
suggested Sherman's march to the sea,
please send a denial to the nearest news
paper, that the list can be made up as
Dol as possible.
Mr.. George L. Seney, president Of
the Metropolitan bank, in New York
city, has given S125, 900 to the endow'
ment fund of the Wesleyan university,
Middletown, Conn.
Miss Caroline Lester, n wealthy
Rochester girl, married a heightened
foreign Count" five years ago. Re
suit: To-day the Count" has gone,
and with him her money.
A painters apprentice fell off a scat
fold with a pot of paint in each hand,
He was taken up insensible, but as soor
as he was restored to consciousness, hi
murmured: Il went down with flying
colors, anyhow"
Ruskin bluntly tells Queen Victoris
that ''if the usual course of war, instead
of ~unroofing peasants houses and ravag-
ing peasants fields, merely broke the
china upon your drawIng-room tables
no war would last a week"
''If the president" " says the Hartford
G%ouraHt, ''had desired to reward a biog
rapher, he would have long ago sen
Mr.. w. D. Howells abroad, and thu
country would have benefited by his ser
vices in a frst-class mission"
Chicago preachers pun in their pray
els. Yesterday one of them thanked
the Almighty for the great light of tn
great sun whose place is in the sky
land also, oh Father for the great ligh
of the great Son whose home is in heav
en-"
After spending three mortal hours il
getting to windward, and crawlinI
carefully toward two supposed big but
faloes, a western hunter found his sur
posed game to be a st. Louis girl tax
ing a walk on the prairie with her ear
muffs on.
John, what odor Is that?" Gloves
love.r "But that other?" 'Allspice
my beloved" But, isn't there anoth
erb, Eyes, apples, b%elovedest. ''Jus
one more2" "Raisins, my most be
lovedest." well, John, if you'd onl
drink just a little brandy, now, thin
you'd make a good mince pie"
The latest proposition in Boston is t
erect a statue of Lief Eric or Ericsson
who in the year 1000 voyaged from Ice
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