The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An injured woman in st. Louis has
sued her husband for divorce on the
ground that he called her ian old GOVT
The Duke of Portland is SO pleased
with Lord Bute's beaver colonies that
he is going to establish several on his
estates.
New Orleans has organized n COM
pany with 500. 900 capital I o manufac-
turs jute bagging, which has hitherto
been imported.
A California inventor has devised q
process for pressing and drying pot@-
toes SO that they will keep for years
without loss of flavor.
Twenty-nine cousins contest the VIII
OF an itinerant preacher in WestcEester
county, New York. who had managed
in some way TO leave q 3ronerty 81
$4,000 behind him.
In a certain English parish the curate
bears the name of Hare. The ladies'
there being sufferers from the ulac-
countable mania of curate hunting.
have received the title of the "HarTiers."
The Russians are paying great atten-
ton TO the revolver as an instrument OF
warfare. Upwards of sixty thousand
of these handy weapons are being man.
ufactured ut Berlin for the Russian
army.
A bather in a Bridgeport. Conn, bar
ber's shop recently fell asleep in a bath
tub full Of water. and remained Their.
five hours before he was discovered and
awakened. The water was barely be-
low his mouth.
Mr.. Elisha S%hepperson, aged 20 years.
OF Hanover county. Va, died recently
While a letter he had just written to !
lady in eastern Virginia, to whom lie
was engaged to be married. was being
carried to the postofice.
Smithland Chambers. of Barren coun.
ty, Kentucky, weighs $50 pounds and
his wife LIP. Their 6-year-old daugh.
ter weighs 239 pounds and measures 81
inches around the waist. Mr.. and Mrs
Cham bers have lost a son five years OLD
weighing 200 pounds.
On the Hawley branch of the Eric
railway, the other day. a deer sprane
from the woods to the track in front Of
a loaded coal train, and kept ahead o.
the engine for about two miles; then,
startled by the appearance of a pedcs-
trian, leaped into the Lackawaxen river.
swan across. and disappeared in tie
forest
The Americans, says The Spectator.
have invented. and Englishmen are
slowly adopting into their political vo-
cabulary, q new word, intended to nc
count for the unaccountable popularity
of some politicians. They say they ara
''magnetic"-that is. they attract as the
magnet does. by virtue Of some quality
not yet explained.
Two men are litigating Mt Elizabeth.
town, KY, over a slave trsde that t,oh
place in 1855. The defep Jant hr-ighl
q negro of the plaintiff, but hnd.nY :hs
him back. Plaintiff discovered that the
negro was unfit for WORK. and in 1863
brought suit to recove his value. The
case is still on. The plaintiff is 20 years
old and the defendant 81.
The city of Cambridge. Mass, has
recently set three memorial stones.
weighing over q ton enrh, a o. many
points within Its bor< Jrs 70 mark Ger.
tain events in H. history. Ono on Ninth
avenue. corner Of Spruce street, is in.
scribed: .'The site where four citizens
were killed by British soldiers retreat.
ing from Lexington. April 16. 1878"
One on Inman street containing the fol.
lowing: .'Site Of the house which was
the Headquarters Of Gen. Putnam in
1776." The other monument. located
on Buster street has the following in
scription: site Of ne residence OF
Thomas Dudley. \ &. 1880. founder Of
Cambridge and Governor Of Massachu'
setA" Each stone Also bears tho words
Erected BY. The oity-lSS0"
The United States fish commission
has received information that the Cali
fornia State Association has Just ro-
ceived from China a quantity Of cow
RAINY, a very fine food fish, which Is to
be introduced in the California waters.
Some of them are TO be sent to WASH
ington for propagation and distribution
In all rivers and lakes of the country
where it is claimed they will flourish
1t is claimed they are superior to sal.
mon.
It is reported that tho Parisians are
at last beginning to discover that the
.'eau de seltz" which they consume 81
largely in '.siphons'' is capable Simply
Of poisoning them. An analysis Of
Twelve s'siphons," taken at hazard in
different quarters of Paris, which was
presented to tho Academy of Science.
by Mr.. Pateur. shows that 1t contain.
per Gtre fourteen one-thorsandths @!
salts Of pewter and two-one-thousandth.
Of salts of copper. These substance,
are poisonous.
The London World says: A masquer.
ade dinner is rather an original enter.
sainment, and, i. is not improbable.
may become n fashionable amusement
The other day, at a very splendid house.
where everything was enregle and all tho
appointments OF the best and choicest,
The company of the creme de la creme
of society, and the hostess q charming
and beautiful woman, the guests were
requested to come down to dinner mask.
ed-that is, with real ~concealing masks
on their faces. The mistakes and dis.
~covcries that resulted were not at all
pleasant, and the amusement was rath-
err q risk. Needless to remark, the
beautiful hostess is herself a widow.
Solomon Jones. of Bloomington, Md.
was ~ when, after many years OF pow.
erty, he received $4,000 in pension
money. He had no relatives to leave il
to when he died, and therefore made
up his mind to spend it all himself. III
view of the probable short time NJ
naming to him in this world, he fell
that he must be fast and furious in hi.
pleasures If he would spend the Who'll.
$1,000. He married a young wife, and
gratified her love of dress; he got in q
large stock of beverages, and drank
them recklessly; he bought a fast horse.
and bet on him. At the end Of three
months the last dollar vas gone, hi.
vito deserted HIM. his horse died, and
he is still without any immediate pros
pect Of dying.
Queen Victoria, 1t is related. recently
had the pleasure of witnessing q remark.
able piece Of artistic enterprise. When
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