The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-10
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lisped Archibald, strolling in the moon
light with the dearest girl in the world
oh" she said, '-that's my jewel this
year; I am a Garfield girl"
A South Hill debating society Is
wrestling with, 'sCan a community ex-
list without women?'' We think Il
might exist for awhile. but then IL
wouldn't know what was going on.
A Cincinnati man had his portrait
painted in Paris. His friends CON-
planned 10 him that it was much too old.
That's! what / ordered" said he, cit
will save the expense Of another one ten
years from now"
A crash IL heard In the kitchen. The
head OF the family calls out TO the cook:
what have you broken now, you black
idiot?" Matildy stops singing a hymn
to answer: "'Taint de fort command
ment. bress de Lord"
Many young ladies who are angels in
the ball room, and waltz d~ivinely, pre-
sent a different appearance when trying
to fry n tough beefsteak over a green
wood fire, or when making mashed fish
with a broken saucer for a chopper.
In a speech at Liberty, Ind, the 9TH
er day, Franklin Landers said: "The
preachers of the gospel have hunted me
like bloodhounds all over this state. /"
The preacher dosn't generally get after
a man in politics. unless he deserves
it.
Revenue Agent Latham, Of Alabama.
writes that the Illicit distillers OF that
state are Boosting that when Hancock
is elected they will be allowed to run
their stills and sell their whisky unmo-
Tested. They have not heard of Han
cocks veto.
Morton Pritchett and Sarah Fanster,
neighbors' children at Marion, Ind,
fell in love, eloped to Michigan, got
married, spent two weeks and all their
money in a honeymoon trip, and then
returnedhome. The only novelty about
the affair was their youthfulness, the
bride being twelve and the bridegroom
thirteen.
When old Mrs. Bunsby had got
through reading in the morning paper
an account of the last fire, she turned
her ~spectacles from her eyes to the top
Of her head and remarked: 'If the
city iremen would wear Their gener-
wine hum-nit stockints, such as we
make and wear In the country, they
wouldn't be a Dustin Of their hose ut
every fire."
"Agnostic'' is new word. 1t means
don't know" very nearly but not
quite ''know nothing" The Rev.
Robert Flint, d. D., professor of theol-
ogy in Edinburgh University, mi Of
the ablest men in Scotland, Is engaged
to tell the young men at Yale all he
knows about this don't knowism, " its
origin, nature and influence. DIR.
Flint is author Of several works on the
science Of religion.
Gathering chestnuts is dangerous
pastime II We may believe an Eastern
paper, which tells how a young lady
sat down carelessly meath the over
spreading branches of a huge chestnut
tree and then got up Immediately,
feeling that a sort Of land devil-ish had
seized her. She screamed to her young
man to take it away, and nearly went
into spasms before the frightened fellow
grasped a chestnut burr and bravely tore
it from her ~polonaise.
Cassel's Natural History" is respon-
sible for this best Of parrot stories. A
prize slow of this snowy bird was held
in the North of England. After many
others had been brought forward in
front Of the judges, one bird, on having
its cover removed, won the prize by ac-
clamation. Looking round on the COM
pany into which lie had 30 suddenly
been introduced, he exclaimed : "By
Jovel what a lot OF parrotsln
Big prices for fast horses, and the
faster they go the bigness increases
amazingly. For instance, after the
great trotting feat at Chicago there was
an offer for Maud S. Of $780, 00. Trot-
ting in 2.10a the other day, SO beating