The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-29
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Mrs. Curl, Of Bourbon county, hen-
hcky. has a clothes line that has been
IA use for over seventy odd years
A P~ottsyille (Pa-) dentist in forty
minutes chloroformed three women
and pulled seventy teeth from their
laws.
The crown diamonds of rance are
10 be sold In order to provide ior the
better maintenance OF the puplc mu-
feums. "
Tine members of the New Hampshire
Legislature drew pay for eighty days.
work, and were in session q totai oi
scotland derives 81. SOC. 900 per an,
rum as rental from sporting oun
The Duke of Westminster pays $4,000
for one track.
An Arkansas man rode three hundred
miles 10 shoot the chap who cheated
his father in q horse trade. Filial al
lection can never die in this country.
The will Of Horatio Foster. a deal
mute, was offered for probate at East
Mnchias, Me-, recently. but b Judge
said his infrmity made him incomPe-
tent to dispose Of his estate.
Near Blue Water. New Mexico. Is the
crater of an extinct volcano. From that
noint streams Of lava have covered the
Ground for many miles in extent ana
TO n considerable depth.
We have seen ladies who were insuf-
ferably shocked at the sight Of a man
in his shirt-sleeves; and their own arms
we're bare almost to the shoulders
Women are strange creatures
Tourist-.Where Is Block lslandr...
Polite American-.In Rhode Island.
Tourist-"But how can you put one Is
and In another islandP" Polite Amer
ican-.'O. that's nothing-we accom-
plish anything in this country"
There Is no better way to 1--we health
ily and happily than to cultivate a tenn
p,rament wherein the most contraaic-
tory qualities and properties OF the or,
ganism arc perfectly counterpaianced
and controlled.
made In Sweetwater county. wyoming.
n IL n deposit of ~sulphuric acid In a
natural state. The ground is impreg-
nated over n larre area-100 acres or
more-and parties have filed claims
upon it. .u
Although it Is more than twenty
years since the Harvard University NH
scum of Natural History was founded.
there are apartments OF its structure
which have not yet been opened, and
LARGE quantities OF collections that re-
main uuassorted and unarranged.
The use Of gas for cooking and heat
ing is making rapid Roadway In Eng
Laid. Gas is cheaper in England than
mere. which may account for the more
lgeneral use Of the clearly gas-stove
ithere than will be likely to be the case
with us. 1t is also claimed that II gas
could be substituted for coal In Lon
,dou there would be a material improy
cement of the atmosphere.
Calcutta, according to h recen
~ccnsus. has q population OF 6S4.65'
souls. two-thirds OF whom are males
md ~ these the greater part are in thu
middle period Of life. The number o
vouno persons under 20 years OF ag'
has Increased perceptibly. and r
this II is known that the resident pop
~ulation Is growing.
The Connecticut valley was formerly
he great broom region Of the country
Now the corn is chiefly raised on tn
fertile prairies of the west. and Chica
oo is the principal market. Ono
Northampton. Hadley, Hatfield, AM
many n town in that vicinity did
thriving business in the production .
brooms, and largely supplied the coun
trv with these articles. Before In
dasv, of railroading 1t was not an ur
n.nal occurrence TO send a fifty or ski
ton load down the Connecticut on
aat boat to be ~re-shipped at Hartfor
bv steamer. A veteran In the busine'
saws HAT he has sold ns many as 47,0l
brooms within q month. Massach'
setts no longer monopolizes this bus
ness: it is distributed all over the cou'
try, with perhaps the largest interes
centcrcl In New York state.
In the upper part of Sonoma county
california, near the coast, may be seen
IN actual road-bed in the tree tops
Between the Clipper Mills and Stuart's
; Point, where the road crosses q deep
avine, the trees are sawed of on a
evel and the timber and ties laid on
he slumps. In the center of the ra-
line mentioned, two huge redwood
rces, standing side by side, form q
n~bstantial support, and they are cut
1 IF seventy-ive feet above the ground.
One more story about Dean Stanley.
= No one feels up to his work." he said
inc day. II have always thought that
It Dean should have three qualifications.
lone of which I possess. First, l think
Dean should know something about
music; / am absolutely ignorant OF the
: uhiect. Secondly. l think a Dean
3 hould know something about arclitec-
ure; 1 know nothing about it. Third
> v, l think a Dean should know some-
s hing about the management of BUSH
: less: I am always thankful when our
udit is over and We have not come to
!. ono grievous mishap."
Ben Wood some years ago on, 1t IS
: aid. 1925, 900 at asingle sitting ut faro.
o Ie borrowed So, 500 from Judge Nc
h yaun to begin on. and he went away
With every pocket stuffed with checks
md bills. Tho cigar seller In the
9 rambling rooms saws that Wood that
t light smoked $40 worth Of cigars, He
/, ook cigars costing 81 each. and light
: NO one end, began, in his nervous way,
o eat the other. and in about W. min
ties he would take a fresh one.
Colonel Dan Murphy. of Halleck
: tation, Eiko county, came to Califor-
, Tia in 1874. and may be said to have
l. made the country-pa him we'll for his
b lime. He Is now probably the largest
n ,rivate land owner on this continent
ie has 1000, 900 acres of land in one
,ody in Mexico, 60. 900 in Nevada, and
1000 in California His Mexican
n rant he bought four years ago FOL
l20O. 900. or 8 cents an acre. IL Is SIX,
! miles long and covers q beautiful
II ountry of hill and valley. pine timber,
o md meadow land. 1t comes within
If wclye miles of the city Of Durango,
m rhich is to be a station on the Mexican
l. central. Mr.. Murphy raises wheat on
is California land, and cattle on thai
n Nevada He got $4,000 sacks las
ear. and ships 5000 head OF cattle
nor RIGHT alonO.