The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-31
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR

A boy win go in swimming and fool
around the water for hours together;
bat when told to wash his face he will
have almost n hydropbobic dread OF
half a pint Of water In the basin.
The Earl Of Leitrim, nephew Of the
murdered Earl, recently made, in the
house Of lords, an impassioned appeal
TO the government TO protect the Irish
landlords, and not allow them to be
STONED like the apostles Of old"
An Enoch Arden at Mount Vernon,
o., Is likely TO get his wife back, for he
returns with a fortune Of $50, 600, while
the Philip Ray is a shiftless fellow, and
has led the Annie Lee a miserable life
for fourteen years.
Henry de criquelle, in a work ON a
French district known Us lie Moryan,
says that In summer wolves have no
liked abode, but travel about, and tow
ard August they eat such quantities of
grapes that they are often beastly
drunk.
"liow came these holes In your ell
bowsY" said-a widowed mother 70 her
only son. "Oh mother. | hid behind
the sofa when Colonel Gobler was say
Ing to Maria that he'd take her even IL
you had to bc thrown in, and he didn't
know was there; aud so held my
tongue and laughed in my sleeves TN /
burst 'em.''
A Boston milkman has triumpbed In
the courts. He WAS prosecuted for
selling watered milk. His defense was
that the milk was just ms pure IL was
when the milk came from the COW. The
milk Inspector visited his farm, tested
the milk fresh fresh from the animal.
and found IL ever poorer than the am
pie THAT was sold. The dealer was nc
quilted.
ihe pennsylvania railroad, 10 accom-
modate its immense tra1ic, has In USE
1000 locomotives and 10000 cars.
There are also Is, 100 cars running over
the various lines owned by individuals
and companies, including 1000 railway
equipment trust ears, $500 car trust
cars, 800 railway car trust, 3,4O0 en-
pire car trust, 1905 tank a trust cars.
and 3,l53 union and national line cars.
Parkersburg, In West Virginia, has
a lo-year-old hero. lie plunged into
the river to a v a drowning playfellow
came very near losing his own life
through the clinging of his terrified
companion, and dragged him up n steep
bank, where both lay a while complete
iy exhausted. Then the rescuedo one in
sensibly rolled back into the water, and
The brave little fellow again performed
The difficult feat Of getting him out.
Riders on velocipedes will find all
their exploits pale before that Of Mr..
Iva Zmertych, a young Hungarian,
who, coming from London, had left
ostend on the 10th Of June, arrived nj
Pesth on Wednesday, July7 having
travelled all the distance, some 1000
miles, Oh his velocipede. He did OF
the average $50 kilometers per day, and
took his way via Brussels, Cologne.
Mainz, Aschaffenburg, Passau, Linz,
Vienna, Pressburg and Kommorn. The
budapest Athletic club gave Mr.. Zmer.
tych n cordial reception, and presented
him with a golden medal. So little was
he fatigued by his long journey that he
attended the same night a prize walk
ing match OF fifty kilometers In six and
one-half hours, arranged In his honor.
The ride Is certainly n remarkable one.
A writer on Australian life in the
Boston Commercial Bulletin tells how a
sick man found by his mate ut the dig
gings murdered and his gold gone. The
culprit M found, bu. contrived to es-
cape with the money, which for safe
keeping had been placed in the house
of detention. Nothing could be heard
OF him, but n few days later came the
following: "Mr. Magistrate: Jem Bell
1.-THE murdered MANI was once n mate of
mine. He was a good man. You will
lind his murderer ut the head Of Dead
Horse gnliey. have kept the gold for
a reward. tSigned) Kangaroo Bill,
captain OF the Bush-rangers." They
found the murderer's remains-a ilesh-
less skeleton. every bone picked clean.
lie had been staked down on the ground,
with his back to an ant hill, and left
for the ants to eat him alive. A more
awful retribution can scarcely be con-
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