The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-27
NEWS BREvITIEs

freight to pay.
The Lutheran synod of Nebraska had,
n 1871, only six ministers 1t has now
| tw~enty-four ministers, thirty congrega-
| lions, and twelve hundred and twenty
aine communicates.
Marion county, Georgia, has a hogs
leg with the usual cloyen hoofs and two
smaller hoofs above, and a second leg
| about the size of a mans thumb grown
out just below the knee-joint.
One of the sons of Gen. Houston is
low entering upon the life of his father.
| which will be a complete and reliable
history, compiled from authentic papers
n possession of the family.
The late Herr Isidor Kraft, of Berlin,
y wealthy phi~lanthropist, has left half
+ his fortune Of 1000 marks to be ex-
ended in the foundation of a fund for
lie assistance of poor needle-women.
Salmon fishing on Columbia river,
Oregon, is very dangerous, owing to
certain tidal peculiarities. Two hum
| dred men, at least, are reported as lost
Turing tho past season.
The manufacture of barbed wire
.rnclng has increased from 10000
| pounds in 1874 TO p, 337, 600 pounds in
/ 1879, and it is estimated that in 1880
| The production reached $4,000, 900
| pounds.
To show how the petroleum trade has
decreased and prospered compare the
exported product of 1S62-3-155.87 4
| e~allons, valued at s27, sS0-with that of
lS79-S0-435, 7s5, 796 gallons, worth
s37. los. 2ss.
Notwithstanding the persecution of
| the Jews in Germany, it is said that
impecunious young German noblemen
| with '.many ancestors and more debts
| continue to seek the hands of wealthy
Dung Jewish maidens in marriage.
Miss Jennie Hogan is creating some
| what Of Z sensation in Washington as
an inspirational poet. She halls from
Vermont, is a brunette Of ordinary
height, small features, and a face with
Il bright expression, though she is not
pretty.
President Grevy, Of the French repub-
lie. has established in his study a tele-
phone apparatus, by which he has in
tantaneous communication with the
president of the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies and all of the members of the
Cabinet.
Col. VIM. G. Gordon. of Chester
vile, o., is said to be 113 years old and
still a comparatively strong and active
man. He is wealthy, and manages his
own business affairs. In his youth he
served in the British army and says that
he knew Napoleon l. +
Sugar-cane growers and planters in
Illinois claim that all the sugar con-
sumed in that State, could DO raised
| within her borders at the same cost now
given and besides create a new and
profitable industry. $40, 600, 900 worth
is consumed in Illinois annually.
M. f. Weiss. at a session of q foreign
Industrial society, advanced the curious
idea that the %corrosion of steam boilers
is due to the action of ozone, which no
thinks is generated by electrical action,
resulting from the violent impulse Of
steam againss the upper portion of tho
boiler.
The Michigan Salt association has
tried the experiment Of shipping salt in
sacks to the South with success. The
southern market has hitherto been sup
piled with the English article, but the
great satisfaction expressed with tie
Michigan product, promises q large de-
yelopment of the trade in that direc-
ton.
Maggie A. Burke, whose case attract
ed wide spread attention in 1874 as that
of q person miraculously cured by drink
ing water from Lourdcs. died recent
ly. She injured her spine by q fall, and
physicians could afford her no relief.
She then resorted to prayer and the
miraculous water. and Immediately
arose from her bed. During several
years she continued to improve. but AZ
terward had . relapse The water was
used again. but without effect
A new variety Of silk-worm has been
discovered in Nevada. 1t is much
harder than the old kind and feeds on
oak leaves instead of mulberry. The
silk is of stronger fibre and instead of
eating q hole through the cocoon thus
breaking the threads, this new worm
pushes against the ibres not injuring
the cocoon in the least.
In the great flour-mills at Mime
apolis, mill-stones are becoming a thing
of the past. Hungarian steel rollers tax
ing their place. By the new process of
cracking instead of grinding the wheat,
the germ of the grain, which is a waxy
substance and tends to make flour dark.
is carried of with the hulls instead of
being incorporated in the flour.
A man at Greenville, s.. c., made
reckless by drink, made q wager that
he could ride his horse across q railroad
track, several hundred yards distant,
ahead of an approaching train. South
ern locomotives are p~roverbially slow.
| but this one beat the horse, and the rider
was killed.
Two physicians in a Toledo murder
| trial were asked whether the wounds,
which they had already described, were
the cause of death. They refused to
answer, on the ground that such would
be expert testimony, for which they
would receive no compensation. Judge
Rouse sustained them.
The British Quarterly makes the re-
markable statement that the number of
Erecorded deaths from starvation, dur
ing the East Indian famine, actually
fell below that of ordinary years. Dur
ing the worst of the crisis more than
four million people were saved from
tarvation at a cost of about $3O,OOO,O 600
10 the state.
Robert johnson, a colored man. aged
81 wears. was found on Gap Hill, Lam
caster, Pa, so nearly frozen that his
leath is expected. When he was taken
10 Lancaster il was found that the skin
had peeled from portions of his body.
and that his feet had been split by the
intense cold. The old man lived alone
in a cabin on the hill.
Land has not been so cheap in Cali
fornia within many years rs it is at
present. Some Of the very best land
in Napa Valiey-and there is hardly
my finer or more beautifully situated
and anywhere is nos offered ut about
80 an acre. Land not far far from
,fenlo Park, which was ten years ago
old for $500 an acre, was lately sold