The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-18
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wife would wear the s~eslskin.
Physicians say that rubber used a
clothing is injurious to the sight. So
is leather-at least we have heard of
leather being used to make a horse
binder.
Judge Hilton, OF New York, the ad-
ministrator Of A. 7. Stewards estate
sly old fellow that he is-has bought
Parks s~tatuette, First Love-" for a
cool 5000, and has given it to the
Widow Stewart. And Alexander's
bones still missing.
George Thatcher and Add Ryman,
the noted minstrels, have been engaged
by a Frensh manager to present in
Paris the burlesque on the Bernhardt,
entitled, Sarah Heartburn" which so
pleased the great Sarah when she saw
it in Philadelphia.
An elegant bronze statue of Gen. ].
B. MCPHERSON will be unveiled in Gin
cinnati at the reunion of the Army Of
the Tennessee on April Z. 1t will re-
main there a few weeks. and will then
be removed to Clyde, Ohio, where the
remains Of the dead hero are inferred.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is a philosopher. He
says sit is the incest thing In the world
to be satisfied with what you have, and
that's what / am" Yet people say
Mr.. Vanderbilt is a g~rasping, money
desiring man! He is a happy man,
contented with his 500, 600, 600.
A physician at Mclean, Ills, owed a
woman 800, and suggested that she
take pay In medical services. She re-
marked, at a quilting bee. that it would
take a great many years of such doc
tors services to be worth 500. She
is wealthy, and he has sued her for
$4,000 for SANDER.
The New Haven car company is
building a special car for Tom Thumb
and his dimunitive wife, who travel
this season with the Great Barnum
and London Consolidation. The gen.
eral says people may discount him in
a%voirdupois, but in the matter of stone"
he takes a back seat for nobody.
A Hungarian chemist has lately
shown some surprising experiments in
Paris with q new light-giving sub
stance, which burns with SO little heat
that its flames will not set fire to a
handkerchief or other fabric with which
it may come in contact. A person may
hold the burning liquid in his hand
without injury. 1t is made from petro-
leum.
The city Of Cleveland, Ohio, has five
social clubs 1.-THE Union. Windsor, Ex-
c%elsior, Progress and Eclectic. The
Excelsior is the Oldest, it having been
founded in 1871. The Eclectic has but
seventy members, and is TO be disbanded
on the LIST Of April. The Union is the
most substantial and prosperous. 1t
has a fine building, for which it paid
500, 600, and then expended $50, 600
additional in improvements.
The church property in Kings county,
New York, including the city of Brook
Ign, amounts to 81, 1881, 900. Accord
ing to the Brooklyn Eagle. this equals
the full value Of the real estate of
Franklin county, with its 1,017, 700
acres Of land, population of 1851. and
state taxes in 1876 Of s19,307.7 10. Yet
1t escapes taxation. The burdens which
1t ought to bear are cast on other
shoulders. Even II those shoulders were
more able to bear it than the churches
themselves, 1t would nevertheless be an
injustice.
According to. Investigations made
by the Providence Press, not once dur
ing the month of February did any of
the morning mails of Boston arrive at
the New York postofice On time. The
three mails are due at New York at
g., 6:45 and 7:20 a. m, but on various
occasions have made their appearance
as late as loo p. M, 10:20a a. m. and $40
p. m. respectively. Most of the trouble
occurred after the arrival of the mail $
in that city, the transfer carts getting
caught in blockades, or mired in the
mud and garbage Of the streets.
Lord Dunraven's motion for the
opening Of the national museums and
galleries Of England on Sundays was
recently negatiyed by a vote in the
house of lords of "a yeas to 81 nays.
Among the supporters of the measure
were the Duke of Somerset, the Earls
Of Derby, Granville, Kimberley, and
Spencer, and Lords Elgin, Rosebery and
STAFFORD. Opposed to 1t were Lord
Chancellor Selborne, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Earls of Beaconsfeld,
Cairns and Shaftesbury. and Lords
Brodrick, Penreyn, Shute and Sun
bridge (Argyll).
The Imperial family of Germany is
quite able to support itself. If the
crown prince were deprived of his in
heritance he could easily win bread and
butter by his skill rs a turner; while his
eldest son, Prince Wilhelm, is an excel
amateur artisan. In the Emperor's
cabinet are several samples of his dead
grandson Waldemar's proficiency as a
book-binder. This acquisition of a
trade is in accordance with the tradi-
%tionary custom in the royal family,
which prescribes that every paince Of
the blood shall learn some useful hand.
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