The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-06
PkRsoxs AND THINGs.

ner set Oh rare OLD emma impoftcu iion
Canton nearly 200 years ago.
Unfit for fast man: ''Pay as you CO.
is good advice, and does very well fol
the man who doesn't go very much.
"Six Girls" il the title Of the latest
novel. 1t is expected that a sequel en-
titled lone Broken Gate" will Dol be
issued
The man who said that it is the little
a~nnoyances in life that trouble us must
have forgotten the ladies' big hats at
the theatre.
A New York man recently sold his
wife to a neighbor for dollar. Some
men seem to take delight in swindling
their neighbors.
In reply to the question, Twill the
coming man be baldp' the Norristown
Heraldafirms .that'.he generally is when
he first comes"
A Coroner's verdict reads thus:
.The deceased came to his death by ex-
cessive drinking, producing apoplexy in
the minds Of the jury"
A tall man having rallied a friend on
the shortness of his legs, the friend re-
piled: my legs reach the ground;
what more can yoursdo2"
They asked him if he was the best
man at the wedding. mo" said he,
81 don't know as I was the best. but.
bejabers, / was as good as any of
'em.n
A Chinaman named On Tick is about
to start a laundry in Cheyenne. This
will leave no reasonable excuse for any
one to fail to appear in a clean shirt on
Sundays.
The first American flag used by citi-
zens of California Is still in existence.
The people made 1t themselves, and
had to buy a seaman's shirt in order to
get the blue.
Lady ledger: "Your dog, sir. is I'M
bearable. He bowls all night" Male
lodger: Indeed! Well, he might do
worse than that; he might play the
piano all day."
A Canadian paper says that Cana
dian girls make better wives than any to
be found on this side of the border. Let
'em come oyer, then, and get husbands
worthy Of them.
Singular unanimity: The czar says
he is ready to meet death whenever it
comes. 1t may not be out of place in
this connection to say that death is
ready to meet the car wherever he
goes.
A French artist gave his last work to
a porter to convey It TO the Salon. BE
careful, be careful" he said, 'the pic
ture is scarcely dry" "Oh, never
mind" exclaimed the porter, my
clothes are DID,"
"How is it, my dear, that you never
kindled a flame in the bosom Of any
MANI" said an old lady to her niece.
To which the young lady replied: 1.-THE
reason, dear aunt, is as you well know,
that 1 am not a good match"
"Previous good character counts in
Texas. A man who was on trial fol
arson brought forward witnesses te
prove that he had neglected two good
chances to steal horses, and the jury
decided that no such man could have
been guilty of burning a barn.
A young son of A. L. Clark, of Big
Rapids, Mich, who caught a man steal
ing his fathers horse, presented a littlt
stick as if it were a pistol at at the Of
lenders head, and actually walked him
of to the sheriff, the thief having a rea
pistol in his pocket all the time.
The Dublin corporation voted % t
% on a motion to confer the freedom o
the city on Parnell. The Lord Mayo
broke the tie by voting against the mo
ton. The arch agitator would no doub
have been obliged to the Lord Mayorha
he votedthe other way did the freedom o
the city mean also freedom from dur
ance vile.
Fitting emblems are not always ar
preciated. The neighbors Of a poo
fellow who died erected a tombstone t
his memory and had placed above 1t th
conventional white dove. The wido'
looked at it through her tears, an
said: ut was very thoughtful to put i
there. John was fond Of cunning, an
it is an especially suitable emblem.
The s~cottsville tva) "Courier" re
ports that near Bolling's landing, i
Buckingham county, recently a two
horse carriage and half a dozen farr
wagons had to wait some time to allo,
a troop of gray squirrels to cross tn
road. They marched along In solid Co
umn, forty-eight abreast, taking twenty
five minutes to pass a given point.
A paragraph writer on the Bosto
Post" reafirms the statement tina
necessity is the mother Of Invention
Sometimes" he says 1--WE want til
door between our office and the on
next to it closed, and the editor in tina
room of course feels. if we get up an
shut it, that we are getting high-tone
and exclusive, and it wounds him. An
we don't like to do that, 80 we have in
, vented a way to make him shut tt
door himself. We sing"
A recent traveller through the soutl