The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-24
NEWS BREvrrIEs.


southern California.
The net cost of the war in Afghanis-
tan, including that of the frontier rail-
ways. was about twenty-one crores OF
rupees, or Ell. 500. GOO.
The owners OF the Nathan Paul farm,
AT Eliot, N. H.. where gold has recently
been found. have been offered $4,000
for three acres of the land
A mob which had gathered around
the Los Angeles (Cal.) Jail, presumably
to lynch a murderer. was e~ffectually
scattered by a proposal to take up n col
iection for the widow and orphans of
tao murdered man.
A Russian sailor named I~vanoff, on
board the frigate Edinburgh, in Cher
bourg harbor. having struck an officer,
was sentenced TO death. taken three
miles out 10 sea in order TO be beyond
French jurisdiction. and hanged to the
yardarm.
Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild has a
new necklace which, although it is only
n single row of pearls, is valued at
500, 600. One of her husbands bridal
gifts was a pleasant little sum Of 81. 500
for distribution among the Jewish char
tiles at Vienna. j.
0Aa ~ - 6@ot otI~0D
boat in existence, was recently launched
at Copenhagen. She measures 2l5 feet
in length aud AZ feet in breadth. She
can make fifteen miles an hour. Her
steel armor is four inches thick. and she
carries an unusually large breech-load-
ing Krupp gun.
New York alleges that it is to have q
geological garden similar to those Of
London, Paris, and Philadelphia. II
will be owned by a private company.
which will start out with q capital Of
$3, 000, 900, and which promises some
thing like q real geological collection.
One of the New York papers says the
company with So. 600, 900 in capital is q
myth. .
Derwent hall, the Derbyshire shoot
ing-box ofthe duke of Norfolk, has been
considerably enlarged, and is said to
contain the finest and most valuable
collection of old oak in England. Every
room is furnished throughout with mag.
nificent pieces Of exquisite workman
ship, brought together from all parts OF
the world by the present duke, who has
a passion for collecting.
Miss Phoebe Cousins, the st. Louis
lawyer, recently delivered a lecture in
the courthouse at Dover, Del, and
among the audience was Senator Sauls-
bury. The senator said: s.She is pretty
and talented. but she had better be TAX
ing care of some good mans house.
adjoining woman's proper sphere as q
wife and mother" A bystander re-
marked: Take her then, Senator"
But Senator Bayard's old bachelor col
league walked of, shaking his head.
Speaking of u r great wheat crops, the
American 1Euer remarks that few people
in our own country realize how inex-
haustible are for wheat
growing. Tho total area of lands avail
able for wheat culture in the United
States is not less than 470, 900. 900 acres.
Our intire wheat crop of the past year
would not supply seed enough to SOW
80 vast an area Of wheat land.
Tho Jesuits in England have had a
windfalk Count Eyre, millionaire and
almost q miser, who died recently. left
100000 to his son, Father Eyre, who
is a Jesuit. To another son, the Catholic
archbishop of Glasgow, he ~bequeathed
f100, 600. There is one SON who is not
in priests orders married to the daugh-
ter Of the countess Of Wicklow, who also
receives ESQ. 900. Count Eyre was made
a count by the pope in the days Of the
temporal power.
Miss Violet Brown, the t~hirteen-year-
old daughter of ex-Gov. Gratz Brown.
Of Missouri, was in the upper story Of .
public school at St. Louis when the
building took fire. While tho teacher
were subduing the panic and trying to
take the children out in safety. the girl
stopped to the window, opened it, and
jumped down upon the roof Of an en-.
tension building, . distance of eight
feet, caught Hold Of the lightning-rod,
and slid down TO the ground
A shrike, or butcher bird. has been
making havoc among the Albany spar
rows. When first observed the shriko
had seized. . sparrow, thrown it upon
the snow, and, standing upon the VIC
TINS back, delivered with its beak q
series of blows at the base Of tho brain.
The shrike then seized the dead bird.
few away to q grove of plum trees, and
deity forced it between the stiff twigs
of the trees. where it was left until
wanted for food.
A number Of valuable letters, written
by George Eliot at the age of 20. havo
just been brought to light at Sheffield.
They are in the possession of a grand
son of "Dinah Bede," now resident in
that town, and were written to Mrs.
Elizabeth Evans and Mr.. Samuel Evans,
aunt and uncle of the novelist, and the
ssDinah Morris and "Seth Bede' OF
her novel, Adam Bede." They arc
pervaded by deep religious sentiment,
and betray q keen anxiety about her
spiritual condition.
A most violent case of ssmother-in-
law" occurred at Thames police court,
London, recently, when Arthur Steel
twas charged on his own confession with
being a deserter. A police constable
,deposed that the prisoner had given
himself up, saying he had deserted in
August, 1879, from sWoolwich; that hc
had been married the day before hi,
arrest, and on going home to his brides
house had a row with his mother-in-
law. He then made up his mind to
give himself up at once. The prisoner
was remanded for q week. The wife, Il
good-looking girl Of 10, was in court.
and appeared much affected at the turn
affairs had taken.
Mile. AdelaideMontgolfier, the daugh-
ter Of the inventor of the balloon. whose
death occurred q~uite.recently in Paris.
was the Nine. Adam of her time. Her
salons were once the most brilliant in
the gay capital. She had remarkable
gifts and many accomplishments.
Among her constant visitor were Victor
Hugo, Lamartine, Michelet, Mignct.
Barthelemy Saint-Hillaire. and Charles
Dickens. One day Nine. Mohl brough;
. friend to Mile. Montgolier's, and,
presenting him to the hostess, she said.
''hero is q small man, but who will be
great n Of these days" The person
was Adolphe Theirs. Mile. Montgol
iier's collection Of autographs is a rare
one. including letters from Byron, Dick.