, 1885-11-06
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

A real snow storm.
Too soft for sleighing.
Amusements are too scarce.
There is an Italian band in the city.
A public library is needed in this city.
Cattle shipping for the season is about
over.
What has become of the street car
talk2
The district court room is beautiful in
its new dress.
Republicans do not care for the dis
gushing details"
The wires were in a disturbed condition
all day yesterday.
Laramie expects to be lit by electricity
inside OF sixty days.
There were no pools sold on the result
of the Walkup trial. Strange.
Seldom Walker, who seems to be sell
dom at any good, is locked up on a charge
of vagrancy.
The presidents proclamation came in
quite apropos. New York is something
to be very thankful for.
1t seems that when they have a fair
election in Denver there are no Republic
cans in the place to speak of.
The effect of pay day among the sol
diers is noticeable in the way they have
been terminating the town of late.
There is complaint that the tempera-
turc of the school rooms is not kept even
enough for the health of the children.
Butte, Montana, claims to be some-
thing of a financial center. She has ten
faro banks with a capital of $4,000
There is talk of a boat club on Mime
haha. 1t should be an ice-boat club, IN
less its projectors intend to wait until
spring.
Some men will stand for hours and
watch a game Of billiards, who would die
if they had to sit in church a fourth of
the time.
The b. L. J.. society will meet tonight
at the Congregational church parlors for
business and to receive applications for
membership.
VIM. Lucas, "a cullud gemman sab, -
was locked up yesterday charged with
6lching money from the open safe at
Clark 4 Chattertons grocery.
1t is said that Mary Anderson has ac-
quired the habit while in England of
walking with her toes turned IN. That
isn't right Mary. Turn the rascals out.
Some of our Eastern exchanges place
Davenport's majority in New York very
high. 1t may not be out of the way to
mention that they have been on the road
ever since before the election.
Charlie Bramel, of the Laramie bar,
has loosened the roof on a Justices court
room with his e%loquence. What would
he do if he was in the United States SEN
ate and had the floor for about two hours
some fine day?
1t is queer that the BoomerdHg-an
avowed Republican paper-should take
such a peculiar interest in the Holiday
talk" for governor. Mr.. Holiday can be
spared this Boomerang and still fail in his
aspirations. 1t is unnecessary and cruel
the unkindest cut Of all.
A party of duck hunters came in yes
terday with about cighty-five ducks which
they had killed in four days, and they de.
clared that they had killed lis in all,
some of which they sold. When taken
apart in detail, one man said he haC
killed forty, another killed ffty-fve, an
other slew sixty-two, and the fourth
named forty-nine as his number, making
POO in all. Duck hunters ought to have
good rehearsals before they get to town
When all of the iuigating bitches nov
in process Of construction are in operation
an almost inconceivable quantity of deser
land will have been reclaimed. Since tn
first day of January, 1885, there havI
been filed in the office of the secretary o
the territory articles of incorporation o
no less than forty-five different compa
MES, organized strictly for irrigatiug pur
poses, the combined capital stock O
which amounts to the sum of 81, $40, 000
A new result of roller skating has mad
its appearance. 1t might be called tn
roller walk, and may be observed in III
carriage of young women who irequen
the alleged baneful resorts. 1t consists i
a short, quick, outward turn of the het
as the foot is raised in walking. tn
opponents of the Kinks say this is but tn
precursor of foot-and-mouth disease, eel
ebro. spinal meningitis, smallpox, spawn
black. death and a host of other horribl
ills, which are bound 10 afiict the rae
which permits roller skating or any othc
form Of bodily exercise in which bot
sexes Join.
Tom McDermot, Dick Hodge, BID
Mountain and Tom Tumblin went dow
into Colorado Sunday on a bear hun
After they had got into the neighbOrhoc
where Bruin receives visitors, Hodge an
Mountain concluded that they hadn