The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-01
GLGANINGS.

AT q sale in Sicksburg, Miss, recent
ly, a plantation containing 1899 acres
brought only 50, 225.
One of the chief hindrances + tele-
graphing in Japan is the grounding of
the current by spider lines.
Northern Texas newspapers complain
that the towns and cities of that section
are overrun by tramps.
The sheriff of Rhea county, Tennessee,
pays $40 for information against people
who fire pistols in that county.
Old clocks of the fo~refathers' days,
cleaned and repaired, are sometimes
heard from in Boston rs selling for $75.
Sixteen thousand acres of white pine
timber land was recently sold in Clinton
county, Pa, for $4,000.
A Binghamton On. " Gard fiend has
collected seven thousand business cards,
and desires to know who can go one
better.
There are more than six hundred pu-
pills in the evening high school at Bos-
ton. Sixty-four industries are represent
ed.
down near Conneautville. Pa, and four
were captured, the largest
weighing twenty pounds.
thSA' "t hON oOO pIl'OlitIS III hlt-
mainham and other Irish jails. for acts
or ~utterances deemed reasonable by the
English authorities.
1t is gravely asserted that no man
wearing a high silk hat is permitted to
approach the Emperor of Russia. since
bombs NAV be concealed within il.
One-third of France is owned in large
estates, one-third in estates Of mod
crate size, and only one-third by the
peasants.
A paper out in Leadyille, Col. declares
that a sealskin sacque, snugly fitting II
graceful female form, seems like the very
down of an angel.
Grindstones sometimes explode. and
we saw 4 caution in a store window, the.
other day, as to a like danger from stat
uary. 1t read as follows: ''Parian Mar
BILE Busts."
1t is stated that the Canadian ari-
thorities will soon permit the importa-
ton of cattle for breeding purposes
from the United States, upon the same
terms as to quarantine as cattle from
England.
According to Washington etiquette.
when the President is a dinner guest, he
sits at the right of the host, no matter il
whose honor the dinner is given; and
the latter sits at the Presidents right.
not at the hosts left.
The Philadelphia Chronicle, which is
nothing if not a philanthropist, proposes
a rubber cushion to be worn by skaters
at the back of the head. Then when
two lovely beings in the hues of youth
fall together upon the back of their little
brain cases, they will execute pad de
deux mace pa.
Special pleading: "Polly, we must 90
now, it's 8 O'Clock" "Oh, papa, dear.
1 am engaged for the next two dancesr'
THE Browns went away two hours ago,
and Fanny Brown didn't complain"
But they are in half-mourning, you
know, papa, dearT' Papa is not con
vinced, but Polly gains her point
Punch.
On the body of a man who lately COM
mitted suicide in Chicago there was
found a diary, in which he said that he
had several times attempted to kill him
self, but had always been prevented in
n way or another. Once he had gone
into q patch of woods and made ready
to haHg himself, but, the diary continues,
1.-THE mosquitoes were so darned thick
that l forgot what l came for, and went
away"
Why can't people say mother and
father in a better way than they dop
Words, cadence, infection and every
thing else has got twisted and wriggled
Of shape. The New York girl says
''Ma-rT' with a jerk on the r." The
Philadelphia girl says Magyar through
her nose, The St. Louis girl says Ma
mar; the Boston girl says Mur-mur; the
Baltimore beauty Mur-muE and Pur-pur.
The little Canadian says Pa-ah and
Ma-ah. The Alabama girl says "PorI
and Morr," the Brooklyn says Par-pah
and Mah-ah. The little London girls
say, Now Po-pow-ah you make me
lowofr'-Quiz.