The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-07-13
PERSONAL AND Particular.

Ia the breach-of-promise suit Of Nc
Pherson against Warnie, at Shelbyyill
Ind, the defendants council took Tn,
broad ground that no woman of 81
which was the plaintiffs age, could pos
sibly form n romantic love for any man
The jury sustained that theory by thei
verdict.
Captain Paul Boynton is about to I'm
dertake a three-days swim down IN,
Delaware river, from Philadelphia /.
F~ortescne, a distance Of seyenty-hv,
miles After toat he designs maxim,
his way alone from Fort Benton, on
the upper waters OF the Missouri river.
to 1T. L~onis-S,000 miles.
Since the var General Hancock la.
grown very stout. and bids fair to be-
come as unwieldy as General Scott in
his later years. He is not a public spea-
ker, has no acquaintance with politics
and will be wholly in the hands of Wal.
lace and other astute wire-pullers Bur.
uN" H~aPfeSs. khcpl.
A small boy in Louisville owns a
large kite and a small dog. He likes to
see the kite float calmy and peacefully
In mid air, but to poise it requires some
physical exertion Of which he does not
feel himself capable. To avoid it, he
has hit upon the happy device OF tying
the kite string to the dogs tail, and
starting the animal of on a run. The
first experiment was highly successful,
aud the passer-by could not only have
seen the dog wagging his tail, but wag-
ging the kites tail rs well.
Miss Srrah Smiley, the evangelist,
tells a racy story Of a stiff. backed
scotch Highland minister. who discov-
cred that his congregation were falling
into the now very common habit In
churches OF sitting during prayers, and
standing during the singing Of psalms.
He determined to cure them IL he could
so one, day when preaching about anti
Christ, he shouted vehemently: "Soome
people say thot Antee Christ is the
Pope: soome say thot he is a Roman
imperor; but III tell We whot Antee-
Christ is. It's when We sit doom while
ye pray to God and stond up when We
sing. That's Antee Christi"
Many Americans think that the to-
mato, now in season, originated In this
country because it is 30 freely used here
aud that 1t has become quite recently
an article OF food. The origin OF the
vegetable, or fruit, as some claim that
1t is. Is not positively ascertained.
though there is reason to believe that
1t was cultivated centuries ago in Mex
leo and Peru. Several varieties were
known in England toward the close OF
the sixteenth century, and Gerard the
surgeon and botanist, speaks Of 1t, we
think In "History Of Plants" having
himself introduced 1t into the kingdom
as an exotic. Doodeons, the Netherland
herbalist, mentions the tomato as early
as 1882 as n vegetable TO be eaten with
pepper, salt, and oil. 1t belongs to the
nightshade family, and was used by the
Malays in cooking more than q century
and n half since. IL is extensively rails
ed in Southern Italy, and employed
there as m accompaniment to nearly
every dish, particularly to macaroni.
But neither there o anywhere else in
Europe Is 1t commonly eaten, as 1t is
here, separately and in quantities. In
England It is sparingly produced, re-
quiring a hot-bed in spring, and is in
consequence high-priced. The Italians
formely called 1t the golden apple, and
now call it love apple as it was once des-
ignated in this country. The appear
ance Of the tomato on the table has
greatly increased in Europe within n
few years; bnt in no land is 1t a regular
dish-much rs 1t is used for a sauce A.
broad-a as in the United States where it
IS also picked, preserved and confected.