The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-28
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which they are worn.
A French monk has been imprisoned
for q month for remarking to one Of his
comrades that the Paris police, during
the recent expulsion of the Jesuits were
like dogs following the holy sacrament.
A girl only 8 years old was arrested
for drunkenness at Lowell. To COM
plets the ~disgraceful picture. tho police
let her lie ten hours insensible in . cell
without attention.
This twin de Champagne color is a
handsome gilded shade combined with
pale rose. Some marvellous toilets are
making Of satin and brocard in this
color, which combines well with all
other hue..
Jefferson Davis Memoirs it is
stated, will not be given to the public
until April next. The Appletons have
the first volume in type, but they are
delaying the publication until the second
volume is ready.
Rufus Hateh's Iron Steamboat COM
pany has closed a contract with Phila-
delphia and Chester boat builders for
eight new iron steamers 10 be finished
May l., 1881. The amount involved is
about 81, 500, 600.
Rev. l.. w. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn,
hes started q new temperance move
ment in which he recognizes the need
Of = certain limited sale of spirituous
liquors. and also Of places of entertain
ment for young men,
Mr.. Thomas Brasseay has bought from
Fir John Macdonald $4,000 acres Of
land in Canada. at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains. He may now have from
l,2O0. to 1000 working tenants. with
from forty to fifty acres each"
The holy synod of Russia has decid-
ed upon erecting an orthodox church In
the city of San Francisco. The priest
OF the Russian chapel Of New York has
recently petitioned the holy synod for
permission to erect an orthodox church
in that city.
King Oscar, of Sweden, gave $780, 900
crowns toward the expenses of Norden-
skjold's expedition. The total cost of
the expedition is said to have been
419.lT crowns. Nordenskjold's ac-
count Of his voyage is shortly to be
published in German, at Leipsic.
DR.. William Sharswood, of Philadel-
phia, is giving his time and efforts to-
ward founding a great museum of prac-
lical art and applied science in come
lion with the university Of the South
ut Sewanee, Tenn, owned and con-
trolled by the dioceses of the Episcopal
church comprehended in the ten States
lying south and southwest Of Virginia
and Kentucky.
In excavating for the St. Gothard
railway neal Amsteg, u magnificent
glacier garden, a series of so-called
giants kettles, or enormous holes torn
in the rock by the action Of glacier
millstoncs. has been laid bare. One
half Of the garden lay across the rail-
way track, and had to be blasted away,
but the other half has been walled
round, and will be carefully preserved.
Prince Bismarck. says q Berlin CORES
pondent, has sent y commission to Al
SAGE to study the condition Of the work
men there, especially with regard to
their dwellings, which are somewhat on
Tho English cottage principle, every
man living in his own house. This sys-
EN- seems to be in favor with the chan
s%ellor. who wishes 1t to be introduced
all over Germany by government help.
He ~conjectures that this plan would 90
y long way to satisfy the lower classes
and make them dependent or the state.
The new street coaches in Phiiadel-
phia, after . weeks trial. are ~pronounc-
great success. They go full all tho
while, are comfortable than cars
Or stages, each passenger il sure of .
seat, and the roads are 30 varied that,
by transfers, any part Of the city may
be readily reached. Those now in use
aold eight persons. and are drawn by
one horse. Additional oncs arc to be
Of double size. for two horses.
A Connecticut couple were legally
married, q few days ago, in strict con-
formity with the township map. They
procured . marriage license from the
Ledyard town clerk, and in the evening
called upon a minister in . neighboring
town to perform the ceremony. AZ the
rite could only be performed in Led
yard, tho clergyman and contracting
parties with the witnesses, took lanterns
and walked through the woods Just
across the town boundary line, where
the marriage was performed.
A Bremen newspaper says that the
North German Lloyds have engaged to
convey three Thousand Roumanian
jews to New York. The emigrants are
sick of their W country, and have
been enabled to seek fresh homes across
the Atlantic by the liberality Of their
coreligionists in France and Germany.
The North German Lloyds have under
taken to find orthodox food for the
emigrants during tho passage. Tho
patrons provide funds not only for the
passage, but also for the purchase of
homes and farms in America
Miss Gardner. who has achieved dis
tinction by having svicted . good
many Of her tenants in Ireland, lives in
. house defended by iron bars. chains,
and by several policemen. She has
been shot At through . window Of the
building, and she carries = revolver In
in the pocket Of her shooting jacket.
Her only companion Is . lady named
Miss Pnngle. It II related that the
poorer peasants speak of her Q 80 malev-
oient fend, an ssextherminathor," q
tyrant striving to make the lives of the
poor 50 wretched ~ to drive them of
her estate. "A strange lady Is she,
sorr." cried one Of the tenants. .Och,
she's q devil of q woman entoirely.
All she wants Is to hunt the poor offthe
face of the w~or-r-rold."
A rather curious phenomenon has
been observed lately at Sparks & Co.'s
Touring mill at Alton. In passing
through q room in the second story in
comparative darkness, it was noticed
that the rapidly running belts were
aglow with what appeared like phos-
phorescent light. Atfirst this was as
cribed to the reflection from the lamps
on the copper rivets with which the
belts are constructed. After all the
lights were taken away, however, the
belts presented clearly defined Mumin-
ated outlines, md when the hand Of .
spectator was held close to them, bright
little globules attached themselves 70
the palm and fingers. being especially