The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-05
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Try was manufactured in 1870, AZ Hart
ford, Conn, by Jeremiah BadSyodh,
and the finst suit made out Of IL WAS
worn by George Washington.
An iron church, forty by twenty feet
in size, was sent from London. Eng, 10
the Esquimaux, and after being two
years on the way at length reached 81
destination, and was dedicated.
When Jenny Lind visited America the
famous earicaturist Cham amused him
self BIZ representing an American walk
ing about with his hand in q glass use.
Il do not use it any longer" said the
American, .'sinee Jenny Lind has shook
il"
Ole Bull, BY his last will, b~equeathcd
to the Museum of Bergen, Norway. q
number Of his jewels, medals and decor
atoms, given him in the course of his
long professional career by Kings. En-
perors and other titled personages. In
elnded in the bequest is the golden
crown, set with diamonds and pearls,
presented to him some ten years ago by
citizens Of San Francisco.
A farmer away down in Maine mar
ried q love of a school girl who didn't
know the first thing about housekeep-
ing or farming. When he took her
home she neglected her household du-
ties, and went ranging about the farm
''botanizing' and studying geology.
The neighbor's wives did mot ike her,
but before they knew il she had discov-
cred on her husbands and a mine
| worth $40, 900.
In southern California the tomato is
perennial. A vine in Los Angels has
been trained over the sunny side Of n
house, and Is now twenty-five feet high.
II has blossoms and at the same time
fruit in all stages of growth. In San
Bueneventura y grape vine, planted
seventeen years ago, measures forty
inches around the stem, and covers an
area of about eighty feet. 1t yields an
annual crop of about n thousand
pounds, single clusters averaging three
and a half pounds.
Ii. Currier, Of Biddeford, Me-, one of
the proprietors of the Biddeford Ma
chine Works. is having constructed for
his use q steam road-wagon, which
Is expected TO make good time on any
ordinary highway. The vehicle looks
very much Ike an ordinary wagon. ex-
eept that 1t has nc shafts, and weighs
but 400 pounds. 1t is designed TO run
rs miles without having the fire re-
newed. and will cost about $500.
The tale that Gambetta, when a child,
voluntarily put out his right eye In order
70 be removed from n seminary which
he abhorred. Is pronounced an absurd
iction. The real facts are, that one
day, when only s years old, while look
ng at q cutler boring holes in the handle
pf a knife with q drill fastened to an old
broken foil bv a piece Of cat-gut, this
rude machine gave way by reason Of too
| great tension, and the broken foil struck
the right eye Of the child with great
orce, perforating the corne This ter
ible accident causing him 10 be
different from his kind, he was petted,
pampered and spoiled by his parents,
Lis every within and fancy INDUCED. and
,very caprice Of his ardent and violent
character allowed free play.
Probably the largest rock in the known
world Is the south dome Of the Yosemite.
Standing at the fork Of tho upper valley,
{ rears itself. q solid, rocky loaf, 900
;eet above the ground. A more power
1l hand than that Of o Titan has cut
tway the eastern half. leaving a sheer
precipice over q mile in height. No
nan eve trod the top Of this dome un-
Ill last year. Former visitors gazed in
wonder ut the spikes driven into the
,ock by hardy spirits who had repeated
y endeavored TO scale 1t. Tho shreads
81 rope dangling in the wind told the
tory Of their failure. Last year, how
aver, after thousands Of dollars had been
expended, several persons found their
way to the top Of the dome, and this
hummer two sheep were found browning
N tho hitherto inaccessible peak.
The official population of Rhode
Island is 276.530, of whom l33,034 arc
males, and li3.49 are females; 73, $50
are foreign born, and 6,5g7 are colored.
including 4 Indians in Newport county,
"a Chinese and AZ Indians IN Proyi-
dence county, and 20 Indians in Wash
ington county. The total population OF
the District of Columbia is IA, 639, Of
whom 81. 59i are males, and gi,Oli arc
females; Ills are foreign born. and
59.lu2 are colorcd, including - Chit
nose, 3 Japanese, aud g indians. Tho
population of Georgetown is l2,JI6; OF
Washington. li7, SOI, and of the rest of
the District, 17,753.
Nevada il n land of curious natural
phenomena. Her rivers have no visible
outlet to,tbe ocean. She has no lakes
of any magnitude. She has vast stretch
rs of alkaii deserts, however, that give
every indication OF having been the beds
or bottoms of either seas or lakes. Down
in Lincoln county there Is q spring of
ice-cold water that bubbles up over u
rock and disappears on TIE other side,
and no one has beer able TO find where
the water goes. At another point in the
same county is n large spring. about
twenty feet square. that is apparently
only some eighteen or twenty inches in
depth, with n sandy bottom. The sand
can be plainly seen, but on looking
closer it is perceived that this sand is in
n perpetual state of unrest. No bottom
has ever been found to this spring. 1t is
said that a teamster, on reaching this
spring ono day, deceived by its apparent
shallowness, concluded to soak one of
his wagon wheels to cure the ~loosencss
of its tire. He therefore took 1t off and
rolled it into the, as he thought, shallow
water. He never laid eyes on that wagon
wheel again.
Euphorbium is a gum resin viii /
cxudes from the ~cuphorbia, n shr..o
growing on the slopes of the Atlas
Mountains. in Morocco. The dust of
the plant is excessively acrid. producing
violent sneezing and even dclirium. In
one instance an Irish laborcr was rem
dered so insane by it as to insist on say
ing his prayers at the tail of the mill
horse. Lately, however. the resin has
been turned TO valuable uses as a pre-
ventive of rust. Some laborers at Natal
discovered that metallic surfaces coated
with this material no longer oxidized.
and plates of iron were coated with it
and immersed in water by way Of exper-
iment. These were completely preserv-
ed from rust, although the waters of
Southern Africa are well known for their
injurious action upon metals. To make
practical application of the discovery,