The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-20
NEWS BREvITIEs.

The report Of the State Auditor Of
North Carolina shows that the valuation
Of land has increased in eight years
Sl3, $50. 600.
An effort is to be made to raise $780,
600 for the purpose Of r%enovating and
completing the Roman Catholic cathe
dral in Philadelphia.
1t is asserted that Amos Perkins. of
Unity, N. H., was the oldest man to
speak from a political platform in the
late campaign. He is 80 years old.
They claim TO have n parrot in Cow
entryville. Chester county. Pa. known
TO be sixty years old II has been own
ed by members Of one family for that
length Of time.
Representative Alexander III. Stcph-
ems Is so fond of whist that he supports
on his plantation an old gentleman to
make out the four persons needed to
play the game.
A dueling bill has been passed by tho
South Carolina Senate. with an addi-
tional section providing that IL shallnot
affect indictments now pending or Of
fenses Committed before It's passage.
The State of New Jersey offers $40 to
every free public school in the State
with which to start a library. upon con
dition that the district raises as much
more. And $40 is added yearly upon
the same condition.
A magnificent white oak stands in the
Quaker burying- ground In Salem, Nj.
1t is moro than 200 years old. and is re-
markabie for its amplitude of shade. In
one direction its branches have a spread
of l12 feet.
Mrs. Hcingartner gave a generous
breakfast to a tramp at Canton, o., and
he rewarded her by pocketing some
spoons. She intercepted him at the
gate. shot n bullet through the stomach
which she had enabled him TO fill, and
recovered the silverware.
The tallest trees in the world arc in
Australia. A fallen tree in Gippsland
measured 1856 feet from the root to the
highest point of the branches. Anoth-
or, standing in the Dundenong district
In Victoria, is estimated to be 450 feet
from the ground to the top.
When the Sultan of Turkey goes to
prayer on Fridays he is attended with
much ceremony. Soldiers form in limo
and national bands discourse music be-
fore his appearance and while the state
carriages arc filing. Liveried officers
sprinkle the streets.
A Boston man heard n burglar ut
work at one of his windows. and tele-
phoned for a policeman. The question
came back: what do you want n po-
liceman for at this time Of nightP"
While he was cndeavoring to explain
tho burglar became alarmed and made
his escape.
DR.. John D. Gray, Superintendent Of
the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, Inns
been chosen a~n-associate member of tho
Medico-Physiological society OF Paris.
Six years ago he was elected to the So
cietn Freniatrica 1talina, and two years
later to the British Medico-P Physiological
association.
In twenty years the yield Of the Com.
stock lode has been 1925. 900. 900 worth
Of bullion. The length of shafts and
galleries is two hundred and fifty miles.
Three hundred and sixty million tom
of waste rock have been hoisted, and
1,75o. 000. 900 tons of water pumped to
the surface.
Lord Dufferin has been writing an
exhaustive pamphlet on the Irish land
question. to aid the Cabinet In its DELHI
erations. He has already written one
in 1860, in which he opposed the crea-
ton of o peasantry proprietary, In OPP
position to the views Of Stuart Mill. but
ne has altered his views since then.
Dublin is eminently a garrison town..
and the terrors of Boycotting are almost
entirely lost in the delight experienced
at the return Of the guards, which that
process has necessitated. The guards
are chiefly composed Of younger men,
bers of the a~risiocracy. and Dublin ro-
joices In q live lord. When last quar-
tered there at the time Of tho Fenian
troubles, the guards gave a fancy ball
and several other brilliant fetcs. Simi-
lar engagements are now hoped for. 5
Quite n is attached to the
large fortune lately inherited by an old
member of past English liberal admin
~istration. Engaged in days Of yore to
a lady Of large fortune. their adverse
political opinions caused . sudden ter
mination 10 tL.eir matrimonial inten-
tons, and they parted forever. After
long years the lady died, and left her
old lover the fortune and estates which
he would have enjoyed had he been her
husband.
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