The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-10-19
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An Ingenious prisoner IN y western
Jail eOntriyed 10 make a watch out Of q
broom that had been left In his cell.
The brOOm's tick probably suggested
the idea to him. = Philadelphia Bnls-
fin.
Too practical.-Father TO his four
year-Old who has been IN all night with
Group: "Flossy, what would you do IL
you had no kind mother and father TO
teke care of your" Flossy, promptly
sid bury them"
The Cars recent trip To Liyadia was
gaurded by forty thousand men sta
toned along the line. This Is one OF
the disadvantages Of being n "A In.
stead Of an American editor. The lat
ter a travel five hundred miles with
out having a single man TO guard the
line. Provided he has n pass.
Another weather prophet humbugh has
''petered out"-the man Vennor, OF
Montreal. Having CHANGED TO guess
the weather correctly several times, he
at once set himself up for n professional
meteorologist and almanac-maker; but
his gnesses for the weather Of the past
Summer and the early Autumn have
failed r~idlculously. Good bye, Yen-
nor.
A gentleman who recently visited the
venerable poet, Jhon G. Whittier. at
Danyers, Mass, where he now resides,
found him In excellent health, and divid-
ing his time between agricultural and
literary pursuits. He expressed much
qualification at having lately received
several Of his poems admirable rendered
in Portuguese by the Emperor Of Brazil.
The poet expects soon to visit New
York for the first time in many years.
where he will be the guest OF his friend
General James Grant Wilson.
There Is n revival OF popularity in
Yankee plays and characters on the
stage. About ten years ago the liking
OF them faded out entirely, and even
John Owens Scion Shingle ceased to
draw anywhere. Now the largest thea
tres In the country are filled by Den
a Thompson's Joshua Whitcomb,
Charles l.. Davis Alvin Joslin, Ber-
nard Macauley's Uncle Dan'l, and Mel
Burgess Widow Bedott, and all these
are characters Of the old-fashioned
Yankee kind.
The ~abdication Of King Pomare, OF
and annexation OF his Polyne-
sian island to France, Is one Of the
topics Of theday in Pairs. King Pomare
does not speak four words in twenty
hours. He usually passes his time
in a black dress coat a hat on his head
and his feet bare, lying at full length
on an old gilded Paris sofa. During
time his women fan him by turns
with large green leaves. and when even
ing comes, he plays cards. cheating
abominably all the time. He Is very
superstitious, and sees spirits every
where and, being constantly haunted
by the idea Of death, he has his tomb
built on q Rock overlooking the sea
Above 1t are planted trees, and when
the King is more possessed by sadness
then usual, he retires 10 this place and
drinks rum TO his hearts content.
In Providence, II. l., two girls were
taken up for smoking cigars on the
and were sentenced TO the re-
for eight years. There is
neven in this sort OF justice.
There are thousands of boys and men
who smoke cigars In the streets, and
spit all over the pavements as far as
they can reach, and who are not locked
up ever for thirty days. 1t is not nice
for girls to smoke cigars, especially
along the streets; but 1t would seem
that unless there Is n special law of
Rhode Island 10 the effect that girls
shall not smoke in the streets, IL Is un-
just to punish the girls while so many
male smokers 60 unwhipped Of justice.
Under any circumstances eight years is
a cruel sentence for such an offense.
Men who have been guilty of great EN-
bezzlements and eve OF manslaughter
and other enormities have been let off
with from two to four years. Possibly
these girls may have committed other
offences, or the cigars may have been
OF unusual size and strength. Eight
years for smoking any such cigar rs can
be purchased In this city Is perfectly
diabolical. When these poor girls come
nut from their long term they will. in
all probability be hopelessly ruined.
Reformatories seldom reform girls who
are put there for eight years for smo-
king cigars.