The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-02
NEWS BREvITIEs.


King Louis. of Bavaria, is building a
$40, 900. 900 palace on an island in Lake
Herrensheim, and is to add a theater in
which the actors will live as well as
play.
A son of the late Chief Justice John
Marshall of the United States Supreme
Court, is a clerk in the Pension Bureau
at Washington. He is a lively youth of
over eighty Summers,
A French author is getting up a roll
OF honor of a hundred of the worlds
greatest men. He allows only three TO
the United States. and these are Wash
ington, Franklin and jefferson.
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, the late
Lord Mayor of London, entertained
1900 visitors during his years of Of
tice, ct breakfasts. luncheons and din
ners, and 5000 others at receptions,
Conversations and the like.
A silly adventurer, who has more
check than brains. named Frederick
Gregory Forsyth name that has i
very aristoeratic air about it's report
ed TO be organizing the Order of Ar
yam Americans" in this country for the
purpose of establishing nobility.
1t is proposed to erect a memorial
TO William Caxton. England's first prin-
ter. in the shape of a stained-glass win
dow in the Church of st. Margaret.
Westminster. The spot is appropriate.
for it is close by where Caxton set up
his printing press.
The appointment of constable at the
Tower of London. vacant by the death
Of Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke,
dates from the time of the Norman con-
guest, the first constable, Godfrey de
Vaudeville, having been appointed by
William the Conqueror.
The sum of e. 800 was offered 10.
and refused by, the owner of a ram ex-
hibited at the sheep show OF the Austria
liam Sheep-Breeder's association, held
at Melbourne, where many other valu-
able stud merinos were exhibited, the
aggregate worth of which amounted to
several thousand pounds. The animal
in question was bred by Mr.. W.. Cum
ming, who paid f900 for its sire.
In the grand mosque at Algiers, the
Cadi Ben Turquala, when about to take
his seat, was rushed upon by a dis
charged native soldier, against whom he
had decided a lawsuit, and received
two blows in the face with a knife. Ben
Turquala made his escape into another
part of the building, pursued by his as
sailant, who struck u second cadi but
was Immediately arrested.
One morning recently a splendid
seven-antlered stag was seen TO walk
down from the duke of Hamilton's for
est in Arran to the sea-shore. He then
walked into the water, and swan di-
rect for Holy island, a distance of near
ly two miles. Although the sea was
somewhat rough. he succeeded in reach
ing his destination, in spite of the eff
forts of some men in a four-oared boat,
who failed to overtakc him.
There lived in Auburn Me-, saws The
Lewiston journal, two brothers, whose
parents reside in Casco. They have
fourteen children, and, as soon as one
leaves the old roof-trec, they pick up
some homeless boy to keep the number
good. SO that every year the family
consumes twenty barrels of flour. When
the consumption of flour fall of, the
good folks call in reinforcements from
he neglected juvenile world.
Two young ladies, Mile, de Thanh
berg and Mile. de Ia Chevardiere, went
with friends to n Paris theatre, and it
was arranged that Mile. de Thannberg
should sleep at the house of Nine. de Ia
C~hevardiere, instead Of going to her
own home. A stove had been lighted
in the room Of one of tho young ladies,
Which opened into that which her friend
was to occupy. They retired in good
health and spirits. but the next morn
ing when the maid entered their room
with their chocolate they were found
in their beds dead. They had been
asphy ed by the carbonie acid gas
rom stove
This is how, that lively paper, The
London World, views that lively move
ment, the Irish revolt: $50 the Cold
roam guards are to reappear in Dub
lin! Doubtless the fair jewellers on the
banks of the Lifey will rejoice more
than the officers themselves, but we
lust hope to see them at the end OF
their campaign with hearts unscathed
by bullets OF blue eyes. Lively and ten
der "reminiscences are still cherished Of
the great fancy ball given in the Exhi-
bition hall by this regiment upon their
departure from Ireland some eve years
ago."
The colossal crane at Woolwich,
England, which has been upward OF
four years in process of erection, and
is the most powerful in the world, has
now assumed a definite shape in the
operation of fixing the great girder.
The immensely of the work is illustrat-
ed by the weight of the iron employed
in its construction; which, in the ag.
gregate, exceeds eighteen hundred tons,
while the brass bearings alone amonni
to more than three tons. When com.
pleted the iran will be capable Of lift.
ing three or four one-hundred-ton guns
at nee
AMr. Briggs, of New York, has sub
mitted q novel plan for having the
terminal point for all foreign-bound
freight changed from New York and
New Jersey to Sandy Hook. 1t seem.
there is a place Just outside of Sandy
Hook where the location is favorable tc
making a shipping port. On a straight
line from q station on the Pennsylvania
railroad the distance is about forty miles
less than by the way of New York city
for freights that come from tho west OF
southwest and are consigned to Euro
pean and other foreign ports, and there
is ample water there for the larges'
vessels. 1t is within the port of New
York, SO no extra port of entry need b,
formed.
Sir John Lubbock has made q discov
cry which may turn out of some import
ance to our Western farmers. In tn,
neighborhood of the site Of ancien
Troy, Sir John has come across a beetl,
whose mission IL seams tn be IN da