The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-15
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husband and wife, at Youngstown, o.
Learning that they were to be prosecu-
ted, they have fed together.
Some cigars fifty-two years old, which
have lain most of the time in a garnet,
forgotten, have been brought to light in
Rochester. They were almost taste
less.
There is a domestic cat at Hartford,
Conn, which weighs twenty-seyen and
q hall pounds, and its owners assert
that it is the largest animal of the kind
in the world.
So many people commit suicide by
jumping off the three bridges across the
1iber, at Rome, that a philanthropical
society keeps boatmen at each bridge in
order TO rescue the unfortunate.
At the gambling establishment of
Monte earle the police have strict or
ders to search the grounds every night
for the bodies of suicides, and TO re-
move them as quickly as possible. that
visitors may not be shocked by discov-
ering the remains.
Billy Forrest has written for insley's
Magazine a sketch Of a sailor who in
1878 jumped from the steamer Russia
and tried to save a boy, being almost
drowned himself. The sailor afterward
became famous as Webb, the swimmer.
The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail
road company are adding five hundred
and twenty-eight cars of various grades
to equipments, and eleven locomotives.
five of which nave been received. The
aggregate cost of this rolling stock is
$426, 400.
1t is proposed to rule out a large class
that cumbers the reading-room of the
British museum, to the inconvenience
of students, by cutting off the supply of
new fiction. The suggestion is to with
hold works of fiction until three years
after publication
The mount of money invested in
manufacturing enterprises in New Jer-
sey is about $S9, 000. 600, acapital which
employs seventy-five thousand persons.
thirteen thousand being engaged in the
manufacture of silk in Paterson. The
horsepower which runs the machinery
is estimated at fifty thousand.
A short time ago the postal authori-
ties at Vienna were startled by the re-
ceipt of letter addressed to her royal
and imperial highness Maria Theresa.
who died in 1880. The letter might
have been written by Rip Van Wrinkle.
and was one hundred years too late
1t was returned to the sender marked
.'dead:''
The luck of the Beresfords is proven.
bal. 1t r. not SO long ago that Lord
William, ssTlundi Beresford," as he Is
called, bought the Bend Or ticket in the
celebrated Umballah sweep, realizing
thereby some f10, 900 or E12, 900.
More recently he purchased half the
share of Robert the Devil for the St
Leger in this same Umballah specula-
ton. and as the sweep was worth be-
tween $4,000 and e., 900, the result
was another remarkable success.
The other day the Paris police arrest
ed q man who was running about on
the banks of the Seine in a state of abb
solute nudity. On being taken to the
station-house and supplied with cloth
ing. he told the following tale: He had
made up his mind to drown himself, SO.
proceeding to the bank of the river, he
undressed himself, rolled his clothes up
into a bundle, threw them into the river.
and then waded in himself. But the
water was cold, and, as he lamentingly
said, at gave him a contraction OF
the stomach" so he waded out again.
But his clothes were ut the bottom OF
the Seine, if he was not, and so he was
obliged to wait, hGlf-frozen and very
much addressed, until he fell into the
stern clutches of the guardians of the
peace. Greatly to his surprise he found
that he had made himself amenable to
the law by his abortive attempt at felo
de sc, or rather by his preparations for
the event, and that a fine and a term Of
imprisonment would BIO the penalty for
drowning his clothes before he drowned
himself. Moral-Never begin any i'm
portant piece of business at the wrong
end.
Competition continues for IN award
Of the contract for the 81, 800, 900 monu-
ment which Italy proposes to erect to
the memory of Victor Emmanuel the
first king Of Italy. There is no limit
placed on the inventions of the Compel
itors as to conception, style, site, or in
any other way. The plans and models
must be Submitted before the Esd of
September, 1881, and before judgment
Is passed they will be publicly exhib-.
tied. Prizes of $40, 900, $4,000 and S4,-
900 will be given for the three best de-
signs.
Godin, q Paris iron-master, has COM
bined community of work and the CO.
operative store in O palais social, he
founded at Guise, neal Compeignc, in
1860. Godin makes his workmen asso-
ciates in his business, giving them 20
per cent of the net profit, and houses
his whole community of twelve hum
dred persons in q large mansion OF
three wings, each four stories high.
There are extensive gounds and gard
ems, q hospital and q store where every
thing of the first quality a be had at
nearly cost prices. The factory also
employees women, suiting the hours to
those caring for children; takes the
boys as apprentices when they leave
school, and boards and lodges the aged
and incapacitated for the good they
have done.
Olive Logan writes to The Philadel-
phia Times that the death of the late
British Lord Chief Justice Thesiger was
due to q singular cause. When he was
a child two years old he had scarlet
fever, which was followed by infiam-
nation of the left ear. BE was deal in
thesaffected ear more or less all his life,
and three or four years ago he consult
ed DIR. Dalby, a prominent PHYSICIAN
who found perforation of the tympanic
membrane and advised artificial pro-
lection. A few weeks ago the chief
justice was bathing in q rather rough
sea, when he was knocked on the left
ear by a heavy ave Intense pain
o followed, coupled with stiffness of
the neck, which indicated that inflam-
nation had extended along the internal
passages. Tho best medical and sur
gical talent was summoned, but moth
ing could ave him.
The other day the door Of the police
clerks room in Montreal slowly opened
and q man renowned in sporting cir