The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-05
GLEANINGs.


Henry Probasco has sent from Paris
four bronze esplanade seats, to be
placed about the fountain which he gave
to the city of Cincinnati.
1t is estimated that fifty tons of blue
berries were shipped from Bath, Me-,
&c, ZOO.
Maine papers tell it solemnly that a
Belfast man fell seventy feet from the
rigging to the deck of vessel the other
day, landed on his feet, and wasn't
much hurt.
AT Nanticoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke a bottle of whisky in his pocket,
saturating his clothes; when he subse-
luently lit a match they took fire and
he was fatally burned.
And experiment has been tried, and
w~ithrsuccess, Of propagating sponges by
cuttings in the Adriatfc sea. The peri
cd Of growth generally averages seven
years.
The anticipation of wealth from the
discoveries of gold in Westford, Conn,
are believed to have very little founda-
lion. The assays, except in one or two
Instances, show rather lean returns
too small to afford profit.
Ayoung woman of Wallinford, Conn,
was married the other evening and,
while tho festivities that followed the
ceremony were mt their height, she
cloped with one of her old admirers
who was among the guests.
At a MAJ riage in Wyoming county,
m old lover cried '.Fircr' The bride
tainted, the groom fell over a chair and
broke his leg. and two of the guests fell
down stairs.
Mrs. Serena Smith, of Hawkinsville,
Ga, commenced in 1875 with n
horse, has steadily increased her farm
till now she runs a six-horse farm, hay
ing purchased and paid for 600 acres of
land.
An extensive establishment for the
manufacture of maccaroni, vermicelli,
and all other sorts of Italian pastry in
Philadelphia has seriously damaged the
Importation of such articles from Italy.
1t vas Matched by the centennial.
A woman teacher in Georgetown,
Mass, was driven out of her school by
the sight of a loaded pistol in the hand
Of a pupil she had reprimanded, but
she met one of the committee at the
door, and he went in and disarmed the
boy.
Robinson CATER a long whist bout at
the club)-'Its awfully late, Brown.
What will you say to your wifeP"
Brown Gin a whisper)-"oh, 1 shan't
say much, you know. Good morning,
DEAR or something of that sort. She'll
say the rest. "-Punch.
An American physician. who visited
Florence Nightingale in London, ex-
pressed the belief that, with the excep-
ton of the Queen, the famous nurse of
the Crimea is the most universally be-
loved of any woman in England.
Young ladies eat wedding cake to
dream of their future husbands. A
Louisville girl tried this scheme, and
saw a man as wide as a coal-shed, with
only one leg, and a head about the size
Of a full-grown crab apple.
The source of the extract of cucumber
which Bostonians have been SO reluc-
antly enjoying in their drinking water,
has been found in the decomposing
species Of a fresh water sponge which
grows abundantly in one of the city's
supply basins.
Allen Lewis, an Olneyville OR, u
manufacturer, had a great affection for
a house he formerly and for twenty-one
years lived in, and he always said he
wanted to die there. He called there
casually a few days ago, and dropped
dead upon the floor, :
Tho United States is being rapidl
filed with skilled foreign laborers. Tw
or three Chinese shoe manufacturin,
firms in San Francisco are bidding higI
for the best white labor now employee
in the shoe factories run by white man
ufactur. rs.
Out of 613 awards by the juries at tn
Paris electrical exhibition, France re
ceived 304. Belgium 60. Great Britail
and Germany 40 each, Italy "a. tn
United States 90. Russia 81, Austria Is
Switzerland IA, Sweden IS, Holland 10
Spain 5. Denmark and Hungary 2 each
and Japan 1.
The Troy Times has n poem O.
Loves Treasures" in which the fo'
lowing verse occurs that would max
the Sweet Singer of Michigan" how
with despair:
dream of days forever gone,
Der twenty dear mementoes;
CTheir number / can count upon
My fingers and my ten toes).
Ben billiard, of Washington county
the world. He has been thirty-thre
cruciating agony from rheumatism. un
| upio ~ hhoNo my pow Va ho bONy %
cept his lower jaw and to slightly shru,
his shoulders. For all those long year
of suffering his joints have been as stiI
as If grown together solil.
The quantity of foreign cheese i'm
ported into Great Britain has double
since 1870, and is now said TO be abou
27S, 80. 900 pounds per annum Thi
il greater than has generally been SUP
posed, and serves to explain why til
demand for American cheese has cor
stantly increased, to the astonishmen
of many of our d%airymen and produc
dealers.
Cash bov ave been superseded in
Boston store by u mechanical arrange
ment for conveying purchase none
from tile sales-clerks TO the cashier
desk and returning the change. Th
device is essentially a duplex system G
inclined O connecting the variou
stations of the clerks at the counter
with the cashiers desk. which is Ger
trally located, and hollow balls in whic
the money is placed, the balls travers
ing the grooves by force of gravity.
The son Of a well known merchant c
Memphis, Tenn. married some tim
since. A search of the %chancery rec
ords. OF, rather, a call of cases. recent
made, developed the fact that a diyorc
proceeding instituted by the bride re
manned undisposed of. and no divorc
was ever recorded. though the paper
showed a decree drawn up and signe
4 by q special judge several years age
The young mans father appeared
court and asked the entry. The deere
has been entered and. as it now stands
the divorce from the first husband al