The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-15
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on Keats for the new edition of the
encyclopedia Britannica"
There are 064 noblemen and gentle
men now being educated at Eaton
college. The list includes an Indian
prince, a duke, 81 lords, 3 counts, 8
baronets and AZ honorables.
In the butter and egg convention held
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, the other day, a
discussion ON the question: "How shall
poultry be dressed and packed for the
eastern market?" brought out the fact
that Boston only wants dry picked and
drawn fowls with heads and feet off,
while New York and Philadelphia want
theirs with heads and feet on, dry
picked and undrawn.
The Athen@um that in the
early part of the spring the first of the
Talleyrand Ms. will be published. This
one is entitled "Talleyrand and Louis
XVIII.n and consists of their cores
pondence during the congress of Wen
ma, with Talleyrands's descriptions of
the various persons there, including
Wellington and Castlereagh. Mr..
Bentley will publish in England and
M. Eugene Plon in Paris.
An English farmer who had emil
grated to Canada returned not long ago
taking with him as great curiosities
about twenty Colorado beetles. Some
Of them escaped and the farmer was
fined e5 for allowing them to get away.
The matter has been made the subject
of an inquiry in the house of commons.
The people in the vicinity where the
escape took place have hopes that the
beetles have either starved to death or
are all bachelors.
Seth Green says there is always great
mortality among fish in ice-locked
waters. He says: "After every long,
steady winter like this, many more fish
die than anybody supposes. People
have an idea that all fish float when
dead, and that the only dead fish are
those that they see on the surface of the
water. The fact is that in the case of
dead fish..but one in ten comes to the top.
We have determined that by actual
count at tho state ponds" This NOR
tality is easily prevented, Mr.. Green
says, by chopping holes here and there
in the ice, and thus giving the fish fresh
air.
At the annual meeting of the cham
Der of shipping held in London, Feb
ruary 18th, the chairman, in moving
the adoption of the report, was able to
show that there is no present danger
of England ceasing to be the general
carrier. The English effective tonnage
at the present time is 10000, 900, while
that Of all other flags put together is
only II, 200, 900, and the increasing
activity of English ship-yards may be
gathered from the fact that on the 31st
of December, 1878, the tonnage under
construction was but 100000 tons as
compared with Cos, 900 tons at the end
of 1880.
The Earl of Northbrook, first lord CT
the admiralty, recently told a deputa-
ton of temperance people that the gov
eminent intended to stop the rum
ration to naval officers and to boys up
to the age of twenty. To induce the
men to give up their ration it vas in
tended to issue, besides the tea and
sugar, a ration of soluble chocolate in
the middle Of the night watch. 1t is
also proposed to increase the allowance
to abstainers, which is now about ~
pence per week, although the retail
value, duty added, is about l shilling
and Q penc& Such an increase would
cost the country from .elO, 900 to
go, 0O9.
The late naturalist, Mr.. Gould, was
accustomed in Summer months to live
on the Thames river between the banks
of Clividen and Formosa. One day
there was a rare laugh raised at his ex-
pense at the latter place. He had gone
up a tree to explore the contents of a.
nest, when. glancing, by chance, up u
hollow formed by the bifurcation of two