The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-31
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

The camera obscura at the exhibition
building in Melbourne, Australia, COM
mands q view Of the streets Of Mel
bourne and also the steps leading up the
dome. On the occasion In question the
exhibition was not very full of visitors
and while several persons were looking
at the camera they observed the reflex
Of a young gentleman and lady coming
up the stairs toward the dome. Their
looks told how far they were EMBODIED
in the meshes OF love, but they need not
have betrayed 1t quito SO openly as they
did. They both gazed anxiously
around, no n was looking, the oppor-
tunity was too good to be lost, and so
the languishing swain clasped his lady
love in his arms and imprinted q kiss
on her lips. The sound could not have
betrayed them, they forgot that unfor-
tunate camera, and, amid shrieks of
laughter, they beat a rapid retreat.
The other day when Mrs. Walker,
wife of a barber at the continental
hotel, Philadelphia, returned from the
funeral of her child she found a baby at
the back door. Attached to the little
ones clothing was a note beginning:
Dear Lady-Will you please take my
badly and keep IL for your OWN" Az
ter requesting that the lady will think
that it is God who sent it to her to take
the place Of her own dead child, the
writer explains that she saw in the
newspapers the notice of the funeral
which had taken place. The unknown
mother wrote that she would rather
bury her child than leave it as she had
done, but her husband died eight
months ago, leaving her with two chill
dren quite young, and about to give
birth to another, and that it was i'm
possible for her to work with that one
to take care Of. The letter continued:
Take him and call him your own, for
l never will come for him nor make
any claim on him. His first name is
Louis, but If you choose you a give
him another. Don't think l am hard
hearted in doing this, for 1t almost kills
me. l have tried to get some one to
take him, but no one will do it. Be-
lieve me, dear lady, it is as hard for me
to part with my baby as 1t was for you
to part with yours, for l am burying
my baby alive, while you have given
yours to Jesus. Oil take him in, l i'm
plore you, for your redeemer's sake,
Don't cast him off; he will grow up to
comfort you. He was born January
10, 1881.
A Baltimore commission merchant
received a letter from d correspondent
the other day asking the prices of veg
etables, and among the quotations for
beats" The merchant replied to him
as follows:
Dear Sir: Owing to the abundant
winter crop of beats-which has great
ly exceeded the demaud-there Is a
large stock On hand Of the best varieties.
The Inauguration scenes, acting like a
grateful spring rain, have also caused a
second crop to spring up and the supply is
just now active. Prices, therefore, are
ruling low but firm, although since the
opening Of the spring the consumptive
demand has decreased and the market
is quotably the same except for prime
grades. We quote at the close as fol.
lows: Prime Maryland tclub). with fine,
tapering roots, Respondent tops and
immense absorbent faculties, at II and
IA bottles Roederer per dozen; choice
jobbing vegetables, Indigenous to the
soil OF street and drug stores,
assorted %colors, 8 10 gin cocktails;
fungus variety, chiefly to be found at
the roots Of q lamp post, / gin-fzz
apiece; bar-room trellis variety, extra
collared and b~road-rooted, l a 2 straight
whiskeys; democratward politicians
variety, grown in richly MANFRED soil
and extra sugary, 2 beers a / milk
punch; ordinary red-nosed, 1S-carrot
beat, at l drink Of any kind; dubious
excrecential beat, 1 toothpick and lem