The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-28

Isihe girl with glorious eyes.
GLEaNINGs.
There ars 5000 Germans in Lead
vile.
The earliest skates were made of
bone.
Six miles of railroad were built in
New Jersey last year.
bodybuilding along the Hudson was
never more active than at present. s
No process known will keep iron eff
fectively and durably from rusting.
Engines on the Pennsylvania rail-
road use 10000 tons of sand annually.
A miners habitation on Mount Lin
coin, Col, is IA, 157 feet above the sea.
Cchoes, N. Y, with a population of
10000, contains only two colored peo-
pie.
Owners of country seats along the
Hudson find it very difficult to sell such
property.
The accounts of the last Cincinnati
exposition are squared, and the net pro-
fits amount to over S25, 900.
A Baltimore family is reported to
contain nineteen children, the oldest of
whom is bat Is years of age.
Any man who goes into company
where pistols and knives are necessary
for self protection is in a dangerous
way.
A law has just been enacted in Rhode
Island that will prevent pigeon-shoot-
ing for sport or a test of m,rksman-
ship.
An Atlanta man has purchased con
federate currency amounting to over
$1,000, 900, which he will use as circul-
ars, printing his advertisement on the
back of each bill.
The New York Mercury saws the Vas
'ar girls this leap year have several new
wrinkles in their programme. Poor
things. So young, so intellectual and
yet so full of wrinkles.
Cigars, the scientists have discover
ed, contain a%cetic, formic, butyric,
valerie and propionic acids, prussic acid,
%creosote and carbonic acid, ammonia,
sulphuretted hydrogen, pyridine, vero-
dine, picoline, lutidine lutidnine, col
Iodine, parvoline, coradine and rubi-
dene.
Two New Orleans editors got mad at
each other other and went out to fight
Il duel as a means of settling the difficult
ty. Had they lived in Maine, they
would have contented themselves with
calling each other swill-buckets through
the editorial columns of their respec-
tive papers.
Next to having a note protested at the
bank, we know of no pleasure more ex-
n~larating than perusing an exchange
paper, one-half of which is a patent out
side, one-half local items of big hogs
md gratuitous puffs, one-half patent
medicine cuts, and the other half a
lengthy editorial on the ~resources of
Alaska, stolen from an ancient maga-
zine.
A fact probably but little known is
hat the United States nickel 5-cent
piece furnishes a key to metric meas
Tres and weights. This coin is two CEN
meters in diameter, and its weight is
five grammes. Five of them placed in
Il row will give the length of the deci-
meter, and two of them will weigh a
decagramme. As a kiloliter is a cubic
meter, the key to the measure of length
is also the key to measures of capacity.
The return of the number of wolves
and other wild animals killed last win
tar in France has Just been published,
and shows the following results: VOL.
yes, 400; young wolves, l53; foxes, 6,771;
badgers, 5,036; wild boars, 1928. 1t is
supposed that the returns for the pre-
sent winter will show a vast increase
in the number of slaughtered wolves,
in consequence of the exceptional
severity Of the weather.
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Uncle Dick, the biggest locomotive
in the world, weighs sixty-tive tons, and
is ninety feet long from headlight to
rear of tender. The boiler is twenty
one feet long, cylinders 20x26 inches,
and there a,e eight forty-two.inch driv-
ing wheels, against which II brake pres
sure of seyenty-five tons can he applied.
The grades of the Atchison, Topeka and
md Santa Fe road, where this monster
locomotive is used. are so heavy in some
places that n end of Uncle Dick will
pften stand three feet higher than the
other. And yet this monster will rush
up the Rocky Mountains with ten load
ed cars behind it.
Caution!
Look out for imitation of our Car
bolic Healing Salee. and other prepara-
tons. ADDoMs e GLOVER. j25-tf