The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-18
The Weekly leader.
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sIIsCELLANEOUs.

SHAnpNBhc dAiu ScllleT DOLlles, WHICH,
when the cork is drawn, emit fans in.
stead Of foam or gas, appear again for
Christmas. This kind of gift never
goes out Of fashion.
1t is said by some one who must have
made himself a master Of modern in.
yentions that the best way 10 find
lost needles and pins is 10 walk across
the door barefoot. A man can get more
points" in this way than any Wall
street broker can give him.
Progress tells Of a new way Of utili.
zing old furs, which may. it seems, he
made into a very pretty rug on the pat
tern OF a crazy cushion by simply sew
ing the scraps together. As the old Ia
dies remark about patched garments
when youths rebel against them, they
are just as warm.
When n sees the new passepartouts
ones only thought is, what else a be
used for them? Tie newest have gilt
frames with the grain Of the wood
showing through a gilt leaf, and plush
mats with 1uted satin within them and
bevelled gilt edges, and others have
decorations in water colors and silhou-
cite, and monochrome, and really it
makes little difference whethey they
have the picture in them or not.
The ladies who have written TO know
what DIR. Holmes opinion is of a GER
tain class OF young women are respect
fully referred to this passage in the Au-
tocrat: when n young female wears
n fiat circular side curl gummed on each
temple-when she walks with a male,
not arm in arm, but his arm against
the back Of hers-and when she says
'yes!' with a note Of interrogation. you
are generally safe in asking her what
wages she gets, and who the Teller was
you saw her with"
a correspondent Of the Woman's
Journal, writing rather Indignantly of
DIR. Hollands picture OF an economical
New England farmer, quotes one of his
phrases: Something Of tie grace and
lovableness was lost" and says, THAT
expression ome about rs near stating
the real facts in the case as IL he should
say Of a man who had burned down the
wheat in his field and sowed Canada
thistles in its place, that he somewhat
injured my wheat crop"
1t Is n nice thing to be very bright,
and to give what is supposed to be a
witty answer to every query, but some
times n gets caught in his own trap.
what is a crime?" asked the grave
professor. "a crime!" answered the
wit of the class, ''why, II is when a man
does something" ''Then," said tho
professor, as he looked over his glasses
ut the youth, 81 think no one could
accuse you, Mr.. Brown, Of ever CON-
hitting n crime"
The rooms Of the Decorative Art
Society are fast assuming their Christ
mas aspect, and the members Of the
examining committee are very busy
with the new contributors. A panel
of blne silk upon which a spray of
Cherokee rose is embroidered in a very
striking manner, and another with an
heraldic design in gold threads and col
ors, are specimens of the versatility of
II well known member Of the society,
and both have been much admired.
A few pieces Of tho New York Doul-
ton ware is on exhibition at the rooms,
and also some specimens of Cincinnati
pottery.
Mr.. Henry James, jr.'s, mission to
depict American society rs Anthony
Trollope has depicted tho English, and
add n life, charm and sparkle to the
work that Trollope is incapable OF, is
more than ever clear in his last pub
lished story, "Washington Square,
Here all the characters are American,
and of purely average" types, and all
the business of the story takes place in
America, and is of the most common
place kind. There is no more pilot
than in any of Trollope's similar studies
of the English people in their everyday
homes and occupations. Yet the story
is an Accordingly interesting and alto
gcther charming one, and the critics
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