The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-02

Plug tobacco is utterly chew chew.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is said to hold $780,
5000 of government bonds.
1t frequently happens that a man'swei
goods cost more than his wife's dry
goods.
II one dog can be placed on a scent,
how many dogs can be placed on a
trade dollar.
A retired prize-fighter asserts that "a
belt in the machine shop is worth two
in the mouth"
Secretary Kirkwood is generally &C.
companied to the interior department
by his daughter and niece.
Battle cry of freedom: Sweet Eveli-
ma from the suffocating embrace of her
of her lover cried out: 'Give me liber-
ty or give me breath"
Business is business: When a Chica-
60 preacher wants a new church all his
own, and a big congregation, he has
himself convicted of heresy.
The dramatic critic of the New Hay-
en- "Register'' says: IA little scrobatic
song and dance, with local gags Is
the great need of Hamlet"
The salary of ex-United States Trea-
surer John Z. New, as president of the
American Finance company, of New
York, will be $780, 900 per year.
General GarHeld's maxims have al
ready appeared in the English, Irish,
Scotch, French, German, Italian, Span
ish, Maltese and Turkish papers.
: Ex-senator Conkling is reported to
be in rather poor health. and his physic-
ians are by no means confident of his
permanent restoration to health. 1t is
feared that his kidneys are diseased.
I'm afraid you'll be late to the
party" said an old lady to her stylish
granddaughter, who replied, "Oh, you
dear grandma, don't you know that in
our set nobody goes to a party till every
body gets there?"
A Saratoga Sunday-school teacher
asked her pupils recently If they could
not bring in some new scholars. One
of them promptly replied: 81 cam"
and then, with hesitation, added,
"But he is a democrat"
A tourist in Switzerland, finding "a
charge in bis bill for stationery, and
being sure that he had ordered none,
investigated the matter, and learned
that the STATIONERY was the ink and
paper used in making out his bill.
A coasting vessel was tossing about
in the heavy storm. when one OF the
sailors hanging on a rope thoughtfully
observed to a companion similarly en-
ployed: "Think Of the poor devils
caught at q picnic in such weather as
this.n
"Do you reside in this city?" asked a
masked man of a masked lady at a
masked party the other evening. He
felt sick when she said to him, in a low
voice: "Don't be a fool, John, I know
you by the wart on your thumb" 1t
was his wife.
To ave space, the New York Sun
has a special cast of type with all letters
like p, g, q, etc., that fall below the
line, much curtailed. By this means it
saves 23 lines in each column, or 100
words. The paper being % columns.
4,40O words are saved, which is equal
to two columns of solid minion type.
Miss Lolita and Mr.. Edwin Booth are
said to be the richest representatives Of
the dramatic profession. The former
is worth half a million, and the latter
estimates his wealth at S450. 600. Mr..
| Joseph Jefferson comes third on the
list, and Mr.. John Mccullough has
made s140, 600 in the past three years.
The only thing the visitors of Keely's
| recent exhibition of his motor could I'M
derstand was the collation.. When he
explained that ''by of the in.
~troductory impulse and the fifth com
pound he SO impinged on the molecular
lead as to disturb the equilibrium, and
then to multiply the atomic ether OF
liberated interatomic impulse" they
missed the connection and gladly
switched off on to ham sandwiches.
The puzzling question is propounded
whether those interesting medical
nouns, ''mumps'' and ''measles." are in
the singular or plural number. Should
one say "this mumps" and ethst me
asles," or 'tthese mumps" and ''thost
measlesP" Again, would it be proper
or not to say ga mump'' and "a mea
slep" Evidently the best course oper
to a fastidious grammarian would be t.
avoid reference to such subjects as mucf
as possible.