The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-06
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Of connaught appeared as chairman and
Prince Leopold made a speech, Nj.
James Russell Lowell proposed the
health Of the chairman. He talked in
the usual way about 1.-THE bond of blood
and language, T" and wound up in this
facetious ann
A new influence has appeared in
Russian politics. A lady who occupied
the position of goyerness to the Prin-
cess Ynrteff's children has taken the
lead in affairs. The roster now reads
thus: The goyerness orders the princess,
the princess orders the Gar, the Gar
orders Louis Melikoff and Lorts Nell
koff orders the people. Speculation is
rife as to who may be the gentleman to
influence the goyerness.
The Beers, as the British have
learned, like our OWL revolutionary an
c~estors, are splendid, not to say deadly,
shots, and no wonder. From earliest
childhood they are practieed with rifle
and gun; their everyday sport is TO
shoot at moving objects and running
game. They are prepared to pay any
price for a good weapon. The Boer is,
in his way, a good modern ~reproduc-
ton of the old-fashioned dragon, using
his horse as a Of rapid transfer
from point TO point, and dismounting to
fire when required. Once more an old
military power is being taught a rough
lesson by a despised and presumably
inexperienced foe.
Queen Victoria was 80 struck the
other day with the rapidity vnd appar-
ent ease with which a lady was pro-
polling a tricycle. along the Ventnor
road at the Isle of Wight, that she has
had one of the game kind ordered to
Osborne for the benefit of the princes
SEES. This must be n great encourage
ment to tricyclers. who hitherto have
been rather sneered ut by bicyclists and
the world in general. A ladies' tricy-
Gle club has been formed, with a special
costume suited to the exigencies of the
Notwithstanding between the
Turkish and Bloomer dress, a devel-
opment, in fact, of knickerbockers,
with a Norfolk shirt for the body
Some idea of the sort Of books, aside
from poetry and novels, that are now
most read in Germany, may be obtained
from the statistics of works that were
issued by Leipsic publishers last year.
OF these 100 treated of medicine and
veterinary surgery; 1877 Of natural
science; 533 of antiquity, classics and
Oriental languages; 506 of modern lam
guages and old German literature; 1852
of history and biography; 1855 of geog-
raphy; pol of mathematics and astron-
omy; 1853 of the science Of war; 5S3 of
trade and manufactures; 4O3 of rail-
roads, machinery, ship building, &C.;
433 of domestic and political economy;
627 of the fine arts and stenography and
20 of Freemasonry.
His royal highness, their chairman
had hereditary claims to music. The
illustrious father of their royal high
ness on one occasion, which was wildly
remembered by all thoughtful Ameri-
cans, interfered in the civil war when
he thought that too high anotewas about
to be struck. 1t was q moment when
there vas extreme tension, If a musical
term might be used on this occasion, of
the chorus between two countries which
he would not name; too high, too sharp
q note was about to be struck on one
side and he put his foot on the pedal.
Perhaps he did more; he threw out the
yox humana stop and by so doing he
prevented consequences which it would
be better not to speak of then. They
therefore owed their illustrious prince
a great debt. 1t was with great pleas
ure he proposed ''the health of his royal
highness. the duke of Connaught and
Strathearn." Familiar with the music
of the past, a practiced musician in that
of the present, his royal highness might,
he hoped, live IS many years to hear
the music of the future as should be
agreeable to him.