, 1885-11-22
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

This is a good day.
Try to be as good as the day.
The Mkado company will arrive to-
night.
Work on the artesian well is proceeding
slowly.
1t is a pity to kill the few buffalo that
are left.
Interesting preaching in all of the
churches.
The wind blew the old fashioned way
yesterday.
A young blade in this city was cut down
yesterday by a bicycle.
Ed Smith beat John p. Glow in their
smuggling match at Wichita.
Malcolm Campbell, deputy sheriff of
Albany county, is in the city.
The house numbering ordinance printed
in another column is II good thing.
Thisls the twenty-ffth Sunday after
Trinity and the last one before Advent.
On Thanksgiving day the First Presby-
terrain church joins in the union service at
the Baptist church at II a. M.
For the last week the Fort Laramie
coach has been loaded on all its trips with
passengers and express packages.
L. a. Chandler was buried yesterday
from the First Congregational church.
The funeral cortege was an unusually
large one.
>. A Murray placed, yesterday, in the
Collins new bank building a safe which
weighs 5000 pounds. 1t came yesterday
from the East.
The man LAWN, who was killed at Raw
Inns, was the man who fought Harry
Hynds some months ago for the cham
pionship of Wyoming.
A Sioux Indian at one of the agencies
became mashed on the shape of a bicycle
and snapped several ponies for it. He
has learned to ride it in good shape.
The convent in our city will probably be
completed by the middle of January. The
pipes for heating the building are in
working order, and the plastering is dry
ing nicely.
Charles i. Davis has long had the rep
utation of being the worst and most sue
cessful actor on the stage. He deserves
it, but he is such a good fellow that nobody
objects just now.
The friends of Mr.. James Crowley,
foreman of the North American Cattle
company, will regret to learn that he died
at n of the ranches of the company
l2j miles from Sundance on the 18th in
slant.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
47.30; lowest, $3.50; mean temperature.
400 mean humidity, $50 per cent. high
est velocity of wind - miles per hour;
rainfall, .lG.
There will be a meeting in Judge
Carey's Office Monday evening, : o'clock
sharp, for the purpose of recognizing the
Cheyenne Library and Reading Room
Association. All citizens interested in the
matter are requested to attend.
A huge cinnamon bear, on the Yellow
stone last week, tackled and successfully
brought down a bull hat weighed 1000
or | 400 pounds, and made a meal from
it after he had killed it. This is an in
stance Of what a bear can do when driven
by hunger to attack large animals.
The LEADER to.day contains the second
of a series of letters from Catharine Owen,
a writer of celebrity, well known in the
East. During the recent craze on cook
cry prevailing among the ladies in the
Northern and Eastern states, Miss Owen
has contributed to newspapers and maya
zines a number of very interesting articles,
similar to her contribution published in
this issue. Our readers will hear from
the writer again soon on other topics of
interest to the ladies
Ben: Perley Poore writes a magazine
article to show what a wonderful memory
Henry Clay had, and cites as the instance
the fact that he remembered having Dor
rowed $50 from a constituent To re-
member a thing like hat was really won
derful, and it reminds the writer of a Den
yer politician, who, when he was a candi-
date for office, was so frequently solicited
for loans hat he turned the tables BY
offering to borrow from every impecuni-
Gus voter who approached HIM.