The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-25
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"A Deautiful french girl at . fancy
bazaar in Paris demanded fiftesn louis
for . kiss. Fifteen wealthy gentlemen
would moi accept the offer, even
BY chipping in and drawing lots for the
honor. Finally the Countess Pourteles
paid the money and took the kiss.
A machine has been brought to the
attention of the French Academy Of
Sciences which is capable of raising
water TO . height previously unattain-
able by . rotary machine. 1t is the in
vention Of M de Romilly. and . labor
atory model worked by hand projected
water to . height of five hundred feet.
Miss Proudfeet Is . belle Of southern
Kansas, and her beauty is such that she
had crowds Of admirers. Latterly the
beaux have summed her company,
from the fact that three OF her suitors
have received gun-shot wounds while
paying her attentions. Its not known
who the assassin is. but he is supposed
to be somebody who. being unable to
secure the prize himself. is determined
that nobody else should do SO.
The anti-French agitation in Italy
has aroused the somewhat astonished
attention Of Frenchmen to the great
number Of Italians inhabiting France.
The floating population of Italians in
Paris amounts to the large total of,
fifty thousand. The other cities in
which they warm are Lyons. Marseil-
les. Toulon. Mines, and Besancon. One
sees little Of them in other places; but
where Italians assemble they cluster
thick and live together.
Mr.. Cover. aLondon milliner, was
lately fined S94 so for employing work
people after 4 on Saturday, which Is
against the law there. Three of the
workers pleaded that they were on
piecework. and thought they were en-
titledto go on. The justice said ..No."'
The act was passed to obyiate ssWork,
work. work. from weary chime; work,
work. work, as prisoners work for
crime" etc.
1t is a fashionable fancy in Paris to
have dessert wines slipped into satin
cacho-bouteilles, the corks Of which are
heads, with the hair dressed in the
fashion of the country whence the wine
is produced Alicante is in q pink!
satin bottle, aud the cork or stopper Is
. Spanish girl with high comb. Port
wine Is in q garnet or ruby satin, with
an Oporto beauty for its stopper, and
she holds . fan in her hand. Paiarete
wine Is In q sulphur-colored bottle of
satin. with q bull-ighter cork, etc.
Modern materialism will mako q
striking conquest If the plan to build .
railroad from Choggia across the la
goon to Venice Is successful. 1t will
involve the filing up of . number of
canals along the route. the tearing down
OF some famous buildings, and . radical
change in the traditional character Of
the place. 1t may be. however, that
Ruskin will be allowed to depart with
out seeing this evil. as just at present
the municipality is too poor to UNDER
take such q work.
The project of police has issued Q
series OF instructions to the
Of theatres in Paris, prescribing the
precautions which they must adopt
against fire. In the first place, they arc
TO have oil lamps in the theatre itself
and In all the passages, SO that II the
gas happens to go out the audience
may not be left In darkness. The stage
scenery is to be made of non-infiam-
mabls materials, and the apertures of
the heating apparatus are to be five
inches above the level Of the floor and
to be covered with perforated zinc caps.
In the third place, all the side-stalls arc
to be removed, 30 as to leave q clear
space of over three feet on each side of
the theatre. This clause Is likely to
excite much discomfort among the man
ayers, for it Is estimated that it will en-
tail . loss of Se per night when the
house is full. Their contention is that
II this clause is insisted on they are en-
titled to some compensation, as in taxi
ing . lease of their different theatres
they calculated upon being able to seat
so many people. The fourth clause Is
that all doors are to be kept ready for
opening, with aplacard oh each stating
whether it opens inward or outward.