The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-05-06
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ANNS ~ y ~
ing. While the 700 lamps hold on to
burn oar faith la Edison may return.
A newspaper poet sings: "In the
noontide let me die" And Nc don't
suppose n person in 100000 will in
terpose an objection. provided he selects
the next noontide that comes along
Norristown Herald.
Knives and forks are not used with
. o'clock tea, in English style, thin
bread and butter and slices OF cake not
requiring them, where the bread is
spread before serving. American style,
which prefers TO handle Its own bread
and butter. requires the addition Of
small knives.
Little Benedict Taeagni, a child Of 5
years, the ''midshipmIts" In an Eng
glish ehildren's s'Pinafores company.
was taken III with acute rheumatism
and died. During the delirium eonse-
quent on his illness he continually sang
the 'Pinafore" music, and the last
audible sound that the little fellow ut
tered was his childish version Of ''For
he is an Englishman."
A rare sight Was seen In San Antonio,
Texas, ON San Jacinto Day, the 2lst
ult. OF the veterans OF Analhuac,
Nelasco and Golian who assembled,
every one had white hair-two hundred
and fifty snowy heads around one table.
The Alamo was visited by hundreds,
who thought Of Dayy Crockett as they
read over the doorway: ..Thermopyle
had her messenger Of defeat. the Alamo
had none"
In n house occupied by two families,
there recently died an old gentleman.
Asthe time forlthe funeral approached,
the widow Of the deceased applied to
her neighbor occupant for the use Of a
large front room for funeral purposes.
The gentleman appealed to hesitated
slightly, but quickly assented, when his
~13-year-old daughter spoke and said:
Father. what's the odds, as long as
the neighbors furnish the corpse?,-
Syracuse Herald.
A Russian nobleman lay ON his DEATH
bed. One Of his curious fancies was to
have his wife robe herself in her we'd
ding dress and stand by his bedside. II
was n very natural bit OF sentiment,
and In the course OF an hour the beauti-
fnl u-nunan atood bxaAf. ataa .~~..oa L.
the garments Of twenty years ago.
"Ah,n he sighed, you look SO beauti-
full In that dress that / hoped when the
angel came lie might take a fancy to
you and carry you of instead Of me.n
A pretty American girl in Rome
went, Of late, frequently into the streets
unattended, contrary to the custom
there. Tho young Romans followed
and annoyed her, until she invented a
novel method Of rebufing them. She
provided herself with q pocketful Of
centessimi, each the value of a fifth Of
n cent, and whenever a man spoke to
her, pretending to utterly mistake his
words, she gracefully extended her hand
and dropped one of these small coins in
to his palm, saying, in her broken Ital-
ian: Hungry, are you, poor manp
Well, take this, and buy some bread.
While blowing in a Springfield pa
garden recently James Rust came across
q section OF mason work. Digging
down he found, bricked up, in a hole
about three feet square. an iron box,
rusty with age. The box was Full Of
written documents, illegible from rust
and age. The bricks were very old, one
hearing the inscription: Weymouth,
1888" Perhaps whaley, the fugitive
Judge from whom whaleyville was
named, had something to do with the
box. Whaley's flight from England
was in the seventeenth century, after
the execution Of King Charles, and lie
settled in Sussex county.