The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-29
NEWS BRBvrFIEs.


In the last financial yesr the stamp
duty of Sd. per pack was paid on 1884,
1928 packs of playing-cards in England,
amounting to ELS, 625 5s Cd. /.
A family never becomes extinct in
Japan. If there are no male descend
ants, a young son of another family Is
adopted, and takes the family name.
A beautiful mirage was recently seen
in Accomac county. Virginia. The is
land of Chinosteague, thirty miles away.
appeared to be only q quarter of = mile
distant.
Alady in London. Ontario, stumbled
in her room and fell against a bureau
She broke three of her ribs, and the fuii
extent of her injury was not DISCOVERIES
for several days.
The parishioners of the Rev. DIR. IIes-
ry j. Morton, Of Philadelphia, HAYS
presented him with a check for $1,000
upon the completion of his fifty years or
service as their pastor.
4 man in Montgomery county. Pa.
whose family already contained thirteen
children, was electrified when his wife
presented him with three more (triplets)
all bristt and healthy.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi de-
clares that eighteen mills on the dollar.
including three mills for State tax, is
the utmost limit to which taxes can be
laid.
While a negro was hunting near Sa-
vannah, Ca. his dog playfully jumped
up and caught his foot in the trigger OF
The gun. The negro's arm had to be
amputated.
Messrs. Werthsimer. in London, paid
1920. 900 for Mr.. Goding's collection Of
s~nuff-boxes, miniatures, and enamels.
one Of the principal attractions Of the
South kensington museum
James Buchanan, President of the
United States, made an election bet iu
1919 and lost it, and the deed by which
he conveyed his land that he forfeited
is, in his own handwriting, on file at
The artesian well at Laramie, w. T..
has been sunk to o depth of two nun
dred and sixteen feet. and has two hum
dred feet of water in it. 1t will be sunk
O further depth of thirty-four feet, by
which time It is hoped the water will
dow from the well.
The Italian minister OF public instruc-
lion has taken possession Of the vine
yards and grounds Of the Baths of Titus
and Carcalia, at Rome, and has turned
hem into public walks. Their art frag-
ments are to be preserved in the Capt.
Iol museum.
The school board of Indianapolis, af-
Ter experiments for years with various
heating apparatus, are now in favor Of
heating all school buildings with stoves
instead Of steam, believing them supe-
fior in respect of ventilation and distri-
tuition of heat.
The resumption of specie payments
n Italy is opposed by capitalists and
peculators in gold; yet q forced cur
,ency IL no longer needed, as the coun-
ny Is peaceful and advancing in manu-
lectures, and last year there was an ex-
sess Of 942, $4,000 in receipts over ex-
penses in the budget. Parliament has
Ioted to adopt q resumption policy.
In all German towns of any conse-
luence occasional exhibitions are held
xhere new foreign inyentions and pro-
iucts, which are in any way affiliated
o the local manufactures, are exhibited
% be infinitely examined by artisans
md factory operatives. ANY excellence
n the foreign article is quickly detect
ID and initiated by the local workmen.
The new building for the Boston Eng.
ish high school and Latin school 4
laid to be the largest free public build
ing In the world. being three hundred
md thirty. nine by two hundred and
twenty feet, with a hollow square in the
middle. There are sfifty-six rooms In
III, including q drill-hall one hundred
md thirty by sixty. 9 gymnasium OF tho
anne dimensions. and an exhibition hall
upable of seating a thousand two
hundred and fifty persons.
Mark Firth, . wealthy manufacturer,
| who diod recently at Sheffield, Eng.
during his lifetime gave that place a
public park at an expense of Sl00,0 900,
provided almshouses at an expense of
4l60, 900, and also founded and liberal
ly endowed Fifth College in Sheffield.
Tho Hon. E III. Stillwen, fish COM
missioner Of Maine, is making arrange
ments to establish q fish-hatching room
in Bangor, expecting to hatch some
800, 600 there. He intends to forward
100, 900 salmon eggs to Morehoad lake
for the waters Of the Kennebec, 100, 900
to Norway for Sebago lake. and 100, 600
to Rangely lake for the Androscoggin
river.
In 1880 Marshal Soult brought a par
| rot named Jocko to the French war
Office, where the bird remained forty
years. He served under eighteen diff
ferent ministers, but was always a
stanch Royalist. Through every change
Of administration JACKIE cried, ~Viye
le roir' but would never say without
painful effort. .tVive rempereurr' He
died on h anniversary Of the death of
Napoleon L, in 1870.
A mean fellow in Taunton. Mass.
whose aged mother had made over to
him q large and well-stocked farm, un-
| der q promise that he would care for
her as long as she lived,s recently APP
piled to the city authorities to extend
aid to her as a pauper. The discredit-
| able facts were as~certained, and he was
given a very forcible reminder of the
advisability of filial disobedience.
Americas Symmes, the sole proprietor
of the Symmes theory, an intramundanc
| vacuum, is q resident Of Louisville. KY.
gray, and advancing in years, wearing
plain clothes and spectacles, and is n
favorite theme, the hollowness of the.
earth, which conceals the glorious un.
discovered country that is only to DO
entered somewhere IN the farthest arc.
tic regions. His face reminds one of
the portraits of Victor Hugo.
1t is related Of the late Lieut.. Com
mander, H. C. Nields, Of Philadelphia.
that, while employed on the maintop-
sal yard of a sailing vessel during a ter
rible storm at night, he was pitched ov.
erboard by q terrible lurch Of the ship.
He Immediately disappeared among
waves that ran mountain high. Il
flashed upon him that the struggle was
hopeless, and so that his agony might
not be prolonged. he clasped both