The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-21

D4NAnooh oato ouc Will never
marry until she can bake a loaf Of
bread, and that she will never bake
bread while she has her senses.
A Rome tNev.l girl has been made
the recipient OF SIS by an insurance
company rs q reward for the promptI-
tnde withwhieh she put out q fire.
Mrs. Van Pelt. the local editor of
the Dubuque uowa) Times, is also the
base ball editor Of hat journal. Last
year she reported more than sixty
games. She is considered the best au-
thority in Dubuque on the national
game.
Square handkerchiefs OF twilled silk.
with black or dark-blue square eenters
wrought in gold thread and wide Dor
ders of ehangeable red and blue, appear
among the new millinery materials.
The embroidered center is laid on the
crown and the ends caught into bows
and fans in picturesque trimming.
A Madrid musician, offended by a
fellow pianist, challenged him to play
the piano with him until either of them
should be compelled by fatigue to desist.
The duel lasted forty-eight hours with
out either antagonist resting or taking
the slightest nourishment. One OF
them played, among other pieces, the
"Miserere," from ''Trovatore,n over
$50 times, and was beginning 1t again,
when lie fell dead from exhaustion.
The other Is ON the verge Of lunacy.
A man living at Montreal obtained
two young seals. and after feeding
them about a year they became very
tame, and would 20 into his house and
stay an hour or two by the Gre. and
then 60 out and take a swim In the st.
Lawrence, returning again to the house
and striking their fiippers against IL to
gain entrance. Finally he decided to
send them of, and gave them to a
steamboat pilot to carry forty or fifty
miles down the river, which was done,
but the next morning the seals made
their appearance again Is usual.
An exchange calls attention to the
custom at funerals Of having the min
lister stand On the stairs in n hall, and
be expected to comfort the mourners
upstairs and edify the friends In the
parlors down stairs, without seeing eth
er of them, and suggests that the place
OF every clergyman is at the head of the
departed, and the place OF the
ers is around the coffin of the loved one
who is about to be buried out of their
sight. This would be sensible, though
not fashionable.
When Sara Bernhard left the con-
vent II is recorded in 1.-THE Theaters Of
Paris she hesitated between being a
nun or an actress. When she was at
last an actress, and perhaps the most
notorious In France, she suddenly felt
that she had missed her vocation and
that she IA really intended for a sculp
tor. She passes all her days in her
studio when she is not rehearsing or
riding rapidly on horseback; but, al
ready, In spite of her success as a sculp-
tor, she has turned her ever-restless
intellect to the sister art OF painting.
A handsome young saleswoman In a
Springfield, Mass, store accepted a
~glib-tongued drummer's offer Of mar
rage the third time she had seen him,
and that all on the same day, left the
store, and, hastily donning her best
dress, while the drummer secured a
marriage certificate and a parson, vas
welded within two hours from the time
she was engaged. The 'happy pairn
went to the Massasoit House to enjoy
their honeymoon, but after two days
the drummer took a morning train, and
his wife has neither seen nor heard
from him since, and at last realizes Bit
terly that she has been wronged and
deserted. A maid, n wife and grass
widow, all within three days.