, 1884-03-21
The Democratic Leader.
FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1884.
MINoR MENTION.

mousse O-nSnt
Snow and wind last evening, but princi
pally the former.
The ground hog will soon abandon hi
hole for the season.
Linen busters were abandoned yesterday
afternoon for heavy ~ulsters,
Mr.. Wilson Woods has returned from
the Running Water mines with his freight
train.
The people who didn't get their usually
evening mail, yesterday, felt somewhat
grouty,
Soon the sun will cross the line, and
then the days and nights will be of equal
length.
A big building boom is ~vouchsafed ouI
city during the present spring and coming
summer.
They are paying four dollars per day
for the use of teams at the excavation for
the gas works.
Two more nights of exquisite fun at
the opera house. Secure your choice OF
seats in good time.
Joe Wild will start this morning for
Fort Laramie. He has freight for the
suttler at that post.
1t is a long lane that has no turn, but
the average paper collar comes to it by the
middle of the week.
Isaac Hills freight train is loaded Tor
Searight & Brothers, at Fort Casper, and
will start out to-day.
The cattle men are all laying in their
supplies for the spring roundup, and
freighters are kept busy.
Reserved seats for ''Whims," on to-
morrow night, can now be procured at
Rhodes Il Troxell's drug store.
The beautiful snow sifted its feathery
fakes through the clouds yesterday after
noon in a most lively manner.
There is something radically wrong with
the p~ostofice department. That wrong
ought to be be speedily remedied.
lfyou can't keep your good resolutions,
do not b.eak them, but generously give
them to some poor fellow who can.
During the play of the Ticket-of- Leave
Man tonight, Laura E. Dainty will de-
liver n of her celebrated Rotations.
If there be n thing in our midst more
contrary than an obstinate woman, it is a
right-handed lock on a left-handed door.
Laura Dainty, as "a Mountain Pink"
in The Moonshiners, " last night was
immense. All who viewed her splendid
representations were highly delighted.
The fall of snow was excellent for spring
grass-better than rain in fact. Snow
remains on the ground longer and serves
as a sort of sponge to keep the surface
moist.
1t was the fall ofan apple that set Isaac
Newton to thinking; but the fall of a
single has made some of the Cheyenne
boys think more than all the apples that
ever grew.
When a vagrant gets into Judge Lees
court he feels like emigrating. and the
genial justice invariably encourages the
commendable feeling when the emigrant
means business.
The play this evening at the opera
house depicts many peculiar phases of
crime in London. That it will be well
rendered, last evenings performance is an
ample guarantee.
The train from the east due at supper
time last evening was detained by a wash
out some little distance beyond Fremont,
Nebraska. 1t is expected in this morning
in time for breakfast.
Frank E. Aiken, who plays Bob Briefly
in Ticket-of-Leave-Ma tonight, has
played'the part upwards of 1000 nights
in Aiken's theatre, Chicago, and the
principal cities of the United States.
Articles of incorporation of the Wyo-
ming & Yellowstone National Pank I'm
provement company, with capital stock of
n million dollars, divided into one
thousand shares, were yesterday placed on
file in the office of the clerk of the county.
The object ofthe corporation is the i'm
provement of the section, the name of
which is above set forth.
simultaneously, last evening, with a
fash of lightning and a roll of thunder,
electricity in one of the circuits ceased and
a large number of street lights went out.
Most everyone supposed that the light
ming of the clouds had invaded the domain
of our city lightning. This proved to be
mot the case. The circuit was broken at
the lighthouse, caused by the burning of
an insulator.
Whims is an entertaining piece and is
well acted. Mr.. Raymond Holmes is a
very bright and clever actor, one of the
best in light comedy hat has ever APP
pearcd here. His support is excellent and
the play is very satisfactory. 1t is said to
be the original of Hobbies that Nat
Goodwin remodeled to suit himself. That
is what the Stockton (Cala.) Herald says,
and tomorrow evening our citizens will
have an opportunity to view the piece at
the opera house.
Some men seem to fancy that if their
smiles are withdrawn from the community
in which they live the sun will cease to
turn upon its axes; but they drop out Of
the circle which once knew them, and life
goes on just the same as before. The sun
rises and sets, the world moves on, and