The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-21
MINOR

new parsonage.
The last of the Raymond excursions
has passed east.
Could a vegetarian properly classify a
worn out bus as a cabbage 'ead?
The LEADER moved its big press into
its new-Opera house quarters yesterday.
The new Grant smelter will be located
at Denver instead of being rebuilt at
Leadville.
Library and Keefe halls are convent
ences appreciated by the festival folks
nowadays.
The United Mastodons are doing an
immense business in Denver. Opening
night 81, 100.
The work of laying the foundation
walls of Stebbins & Posts new bank
block has begun.
Several of our citizens found old
a ;quaintances among the Raymond
cu~rsionists yesterday.
Why is 1t that the fewer the cents you
put in Il cigar the stronger the scents
which comc out of itP
A visit to u cigar stand Is generally
very embiematic of vanity as it al
ways always ends in smoke.
The next excursion to pass through
this city eastward bound is Cook s.
Sons world excursion on the oath inst.
The brakesmen over the hill should
make good bicyclists, for they make a
continual practice of riding the wheel.
The Kansas Pacific limited express
makes the fun from Denver to Kansas
City in twenty-one hours and twenty
five minutes.
The boys have not yet got over laugh
ing at the numerous ~laughable incidents
which occurred during the flood Mon
day evening.
Haverley's United Mastodons will
play to the largest audience yet gather
ed in the opera house, judging from the
sale of seats thus far.
The house fly now begins to buzz
around in a which discounts
the average gossip. A respectable
contemporary surely.
Now that there is a bare possibility
of a day passing by with no more than
an occasional shower, there are p~icnics
and inc Of picnics.
The tourists tickets from the Mis-
souri, river to Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo and return during the min
ing exposition-will be $50.
MI. Killem, the new clerk at the
Thornburg, took his place behind the
desk last evening II Laramie Times.
That fellow should study medicine.
The large amount of gravel taken
from the numerous cellar excavations
about town is being utilized in filling in
the low placesin the various streets.
1t was said that some of our liquor
dealers were selling liquors at half
price yesterday on account Of yester-
days unprecedented dilution in their
cellars.
The erection of the new business
blocks on Sixteenth street and their oc-
cupancy by business houses, will add
materially to the commercial character
OF the street.
The Wyoming commissioners to the
Denver exposition will meet in Laramie
City on Friday for the purpose of per-
fecting arrangements for the proper
representation Of Wyoming.
This is a wonderfully ''dry town" as
the number OF saloons and club rooms
attest. Even the earth imbibes with
the same greedy thirst. The streets
may be flooded one day and dry as a
board the next.
Says Is, who had Just come from a
church affair, to his bibnlous friend A,
"I'm a sea -faring man C;?n Replied
A, 80 am l, for don't l guide schoon-
ers over the bar" And he Immediate
ly had an opportunity to guide n
other.
A countryman went into one Of our
bookstores yesterday for some crackers
and cheesel Was he misled bya placard
announcing the story, 'Bread and
Cheese and Kisses?" That fellow
would probably. go to a grocery store for
Bacon's Essays.
After reading the detailed accounts
of the terrible cyclone east of us, our
citizens should be thankful for the in
stalment plan-not for sewing machines
alone, but for winds also. 1t is better
scattered literally through the year
than concentrated into one horrible
blow out.
Quite evidently mo drunkard shall
enter. the kingdom Of Heaven" be-
cause it is open to serious question
whether a fellow who finds our broad
guage streets too narrow for him, a
be expected to progress at all in "the
straight and narrow way"
Poor fellow, he wal very low seirited
when he left town yesterday. Whether
it was the prospect of a few days alb
enc from the Lest and dearest, or
because the price of beef in the Chicago
market was lower, was hard to say, I'M
til a glance at his feet disclosed a brok-
en- flask within a liquor soaked brown
| paper. "Crushed apain.D