, 1885-11-12
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

80 III l IL Colu.
Three shows next week.
In the prayer meetings last night the
attendance was small, the weather beinr
so cold.
Tickets for the typographical artists
masked ball, on Thanksgiving night, art
selling rapidly.
Yesterday papers were filed by the Ply
mouth Rock Cattle company raising the
capital stock of hat company from $3.50,
600 to 100000.
The Union Cattle company will, wher
the weather improves, gather another
shipment Of feeders and send them Il
their yards in Nebraska.
1t seems out East hat the immediat,
delivery system is a blooming failure, let
tiers being delivered Immediately aftel
somebody or other gets good and ready.
VIM. Whiting was indicted By the
grand jury yesterday on an old charge O
stealing some horses and a wagon. II,
was arrested during the afternoon anC
placed in Jail.
A deed was filed for record in til,
county clerks Office yesterday in which
Amanda Stewart conveys to Charles Il
Hinker lots 3 and 4, block ATT, the con
sideration being $50.
Schnackenberg, the alleged forger, who
has been "possuming' crazy in the county
jail, was arraigned Yesterday and made nc
pretense of being off his kerbase." HI
found that it wouldn't work.
A man named Jim Carey, who did a loi
of shooting for fun in a Seventeenth street
saloon Tuesday night, wa fined by Judge
Fisher yesterday sl3 on a charge of I'm.
lawfully discharging firearms in the city
limits.
There is to be a social at Mr.. |. C.
Whipple's residence this evening undeI
the auspices of the Philomathic club o.
the First Baptist church. There will be Z
pleasant literary and musical programme
and the public is invited.
The Signal Service officer reports tina
the highest temperature yesterday wa.
46.l'; lowest, 1892; mean temperature
BIO; mean humidity, $50 per cent; high
est velocity of wind, 40 miles per hour
cnoufau inannrao,akIo
The next step in the management O
our city affairs under common law dispen
sation will lie the impeachment of tn,
mayor and the Democratic members o
the city council for daring to i%nterfer,
with the officials appointed under the Re
publican administration.
The "hoo, too, toot" of the ~juvenil,
brass band beginners is heard in the lane
and rents have gone down in the neigh
borhood of their practice ground, but the
will be out making good music prett,
soon. They have a capable tutor; be
sides, they are very able bodied tooter
themselves.
The Western Union telegraph Office viii
be removed from its present location OIL
Sixteenth street to the vacant room for
merly occupied by McGufie, the tailor
in the Post block, on Tuesday next
VIM. Angston, the cigar manufacturer
will occupy the place vacated by the West
ern Union.
The b. +. L. society will hold a bust
ness meeting at the Congregational churcl
parlors this evening. The s~emi-annua
election of officers will take place. Al
members are requested to be present ant
a cordial invitation is extended to any VIII,
may wish to become members to attent
this meeting.
Laramie Boomerdng-A gentleman VIII
is visiting this city, on coming out from
one of the hotels very early yesterda.
morning, picked up a roll of bills con
tanning $500. Thus far no one has pu
in a claim to the cash and the finder vii
probably be that much ahead by his earl.
rising.
An employe of the city engaged in stree
and alley work Yesterday, was rebuked b
the chairman Of the council committee 70
neglecting his work. go to thunder,
was the reply of the city official. "Yol
can't discharge me; | am secure in m
place for two years" This is civil servic
reform under Republican common lay
management.
A bartender in this city suffered tn
loss on Tuesday night Of a diamond breast
pin worth Sl25, and his room mate los
$l0.75 in cash. A burglar opened tn
door to their room by turning the Ike
with a pairof nippers and her took tn
pin from the bartender's shirt bosom an
the cash from the pocket OF his room
mate. The bartender's watch, a fine gol
one, in his vest pocket, and $75 in cash i
his purse, were untouched.
The air was balmy aud pleasant yestel
day morning at daylight, and by moor
was of a temperature hat would hav
made a walrus grin with pleasure and
polar bear hug himself with delight Tn
change was very sudden and radical, tn
mercury falling % degrees in three or fou
hours. The cold wave, which, by tn
way. had been siGnaled with the storr