The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-05
FERsoxs AND THINGS.

So ihom 1icSh "oAu D
ing to shine.
General Grant has insured his lif,
for 500. 600.
General Butler is a communicate Of
the Episcopal church.
Archbishop Purcell is lying very low
at his residence near Cincinnati.
The postmaster general will hereafter
transact business with his Hatton.
And a few Blenders: The youth who
''sows wild oats" is apt to mix in more
or less tares.
A manufacturing concern advertises
that 1t has a separate room for girls
240 feet long.
At the recent election In Iowa not a
single democratic vote was cast in
Dickinson county.
One Portland Me- firm has put up
this a $780, 900 cans of sweet corn,
800 tons of which was shipped to the
west.
A pardon: Plump girls are said to
be going out of fashion. II this is true
the plumper the girl the simmer her
chances.
A son of the late Count Won Arnim,
Bismarck's foe. has been elected to the
Reichsrath by the progressists from q
district in Brandenburg.
Some artists in New York have COM
pleted for the king of Siam two large
oil portraits, from photographs forward
ed by the American consul.
The largest and finest turquoise in
the world is in the crown of the Rus
sian 1t was found in the mines
of New Mexico nearly two centuries
ago.
Mrs. Garfield has received another
very beautiful autograph letter from
Queen Victoria, filled with beautifully
worded expressions of womanly SYM
Rev. DIR. Talmage thinks that the
5-year-old children of to-day will live to
see the millennium. But what If the
5~.year-olds should pe~radventure. be
short-lived?
The town Of Peabody, Mass, boasts
the possession of two children named
Lynch having pink eyes and white hair,
and being able to see better at night
than in the daytime.
The silver plated ware used at the
white house has been placed in the
hands Of a silversmith to be put in or
der. One of the items is in gold plat
ing of 900 silver spoons.
Base SANDER: The report that the
French visitors to the Yorktown cen
tennial went into a railroad station res
taurant the other day and called for
railroad ''frogs" is an inirm contriv-
ance of the foe.
Mrs. S~cott-Siddons' temperance at
the Haymarket theater, London, COM
menced on the 26th of October, in the
part of Anne Boleyn in a new poetical
play, entitled "Queen and Cardinal"
written by MI. Raleigh.
Mr.. Gladstone gives this account of
himself: by blood 1 am a Scothman;
I am by residence a Londoner; 1 am by
marriage a Welshman; and l am by
birth a Lancashire man." That beats
our Mayor Carter H. Harrison.
Hairbreadth escape: "See therel" ex-
claimed a returned Irish soldier to a
gaping crowd, as he exhibited with
some pride his tall hat with a bullet
hole in it Look at that hole, will
your You see that if it had been a
low-crowned hat I should have been
killed outright
Many persons iron towels, fold them
and place them away before they are
thoroughly dry. This is an error, ant
sometimes leads to results not expected
In this damp condition there is a mold
which forms on them called ''oidium,'
mi variety of which causes a skin dis
eases known as ringworm.
The precarious tenure of the mush.
room towns that spring up in mining
regions during times of excitement Il
exempliAed in the history of Hamilton
New. During the White Pine excite
ment of 1868 it had a population o
thousands, two large daily newspaper
and all appearances of substantial pros
perity. To-day it barely counts a popu
lation of sixty.
This is the way q Vassar girl tells
joke: 20, girls! l heard the best thini
to-day. 1t "a too funny. 1 can't re-
member how it came about, but one o
the girls said to Professor Mitchell
oh, dearl 1t can't remember just wha
she said; but Professor Mitchell's an.
swer was too funny for anything; 1 for
get just exactly what he said, but l
was Just too good for anything!"
A good deal of excitement prevailed
at Toronto over the seizure by the Gus
toms authorities q few days since Of al
invoice Of Paine's Age of Reason ant
Voltaire's pocket theology, works which
have heretofore been freely admitted t,
the Dominion. Collector Patton al