The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-09
NEWS BREvTTIEs

States.
The Pullman car company earns on
each car about $50 a month net. and
has 474 cars.
A very large amount Of money is al
legged TO be due to east Florida claim
ants for losses of 1872.
The dominion of Canada, in thirteen
years, has accumulated a debt of $780,
600, 600, principally for public works.
On Pierce's hill. Dorchester. near
Boston, stands a house built in 1910.
and which is still occupied by descend
ants Of its builder.
A corporation Is about to establish q
geological garden above Central Park,
Chicago, with an observatory three hun
dred and twenty-five feet high.
The body OF an infant was found by
the janitor Of n school in Bristol. r. L.,
neatly done up in a package and laid
on the shelf.
In Waterville. Me-, the prohibitory
laws are so strictly enforced that the
college professors are unable TO procure
alcohol for scientific experiments.
The estimated rent of the new build
ing on. the corner of Broadway and
Wall street. New York. will net TO its
owners the ~princely sum Of $lS0.000 a
year.
Tho total value Of England's i'm
ports for 1880 was f409, 900, 900, an in
crease OF about FAC, ZOO, 900 over 1879.
Living animals were imported TO the val
ne of e, PAS. 903. The number Of eggs
imported was 747.4l2,440. worth e.
PAL, 800.
Capt INV. Barnes and wife. Of Wat
ertown, Conn, recently celebrated the
SEVENTEEN anniversary of their mar
riagc. The captain is % years old and
his wife 81, and both are now in good
health.
Bradlaugh is a stalwart who believes
in muscle. When the authorities Of
Scotland yard rendered him detective
protection against assassination recent
". he thanked them and said he
thought he could take care Of himself
and II would be best TO protect the as
sassins.
The demand for George Eliot's books
has been so great since her death that
the London publishers have not been
able 10 meet II. One thousand readers
inquired for adam Bede" in one week
at n leading circulating library. A
cheap and an expensive complete edi-
ton OF her works will be issued in the
spring.
Large depots are to be put up on
Harlem river, to accommodate the rail-
| roads to New England, which will con-
meet there with the railroads to New
England. Twenty-six acres Of marsh
for the purpose has been bought for
Sl66, 600, and eight and a half acres
near by sold for $780, 900 to another
company.
The largest deed ever put on tho
records of Naugatuck. Conn, consisted
Of eighteen pages Of c~losely-printed
matter. 1t was a mortgage to the
| Mutual Union, of New York city, for
| $3.50, 900 from the New Union Telegraph
company. The charge Of the town clerk
was S13.
"A mar who had lived in a Boston
clearinghouse for ten years, and had
been known only as George" was
found dead in his room recently.
Among his effects were found papers
which indicated that his name was Eben
Leman. and money, bonds. and bank
ootes to the value Of $4,000.
Four years ago n schoolboy in
Monroe county. Indiana, threw q dead
rnttlesnake around tho neck Of a little
| girl. and it has made her permanently
insane. During all this time she has
recognized no one, but daily sits with
her slate in her lap, making out the
same figures she had been given as o
lesson at school on the fateful day.
occasionally crying out; Take the
snake away"
A clergyman's daughter at Napa
Cal, went to a circus. On the follow
ing Sunday her father preached on sin
full amusements. and used her case Al
an illustration. In the Sunday schoo
that afternoon he said that she wa
impenitent, and moved her expulsion
but a vote being taken all the pupil
voted to retain her.
Mr.. Edison has nearly finished o dy
namo-electric machine having tire
field magnets six and q half feet long
and an armature one and . half ton
in weight. The armature Is c%onnecte,
directly to a Porter-Allen engine OF 100
horse power. Both the engine and tn
dynamo-electric machine are mounte'
upon a large iron bed. This new cleo
trio generator is intended to do what !
usually done by sixteen smaller ma
chimes with greater steadfastness an
economy.
1t is remarkable that the working
classes Of Germany have taken littl,
part in the anti-Jewish agitation, At
stormy meeting in Berlin recently, IL
which the Jews were denounced as PEG
pie .'uniit to mix with other races"
workman had the courage to state tina
after seventeen years hard work il
Berlin, although a Christian himself, hi
experience was that Jewish employer
mad. as a rule. treated him far bette
than his co-religionists." He accord
ingly proposed q resolution in favor G
religious liberty" The result wa
that the meeting Kissed him and turne
him ut
Henry Brand and wife. living at Nc
| v32 Raymond street, Brooklyn, N. \
he'd from the house in which their chill
had died of diphtheria, and the healtl
authorities took the body away an
buried it, and could not find the child
parents Subsequently it was ascer
tained that Brand had a child who die
4 few days before Of diphtheria- Thel
the second child contracted the diseas
and died. and Mrs. Brand was ais
AIKEN i'll. Brand was too poor to bur,
ne child. and he thought It best to ge
is wife out Of the house.
Mr.. Spurgeon wrote recently tina
) the most useful members Of o churcl