The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-31
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GLEANINGS,

those made without the consent of the
old folks.
The steamer Mexico. the largest ever
built at San Francisco, and which is to
run in the California and Mexican steam
ship line, was launched recently.
The population of Rome has increased
by 55.S0S souls since 1871, the total fig
ures being now 800, 1872, and were then
244,tSL.
Dealers discover on Smelling the corn
crop Of 1881 that there is an unusual per-
centaG'' Of cob. The usual weight is IA
pounds 10 the 70 pound bushel, but last
years yield furnished II pounds.
''Thi;% I'd live in hat building? 'ex-
claimed the lady who ran q boarding
house. Not a bit of it. Why, all the
doors la,tcn with bolts. There isn't a
key-h"ie in the building"
A Knox county (Ohio) man who set
. trap 10 catch n mink has captured
seventeen polecats. a coon, and his own
dog in 81, and still persists in his designs
upon iac mink.
A corporation has peer formed ut San
Francisco Tor the purpose of acquiring
properly necessary for the erection and
maintenance of II cremation hall, where
IN To crrmate the dead. and by actual
trial TO seek 10 popularizc cremation,
and sn hasten its universal adoption.
la Cornwall. = performer in n
aCi!tEW es,eru circus, turned his profess
slonai t1iitt 20 account by climbing up
posts amt balconies into houses ~ night
as a iurgisr. The route of the show
was t;;r~cd by n succession OF his rob
berie'- u"lii he was caught in Texas.
Ar,=r NJ 10 the Figaro, beef stewed
IL bo.f. aud strongly odoriferous of the
latter. - 'hc prince imperial of Ger
many iavorite food, while his mother
levo's IN ceis and carp, with beer sauce,
Ire Venerable emperor meanwhile lap
ping up with infinite gusto his beer
soug.
OW.Hgto the frequent applications by
colurei children for admission to the
"whita schools of Norristown, Pa. the
school board has decided to close the
colorc! ~rhools entirely, and TO distribute
its filr pupils among the four other
schools of the town.
Fluri.i5 state that there is an unusual
demal ! for yellow flowers. Negroes at
ali time; have shown a preference to
yellow i,OUe rs, but the present demand
- 'FshA WI Wv pau VI lt>hlbIhblt ptO-
pie h presumed to be due TO the influ-
cncc OF Oscar Wilde.
At D~tllefontaine, o., n funeral from
the country, passing through town,
stopped in front of a photograph gallery,
had the corpse carried in and Its pic
turc taken" The hearse was then pho
t~ographed, and the cortege moved on.
A Toronto alderman who was opposed
to a grant of $500 for astronomical OBJ
servations, clinched his argument with
the remark: 'If Venus wants to transit.
let her transit. What have we got to
do with itP" The grant was agreed up
Oh, nevertheless.
A Montana newspaper says that on
Dec. II an army of ~buffaloes, estimated
to have been q million in number, enter
ed the Iellowstone valley. Numbers Of
people went from Miles City to look al
the wonderful sight and hunt. One
brought back the rare trophy of the skin
of a white buffalo.
Rev. Richard II. Cain, a bishop in the
African NJ. E. church, was recently
travelling with his wife on a Texas rail-
road, and they sought admittance into
a first-class car. The conductor ordered
them into the smoker, and Bishop Cain
now sues the road for $50, 900 compensa-
ton for the indignity.
Mamma, is the old hen going to be
sent away for the summer" No.
Charlie, but why do you ask?" well,
i heard papa tell the new governess that
they would have q fine timo when he
sem the old hen away for tho sum-
mer." Mamma put little Charlie to
bed.
Patti has rccklessiy thrown away a
chance TO set Nicolini up in business.
The citizens of Petersburg. Va, offered
her 500 and q ton of peanuts TO sing
there, but she wouldn't accept the offer.
And Nicolini m Italian. too! Just
adapted to the pcanut-stand business.
'Oh, by the way, dear, have you CON
graduated Lily on her engagement"
asked Miss Flouncer of her friend.
'tOh, yes; Of course. l went 'rcund to
see her yesterday afternoon. told her
she couldn't have done bctter-and l
don think she could, the horrid, home
ly thing"
The soa serpent has been seen again,
this time by W. gentlemen of Snn Die
90, Cal, who aver that they We're duly
sober, and saw an enormous snake thrust
its head out of the water near shore and
swim scaward, toward Point LIMA.
About twenty feet OF its body could be
seen above the water. Its body was
about three feet in girth.
After an examination of more than Is,
300 persons by the London Ophthalmo-
logical society, its secretary publishes
some curious Information about color
blindness. One of the most singular
facts record VI is that this defect in vision
is far mo mon among men han
among wei the exact percentage be-
ing respectively 4.16 and 0.4.
There is n large field of grain near the
town Of Williams. Cal. which is kept
fed Off completely to the ground by
ducks, and no one ever saw n duck up
on it,. They come on dark nights.
Great numbers Of them come about IL
o'clock and go away about 4 o'clock in
the morning. feeding some four or five
hours.
The Toronto World rather thro".S cold
water on the idea that Manitoba is n
paradise for poor mechanics. 1t costs a
man SIP u week to board at Winnipeg,
and iLo board is bad at that. Over
one thousand mechanics and carpenters
are reported to be working in that city
for less than living expenses.
A New Haven druggist gave IN un-
known woman, by mistake, a poisonous
compound in putting up a prescription.
Discovering the blunder after the cus-
toner had left the store and failing to
catch her, he advertised the danger in a
local paper. Fortunately the ona saw
the advertisement before sine had used