The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-08-04
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pay him 5000 for the time and trou
BILE.
John Bright says that for ever,
heather converted in Africa thsre /
opportunity to convert five in England
Some people are born with the cor
ners Of their mouth turned down. ThaI
Is why they never laugh.
The time Of the splicing and picking
Of fruit has come, and the economics.
housewife may he seen going through
her husbands yestPoeksts for cloves.
The dates for college baseball game.
in 1881 have already been decided upon.
The interest in the education OF oul
youth is not abating.
"A fashionable London diner-oui
will average three dinners a week.
says the brooklyn Eagle. Poor devil
Even a country editor averages better
than that.
A nghtning-rod agent was struck by
lightning the other day, and the pheno-
menon can only be accounted for on
the theory that the electric fluid got
tired Of being lied about.
An exchange says: "A Russian
teacher committed suicide by jumping
OF a precipice into a river on
horse-back.n A river on horseback
must be q curiosity.
An exchange says ii is wrong to cheat
a lawyer out of his fees. How dye
knowY You can't tell about 4 thing
until it'has been tried. It's time this
reckless theorising was stopped
A poet sends us a poem beginning
"Gaze at the moon in the sky" That's
right, young man, that's where TO gaze
att. Don't try to gaze at II under the
bed or in the woodshed chamber. Stick
to the sky.
The Count S~chouvalof, who recent
~ won 50, ZOO, 900 from Prince Demid-
of, at the rooms Of the st. Petersburg
Yacht club. and was induced by the
z TO return seven-eights Of his win
nings, is not the diplomatist, but an
aide-de-camp at the palace.
Referring TO the passage, ''This is the
COW with the crumpled horn." in the
poem OF the house that Jack built, q
correspondent asks: "What is n crum-
pied horn?'' We do not know exactly,
but suspect II is some sort Of mixed
drink.
7. Finnell, a California farmer, had
5000 acres in wheat He began thresh-
Ing on the 22d Of June, and does not
expect to finish before the LIST Of Sept
ember. In this work and in his plow-
ing, which will soon begin, he employs
240 horses and mules.
Mr.. Henry Shaw, the owner Of the
celebrated botanical garden" attached
to his residence In st. Louis, reached
the age of so last week, and gave 4
birthday reception. From his acquaint-
ance with Mr.. Shaw, dating back forty
years, Colonel ID. II. Armstrong drew n
few "reminiscences, and concluded by
praisipg tho gardens as the finest botan-
ical collection in the United States, not
even excepting those at Washington.
The late sultan OF Morocco was one
day rowing on a lake with the ladies of
Lie h.rap. TI.A heat ttaaat and fuun
men, at the peril OF their lives, saved
the whole party. .sTo have seer his mai
esty In such an undigniied position and
moreover withhis ladies'" writes Capt.
Colville, 'swas n crime punishable only
by death. The unfortunate men were
accordingly walled up in n small room,
and left to starve or die Of ~suffocation.
Their skeletons were found while some
repairs were being made In the palace
on the present Sultan's accession"
1t is officially reported that more
money has been expended this year for
new buildings and substantial repairs
and improvements In New York city
than at any time since 1873. The re-
turns Of the department of buildings
for the six months ending July /, show
that 100 new buildings have been
commenced, at a total estimated cost
of s14, 800, 900, or nearly sl3, 500 for
each. This is 5000, 600 more than wa,
expended for these objects in the same