The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-05
w eekly Leader,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The university of Padua in its palmy
days had 5000 scholars.
Three years is the time now fixed up
On for the completion of the Northern
Pacific railroad.
A gigantic scheme for importing
American fresh meats into England is
IN foot. the Great Eastern being en-
gagged for that purpose.
The wheat crop of the past season
shows that the crop of the United States
has increased 81, 600, 900 bushels in the
past ten years.
About one-third of the sugar produced
3 from the sugar beet. Spain is the
1nly European country where cane u
gar is raised to any extent.
Within the last ten years New Or
cans shows an increase of 100 per cent.
n number Of employees and product of
Is manufacturing establishments.
Chaucer was a courtier and diplo-
natist as well as a poet. He was sent
o France and Italy in the capacity of
lis kings representative.
Although the Chinese had gunpowder
many centuries before it was known in
Europe, they did not employ it in war,
but used it only in fireworks.
The work Of printing John Eliot's
translation of the bible into the Indian
language was done by an Indian lad
named James. Some of his descend
ants were living at Grafton, Mass, in
he earlier part of the present century.
They were surnamed Printer.
A scientist says. .sThe whole globe
contains 1900, 600, 900 inhabitants. If
each man, woman, and child could pull
with a force of 100 pounds, to move q
bar of steel 5, 280 feet wide and as many
;hick. it would require the united efforts
IF 1000 such worlds as this,
Mr.. Richard Ten Brock, who. with
Francis Morris, took the first American
horses to England, and who imported
Phaeton, the sire of Ten Brock, is in
New York. He is now living in Eng
land, and last season had several nota-
ole successes on the turf. He has a
stable of a dozen or more English horses,
and is now in this country with the in
tention of taking back with him n
good horses he may be able 30 secure in
Kentucky. He is also presenting to the
attention of capitalists here the new
compressed-air engine recently invent
ed by Col. Beaumont, of the royal en-
gineers, which the English papers re-
port Is being in successful use on GER
tain tramways of Woolwich and Leeds.
Certain INSCRIPTIONS Havana cigar
makers have for some years past been
giving large orders to a paper factory
in New York State for a peculiar kind
Of straw paper. The Havanese thor
oughly soak this paper in q solution of
refuse tobacco boiled in water, and then
press it in a stamp constructed to give
1t the exact appearance of the finest to-
bacco leaf. Millions of cigars are made
Of this bogus tobacco, and exported to
America and Europe. 1t is stated that
this tobacco leaf is SO good an imitation
Of the real article as to defy detection.
The only way Of discovering the fraud
is by weighing the cigars, the spurious
being soinew hat lighter than the real.
The profits made By the rascally Hava-
ma merchants arc enormous, as the first
cost of these paper cigars is next to
nothing.
Joseph Hopkinson wrote "IIail Co.
lumbia'' in 1898. At that time the wa-
between England and France was rag
ing, and it was believed that the United
States would take up arms. Congress
was in session in Philadelphia. Tho
people were divided, some favoring an
alliance with France and some with En-
gland. On Saturday a young Philadel-
phia actor came t o Hopkinson and said
that he was to have a benefit on the fol-
lowing Monday night, but that no boxes
had been taken, and he feared that he
would lose instead of gain by the bene-
fit. The actor thought that he could fill
the house il he could get a patriotic
song to he tune Of the Presidents
March. lie asked Hopkinson to write
him one. Hopkinson promised to try,
and the result was Hail Columbia"
The song was ready on the benefit night.
and soon gained immense popularity.