The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-07
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English female swimmer, who is 10
years old and weighs 2l0 pounds, will
attempt soon to swim the English chan
mel.
THE Honeymoon, - The school for
Scandal" and "As You Like It," to-
gether with two new plays, will consti-
tute the repertory OF Mrs. Scott-Sid-
dons this season.
A woman's view Of Beyrout is given
by Mrs. Burton In her sinner Life in
Syria" She says: at is a demi-eiyil-
lied, semi-C hristianized, demi-semi-
~Europeanized town"
Winnie Reamis statue Of Admiral
Farragut has been placed on the pedes-
tai in Farragut Square. Washington,
and yelled, to await the day Of the pub
lie ceremony OF unwilling.
A well-execu.ed, instantaneous pho
tograph Of the interment OF the late
Miss Nelson, taken with the con
sent Of her friend and sole executor,
Mr.. George Lewis, has been published.
The Duke of Buckingham is about to
marry Miss Kate Carmichael, daughter
Of the secretary of the Madras govern
ment, a lady not quite as old as the
youngest daughter Of the husband that
is TO be.
Col. Jerome Bsnaparte and wife,
who have usually spent their winters in
Paris, will pass the coming season in
Washington. Their daughter will be
near them at the Visitation convent in
Georgetown.
An alleged heiress TO a portion of an
estate in Ireland, valued at go, 900, has
been discovered in the Cincinnati
work house. The girls name is Mary
Lynch, and she is now serving out a
term for vagrancy. -
William H. Vanderbilt will in time
have the finest gallery Of modern art in
America, possibly in the world. He is
now purchasing chefs d'euvre by Meis-
%sonier, Dius and all the celebrated Eu-
ropean artists Of the time.
Mr.. Gladstone has advised the queen
TO grant Mr.. Rupert Kettle a knight
hood, because of his tact and energy in
preventing many strikes, and his plan
of arbitration boards, which have
worked so well in the north OF En-
gland.
The Rev. Abel Charles Thomas, a
venerable pastor and author in the
Universalist church, died last Sunday
at Tacony, near Philadelphia. lie had
been IN charge Of congregations at
Lowell, Brooklyn, Cincinnati and Phil
adelphia.
Father TO G-year-old, on noticing a
rickety wagon driven by u man intoxi-
Gated: There's something loose in
that wagon that ought to be tight"
EYES," said the lad, land there's
something tight in that wagon that
ought TO DO loose"
The widow OF the late Mark Hop
kins, in an answer to n petition filed in
the probate court of San Francisco, by
n of the heirs, for the revocation of
the letters of administration issued TO
her, says property to the value of near
ly $40, 000, 600 has already been divided
among the heirs.
The Duke Of Cambridge, with the
Duke of Connaught and Sir Garnet
Wolseley, of his staff, is in Berlin,
staying at the royal castle to view the
autumn maneuyers OF the Prussian
army. The future emperor of Austria.
the Grand Duke Rudolph, is at the
Altes Schloss, n near neighbor.
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker. ex-
Mayor of Liverpool, who gave several
hundred thousand dollars for a magni-
ficent art gallery in that city, and whose
statue was recently unveiled there, is
travelling in southern Colorado, in com
pany with Mr.. Pearson, another ex-
Mayor Of Liverpool, who has purchased
property In Colorado.
Mrs. Harris, n daughter of Brigham
Young, is the wife of an actor. She Is
handsome, and is a daughter of Brig
hams handsomest wife. All her child
rem, she says, were strong and hearty.
There is q good deal of secret polygamy
in Salt Lake, and the marriages are an-
nounced after three years. Amelia,
the seventeenth wife, she believes, is
married in that way. The Mormons,
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