The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-22
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During the last three years Germany
consumed 1854 $50 tons of rails.
Nearly all the rails were made of steel.
Mrs. Collins, of Troy, N. Y, has been
seriously poisoned by wearing scarlet
dyed stockings.
At Louisville, an old man aimed n kick
at his wife, lost his balance, fell, and
was fatally injured.
The interior of the capitol of Virginia
is being repainted by a convict from
the penitautiary.
The rubber sings used by the little
boys are getting to be as dangerous as
the gin sling handled by their daddies.
A million of dollars in our gold coin
weigh 3,6S5.71 pounds avoirdupois, and
n million standard dollars in our silver
coin weirh So, 92S.5 81 pounds.
One hundred thousand dollars have
been spent in gold mining in Ogle-
thorpe county, Georgia, without the in
vcstors realizing anything in return.
The valuation of California, real and
personal, is S65S. 691, 059. and taxation
Is at the rate of 65Il cents on the 300,
producing "a, 314, 426.
The total production Of vino in Napa
county, California, this season, is 2 ,Of6,
900 gallons, 4 falling of of 1914, $50 gal
Ions from last year.
The California woman who gave her
old blue petticoat to make the first
American flag raised in that state lies
in an unmarked grave.
The great Maryland litigant, Har-
rison Wagner, has suffered n pcrpctl-
nj injunction in one of his many casse,
which practically kills the rest Of them.
The people of Truro, Nova Scotia, in
a recent public meeting, authorized the
giving OF 800, 600 in bonuses for the
promotion of manufacturing industries
there.
The old Baptist parsonage in Grccn-
wich, Washington county, N. Y, once
the home of President Arthur, has
been sold for $50, and is to be remodel
cd.
A FrGnchman has established n lion
preserve in southern Algeria. For
those intrepid huntsmen, who think the
homesick lions of the menagerie quito
fierce enough, there will be placed port
able fortresses about grounds.
Three,new w~ar-ships which England
is about to add 10 her fleet will mako
heavy demands on her treasury. For
the stccl-faced nrmor of the Collinp-
NOOuT LutIIl StOO wv Will Dt ItQulTtu,
and the revised estimates provide for
the hulls of the Colossus and the Males
tic the total sum of 80, 500, 900.
The mayor of Richmond, Va, has
vetoed an ordinance for compulsory
vaccination, the penalty being So. His
objection 10 the ordinance is that the
provision for free vaccination is such
that laboring men and women would be
forced 10 lose a days labor in order to
be vaccinated.
"a well was being dug at Birming-
ham, Ala, when at the depth of four
teen feet n stream of hot water was
struck. which flowed so rapidly that
work was stopped. A steam pump was
attached, and water has been pumped
out at the rate of $50 gallons per
hour.
No church in New Haven, Conn.
has adopted the revised testament in
public worship, the Protestant clergy
men having decided that it is too faulty
to be adopted. The chief burden of the
criticism upon the revision was in re-
lation to its bad English. Rev. DIR. J..
E. Dodd stated, at a recent meeting of
the clergy held In that city, hat he had
counted $50 instances of bad English
in one of tho epistles to the Corinthi-
ans.
or Lieut.. Berry, the young command
er of the Rodgers, a writer in the Wash
ington Capitdt says: Just before he
called l met him at a reception; q love-
ly western girl was talking to him,
looking up at him with eyes that might
make any man 10th to go on & cruise.
She said: It's horridl What are you 60
ing forp and he answered in his grave,
quiet way: 'If, after three years of
hardship and suffering, I should find
nan of tho Jeannette's crew alive
to bring home I should be repaid for
everything l had endured"
Some good suburban girls of Cincin-
natl made up 200 yards of red flannel
into ~petticoats and sent the garments,
packed in a box, as a gift to the heather
of Liberia. The Gazette says: I'm the
pleasant month of July, when the mer-
curry crawls up to 120 degrees in the
shade, and the inhabitants lie sleeping
in the tall reeds, clothed principally in
their native blackness; when it is so hot
that even the dogs are too lazy to howl
at night, that identical missionary box
arrived in sunny Liberia. At first the
dusky population did not know what to
do with the contents; they were puzzled
until at last one of the petticoats caught
fire; then they knew at once from the
smell of the smoke that they were in
tended merely as q 'smudge' for mos
q~uitoes. Thus the petticoats have
served a good, if not the intended pur-
pose, after ALL" 49,,
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