Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-12-29
FACT AND FANCY.

the table in Georgia.
Three Mormons have been elected To
the Idaho Legislature.
The new American Episcopal church
in Paris cost $500, 900.
Christmas and New Years day fall
on Thursday this year.
Bible is the appropriate name of q
Bellefontaine, Pa, editor
Victoria, B. c., is having touble
with hlthy Chinese opium dens.
Boston girls carry their banios on
the street in green flannel bags.
Tie United States uses three times
as much paint rs any other country.
The perpetual-motion problem has
cost S5O, 100000, and isn't solved yet.
Instruction IN sewing was introduc-
ed In the Philadelphia public schools
recently.
1t is said that the illustrations i'm
HdTper'S Magazine for the last year cost
over $4,000.
Within ten years the union will prob
ably number forly-eight instead OF
thirty-eight states.
A Britisher has discovered that
North America was at one time colo
nized by the Romans.
A man in Tallahassee. Fla, in dig
ging well, the other day, struck a
deep layer of oyster-shells.
More than 10000 New Workers live
at hotels, and there are 100000
strangers in town every night.
In India cats sometimes have the
cholera. Thus do the most terrible
visitations prove blessings in disguise.
The farm known as 'Springfeld,
161 acres, in Fairfax county, Virginia,
originally part of the Mount Vernon
estate, was last week sold to j. G..
Way for the apparently small sum of
$2,71O.
novel table decoration designed bv
a New York florist was miniature
forest of spruce, pine, hemlock, and
other branches, beneath which were
scattered pine needles, cones, leaves,
moss. and twigs, as in natural forest;
and perched among the foliage were
partridges, squirrels, owls, and other
reminders of forest life.
The farmers of Utah are worried to
find market for their crops. In
former years-that is. up to last year,
Nevada, Idaho. and. Montana fur
nished them a good market. Last year
the Oregon Short Line, the Utah and
Northern, and cut rates on the roads
took from them their northern market,
and mining has SO declined in Nevada
that there is not much chance for pro-
ducers to realize much there.
A syndicate of capitalists, headed
by Albert Owen, of Bellefont, Pa, who,
while editor of The Huntington, (Pa.)
Monitor, had his Office destroyed by Il
regiment of infuriated soldiers, has
been formed for the purpose of pur-
chasing a tract of coast land in North
Carolina, which contains 1870, 900 acres.
The company proposes to indulge in
diversified farming, raising rice, cot
ton, etc, and to engage in numbering.
The land cost the company S32, 800.
The first carload of oranges ever
shipped direct from the orchard in
Florida to Manitoba arrived recently
at Winnepeg. A few odd lots have
previously been brought in by express,
but no full car has ever before made
the journey direct. This car was ship
ped from Florida about fifteen days
ago. When it started it was a refrig-
orator thoroughly set up in ice. When
it reached Manitoba the ice was not
needed, but stove was in full blast to
keep the fruit from freezing.
On an American ship which arrived
at Portland, Oregon. last week, there
was young parrot, hobblng about on
crutches. During storm about three