Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-02-28
II
FACT AND FANCY.
Bear is p favorite fur in London.


they lost $500, 900 by the recent cold
snap.
A couple, each over seventy, in En-
gland, have just married after happy
courtship of fifty years.
One hundred thousand dollars have
been expended in the effort TO recover
the body of A. T. Stewart,
The New Orleans Picayuno says that
piety cannot be measured by "a long
face. Nor by n long purse.
A woman lawyer of Caicago objects
to being called n female attorney. And
yet most lawyers are fee males
In New York, six hotels, eleven
churches, ten places Of amusement, and
five schools were built las, year.
Australia claims surplus Of l6 ,0O0,-
600 bushels @: wheat, II large portion of
which is now 6n6ing "a market IN Eng
lani.
Since the opening Of the Suez Canal
tea has, 1879 excepted, declined oacb
year in price. 1t has never been lower
in England than now.
Pennsylvania is recklessly destroy
ing her timber. Her shipments, rs
| TttkOHcu III w lIllaIu IJDIt. lbOb'N ND
more than 400, ,o00, 000 feet last year.
Don't think, young man. that just oo
cause it Is leap yoar YOU arc going to
be snapped up right away. The girls
want IA chance to look before they leap.
There will be rush Of photographers
To British Columbia after parliament
passes the bin requiring Chinese resi-
dents 10 have their photographs taken.
Two hundred cattle men, armed to
tho teeth, have arrive q in Austin, Tex
a., TO influence Legislation on the wire-
fonce question and il is thought they
will succeed.
Some men improve their strength by
lifting dumb bells, but man who is
really strongest in 81 community il the
one who has successfully lifted q line
of mortgages.
Photographing on silk and linen is
now successfully practiced in London.
The i'm preston is made on tho cloth
from the negative, aud il is said can
be made indoiibe.
A cure by the lay ON Of hands is
reported in Boston. A lads mother
cured him Of going to the cake basket
and capturing al! The rosing. Il was
all effected at one sitting.
Detroit X v'r fisherman says that
the pike of the Strait, i IL very dostruc-
tive fish. One that was recently speared
had swallowed another pike, ana that
pike had swallowed q porch.
The Paris pawn sho = being prac.ic-
ally government offices, the d!~p0sai OF
stolen articles in them is very hazard
Gus, as all the Offices are under one con-
troll and in constant communication.
A clergyman in speaking of one OF
his Pensioners who was so given to
argument that it was difficult ID con-
verse with him on any subject, said:
Brother y. is SO argumentative that
IL W.. ;..:cpo.c - ,.iS.C i;1o: atTut
the distance to the next town, and
Of It's epitaph."
What are these cups forP" asked
well-dressed man Of jeweller, point
ing to some elegant silver cups on the
showcase. "These are race cups, &c
e be given as prizes TO the best racer. ="
D ''lf that's so, suppose you and ] race
r for one" And the stranger, with cup
@ in hand, started, the jeweller after him.
4 The stranger won the cup.
) A young man from Philadelphia, who
o was spending the holidays III New
= England City, proposed popping corn
one evening, insisting that he had seen
a large-size corn-popper in the Gttic,
Despite remonstrances, he climed up
, among the rafters and, returning, elec-
II trifed the family by producing in al