The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-13
NEWS BREvITIEs.

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1t is reported that King Kalakaua is
writing an article on the literature of
the Sandwich Islands for q German
periodical.
Those ice sleds upon which skaters in
Germany push their lady friends about
on the ice. whispering sweet things into
their willing ears the while, ought to be
introduced into this country. They are
sleighs rather than sleds, very COM
Portable and very tasty as to design, the
figure Of q swan being the favorite.
Princeton College, New Jersey, has
received valuable addition to its scien-
life museum in the purchase from Prof.
Ward, of Rochester, of his extensive
collection from the domains of natural
history, geology and mineralogy. be-
sides the originals of Prof. Wards
lasts of some of the valuable treasures
Of European museums. The price paid
was SIG, 000.
Louis ]. Jennings, in his London let
Ter to the New York World, says that
Beaconsfield's ...Endymion." despite its
faults, has taken the reading public of
England by storm. There are plenty
of critics, however, who point out the
slip-shod writing, the bungling senten-
ces. and the penny a writer's
touches of descriptions.
Amherst College has concluded that
It's students are men, their ages ayerag-
ing %. and will, therefore, no longer
subject them to Discipline as boys. They
will hereafter be held responsible for
heir work, but not for their personal
conduct, unless it interferes with their
iuties. This has long been the rule in
German universities, but has never been
July tested in this country. though Har-
ward has, TO a limited extent, adopted
it.
While Mrs. Joseph Miller. of Pine
Bluff, Ark, was alone, a negro named
James Anderson entered her house,
threw her on the floor, and, after nearly
choking her to death, outraged her
person. He then stole some money and
,ewelry and fled. The news was spread
and the scoundrel was caught and tax
n before Mrs. Miller, who Immediately
,cognized him as her assailant. He was
hen taken by force from the officers
and hanged to a telegraph pole.
A resident of Baltimore has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
the death of his son, and another resi-
dent has brought suit against the same
company for $1,000 for injuries to his
Sol The somewhat surprising grounds
are that the company had left q tele-
graph pole unguarded on a truck in the
public street, and these boys and others
attempted to play 'see-saw upon it. and
it toppled over, killing one Of the boys
and injuring the other.
Elopements seem to cause very little
mental disquiet in Mount Vernon, o.
A miller, who had two children, recent
ly ran away with another mans wife,
who had four. They went to Rosstown,
but being too late for a train. procured
q conveyance, and drove across the
country to Loudonville, and then took q
western bound train. Tho deserted
couple, seeing the turn affairs had tax
en-, resolved to make the best Of o bad
situation. The miller's wife, with her
two children, moved her household eff
fects into the other mans house, and
began to look after his four children.
Gig. Costiggini, who is decorating
with allegorical frescoes the rotunda Of
The capitol at Washington. has two
groups completed, PENIS treaty with
the Indians and the industrial coloni-
cation of New England, and has half
finished q third one, sGen. Oglethorpe
meeting the Georgia Indians. He is
working rapidly. and It is thought he
will have tho remaining groups, the
colonization Of Georgia, the battle Of
Lexington, Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, surrender Of Lord CORVALLIS.
the battle Of the Thames. the American
army entering the City OF Mexico. and
lnbors in the gold mines of California,
completed BY next fall
The Council Of Baltimore allows
the families are part Catholic and part
Protestant, or when lots had been
bought in the cemeteries before the de-
cree.
The recent decline in coffee, of which
this country uses more than any other
nation in the world, and five times as
much as Great Britain, will probably be
permanent, as it is due, not to the cas-
ual over-supply, but to q change in the
name of conducting the trade. Rail-
roads recently constructed from Rio
Janeiro, bring the coffee more speedily
from the plantations, and steamers,
which have supplanted sailing vessels,
have greatly shortened the trip from
Brazil to this country. The trade in
coffee, in other words, has gone through
the same secular change as the trade in
tea. The day for great firms buying
by the ship-load and carrying great
stocks has gone by. Orders by cable,
shipments by steam and purchases by
job lots have taken the place OF the
slow but princely methods of a few
years back.
Captain j. II. Siddons, in some in
teresting personal "reminiscences in the
Washington Republic, records that the
father Of the late Duke of Cambridge
had a habit of thinking aloud. and par
~ticularly manifested this singularity
during the performance of divine service
in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In
LET us pray" he would add mutter-
ingly and unconsciously, ''by all means,
very proper" He would respond to the
commandment, Thou shalt not Steal, y
''certainly-very wrong to steal" and
Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath day." received q commenda-
tory response-'assuredly very right"
1t is recorded that on one occasion when
''prayers for RAIN were about to be Of
fered up, he exclaimed, mo use-no
use-the winds easterly."
Is a picture a work Of art or a piece
of furniturep Such was the question
which the heirs and executors of the
late Lord Londesborough asked the
English Vice Chancellor to decide for
them the other day. Lord Ohio Fitz-
gerald, Lady Londesborough's second
husband. appeared as one Of the parties
to the suit. BY the terms of the will in
dispute, the testator left to his widow
absolutely all the articles Of virtu in
his house, but he only gave her q life
interest in the furniture and other