The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-15
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1881.
PERSONS AND THINGS.

A
Some men would rather wear a large
cameo ring on their finger than stock
ings on their feet.
A young man in Frederick City, Md,
was made insane by witness the execu-
ton of Felix Munshaer. the murderer.
Entirely u~nintentional fair umpire at
lawn-tennis-"Only keep your head, M.
Jones, and you are sure to have a soft
thing"
When the man was suffering from a
meal Of devilled crab, he word to the
doctor that he thought he was troubled
with a cancer.
ASK no woman her age" says a re-
cent writer on social ethics. OF course
not. Ask her next best lady friend.
She will never fail to give you the in
formation.
Mrs. Mary Burnett Bassett died at
Brennan, Tex, about the middle Of
November, and her sister, Mrs. Annette
Lewis Ingle, died at Henderson, S. O.,
n few days ago. They were gr~eat-grand-
nieces of General George Washington.
"what a rough fellow that ~Sniggins
isl" petulsntly exclaimed the Hopedale
girl after o struggle with the Aforesaid
sniggius at Copenhagen. "''He nearly
smothered mei'' Sand did you kiss
him for his smother?n asked the other
miss, naively.
They tell about a western man named
Hood who is 80 strong that he frequent
1y knocks an * down with his naked
hst. ut is our opinion, - says the Hor-
nell "Times, ~ ''that this a false Hood
= icticious and preposterous Hood, who
never existed"
The largest steam boiler in the world
was recently finished at Weisenthal,
Baden. The proprietor of the works
gave his workmen a lunch inside the
boiler, which was brilliantly lighted up
and in which there was a staging with
a table set for thirty people.
The London Times says the trial of
Guiteau astonishes and shocks English
reader s Lawyers declare that no such
spectacle Of judicial incspacitY has ever
been seen. They consider the examin-
alton Of the prisoner, touching his W
insanity, as a scandalous innovation.
The pulpit was set outside the church
at Winslow, Texas, in order to give
room for a stage OF which to perform
''Pinafore," and when again needed for
use 1t was missing. Several weeks of
search elapsed before it was found in a
gambling house, where it had been al
tered into a faro table.
Here we have 3 joke and a man. The
joke il very old. 1t is bald aud tooth
less. 1t must be about Thousand years
old. The man wears a big diamond
and shiny plug hat. He is negro min
strel. Go and give the old, old joke to
him and he will take care of it very
tenderly. 1t is his business. He gets
forty dollars a week for it.
A tree that was eight hundred feet
In lanoth ninatyaix In circnn, faranca
a. the hase and sonnd 70 the beart was
f.,lad in f,aliforn,a racsntIv Five man
were twenty-five days in doing the
xork After a. nod hoo, oomnio,olv
.svered nv an,er holes n atm .tnod mn,
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and tacklinR to bring its proud head to
earth.
what Ala won do Nit, ,ho, ,o,,o-
that wa. nm mr. tablsp,, o.ted crs do
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room 81 trck ~ 20 ,h. nos,ofs,a .ah
.nd mt ~ ~ ,ha ho,.u "vvhot di5
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.aw da.dar was No wr,tin, IN da,volona
lint 7 ,Io,,ad var Ala d.t A. on nrrnosa
40 7 copldn,t tell who var was A.. wr,,;n,
IN I,se an edicat.d naoro Iisn
ously believed that all public stage per.
formances for money were wicked and