The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-23
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a new amusement at social parties
Paul de C~assagnac, the notorious Boz
napartist bully, and editor of the Paris
Pays, has fought ITO dueB in twenty
Eve years, and boasts of the fact.
Nike Callan. an Irishman 100 years
Old August 2. has kept the refreshment
|ftand at the Georgetown College. near
Washington. ever since 1874.
The deadlock between Russ ia aud
the Vatican. in behalf of Poland, con-
linues- The Pope protests against the
introduction of the Russian Instead of
the Polish language into those religious
ceremonies where Latin is not compul-
sory.
Under the new army scheme the
number of field marshals in the British
service will be limited TO six. There
are now only three field marshals.
but it is not intended TO fill the three
vacancies.
A pretty girl out West told her beau
that she was a minh-reader. .sYou
don't say sor he exclaimed. Yes"
said she. you have it in mind to ask
me to be your wife. but you are Just a
little scared at the idea" Their we'd
ding cards are out.
..Oh. doctor.n said Mrs. Philadelphia,
at tho Rowland House. Long Branch,
johnny has eaten ice-cream. cucuiu.
bers, watermelon and soft-shell crabs.
What shall l doP" Better send for an
undertaken said the doctor, for you
and | can do nothing"
In order 10 accustom German SOL
diers 10 tho opaque atmosphere OF a
battlefield, when at musketry practice
clouds Of smoke are produced, by
burning furzo aud wet grasses, or by
other means. between tho marksman
and their targets.
The scaffoldings which were used in
the construction of the two colossal
spires of the Cologne Cathedral, re-
Gently completed, consumed an i'm
mense quantity of timber. Only two
thirds of them nave thus far been taken
down, and already they have turned
u 200. 600 cubic feet. .
Mormonism has been making rapid
progress in Georgia Of late. Two Nor.
mon missionaries have been working in.
dusiriously in White county for twelve
months. The community is isolated
and inhabited by densely ignorant peo-
pie. If the law does not interfere the
people of the northern part of the State
threaten to .forcibly drive out the apos-
ties Of lust.
A New Orleans man followed his wife
and saw her walking with a stranger.
He whacked the stranger, a Mr..
~Isaacs, over the head, and then
ran to a station-house and surrendered
himself as q probable murderer. He
languished in Jail all night. while Mr..
lsaacs, after combing his hair, which
had been disturbed by the cane, went
cut again and took another walk in the
cool of the evening.
Teachers in England are now getting
snuch higher salaries than they did Z
few years ago. Out of IL, 981 certii-
Gated teachers, only 1872 are receiving
Jess than $3.50 a year. Two hundred.
nnd t~hirty-two teachers get 81, $50 to
$1,000. and 1877 are in receipt of 81
500 and over. Those in receipt Of
$3.50 to 1915 a year are now 10.7 2 per
cent. of the whole; in 1874 they were !
1918 per cent. ?,
A Georgia negro who has returned
10 this country after ten years. absence
in Liberia, says that the climate is very
arm there, with no difference summer ,
and winter. The people live mainly
On fruit and q root resembling the
sweet potato called casadas. The crops
IRE never harvested. but are taken from
the ground IS they are wanted. Coffee
and ginger are the only money-produc-
ing crops. Flows are not used in Gull ,
avation. The cotton plant groNs TO
The size of o tree sd nrodoc,s An an !
rual crop Of cotton. The narrator sayy !
that nearly all the negroes who hAss
cOne there from the United states wop.S
return II they had money % come vita !
br. WHY 40 does not say
A submarine cable is to be laid be-
tween Emden, on the Hanoverian coast.
and Valentia, in ireland. to connect
Germany directly with the United
States. At Valeniia the new cable will
be attached to the Anglo-American one.
which will thus form a second wholly
submarine electric tie between Amcri-
en- and the continent of Europe.
The first road in England lighted up
by lamps is that which runs parallel
with Hyde Park. William III. lived ut
Kensington, then a pretty village far
away in the fields, and large numbers
of tho aristocracy lived there. too.
Many people were constantly going and
coming across the park, which lay be-
tween the kingly residence and tho
metropolis, and robberics became SO
frequent in the dark that tire X pg Or
dercd the road 10 be lighte.i Vi h 300
lamps, and the effect was dcscrib il in
n paper of the day rs every grand ana
inconceivablv ma ,%niiicent.'
L'Enfnnt Terrible. (Sccae-A store
in Saratoga). Paterfamili ~ (lnvns
presents for the folks at h,mo) Tais
is for baby--this for Katelt.iS or Liz
zic-this for tho cook, but What Oh
earth shall we take for Grnniml Co..
the mother-in-law)P Bob IT one
of these toy p'slols.' Pate iimilras
(aside)-"How the deuce do ; ~ cl'id
know that toy pi-iols eau 0 ioca jaw?
He cant read yeIN-Pack.
Mrs. Swisshclm says if men wear
boots ut all the boots shout reach to
the waist and DO fastened ly q belt;
that they should wear no collars, but
leave the neck and throat bars, that
..the pantaloon" is All awkward con-
trivance, impeding locomotiol anil
catching dirt; that a ''boiled shirt is a
physiological abomination, and the hat
of a man is the climax of absurdi,y.
We should like to see a man dressed
after Mrs. Swissl.elm's ideal. Ye gods!
"A distinguished Austrian physician
has recently published a book in which
he attempts to prove that habiiual Grim
inals are such because they cannot help
it. He has examined the brains of 4
number of persistent scoundrels, and
has invariably found that the superior
frontal convolution is not continuous
but is divided into four subconyolutions
analogous to the parts found in preda'
tory carnivorous animals, and he thinks
that the mental characteristics If Grim
mails are due to this peculiar formation
of the brain. ..iliere is probably 9
subtratum Of truth in the hypothesis Of
the learned professor" says the Lon
L don Kcho sahnf innsmuch rs lhpsl