The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-07
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pies in n hour, ON y wager, and died
the next day. He might have known
IT, II he had sand itched In forty
boiled eggs and twenty-six pickles his
life might have been saved.-Re0 York
Express.
Here is another evidence that the
times are improving, and all necessary
household articles are increasing In
price. A young man In Fredona sold
his wife to 4 neighbor, q few days ago,
for $50. They used to be ''giyen away"
= orristorn Herald.
According to the Boston Post, Rev.
Joseph Cooks opinion Of the Gem Pun
zle is that lit is the natural offspring Of
a pathogenic and perspicacious perspi-
cacity, and during the protoplastic
stage, its inventor should have been
~percolated surperbly through the innate
particles Of a barn door,"
A four-year old Sunday-school girl
did the best she could with a question
that was asked Of the infant class.
Said the teacher, reading from Isaiah
xxxyii., /: ".And 1t came TO pass,
when King Hezekiah heard it, that he
rent his Clothes Now, what does that
mean, children-be rent his clothesY"
Up went n little hand. "well IL you
know, tell u.s." PLEASE, ma'am."
said the child timidly. Il s'pose he
hired ZEN out"
Anew Hampshire woman has a hus-
band who is addicted to joining secret
societies One Of her exasperated out
bursts is thus reported by the Manches-
ter Mirror: "Jinel He'd jine anything.
There can't nothing come along that's
dark and sly and hidden, but he'll join
it. II anybody should get up a society
to burn his house down he'd join it just
as soon as he could get in, and IL he
had to pay to get in he'd go all the sud-
dener."
II Is stated that Alden's famously
funny article in the New York ''Times"
about a Baptist ceremony In Ohio, in
which thc extraordinary behavior Of a
woman with a cork leg (which would
not stay under water) caused conster-
nation TO the minister, has led many
Baptists ::to..stop taking the Times.
They must have been made of extreme
ly sensitive material. Alden's fun is
purely good-natured, and never in
tended TO be malicious.
A gentleman who spent part of "A day
In the society Of n professional humor-
list Of Connecticut and the latter's wife,
after tie jokes ceased to be a novelty,
found some amusement in separating
the jokes as they fell into old and new
by watching the expression of the wife's
face. II she began to laugh he was
certain that he was being treated to
something new, II she merely looked
amiable the edge of his appetite turned,
Th.v saw ,h,t when . To,ado m,,
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wants 10 get u new u ior an OLD Dat-
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President Jewett, Of the Erie Rail-
way, receives $40. 600 n year: Colonel
scott President ~ savan railroads
-. e,ao ooo 80 600 $50
draws sioV,ooo saiaiy le<4,ovo from lho
pennsylvania road; j. w. Garrett,
President of the Baltimore & Ohio, has
n nominal salary Of a 0O0 n wear
There are fifteen general managers OF
railways in the United States whose
s,,ar,ss r,, from am ooo \, e.. ooo.
nine General uner;ntsndant. r;;L =
aaiarv ~ a. 900 ~ sin nm ~ and
= nnybar ~ oaicsr. IN tHe s.,na ranS
who -race;ve ovar 80 900 ~
IL you would look upon a picture Of
serene contentment, go you to the
butchers. buy n leg of mutton. and