The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-18

oPeech - siiferi siienco Is golden, and
cheek Is brass.
New York eityis valuation Is 81 ,l43,.
704, 727, an increase in a year Of almost
$4,000, 900.
Florida expects a large orange croE
this season. and the planters are more
hopeful than for some years.
The uncertainties Of the theatrical
bnsines are illustrated by the fact that
Miss Nelson, after a season Of great
success in the east, is playing TO almost
empty houses In San Francisco.
Shakespeare says. "A tanner will last
you nine years" Not II the Tanner
undertakes to live forty days without
eating. But perhaps William didn't
include a crazy tanner.
The common house-hy wears the belt
for persistent perseverance,. One of
these creatures will go a thousand times
to the same spot on a mans bald head,
and yet there is nothing to 10 gained
by it in any way.
Somehow, we can think well Of the
young gentleman who insists ON holding
his cigar in the central oriice made by
his lips. We always imagine he was
never thoroughly weaned. Twist your
cigar into the rne OF your mouth and
have some style about you.
A Pekin I'M woma was asked by
the preacher IL her husband feared the
Lord. She replied, Fear him? why,
bless you, he Is so feared OF him that be
never goes u OF the house on sunday
without taking his gun along.with him"
Miss Howard. an English lady, has
been appointed doctor TO the countess
Ii, as also to the management Of a hos
pital established at Pekin by the foreign
residents The countess Ii supplies all
the medicine for the patients, is a great
friend To animals, and on being asked
by Miss Howard whether n was true
she supported 100 cats, replied, "Alasl
! have now only seventy"
Burlington Hankeye: democratic
stump orator: "As regards General
Hancock's experience in civil life and
his career as a stateman. I-er-ah, he
that is To say, he-er.ah" Immense APP
plause, drowning the voice of the speak
er SO completely that the reporter was
unable TO catch the rest Of his remarks).
Some OF the lovely gyurls, robed in
spotless white, who last week stood on
the platform to bid q sad farwell to
'you, kynd teachers" ere crossing the
threshold OF life, with its multiform
duties, cares and burdens, are already
dividing their ''busy hours'' between
novels tennis and nirtations with young
gentlemen of slang-taiking proclivities.
They leave of the ''kynd" when speak
ing of their teachers now.
A CLEAN Of reason Is returning to
bric-a-brac lovers. Some OF them put
the frightfully daubed plates on a table
instead OF ~suspending them on the wall.
Now, II it doesn't become the fashion
to hang painted wash-tubs and coal
scuttles on the parlor walls, sensible
women can take their children when
they visit their aesthetic" neighbors
without hayingtta1itt ones brighten.
ed almost to death.
An Englishman, who travelled up the
Nile, states that his beard, which al
home was straight, soft and silky, be.
gan Immediately on arriving at Alex.
andria TO curl aud to grow crisp, strong
and coarse. Before reaching Es Souar
1t resemblsd horse hair to the touch,
and was disposed in ringlets. He nc
counts for this by the exceeding drynes:
of the air, and considers that in the
course of many generations It perman'
emily curled and crisped the hair of ne,
groes. The hair on the travellers head
was not affected.
The Irish national convention, JUS
organized in Philadelphia "to deliver
Ireland from English rule" adopts thii
couplet as its motto:
Not cent for blathersktic,
But every cent for dynamite.
The New Zealand newspapers motto,
an amusing instance of the il
which colonial railway trains are some
times stopped. The engine-driver, no
ticing a lady waving her hand ut a sid
| iu1 whara tho train xvaa NIT t;uad ..