The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-24
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will goes to probate.
A Danbury man, detained by a snow
blockade, telegraphed: my dear sir, ]
have every motive for visiting you ex
cept a locomotive"
A Harlem man telegraphed TO his
firm in New York: 81 shall not be in
the Office to-day as l have not got home
yesterday YETI
Washington Capital: Bernhardt says
that she loves journalists. We always
knew that, with all her faults, that
woman had good taste.
By his last marriage, John r. Ray
mond (Col. Sellers) becomes the son-in-
law Of Col. George Butler. the well
known correspondent.
The only wearers of bangles at pres
ent are women who have sewed a new
pair of two-buttoned kid gloves ON the
partly worn wrists of six-buttoned
gloves, and use the bangles to conceal
the crime.
He didn't swear when he arrived at
the depot. out of breath, as the train
moved out at the other end, but he
thought unutterable things of the man
who made the proverb: "Better late
than never"
AS the girls have taken to wearing
Gainsborough hats, gentlemen should
adopt the Rubens style Of thing. 1t IL
large, dappy, and a be furled in a
gale of wind; besides, 1t looks so duced
noble and aesthetic.
Tennessee is noted for two things
Liberality in ~lynching negroes on sus-
picion, and a suspicious carefulness
about paying its state debt. Between
the two 1t ~pendulates between barbar-
ism and truculency.
Teacher: "Did l not tell you to be
prepared with your history lesson2 And
here you are unable TO repeat a word
Of it.n Scholar: 81 didn't think it
was necessary, sir; I've always heard
lhot hiSsoiy hcPoaIo ilooii.
A Milwaukee couple could not agree
on q name for their first born. So six
names were put into a hat, and a regu-
lar rattle resulted. The one drawn was
"Endymion Garfield" and this the
little innocent was baptized.
The Chicago Mter- Ocean says that
people do not realize how many great
men are lying around loose until an
emergency like the present arises. The
Inter Ocean neglects to say how many
great men are lying around tight.
1t is pretty well settled by scientific
medical men that persons who haye
reached the age when their faces pre-
sent the corrugated expression of a cold
baked apple, rarely die of apoplexy or
any disease other than Of old age.
In Syracuse q number of gentlemen
and ladies have a social club which is
known as the rs. and b." society,
which, the Binghamton Republican
says: probably means Syracuse and
Binghamton. And then again it may
refer to soda and brandy.
Playful witness in an abusive Ian
guage case: 81 grabbed him by the
back Of the neck and the seat of his
pants, and swept off about ten feet
square Of the muddy pavement with his
nice suit Of clothes-but 1 never said
an ~unbecoming word to him, judge"
They have not dug up any original
steamers at Nineveh, 80 far; but some
one has dug out a story that a Spanish
engineer named Garay did actually fit
up a vessel and run her with steam
power in the port of Barcelons, Spain,
one fine Sunday, June 18th, 1543. Now
what has Watt to say to that.
A theater-goer wishes us to say:
"Homely women look the best in big
hats, and the pretty ones are made to
look still more piquant and charming
by neat little bonnets that do not oh.
struct the view Of the fellow behind
the wearers."
The canary had begun to twitter a
little after moulting, but vas unable to
sing his entire tune. The little four
year old, after listening to n of the
birds vain attempts to master his tune,
said very composedly: mamma, birdie
only sang half a verse;
making a call the other day.
writes a fair correspondent, 81 casually
opened a bible on the drawing-room
table while waiting for my friend
There was a folded piece Of paper in.
side, and it was marked, l couldn't
help seeing it: Recipe for punches.
My friend entered at the moment and ]
handed 1t to her. Why, where in the
world did you get that?' she asked
I've been looking for it for six
months.
The wedding dress Of Princess Vic
toria, who was married to Queen Vic.
toria's eldest grandson on February
2Yth-and on q Sunday, too, Of all the
days in the weeks Of rich silver bro
caded satin, with a train four and one
half yards long, and trimmed with bou
quets and trails of orange blossom and
myrtle. The petticoat is of white satir
duchesse,, trimmed with Honiton lace
the gift of her majesty.
A French chemist 10 said to hav,