The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-12
MINOR MENTION.
News is scarce, and no mistake.


thing but meek.
The Rio Grande road has ordered
sixty new coaches.
Foreman Deitriek has an interesting
card in another column.
Twenty more furnaces are to be added
to the Denver rolling mill.
1t will cost $50, 900 to ..plantn the
electric light apparatus in Denver.
Smelters can be worked economically
in North Park, owing TO the abundance
o coal.
Highest temperature yesterday, 15o;
lowest temperature, so. Highest We
locity of wind, II miles per hour.
The wires took another tumble last
night in Iowa and Kansas, and our tel
eeraphic report is not Is full as usual.
There was a very pleasant private
hop given at the Inter Ocean hotel last
evening. About thirty couples were
present.
When a fellows girl treats him SO
coolly that he has to wear his ulster In
the parlor, it is time he was looking up
another girl.
The scull ace between Hanlan and
Laysock will be rowed ON the Thames
on Monday next. Betting is five to two
in favor of the Canadian.
Fred Post, the well known engineer,
came in with twelve car loads of pota-
toes yesterday bound for Denver. They
must be hungry down there.
1t has been ascertained by a philo-
sophical young man who dispenses val
entines and ''such like" ON Eddy
street, that a cat howls loudest when
happiest.
TheMasonic temple will soon be free
from debt. S~ince-last December 81, $50
worth Of bonds have been cancelled.
This is encouraging to opera house
schemers.
There is an epidemic of new store
clothes in tho county clerks office.
Judge Bergman is likely to be affected
next, and Assessor Chanin will possibly
follow after.
The latest design in carriage whips
is shaped like an ordinary walking cane,
ard is used as such, but when the parts
are separated, a whalebonc whip about
six feet long appears.
The damages TO the telegraph wires
this winter, will move inventors to sug-
gest some cheap method of planting
them 80 that storms and SHOWS will not
interfere with business.
There is Chicago in Cheyenne and
a Cheyenne in Chicago. Rather a pc
culiar style OF designating localities.
But which city is most remarkable ac-
cording To its nge, health and virtue?
Passenger traffic yesterday: No. 3, IL
Cheyenne 80 Colorado, 40 through; No.
4, . Cheyenne, @ Colorado. II through;
q. o., 6 Cheyenne, 8 east, 9
west; ID. p, A Cheyenne, 0 east, 2
west.
We have often heard Of persons TAX
ing iron for the benefit of the system.
The Union Pacific system took the big
| gest dose Of iron ever known and is in
consequence the healthiest system In
the country.
In conversation with n prominent
stockgrower yesterday he said. that
the losses, this winter would
be larger than most Of the growers are
willing to admit Of just now, but still
the profit in the business this year will
be fair.
Eggs is eggs' this winter. Fresh,
good-sized ones command from fifty to
seyenty-five cents per dozen with the
chances, unless the weather becomes
milder, of a material advance. Ice re-
mains about as last quoted, although
| the snow has been falling.
People are not generally aware that
a medium sized stove is placed in every
freight car in which potatoes and SINH
lar perishable vegetables are brought to
us. This is mi a of our having
to pay a higher price for such goods out
west. But why could not our dealers
lay in asupply in the fallY
Cigars, or tobacco in other shapes,
are not really injurious If used moder-
ately. Many long-lived persons have
INDUCED in the use of this vegetable
and still lived beyond the allotted
years. A man aged 81 died in Penn
~sylvania the other day, and he might
have lived longer had he not been cut
off in his prime by the use of tobacco
a habit which lie acquired at the age
of nine years.