, 1885-07-14
G MayERIcKs.
Unbranded News Notes Picked vi
About The CITY.

son mercury eighty-four degrees.
Judge Lee spent the day yesterday SEN
fencing tramps to hard labor. There were
ten or a dozen of them.
The ladies of ST. Johns Catholic church
will give a sociable tomorrow, Wcdnes-
day, evening, at Library hall. Dancing
will be one of the features of the enter
tainment.
by the late census the population Of
Colorado foots up 240, l07, and the Dem
yer papers are recalcitrant concerning the
enumeration, declaring that the figures
should BIO greater.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday WIS
81, lowest, So; mean temperature, CO.
mean humidity, 50 per cent; highest We
locity of wind II miles per hour.
Herman Haas has a contract to line the
jail with sheet-iron at a cost of $500. He
will complete the work in the course of a
month, and the tramps will have to exer-
else more industry than is constitutional
with them to get out.
Several tramps We're arrested on Sunday
and given quarters in the calaboose. That
night they cut another hole through the
wall and three or four of the prisoners es-
capped. Among the number was the man
arrested for an assault on Harry Beake
with a knife.
Judge Fisher had on his docket yester-
day two cases in which women were fined
slS each for keeping bswdy houses. One
of the women bore the distressingly fanci-
full name Of Birdie Ellen and the other
was named Jennie Porter. He also fined
four men so each for being drunk. Two
paid and two went to the calaboose.
THE LEADER job printing establish
ment is now supplied with the latest i'm
proved styles of type, the best of presses
and the finest material of all kinds, and is
ready to supply our merchants, officials
and business men generally with the best
job work to be obtained west of Chicago.
Republican ~oficeholders are gradually
becoming convinced that the present ad-
ministration il a simon pure Democratic
outfit, and hat nobody on the whole is
entitled to get OF keep an office who is not
an administration man. Any other view
of the situation is born of twaddle and
cant. Before many days what is now a
mere surmise on the part of a few, will be
n dead moral certainty to all.
Barry & Fay gave a great show and the
audience were convulsed with laughter
throughout the entire performance. While
those who witnessed the performance last
evening could not help but admire the
genius of Mr.. Fay and Mr.. Barry, they
also irresisHibly were forced to pay tribute
to the brain that conceived and produced
such a play. Surely the man whose
handiwork it is, is entitled to the same
protection that is accorded to the inventor
Of a pillow or "A saw. 1t is an outrage that
every snide minstrel company and other
pirates can travel up and down the coun-
try and line their pockets by producing
this comedy without rendering n penny
to the author in recompense. Editorial
from Denrer Republican, Fb. p, 1883.
my DEAR said Mr.. Skinfap. as he
looked over his newspaper at his wife,
''how many passenger depots do you sup
pose there are in New York city," ''Oh;
well, let's see" and Mrs. S. wrinkled up
her brow and studied, ''of course there
must be a great many well, how
many queried Mr.. SkinAap. well"
said Mrs. s., about a hundred. No"
responded Skinaap. We'll, then, a thou
sand?n said Mrs. S. interrogatively.
mo, again responded Skinfap. well,
said Mrs. s. impatiently, ''how many are
there, any way?" One and Mr., Skin
flap retired behind his'paper to mediate.
Mrs. S put her finger in her mouth and
looked out of the window very hard-very
naru, lndeeu-
1t is the little things of life that trouble
us more han all else. Mr.. and Mrs. Smi-
ley were enjoying their early evening hour
on the veranda, while the silvery moon
hung high in the heaven. They live
down by the beautiful lake Minnehaha.
Il declare, Hannah; this makes me think
OF the days forty-6ve years ago when you
and | were young, eh?" YES, Ichabod.
1t is a reminder. Gracious, the mosqui-
toesl'' Mosquitoes | should say so.
They didn't use to trouble us in those
days. but now Now they cen a.
most eat me up. But there are some
things worse than mosquitoes. what?
| should like to know" wei, one Of
EN- is n spooney old man. The evening
whiled away, the moon still lighting the
old couples faces, but they were sad at
heart and heavy. Mosquitoes and senti-
ment will not mix.
New Officers.