The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-10
NEWS BREvITIEs.

Elliot. says her "chief works were 'DaVid
Deunda' and 'Helen's Babies"
A wildcat appeared in tho streets OF
C~asiine, Nc, tho other day. frighten-
ing TIE people. but vas driven into the
river and captured.
There arc said TO have been about
$50 divorces grantedin Maine last year,
or TO every twelve marriages. FIX
act returns from five counties show 223.
Josephine Iturbide, daughter of the
former Mexican emperor, is to receive
from the present republican govern
mcnt a pension of $40.000 a year.
Bee culture is becoming a profitable
industry in Texas. especially in the
Brazos and Colorado valleys, where
quito n number of enterprising men
have found that 1t pays vastly more
dian cotton raising.
A rattlcsnake which was caught last
summer in n harvest field fifteen miles
south of Chatham. Ont, is still on exhi-
bition at local drug store. 1t has eaten
nothing for five months, but seems fat
and healthy.
The last two members of a family
were burned TO death in Dorchester,
2hbross itItutiN- inth biOiiti was
killed before Vicksburg, their father
was drowned. and their only sister was
burned to death some months ago.
The material used for decorating
ladies' rubber over-gaiters with fancy
colored designs is made from the tail
of the moose, and the secret of coloring
it so hat it will stand the heat Of
manufacture belongs to the Canadian
Indians. A.;
Gambetta, the other day, in address,
ing the university students in Paris.
declared Auguste Comte the greatest
thinker Of the age. and went on to con-
graduate his hearers on having aban-
doned the spiritual view of things for
positive science.
A Russian sailor, named Ivanhoff, on
board the frigate Edinburgh, in Cher
bourg harbor, having struck an officer.
vas sentenced to death, taken three
miles out to sen, in order to be beyond
French jurisdiction, and hanged to the
yard-arm. ,
A man named Robinson. Of Grifiin's
Corners, Duchess county, N. Y, while
taking care Of his stock recently no.
ticed that one Of his cows appeared I'M
easy, and, upon examination, found n
large weasel hanging to the cows neck
and sucking her blood.
DIR. Carson. of. Leechburg. Penn,
while attending a severe case Of diph-
iberia. is said to have received some Of
the virus on a sore spot on his hand,
and to have died a day or two after
ward in consequence. The bad effects
were felt within two hours of the inocu-
lation.
Nine. Geistinger, the actress from
Vienna, Is said TO be pretty, buxom,
graceful, sprightly, and vivacious. She
Is said to be m extremely accomplished
woman, and one feels in seeing her as
in seeing Capoul-as II she had des-
cended a step in playing opera bouffe.
Mime. Albani. who retired from the
operate stage ut the age Of Sc in order.
as she said, that the public should not
witness the decline Of her powers, was
recently induced to reappear in Paris,
when she astonished even the critics by
tho freshness Of her voice and splendid
vocalization.
The home of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
at Gloucester Mass, is a brown, two
story cottage. 1t is filed with remem-
brances Of her friends, and with books
and pictures. Hero the author Of 'sThe
Gates Ajar'' spends her quiet, invalid
days with all the calmness Of the summer
sea-
Tho rage for forgeries still continues
in Spain. A million Of false coupons
Of government bonds have been manu-
featured, and the latest news Is that
the painter Meissonier Is made to sail
under false colors. The forged picture
o mounted sentinel on the
top Of q hill. His horse, however. Is 80
warped as to seriously disturb the nor
NAL reciprocity of acionin the fore and
hind lcrs-
Worth, rs o general rule 1t Is said,
makes no charge for Innings. Lately.
however. he departed from his custom
by requiring payment for the fur lining
of q cloak he made. The fur used was
Russian sable, and tho charge was
$4,000.
Tho official report of the United
States local inspector Of steam vesseli
for the district of Superior shows thai
during last season 1909 passengers
were carried on steamers in that district
without loss of life. and only one wreck
occurred. This is a remarkable show.
ing for Lake Superior.
A Cambridge (Aiass.) letter says tn al
dancingi is q rare diversion In that place,
excepting for young girls and under.
graduates. A Methodist preacher. who
looked on at a small dancing party at q
house in Cambridge. observed with sec.
tartan humor that the young women
went through their quadrilles and walt
yes as gray6ly as II they were '.undei
conviction"