The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-03-03
Personal AND pAnTrcUL.n

belt in London, making the best time
on record-553 miles, in six days, go-as-
you-please.
They are discharging youngsters from
the Baltimore public schools for CARRY
ing pistols. Thus is i~ncipient chivalry
sat down on.
Mr.. Russell Sage, of New York city,
has contributed $40, coo to the Irish re-
lief fund, or four times as much as the
queen of England.
Dennis K~earney has started the Soc
iety rumor that Prince ]. Gordon Ben
nett is fishing for the hand of Princess
Beatrice, of England.
The place for honest horse races is at
Miles City, NJ. Il. The citizens there
hanged a man the other day for allow
ing his horse to be beaten.
OF the successful business men of
Springfield, Mass, Rev. Washington
GLADDEN. has ascertained that 95 per
cent. were either farmers boys or boys
in towns who were used to hard work.
Like the ''Sweet Singer of Michigan
King Cetywayo. who is giving the En-
glish a history of the Zulu wars, ac-
knowledges that, owing to long mat
tention to writing, he finds Literary
very hard to do"
Private subscriptions in New York
city will erect bronze statues of WASH
ington, Edward Livingston, Alexander
Hamilton and Dewitt Clinton or John
Jay, on the buttresses in front of the
~sub-treasury building.
The winter palace in st. Petersburg
is a treasure-house of art. In the Her.
mitage galleries are some of the best
works of Rubens, Murillo, VanDyck,
Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Teniers, Velas-
quez and other renowned artists.
Edison is in the hands of a stock
company which pays him an annual
consideration of $25, 600, and has con
troll of all his inventions. Besides this,
he owns share of the stock. which
brings him a considerable income.
An Englishman writes to the Lon
don Times that there was not one total
abstainer from strong drink among the
American Episcopal Bishops who at
tended the Pan-Anglican congress. He
should be made to prove this, or take
it back.
The speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives in Louisiana accidentally let
his pistol fall from his pocket during a
session of that body. The shock dis
charged the weapon, and the attorney
general of the state has fled an inform
alton against the speaker for carrying
concealed weapons.
Uranus won the place OF honor among
the planets in February. He came
into opposition with the sun on the 25th,
the earth then being between the sun
and Uranus, and the planet at its near
est point to the earth. His nearest ap.
proach, however, left a cooling inter.
val of space between us of LAS, OO0, OOC
miles.
Considerable excitement has been
created in Norway by the nomination
of the celebrated Norwegian actor, NJ,
Johannes Brun, to be a knight of the
order of st. Olavus-a decoration which
is conferred on very rare occasions
This is the first time a Norwegian &C.
tor has received this honor, and it i.
considered as being IN Official rebuke
to the sentiment against theaters.
The immense wheat farms of Dakota,
worked by the famous farmer, Oliver
Dalrymple, are to be still further en-
larged the coming year. His wheat
field will embrace 10000 acres. He
will have twenty steam threshers il
operation, with 135 reaping-machines
Last year he employed 600 laborers. ant
this year will increase the number II
700.
In order to perform al amount o
mechanical work equal to lifting 14t
pounds $1,000 feet high, Professor Ora
ham calculates that a man must ca
five pounds of potatoes II and a thir'
pounds flour, two and a third pound
bread, one and a quarter pounds on
meal, one a third pounds rice, three ant
Il half pounds lean beef, half a poun,
of beef fat, or one and "A fifth pound
cheshire cheese. He says tina
the peasants of all countries have beel
right, in spite of mary scientific asser
tions that they were wrong, in their in
stinctive habit of adding fat rattle
than heterogeneous food to their die
when undergoing hard work.
To be a lady's maid in Rome require
pretty high accomplishments. One i
advertised for in n Rome paper VIII,
must be from 20 to 80 years of age, dis
engaged, and of distinguished educa
ton; very skillful with the needle ant
in making up fine things. She mus
be of sympathetic turn, of elegant fig
ure, and possess linen and good clothes
good enough for going out with and at
tending lier young mistress. She fEust
send her photograph to a signor ii
Rome, who will personally inspect those
young ladies who present themselves tc
compete for the situation.
When Washington was on his way tc