, 1885-09-11
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

The weather continues faultless.
Sixteenth ssee will be jammed to-day.
Roller skating at KeeGe's rink this
evening.
The vets who missed the campfires
missed lots of fun.
There have been only two DRINKS before
police courts in two days.
The lumber yard of A. Martin has been
purchased by Callanl, Merrill & Go. and
+. r. Hurd.
The entertainment at the Presbyterian
church to. night will begin at 7:SO and end
before 9 O'Clock.
Sixty Minutes in the War in this
instance, is four years service boiled
do Sn and sweetened.
The two eagles that have been exhib-
tied at the camp grounds by Jake Essel-
born are to be ratified for tomorrow even
ing.
The bicycle races at the driving park to-
day will DO very interesting. Cheyenne
has some fine riders who will come in for
come Of the prizes.
A great many fashionable people will
hear Will Visscher at the Presbyterian
church to night before going to the party,
os he will be through in time for them to
go there afterward.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
T640; lowest, 46.4'; mean temperature;
$50; mean humidity, 59.7 per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, II miles perhour.
A tri-weekly mail is soon to be run from
Cheyenne to a newly established postohice
in Colorado, about forty miles from Chey-
enne. About fifty people will receive
their mail at this new office, which is to
be known as Grover.
A man, a body Of men, or a newspaper
that attempts to defend or apologize fer
the Rock Springs massacre, is morally as
guilty Of the crimes committed there as
the actual participants. There is no ex-
cuse whatever for the massacre, and swift
punishment should overtake the guilty
ones
On the occasion of viii L. Visscher's
humorous lecture, Sixty Minutes in the
War" at the Presbyterian church this
Friday) evening for the church, Mn. Viss-
cher will sing, in German, the beautiful
song by Abt, "Wenn die Schwalben
Heimwaerts Ziehn"-"When the Swal-
lows Homeward Fly"
Yesterday while a war-worn veteran sat
in front of the Inter Ocean, almost break
ing his heart trying to get rid of too much
on the stomach, a comrade stood beside
him while his mixed drinks ebbed away,
and remarked "Aint you ashamed to
drink Fisher hotel whiskey and then come
down here advertising the Inter Ocean
bar?'
The law under which the special deliv-
esy Offices of the postofice department are
established provides hat only cities Of
more than 1000 inhabitants shall receive
the benefit of the service, and as the
last census gives Cheyenne a population of
only a,505, it will be observed that our
postofice is excluded from the provisions
Of tho new law. Special delivery stamps,
however, will be sold at the Cheyenne
postofice.
There will be a big audience at the
Presbyterian church tonight to hear VIII
L. Visscher's Sixty Minutes in the
War, which has been delivered before
brilliant audiences in the east and else
where, and always with the most satisGac-
tory results to al concerned. 1t is full of
the fun and touching side of army life
during the war. In connection with the
lecture Mrs. Visscher will sing a beautiful
German song.