The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-13
NEWS BREvIT1Es.

The Spanish language is taught in the
San Francisco night schools.
The surprising assertion is made by q
citizen OF Maine that some eight hum
dred or one thousand mechanics and
small tradesmen are now living In Mas
sachusetts. who left Maine 10 avoid i'm
prisonment for debt.
A series of six etchings OF Carlyl,
from authentic and unpublished por-
traits and sketches in the possession OF
Carlyle's family. made during about
fifty years, are shortly TO be issued By
the London Etchcrs' society.
Mr.. George /. Sency. president Of TN,
Metropolitan bank, of New York. has
PIT S20O. 900 and sixteen lots in Brook
Ign. valued at 300, 900, ut the disposal
Of the Methodist Episcopal church for
the establishment Of a Methodist gen.
esal hospital in Brooklyn. with the an
,lerstanding that the institution shall be
op n to sufferers OF every creed and ma
lionality.
Colonel w. N. Armstrong, one OF tho
members Of the suite Of King Kalakaua.
has paid 500 for q dress suit for use on
state occasions. The front and borders
of the coat arc ornamented with q mass
of gold embroidery. six or eight inches
wide. consisting of leaves and sprigs
worked by hand with gold wire. The
pantaloons have stripes formed of leaves
Of the same costly material.
M. Rochefort describes Mr.. Parnell
rs q very fair young nan Of whom ce-
sar might have said as Of Cassius: HE
is very thin for n Senator His eye of
steel Is severe. His face. almost nscet-
ic, Is calm. like that Of men whose
minds are made up" Mr.. Parnell told
NJ. Rochcfort that he knew why Gam
beta was hostile to him aud his COM
rades: He wants above all things TO be
agreeable to the Prince Of Wales"
Just SOL said NJ. Rochefort; great
ideas come from the heart and bad ones
from the stomach"
Not long since at Gold Run. Cal, o
man by the name OF Taylor slipped in
to a dume in which the water was rum
ming at SO fearful a ratio that, like o
flash, he was carried through the fiume,
n distance Of three hundred feet, then
over the dump, q fall Of eight feet, then
down the canyon stream. q further dis
tanoe Of five hondred feet, before he
could possibly stop his involuntary
journeying. With the exception of q
few flesh bruises he escaped without in
jury.
Harriet J. Mill writes TO the London
Times that the account recently given
of the burning Of Carlyle's MS. in John
Stuart Mills house is incorrect. "Val-
liable papers," she says. ..were not left
about in Mr.. Mills house, nor was the
disaster owing to him. beyond the fact
that he had lent the manuscript to the
person at whose house twas destroyed.
Having heard Mr.. Carlyle's own ac-
and MI. Mil, when the latter carried
him the fatal news, and also Of the
alarm felt by himself and Mrs. Carlyle
safely say that none OF the statements
made agree with the facts Of the case"
A suit has been brought against o
representative of the United States gov
eminent by persons in Norwich for an
Infringement of . patent covering =
process Of manufacturing cartridges
which involves nearly $500. 900. Dur
ing the var some enterprising men, Of
whom A. H. Amy, Of Norwich. was
foremost, organized a company for the
manufacture of muskets, the business
finally leading to q study Of the meth
DDS Of constructing metallic cartridges.
and the Norwich Arms company en-
ployed inventors all over the country
TO devise an improved cartridge. Il
occurred TO Mr.. Almy several months
ago that something might yet be made
out of tho patent, and he took it to the
Winchester Arms company in New Ha-
ven to see what terms could be made.
when he was informed that this govern
ment had been making just such cart
ridge as his for years and that It had
also been In use in the Russian and
German service. Hence the suit. 1t
said that 10000 900 Of these cartridges
have been made.