The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-20
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How is your measle?


town.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, little shower, for
we need getlthee every hour.
The LEADER will soon occupy quar-
tiers in the finest block in town. 4
The work of framing L. Voorhees,
house on Ferguson street, has been be-
gun.
The last meeting for the season of
the Literary and Musical society will
occur Thursday evening.
The fourth section of Raymond's va
cation excursions, about a hundred
strong, will pass east to-day.
A dismantleG telegraph office is some
thing like a strictly cash store-no tick
there.
There will be two or three strawberry
and ice cream festivals this week, with
button hole boquet accompanpments.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
e. Rhodes received the rite of baptism
at the Episcopal church Sunday, a very
impressive service.
Sanders, the lunatic who was brought
down from Fort Laramie, Will be dis
posed of in the probate court to-day.
Two heifers were knocked Off the
track about a mile west Of town on
Sunday. When seen last one was dead
and the other badly manned.
An easy way to distinguish a bicy-
cler in his suit from a foreign tourist,
is " lnd who has the bicycle. In the
absence of the wheel, Well give it up.
Some of our bicyclists ran out to
Table mountain, and returned, on their
wheels Sunday, making the forty-two
miles with but little effort.
Quite a party of young people drove
out in the neighborhood of Table noun
tain Sunday on a picnic excursion, en-
joying a pleasant time.
Red noses are now accounted for sat-
isfactorily on the picnic basis, and if
the whole countenance beams with a
bright and shining light" 1t is all
right.
The first hay crop of the season is
being cut from some of the door yards
in town, much to the amusement of
some of the younger generation-the
hay day of youth as it were.
For a few weeks back it seemed as
If the heavens had sprung a-leak. The
order is reversed now, and the prairies
are full of leaks. Taste the milkman's
compound, and you will observe the
flavor of this paragraph.
The season thus far has been 4 most
favorable one for tree planting, and a
glance in almost any direction on our
streets will disclose the great measure
that the season has been taken advan'
tage Of.
A fine large, embracing arm chair
graces the county clerks room, 81 the
gentlemen of elegant leisure who have
nothing else to do than to chin the
county officers can comfortably chat
away about twenty-seyen hours of the
day.
The festive cucumber has come to
town in all his glory, and ornaments
the hotel table as one of the luxu-
ries Of the season. You season the
cucumbers with salt and pepper, but the
cucumbers seige on you with-well.
never mind.
The new residence of Col. Babbitt on
east Seventeenth street, begins to show
the peculiarities of the Queen Annie
style Of building, of which it is the
first representative in this city. We
will wait and see how Queen Ann and
Cheyenne affiliate.
Charlie Beck, says in Sundays Sun,
she would, if he could; but if he could
not how could lie, could you?" or
words to that effect. Such a statement
should be taken with some degree of
allowance, for with most newspaper
men 1.-THE LEADER staff is "an excep-
tion," ahemD truth is stranger than
fiction"
Says the editor of Demorest's Month
ly Magazine: "The famous address of
Gov. John w. Hoyt, of Wyoming ter
ritory, delivered at Association hall,
Philadelphia, upon the results of wo-
mans suffrage in that section, has been
printed in tract form, and widely dis
tributed. 1t is a very able argument,
fair, candid, and based upon facts. 1t
should be read by every thinking man
and woman"