The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-09
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over, making money fast.
Capt. Stone arrived at Moundyille, w.
Va, thirty-fye years ago, settled there
and planted two seeds, remarking TO
his family that he would like to raise
his own coffin. One of these seeds died
but the other flourished and grew.
From a shoot it became a sapling and
finally q fine tree. About eighteen
months ago it was blown down in a Sc
we're wind-storm. He had it cut into
lumber and sent to q Pittsburg, Pa,
firm. In a short time it was returned
70 him in the shape of a beautiful coffin,
in which he was recently buried.
At the Winter Palace in ST. Peters
burg there is a room full of diamonds.
pearls, and other precious stones. An
Empress Of Russia is allowed to borrow
from this room after giving a receipt
for what she takes, and generally the
Grand Duchesses are allowed to borrow
from it also. Il remember" says NJ.
Labouchere, '.once going into the room
with a French diplomatic lady. She
beat q hasty retreat after one glance
around, for she felt that. if she stayed.
her principles would succumb to her
admiration, and that she would try to
steal some of the contents"
At Harvard college, students consume
q great deal of milk and of bread, with
much oatmeal and cracked wheat for
breakfast. There is comparatively lit
lie coffee used. Oyster soup is a great
~favorite for dinner, requiring fourteen
gallons Of oysters for seventy-five gal
Ions of soup. Celery, too. is a favorite
at dinner, nearly three hundred punches
being used daily. The boys also like .
plenty of ice-cream and very many ap-
Piles and grapes, Beef-steak is largely
consumed at breakfast and roast beef at
dinner. Scrambled eggs disappear rap
idly at breakfast time.
There was considerable circumstan-
tial evidence that John Shufelt murder
ed his wife at North Egromont, Mass.
She disappeared very mysteriously, af-
ter living very %unhappily with him. A
track was found that looked as though
it had been made by dragging q body
from the house to a lake near by; an
old boat was discovered concealed in
some bushes, and it was believed that
Shufelt had sunk the remains in the
water. The lake was persistently drag
ged, but the oma was not produced.
and the husband was necessarily dis
charged from custody. Suspicion chung
10 him, however, only to be dispellcd
by the positive proof that Mrs. Shufelt
eloped, and is still living.
The census of Vermont, complete,
shows the population to be 332, 2S6,
which is less by {, 196 than was reported
some months ago. This takes away
more than half the supposed increase
in ten years. 1t now appears that the
gain from census to census was only
half Of l per cent. The number Of
males has increased more than twice Us
much as the number Of females, the
sexes being very evenly divided, rs
there are 991 females to every 1000
males. The native population has in
creased, and the foreign-born residents
have decreased. There are now less
than Al, ZOO foreigners in Vermont, or
only q little more than ~ per cent. The
colored people number but 1,04S, Of
whom eleven only are Indians and half
breeds.
A curious incident occurred in Paris
in the course of tho recent proceedings
against the religious orders. As the
commissary of police was about TO put
the seals on the doors of the Dominic
ans chapel. the superior, Father Jouin.
remarked to him that there were al
ready some seals on the doors. al beg
of you," he said, Monsieur 10 Commits
Saire. not to destroy those seals. They
are historical. being those which were
affixed by the men OF the commune In
1871. We have carefully preserved
them as o souvenir of those trying tines
I should be obliged If you would not de-
stroy them and place yours ON the side
Of them" M Dulac acceded 70 the do
sire. and the two soah are now side BY
side.
John Edward Gle, o graduate Of
Union College, married q Schenectady
girl, entered the ministry, became pas
tor OF a church on Long Island. He
started day to cross the sound in an
open boat. The craft was found cap
sized, and the clergyman was missing.
The belief was, of course, that be was
drowned. This happened in 1S49. The
widow married again, and now lives in
Schenectady as Mrs, Lyons. A recent
item told of a colporteur dying in q
barn at Niskayuna with 500, 600 in his
pocket. He turns out to be the long
lost husband of Mrs. Lyons. 1t is sup
posed that he wandered off while in
sane, and that when he returned, to
find his wife married again, he decided
not to disturb her. The money has not
been claimed.
1t is rare, writes a Paris correspond
ent, for French brides to shed tears;
but Mile. Samary, the actress, did, at
her recent marriage with NJ. Paul La
garde, the only son of a rich stock
broker. The pulpit stairs. and even tho
pulpit of the Madeleine, were filled NTH
pretty actresses, who crowded to see the
bride. She entered leaning on the arm
of her father, the violoncellist Samary.
and was beautifully dressed in ivory
satin and orange blossoms. Mile. Bar
retta,. in an opal blue and silver toilette,
was bridesmaid. None of the BRIDE
groom's family was present. In the
sacristy the whole company of the The
atre Francois defled before the bride,
whom the actresses embraced, and tho
actors saluted by kissing her hand.
By the departure of the Carthusians.
France will lose some $3.50, 900 a year
in the shape of license duties, which
the fathers paid on their celebrated
liquor manufactured in large quantities
at La Grange Charteuse, near Grenoblo.
The order at one time owned q vast
amount of property in Paris, in tho
neighborhood of the Luxembourg-a
property which, it is said, was obtaine,,
by a pious fraud not uncommon in Tie
middle ages. The monks having set
their hearts on the chateau of Vauvert,
that habitation at once became tho
abode Of COLLINS and demons, who SO
alarmed the proprietor that he disposed
of his residence for a mere trifle. The
property was purchased by the Carthu-
slams, who had little difficulty in getting
rid of the evil spirits.
Miss Eva Sothern, the beautiful daugh-