The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-05

d~aughterr' asked an anxious parent.
1t makes her too red in the face, - re-
Young lady visitor treading the para
bic of the Prodigal Son) "And he
would fam have eaten of the husks that
the swine did eat" Small boy:-"Wby
didn't be kill n OF the pigs?'' Young
lady visitor much shaken.g
A little boy, weeping most ~piteously,
was interrupted by some unusual oc-
eurrence. He hushed his cries for a
moment; the thought was broken.
Ma" said he, as he resumed his sninse,
what was ! crying about a little while
ago?r
A anne is an anaglyph on a prC-
eious stone. The anaglyph is when the
figure is raised in relief, an iMtagIio is
when the figure is followed out. The
word cameo an onyx, and the
most famous cameo in the world Is the
onyx containing the apotheosis Of Au-
gustus.
Sir Walter Scott remarks that live
cattle W by Saxon names and slain
meat by Norman-F French, an evidence
that the lords who ate the meat and the
Saxons, the serfs who tended the cattle,
Examples: Sheep, OK, Calf, Hog, Pig,
tsaxon.l Mutton, Beef, Veal. Bacon,
Pork, tNorman-F FRENCH
According to tradition Sir Richard
Wilmington, who was three times
Lord Mayor Of London. made his mon
ey by trading in Goals, which he con-
veyed In his "cat from Newcastle to
London" A ''cat" is a ship formed on
the Norwegian model, having q narrow
stern, projecting quarters and deep
waist. 1t is strongly built and used in
the coal trade.
When Washington was in want Of
ammunition he called a council Of off,
GERS, but no practical suggestion was
offered. 1--WE must consult brother
Jonathan" said tina general, meaning
his excellency Jonathan Trumball, the
elder governor Of the state of Connec-
ticut. This was done and the difficulty
remedied. To consult brother Jona-
than became n set phrase, and brother
Jonathan grew to be the John Bull Of
the United States.
Charing Cross is the cross erected TO
the ehere reine Eleanor, wife of Edward
i, who died at Herdelie, near Lincoln,
and was buried at Westminster. In
every town where the corpse rested the
king caused n cross Of cunning work.
manship to be erected in remembrance
of her. The cross in the strand built by
Edward was voted down by the Long
Parliament and one was built afterward
after the same model. Cheapside
Cross was demolished in 1913.
Mr.. White, in his Natural History
of Selbourne, " describes a curious breed
of dogs from China. ''They are about
the size of a moderate spaniel, of a pale
yellow color, with coarse bristling hair
on their backs, sharp upright ears and
peaked heads, which give them a fox
like appearance. They bark like foxes,
and have n surly demeanor. like their
ancestors. They are not domesticated,
but bred in sites, where they are fed for
the table with ricemeal."
The word Canard, a hoax, had the
following origin: Corneiissen, to try
the %gullibility Of the public, reported in
the papers that he had twenty ducks,
one Of which he cut up and threw to the
nineteen, who devoured it greedily.
He then cut up another, then a third,
and so on till nineteen were cut up; and
as the nineteenth was eaten up by the
surviving duck 1t followed that this one
duck actually ate nineteen ducks, n
wonderful proof Of duck voracity. This
tale had the run Of all the papers and
gave q new word to the vocabulary.