The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-07
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1t Is asserted that $50 out of 600 odd
members of the British House of Com
mons are in favor Of establishment of
the Church Of England.
The Duke of Westminster is the
richest man in England. owning acres
of ground in London. He was raised
10 his present title by Mr.. Gladstone.
Commander Cameron. the African
explorer, Is in Constantinople. trying
toIget . concession for a railroad from
Jaffra to Jerusalem.
The Nevada legislature is disposed to
strike for cheaper prayers. the c~haplain's
salary of IS for ten minutes daily SER
vice being considered too high.
A clever toy Of this season In London
is the musical top. 1t is spun in the or
binary way. and. while spinning. plays
airs accurately and melodiously.
A narrow guage railroad is to be
built from Chattanooga. Tenn. to the
top Of Lookout mountain. and a hotel
to accommodate one thousand guests
will be built on the top of the mountain.
A learned physician finds that the
figure on the crucifix in Burgos cathe-
dral is a human body in a perfect state
of preservation. 1t is said to have been
there since the eleventh century.
California's funded county debts are
20. 673, 724 and the floating debts ST.
759, 675-grand total, Gil, 433, 599. The
total value of the property owned by all
the counties is estimated at $1S, $780,
236.
A correspondent, writing from Japan,
says the ceilings there r made of pa
per, so that IL one of them fall down
on . man while he is sleeping he only
feels IS II he was having a piece of
court plaster put on.
There Is q lively demand for good
cooks and house girls in New Orleans,
such help finding more profitable en-
ployment in the tobacco, cotton, and
other factories which are rapidly in
creasing in number.
Allentown, Pa, rejoices in the posses
sion Of . baby that was born with teeth.
Two well-developed teeth appeared in
each jaw the day after its birth, and
other milk" teeth show evidence of
soon coming to the surface.
There IN now six electric light COM
panies in New York, the Brush, Edison,
Maxim. Sawyer, Fuller, and Jablochoff.
The Brush company seems to be best
organized, for it is in running order,
with . capital Of 500, 900.
The project of an elevated railroad
in Boston Is hindered by the great cos
of . right of way. The city will not
give up . street without o provision for
full compensation to property owners.
Tho same view of the question is taken
in st. Louis.
Edward Richardson, Of New Orleans,
Ia called there the cotton king Of
America. He Is said TO be worth $15,-
600, 900. He owns ten or twelve cotton
plantations, on which some fifteen to
twenty thousand bales of cotton are
grown each year.
Hay Is selling in San Juan county,
Col. for $500 per ton. That is pretty
well up, but is still far behind what was
seen on the Comstock lode in the early
days, when hay brought twenty-five
cents and green grass ten cents q
hi. Charles II. Northern, who lost q
leg on the Grand Trunk railroad sever
al years ago, has just been paid $47,-
557 damages. This is said to be the
largest sum ever recovered from a rail-
road corporation in a suit for personal
damages.
A Portland, Oregon, correspondent
hunted up Joaquin Miller's first wife.
now married to Thomas E. L. Logan,
q house painter, and found her living
in q very uncomfortable board house,
which shook and trembled with every
fitful gust Of the wind. Mrs. Logan is
perhaps IS years of age. of medium
height, blue eyes. and . perfect wilder
ness of tho blacklist hair, seeming al
most to shadow the thin and wasted
face beneath it. Her health is far from
good. being greatly affected by the alb
senco of her Laughter, whom JOAQUIN
removed TO !. -iyent in Canada Q year
more since.
Two Of the Oldest baronetcies in
Scotland. that of Hay of Haystoun,
created 1885, and Napier of Napier.
1927, are about to be connected by the
marriage of Miss Napier daughter of
Sir Robert Napier, to Capt. John Hay,
Of Haystoun, by his wife, Miss Duncan,
of Providence, r. l.
1t is officially stated that 1913, 15G, 794
acres OF land have been granted by the
United States for rail and wagon roads.
1t would make 1,23S, 536 farms of 100
acres each, and its area is greater han
that of the five States Of Indiana, Illi-
nois. Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. Its
value at 50 per acre would be 1896, $751;
588.
The Sultan has discovered that the
ex-Khedive. while protesting that he al
ways recognized and still venerates the
caliphate of the Sultan, is in fact in
triguing against him. and supporting n
paper, extensively circulated in all
countries where Arabic is spoken, ridi-
culing the Sultan's pretenfions 20 the
caliphate. The ex-Khedive asserts that
the Sultan has by p%ronouncing his de-
position, compelled him, contrary To
the injunctions of the sacred law, to
live in exile beyond the limits of the
Mohammedan world, and that, in con
sequence, some of his household haze
been corrupted by Christian Influence;
into abjuring their faith A
OF late the question of tattooing has
been revived in the British army 10 acl
rs q check against desertion and pre-
vent the reenlistment of bad characters.
Some time ago, when the desertions
were at tile rate Of five thousand a year,
Gone artilleryman had enlisted and sold
his kit eleven times in two years before
he was detected), Sir James f. Alexan-
der submitted to the Horse Guards a
small instrument, with a spring, to tat-
too instantaneously, and with hardly
any pain, . man above the left wrist.
India ink rubbed on the p%unctures left
the impression Of o neat, small queens
in blue, the size Of q sixpence.
and indelible.
The finest of job work done at this
office.
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