The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18
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when free from silver. is not affected
by light
A minister had preached m hour;
thc1 he remarked: -Another wide
field opens from the subject in another
direction" Just then an old colored
saint calculated: sPlease, Lord, shut
up de bars"
Coal oil has been discovered near
Mayfower. Ark. and two local COM
panies AVE been formed who are leas-
ing all the land in the neighborhood.
P~rospectors and spectators are flock
ing in in great numbers.
A Denver paper says that enough al
falfa has been sold in that state this
year To seed ten thousand acres, which
K year will give an increase of sixty
thousand o of hay. worth 81, $50. 900.
estimating the yield at six IONS an acre.
Only n tree has been grown from
the acorns of tn. Charter oak. though
many attempts have been made. It
stands on Ann street at Hartford, and
Is said TO have the peculiar leaf Of it,
parent oak. and very much the same
shape
A Plante secondary battery and a
special lamp. the whole weighing only
one ~kilogramme. were used 10 read tho
scales of instruments during n balloon
ascent made after midnight July 2 at
Paris by NJ. de Fonvielle and M. Lipp-
MANN.
Luke Reynolds, Of Louisville, KY.
married his wife Elizabeth in March,
1881, and now, after over fifty years or
more of welded bliss, Elizabeth is sn-
ing him for a limited divorce, allegin
harsh treatment and failure of ade-
.quate support. he being . wealthy man.
as men go in Louisville, KY.
George Dessarean. an idiot from
Meriden, Conn, went to Boston the
other day with a man named Flynn.
and IS o good joke on Flynn's family,
is said to have telegraphed them he hal
been killed by the cars. The family
we're made nearly frantic, and Flynn's
aged mother will probably die from the
shock.
Rear Admiral Donald McNair Fair
fax. in command of the naval asylum
in Philadelphia, is to go upon the re-
tired list OF The army in October. He
was recently appointed to command
the European feet, but soon after askef
for retirement, having served fortJj
consecutive years. He entered the
service August, 1887. at the age of IA.
An exhibition of mugs, jugs, and
other drinking-vessels IS now being
held in Vienna The objects exhibited
are all of German manufacture, both
old and new. A German journal grows
sentimental over the meaning Of the
old German jug, and remarks that mo
nation has such q tru perception of the
poetry of drink as the German, which
fnds in a mighty draught the best pro-
lection against the discomforts of life."
The Rome aurora, which was start
ed as the official organ of the late Pope
Plus TX, and which now holds the
same relation to the present Pope Leo
Kill, contained in its issue Of July
nearly two columns Of matter devoted
to the assassination Of President Gar
field, and expressing adherence at tho
terrible crime and sympathy for the
American people.
Mormonism has been making rapid
progress in Georgia of late. Two Nor
mon missionaries have been working
industriously in White county for
twelve months. The community is iso-
lated and inhabited by densely igno-
rant people. II tho law does not inter-
fore the people Of the northern part of
the state threaten to forcibly drive out
the apostles OF lust.
The correctional tribunal of Rome
have passed sentence upon the persons
arrested for participation in the dis
'%turbances during the removal of the re-
mains of Pope Plus TX. Four of the
prisoners were sentenced to one months
imprisonment and 4 ine Of lou lire,
and two Others TO three months and a
fine of $50 lire. Ono Of the first batch
received an additional two months i'm
prisonment for striking tho policeman
Who arrested him.
Mrs. Kane, widow Of DIR. Kane. the
Arctic explorer, and n of the Fox
sisters, noted for their Dorchester
knockings" Of twenty-five years ago.
is among the mediums at the Lake
Pleasant spiritualist camp-meetiug.
She produces the raps quite as mysteri.
ously as ever, and declares that they
have followed her constantly since
childhood. She does spiritual writ
ing." too, rapidly filling states with
messages in which the letters are all
upside down..
A series of articles was published in
the New York Star. a few weeks ago.
which pretended to give the true rea-
IONS why the body of A. L. Stewart,
which was stolen from the family vault
in St. Marks burying-ground, has not
been restored. References derogatory
to the reputation of John Barrett
were made, and for that reason he has
sought the Indictment of the publisher
of the paper. rs we'll as n private de-
tective named Luke, from WHOM it Is
alleged, the statements published were
obtained.
A distinguished Austrian physicis
has recently published a book in viii.
;he attempts to provo that habitual
criminals are such because they cannot
help it, He has examined the rains
of q number of persistent scoundrels
and has invariably found that tho su-
iperiors frontal convolution Is not con
;tiguous, but Is divided into four sub
.convolntions analogous to tho paris
found in predatory ~carnivorous AMI.
mails, and he thinks that the mental
characteristics Of criminals are due TO
this peculiar formation of the brain.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri. says:
"Since that $50. 900 reward was offered
i have never known such an interest
taken in criminals. Every sheriff In
that section of the state. every deputy
sheriff, or imaginary detective. is 50
certain that he knows exactly where TO
go that there Is little question that
there will be q united effort to catch the
outlaws" The governor said he was
never better satisfied than with the
present status affairs have taken. He
docs not doubt that the guilty parties
will be brought to Justice at IN early
date.
In Thuringia and Saxony choose Is
made from potatoes. The potatoes, a.
ter being boiled. are reduced to a pulp;
To five pounds Of this pulp is added
lone pound Of sour milk and the neces-
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