The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

William OFT. one of Napoleon's sol
diers at Leipsic and Waterloo, died at
Watertown. Wis, recently, aged 81.
Twenty large public buildings have
been constructed in Rome since 1870
for Government use, at an outlay of
$25. 000, 600.
As an indication hat the times have
reached deplorable state of hardness
in Nevada. q prominent paper there
says that faro dealers have had their
wages cut down from $40 to IS per day.
Gen. o. o. Howard has abolished the
csdet barber at West Point, SO that the
boys must hereafter shave themselves,
sed has stopped the band music ON
sunday r. AIDES. as it draws crowds Of
sienefs q. that day.
The new road to San Francisco
Trough Arizona rum for go miles along
BASIN that is $50 feet below the level
al the ocean. This region has two to
orr feet OF salt and alkali covering its
surface. The ground is perfectly white.
An eccentric maiden lady in Pomer-
,sia has bequeathed $50. 900 to the city
81 S%ietiin. i0 found an asylum ssthat
will give shelter TO 40 single women
r.nre than 90 years Of age, aud to ten
Old haclelors.' f,
aei days work Is to wash, apace:
Tuesdays work ia to iron, with grace;
Wednesdays W rk 10 to bake and sew:
Thursdays work % to clean-for show.
Fridays work is to sweep, dust and brush:
sstuiday's work 10 to cook-with q rush;
The NEXT that comes Is the Sabbath day, (,
And then she's too tired to rest or pray /
Henry ~Spalding. Of Mooresville. N.
H., has built q small house Ia . hugo
haarb f,-os forfv fat f.1pn tb~ ~rcnpA
his cook-stove being placed On q plat
form below; and IN this house, forty
feet up . tree. he lives and moves and
has his being.
Ipngfellow wears his frock coat but
toned to the chin. ~ in the chilly wealth
err Of . late spring he sits before . dus-
ky-red fire Of camel coal. He il gentle
and hospitabls in manner, and the Phil
adelphia Times speaks OF the careful
negligence of his much-litersd library.
The medical faculty Of Vienna have
been studying . young man who wears
his hsart on the right aide, his liver ON
his left, and in other respects has the
usual arrangement Of the internal hu-
man organism completely reversed.
He il strong and healthy. &.
An immense oak tree in Browns
Valley. Napa county, California, which
was twenty-seven feet in circumference,
fell to the ground one still night recent
ly, leaving . stump ten feet high. 1t Is
estimated that the fallen monarch will
make seventy-five cords Of wood. i
A hitherto unknown letter of Lord
Byron's has recently been discovered.
in which he explicitly denies the author
ship Of s'The Vampire" . fraudulent
tale, which the poets popularity in
duced some literary advsnturer to pub
lish IS the work Of the titled author.
Economical husbands should marry
Icelandic wives Their everyday dresa
consists Of thick serge skirt, made
without nounces. and . yarn jacket,
and the outfit lasts . dozen years, 90
that although they make it themselves
they have plenty of time to do their
husbands sewing.
The ex-Empress Eugene, q report
declares, has decided that the final rest
ing place of Napoleon, III. and their
late son shall be In q church which she
win build ON An estate SOME fourteen
miles from Chiselhurst, which she rel
Gently acquired by purchase. !.
Tho widow Of Gen. Myers ("Old
Probabilides,")s frequently visits New
York City With her young daughters.
They are plain people in heavy mourn
ing. and POSSESSED Of considerable
wealth. In York they always takc
up board In some elegant hotsl, usually
the Gilsey. se :.
Carelessness In regard to trunks
seems 70 be catching. A trunk sent %
b repaired in New Haven, Conn, was
found to contain in . small drawer 3
gold watch, $50 in gold. two gold brace
lets. and . diamond and pearl set b.
,sidee several less vslusbD articles u
1swslEy:
Mr.. Irving. says the London Court
Journal, has received an offer OF $780,
900. all expenses paid, for . even
months theatrical tour in America.
Since. however, this would derange his
present engagements, and scatter his
company, he has declined the offer. 1t
is practically the largest offer ever made
to an actor.
Hartford papers say hat after waiting
t~wenty-four years and the accumulation
Ct TIE fund to something cvcr 500, 900.
tho trustees of the beqnest of David
Watkinson for the establishment Of 5
training school for young lads, where
they car be taught practical farming,
are soon TO begin operations in that
city.
The mines of southern California
which have in large measure lain dor
mant, are beginning to show. signs 81
life, and newspapers of the lower part
Of the State predict that they will soon
become the scene Of labor and excite.
ment similar to that which marked the
opening of the Tombstone district in
Arizona.
Cropsey, the noted painter OF New
York City, in early life studied arcliiec.
ture. He was in poor health from con.
finement in his studio three years ago.
and being offered tho position of archi-
tect for the Metropolitan Elevated Rail.
way. which would require outdoor su.
pervision, he accepted. The result was
the rare and ornamental architecture
attained in tho dcpots of that line.
Many months since q distine uishcd
Senator from New England, being q
little annoyed by one of Senator Ed.
munds' proposed amendments. remark
I'd TO . brother Senator. that he would
bet $50. II the truth could be known,
hat when Senator Edmunds' mother
irst taught him the Lords prayer. he
bounced up on her knee and offered an
amendment to it.
The Partisan makes an exceedingly
nice distinction. saying. II have said
ance before that there are two kinds
ri beauty-involuntary beauty, or that
which one receives at ones birth, and
he beauty which can be assumed. This
last kind, which we will call social
beauty, IL. according to US, much 81.
perior to the other"
A faithful old hostler ON his deathbsd,
N Coburg. Can. said to those around
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