The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-16
NEWS BRsvrr1Es.

man in Indiana, Pa.
Celia Logan on Anna Dickinson:
She wan to be an actor and with the
actors stand; q pair of tights upon her
Yorick's skull within her hand.n
Mr.. 7. A. Carnegie. of Pittsburg, Pa.
IS about establishing q free library for
the benefit Of his employees. The build
ing viii cost go. 900 and he viii put in
1000 volumes.
III. Droz. the new President Of the
Swiss Confederation, who is only 81
years old. was the sol of q workman,
and has attained by private study q
high degree of literary culture.
Hon. A. II. Stephens is very popular
in Washington. and is rarely alone.
Young and old are fond of calling on
him. and daily, except Sunday, be en-
Joys a game of whist with friends.
The book Of the General Presbyterian
Council, just issued in Philadelphia,
gives the number of the Presbyterians
In the world a about 5000, 900 COM
municants and about II. 600, 600 adher-
ents to the several Presbyterian bod cs.
A woman in Maine attempting to talk
through . telephone for the first time,
exclaimed. 'How do you doP and then
dropped into . chair, protesting that
'she could not say another word; she
telt As IL she had been talking to o
ghost"
There is In Edinburgh, Scotland. a
Sunday Science School, attended, from
November TO July Of last year, by an
average of sixty pupils out Of an en-
rolled number of n~inety-two artisan
and other youths who could not, ow-
ing to prolonged business hours, attend
evening Glasses on week days.
A Louisville mother did not like the
young man to whom her pretty daugh-
ter was engaged, and arming herself
with = pistol started out to shoot him.
She fred two shots It short range and
scared him badly. but did not hurt him.
pnd the daughter says she win marry
him even II she has-to elope to do so.
Gen. Raillton. the 5-foot commander
of the Salvation Army, stepped of at
Halifax from the steamer in which he
had started from Europe, and failed to
ret back aboard in time. Being thus
left in Halifax. he declared that Prov
ldence had SO ordered it for the saliva
lion of the city. He undertook the job
vt once. but the hooting and missiles of
> mob compelled him to stop.
Woman's suffrage propositions have
beer defeated this year by the legisla-
lures of Connecticut. Massachusetts,, In
iiana, Kansas, and Maine. Missouri
las taken a step in favor of it, but no
assembly has one pending. Wisconsin
. nc Imam cnncsdortr- 1.ll z--h
to decide by vote the question
II they want the suffrage like the men.
The aged Duchess of Cambridge is
now The sole survivor of her generation,
i,aving in the last five months lost her
BROTHER and two sisters. The death Of,
her sisters. the Princess Louise, was
somewhat inadvertently broken to her
by the Prince of Wales, who was calling
ut St. James Palace to condole with the
Duchess; the real fact being that those
IN attendance upon her had thought it
inadvisable to break the news so short
y after the terrible account of the Cars
assassination. /
The Bannersville (Ga.) Gazette says:
There is q lady living in this county
who has had five husbands. She lives
Dn the old Hightower trail, and married
Tour widowers in succession. The re-
narkabls coincidence connected with
The good lady's matrimonial ventures
Is that each one Of her husbands lived
9n the Same road, and Just one mile
and a half from each other. The first
tyidower lived one and a half miles
from the lady, who was 0 widow; the
second. third, and fourth, lived about
he same distance from each other, SO
she has in turn had charge of each Of
the residences, and is now living hap
PLY with her fifth husband within seven
miles of her original home"
The Vallejo Chronicle publishes q
engthy article'on the unfitness of the
Mary and Helen for the expedition to
20 in search Of the Jeanette. It re-
borts that an examination of the whaler
vas made by competent men, and that
he general verdict was that the gov
eminent was sadly taken in on the
purchase Tho vessel. as fitted for
whaling, was good and sound; for ice
business she was Of nc use.
There is a good deal Of literary abili-
" among the Rothschild ladies. Mrs.
Flower and Mrs. Eliot, both daughters
If Sir Anthony Rothschild, published.
when young, a work on the religion
and literature OF the Israelites. Lady
Roseberry Miss Hannah de Rothschild)
wrote in one of the quarterlies an arti-
lie on Jewish women, and the Baroness
Lionel de Rothschild has been much
praised for her stories and essays.
Some residents of Union City, Ind,
have formed what they call the Ma
tional Marriage Dowry Association"
Tho object Of which is declared to be to
Encourage lawful wedlock, to promote
sconomy, to endow homes, and to
make married life tho end and the aim
Of the rich and the poor alike. 1t
promises to pay . dowry in three class
Is. $1,000, $4,000, and @S, 200, respect
lively.
The Cosmopolitan Club, of London,
which Is frequently mentioned in EN-
1ymion." has been established for many
years in what used to be MI. Watts
studio. o lofty room in Mayfair. The
picture he yer painted still oc-
.upies n wall. and on the opposite
arc some water-color drawings by
Here princes. peers, poets,
painters. politicians, and even prelates
meet to smoke and gossip on Wcdnes-
lay nights and Sunday nights.
The wife of the historian Grote must
lave been IN extraordinary woman.
She rode without n saddle; she was not
afraid to put off in a boat without o
man; and sho was plucky enough to
marry her lover without permission,
and return home without saying o word
about 1t. Sydney Smith described this
lady and her lord in this happy fashion:
81 do like them both SO much! for he is
iadylike, and she is a perfect gentle
man."
A haunted house near Bowling Green,
KY, is attracting considerable attention
among the Spiritualists. A suicide was
committed in tho house twenty years
ago, and the rope which did the deeds