Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-10-10
PASSING EVENTS.

call convention to discuss the situa-
ton.
William Holt, laborer of San Fran
cisco, is mortally i'll from the effects of
a spider bite.
Uncle Sam will contribute IS, 400 ,3S9
toward the support of the untutored
savage this year.
Phoenix, Arizona, coutains among
her inhabitants family who are half
white and half Chinese.
Winnipeg, the metropolis of Mani
toba, is go-abead city, sure enough.
1t has debt of 80, $50, 600.
Two fish factories at Crisfield, Md,
employ eighty men, who daily catch on
an average of $4,000 fish, mostly ale
wives. The oil derived from the fish
is disposed of at 81 cents per gallon,
and the scrap is made into phosphate,
which brings S35 per ton.
Stealing horses in Delaware is bad
business for the thief if caught. One
was recently sentenced to pay the
costs of prosecution, 500 restitution
money, 5000 fine, to stand one hour in
the pillory, receive twenty lashes, and
then suffer eighteen months imprson-
ment.
In Boston the policemen report at
once'all details they may learn of n
casualty, and the law department not
only relies upon early accounts of such
matters from the police, but employs
specially-trained members of the force
to procure systematic evidence for use
in litigation.
A man in Hamilton, Ga, has writ
ten for a divorce to the governor of
the state because he says he doesn't
wish to give a lawyer SIS for one.
His letter closes as follows: please
see about this rite off, and doant waite
hear from you
Cranks are frequent discoverers and
inventors of useful things. 1t is said
that the aid to digestion called 'pep-
SIM was discovered by crank in
Chautauqua county, New York, in
| 1853. The original discoverer claimed
that the remedy was revealed to him
in answer to prayer.
A New York man has invented a
cuspidor stand which looks like an
old-fashiOned clock case, the place oc-
cupied by the dial being utilized for a
mirror. An outside pocket on the
front of the case is intended for an
ash-receiver, and two receptacles at
the sides are to hold matches. The
cuspidor proper is drawer or case at
the bottom of the stand, and by press
ing rod the cover opens and the sand
runs down into the receptacle upon
the expectOrations and ashes.
The list of magnetic girls is about
exhausted, and male wonders in the
same line of business have begun to
appear, the first one, a youth, coming
from Lynchburg, Va. A few nights
ago, it is alleged, he kept table sus-
pended in the air at neighbor' house,
with four or five other men attempting
with all their strength to get it to the
floor. AT another time he ''literally
tore n large diningtable into frag-
ments while several men were working
with all their might to wrest it from
him."
Six OF the largest photographs in the
world were recently sent from Wash
ington to the Cincinnati exhibition.
They represent the different promi-
nent buildings of Washington, and are
five feet wide by seven feet long. They
are taken on rough paper very much
like that used for drawings and water
colors. and it is said will withstand
the fiercest rays of the sun. After the
close of the Cincinnati exposition they
will be forwarded to New Orleans.
where they will form a conspicuous
attraction of the world $ fair.
The worldly wealth of a person can
not always be determined by the
clothes he wears. A man whose raj