The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-09
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Eastern cities are cursed with the
organ grinder.
The weather, like many persons and
things, Is getting itself much talked
about.
Hon. ii. B. Kelly has purchased q
residence In Fort Collins, for his aged
mother.
Shows are even better than rains for
grass, because snow contains o am
monia than rain.
Charley Bryan has relieved Frank
Watson as caterer at Cass Davis club
house, for a few days.
A young Scotchman named George
Gordon, ATTEMPTED to suicide on Thurs
day in Denver, but failed.
The recent escape of Billy Leroy is
pronounced improbable. It is thought
that a little money fixed his escape.
Probably the revised new testament
will make Paul say to Timothy: Take
q little water for thy stomach's sake"
Passenger trafic yesterday: No. 3, 20
Cheyenne, 81 Colorado, At through;
No. 4, 2 Cheyenne. 8 Colorado, 10
through.
Some OF the boys of As and there
abouts, enjoyed themselves hugely last
evening on Seventeenth street, in snow
balling.
The Denver Times is TO have a new
building that will be an honored struct-
ure among the many architectural piles
OF Denver.
Mrs. V, ). Glafcke, the florist, is con-
structing a greenhouse, 15x40 feet, in
rear of her residence, corner Seven
teenth and Dodge streets.
The horses attached to the Tedmon
house carriage became frightened the
other day and ran off, In Fort Collins.
The vehicle was smashed.
The county commissioners of Doug
lass county, Neb., have accepted the
plans Of Architect Myers, OF Detroit,
for a new court house in Omaha.
There are 1000 men at work on the
Mexican railways that lead to the
United States. There. now; we are de-
termined not to be Quilted by any paper
in Colorado.
A stranger In Sidney the other day,
thinking he recognized his coat on the
back of a pedestrian, cried out, stop
thief ~ and about seventeen OF the in
habitants lodged around the corner.
A New York correspondent has made
the discovery that clothes are no longer
fitted to women, but women are fitted
to clothes; that is, a dressmaker gets
up a stylish costume In a model shape,
and pads out a m to fit it.
The late Mathew Newkirk, one Of
the projectors and early presidents OF
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more railroad, was the inventor of the
baggage check, the joy and conven-
venience of the American traveller. and
u thing unknown to the inhabitants OF
Europe to this day.
1t is n fact that at the present day
the names Of patent medicine proprie-
tors are better known to the American
people than are the names Of those gal
liant patriots who signed the declaration
OF independence. 1t is so, simply be-
cause the patent medicine men adver-
tise; the patriots don't.
The advertisement OF the Schulen-
burg Manufacturing company, Detroit,
Michigan, manufacturers Of billiard and
pool tables, and all kinds of billiard
material, appears in this issue Of the
LEADER. This firm makes the cele-
brated Phoenix tables with the famous
Delaney patent cushions, which are
guaranteed to retain their elasticity,
and are therefore especially adapted to
this climate. This company will soon
have n billiard hall and depot Of billiard
supplies in Denver, and their tables
will also be on exhibition in this city In
a few days.