The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-27
ALL SORTS

luc Oldlc Oh connecticut uhu 4sOtl
for the year ending July l. 1881. ane
1872 divorces.
Parsely eaten with vinegar will re
move the unpleasant effects of eating
onions So will a pinch of green tea,
Norwich, Conn, man, who was in
| Paris recently found no trouble in pay,
ing his hotel bill with United States ma.
tional bank notes.
Dan Simpson, drummer Of the An.
Gent artillery of Boston, is 80 years
old. and has played at sixty annual
parades.t
A southern editor discovers that tlir
town which has the greatest number ii
cheap. modest. available cottages l,s
the greatest number of marriages.
Pottsyille barkeeper claims 10 huve
seen a nous killed by the opening ri
a champagne bottle. The NJ -. 90
| gnawed the string of, and the exnlo,l-
ing cork killed him.
The Maine Beet Sugar COMPANY had
o make l,22l separate contracts IN
four different states to get 1900 tons of
| beets last year. Some Of the roots came
from the Mohawk county.
The ice factories at Houston. Tex,
have allowed a ~onantity of ammonia,
used in the manufacture of ice. / rs-
cape into Buffalo bayou, and millions
of fish have been killed. The surface
is covered with dead fish.
A negro girl. aged IA years. residing
on a plantation about twelve miles
from Lake Providence, La., gave birth
to three children. all boys. One was
black. the other white, and the other q
mulatto.
1t is probable that the southern part
of the territory of Utah will supply
enough anthony for this country. The
ore mined about 140 miles from Salt
City yields from 60 to IS per INT of
anthony.
Last eason the San Gabriel valley,
California, produced 60. 200 boxes of
oranges. but this year the crop will not
exceed $4,000 boxes. so says good au-
thority. Last year the Riverside orange
crop amounted to 5000 boxes, and will
this year be three times as large.
The Berlin papers report that recent
from the city, seven children returning
home from the fields took shelter from
q thunderstorm under a tree. The
tree was struck by lightning. and all
the children were killed on the spot.
The Hotel Mail reports an interview
with an old waiter, in which he makes
the statement that ''waiters seldom
grow old As a rule, they're sassy I'M
til they're %. They begin to be weak
when they touch so, and at 40 they are
but little good, as indigestion kills
them"
Major Benyurd, of the United States
engineers. says: THAT while at the
xrxorkk - D-I s~w,- Al- l-- l.. -
had made observations which satisfied
him that the Mississippi was cutting for
itself q channel through the Atchafal-
ava river. which would in no great
time become its outlet, and New Or
leans would be left in q shallow
stream"
A gentleman having stated that a.
French chemist a take sugar, -four, .
and other substances and make a nicer
egg than any hen ever left in a nest, !
q lady wanted to know what excuse
there was for anyone's keeping fowls If
that were SO; a boy in the ROOM
promptly answered: THAT they may
annoy the people next door,"
The city of Marseilles is bringing suit
against the ex-Empress Eugene tol
show cause why she should not deliver
up to the municipality the Imperial,
Palace, built for the late emperor on
the site of the old Lazaret, beyond the
Fort St. Jean. and opposite to the Fort,
St Nicholas. ut the entrance to the Old
Harbor. Tho building is q splendid
one, and stands in spacious grounds on
one of the finest sites in the locality
The Imperial family never occupied It;
In fact, it was never completely finished
There is no library. although the poet
Barthelemy held the post Of librarian
~ an annual salary Of 5000 francs fns
several years. Tie palace Is nov n
sAarge Of An old Bonapartist veteran
A rirh find Of silver about ten miles
from Deadwood was followed in forty
eight hours by the creation OF West
Virginia City. tho election Of = record
er, the settlement of 1,0J0- p 'rsons, and
the opening of nine sa'osns and two
faro banks. On the fourth day a daily
newspaper appeared.
An ingenious system 10 In nre people
who may lrse their keys against the
frau,lul mt use of their KEYS, in case
their ownership is Indicated on a label,
has been adopted by n London lock-
making firm. Attached to tho key-ring
or chain is n label. which h ,ars on one
side the address of this firm. and on the
reverse. ..5s Reward. No. -" A
register is kept by the firm. or which is
inscribed the number, name, and ad-
dress of each purchaser.
1t Is a dangerous thing TO tamper
with Scotch institutions. Only a week
or two g the Dunoon Castle steamer
carried q deck-load of excursionists
down the Clyde on the Sabbath"
That very night she stuck on q sand
bank. and no one got home; next day
her captain, in o fit, fell overheard, and
was drowned; the third day the pro-
lane vessel was in flames; and few peo-
pie in Scotland have much doubt rs to
what all that means.
From Central Asia the British for
eign office has learned of the release.
from his long captivity. of the intrepid
correspondent of the Daily NeUs, of
London, whose letter from Merv, re-
Gently published, gave SO striking a
picture of hardship and of Turkoman
life and He was escorted
from Merv to Meshed by a guard Of
thirty Turcoman horsemen, his release
having been effected chiefly through the
British minister at Teheran.
The importation OF tropical fruit at
New Orleans for northern and interior
| markets has assumed q magnitude Of
which few people are There
are now two steamships and fifteen or
twenty schooners plying between the
| bay islands and New Orleans, making
regular trips and bringing full cargoes.
Another steamer is soon TO be added to
the feet. The principal fruits are
~cocoa-nuts, bananas. pincapples, lines,
and lemons, and they go to Chicago.
st. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, Louis
willie and Cincinnati. A short timo ago
. carload of assor 81 fruits was ship
ped to Denver, Co.., aud although the
freight was $3.50 it was probably dis