The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-07
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A large porcupine walked into the
Union Iron works of Virginia City
one night recently, and after much
difficulty he was captured.
Some fine specimens of iron ore were
recently discovered about ten miles
fiom Seabeek, Washington Territory,
near he foothills Of the Coast range.
A man marched into Wilmington.
Del, bearing the gun, k~napsaek, cap,
and belt ofa soldier, but wearing not a
stitch ofclothing. He WAS q lunatic.
Merritt King, an ithaca On. W law
yer, is said to have the largest private
| law library, with one exception, in
the United States. He has nearly A.
900 volumes.
During the past five years ex-Goy-
ernor Stanford, of California, has ac-
cmnulatcd a stable of 294 head ofthor-
oughbrel and trotting horses at his
stud farm, Palo Alto, Cal.
DIR. Louis Knox, of Putnam county
New York, has two pet pigs which be
has taught to play euchre, 50 that they
can vanquish the best players in the
ncighborhood.
An Oregon ranchman threw . lasso
clumsily, and the moose fell around
his own neck. just then the horse
unseated him, and, one end of the rope
being fast to the saddle, he was chok-
ed TO death.
II Is anticipated that the new light
house at Eddystone, on the English
coast, will be completed by the autumn
of 1882, or four years from the time
when the work was begun. The tow
er will be one hundred and seventy
feet high EF nV q
From analyses made Of various
American and Australian timed meats
and vegetables, Wigner concludes that
these articles Of diet are slightly, If at
all inferior TO raw meat and fresh veg
etables.
Natural caverns OF largo size, one at
least being 600 feet long, have been
discovered at West Harptree, near
Wells, Somersetshire, England. 1t is
limited that the investigations have
revealed matters of great interest to
antiquarians and arch@ologists.
The Synod of the Russian Church is
sending a Greek priest with some $4,-
600 TO purchase o site for o church in
San Francisco. Other officials will
follow, with more money, a choir and
the accessories of o full fedged Rus
sian Greek church.
Susan GLADDEN., of UnionviIle, Ohio,
being very angry at Forest Morfet,
told him she would shoot him or his
horse with thegun she carried, which,
| ever he chose. He said Neither"
and she mercifully decided on the
beast, sending a bullet through its
heart. "a ca II.
The seven largest Congregational
churches in this country are-Brook-
Ign, 2,544; Chicago First, 1,l93 Gen.
| trail, Brooklyn, 1,048; Broadway Tab
| ernacle, New York city, 1858; Church
| OF the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, 966; Church
of the Disciples, New York city, S67;
Oberlin First, Ohio, 743.
The house in which Daniel Webster
was married 70 Miss Leroy, daughter
Of Herman Leroy, in New York,
some nifty years ago, il still standing.
1t 10 on lower Broadway now occu-
pied by an elevated railway for off,
ces. In its day 1t was one Of the fin
est Residences in New York. !.
OF his early experience as q Journal.
list, Mr.. Archibald Forbes says. 81 was
running the Scotchman at the time. 1
was sent to Mentz and the paper died,
1 lost fl 900 and IA have moth,
ing more TO do with running 4 news.
paper. That oath cost me $4,000 o
year. Edmund Yates, when he start
ed the World on E500, wanted me to go
In and putin hall, f26o. I wouldn't,
Just on that account. To-day the
World PAYS Edmund Yates $4,000 a
year. IS successful from the very
start. -:
According TO Professor Grimmer,
there is a terrible seven years before
us. From 1880 to 1887 there will be q
universal mortality. Asinwill be de-
populated, and Europe will become al
most a desert. America will lose
l5,000,0 900 inhabitants: There will be
tcmpcsts and foundations. Noprophet
could possible be grimmer than this
one. Aaff
Deep drinkers escape govt, not be-
cause they deserve it, but because the
nervous powers of the stomach are n
feeblcd by owe stimulation; they
have consequently no appetite, they
eat but little, and fail to accumulate
that excess of effete and ill-assimilated
heterogeneous matter in the circulation,
which in those who eat more largely,
as well as drink freely, 10 one Of the
principal causes of the malady.
The musical festival to be held in
| New York in May, 1881, will, it Is said,
be the greatest musical event ever held
in this country. There are l,400
choristers already in training in New
York and adjacent cities The esti-
mated expense is mot less than $4,000,
half Of which has been already SUBJ
scribed.
In Northampton county, North Car
olina, O few days ago Ransom Harris,
IA years old, and James Ingram, ~
years old, both colored, became involv-
ed ina quarrel, during which Ingram
threw an Ak ct Harris, but missed his
aim. Harris then threw the az at
Ingram, striking him on the head, kill
ing him instantly.
ken of the deer in his forest of Glen
quoich, in Invernesshire, Scotland
The work Of numbering these wild
animals wa no doubt somewhat diff
cult Tho report Is that there are
between 800 and 300 stays and about
double that number of lindsay g.
800 head in all-within An area of
$4,000 acres. 1w ri
A few days ago sixty men belonging
to the Eighteenth army corps of the
French army were quartered In q barn
at Paris. Tho owner, who seemingly
did not relish their society, Get fire to
the building during the night, and the
soldiers had only just time to effect
their escape in their shirts. Several of
them were badly burned in trying to