, 1885-10-20
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

o. n. q. club at the West End rink
tonight.
Often when a man has an itch Tor Office
the voters scratch him.
Gen. Ben Butler was initiated into the
Grand Army of the Republic last week.
An exchange says ''Judic has smoky
topaz eyes That's better than to have
moss agates about the eyes.
The district court will be in session to-
day to hear the quo tca1rdnto case against
Isaac Bergman in the matter of the city
treasurership.
\ Kentucky editor, Wallace Gruelle.
has resigned the Office of deputy United
States marshal of his state to become cd
itor of the Louisville Times.
The Elite, of Denver, is a handsome
weekly paper published by George D..
Belts & Go. Its specially is society mat
ters, and it is generally a success.
The charter members of the p. .. S. A.
camp will hold their first meeting at the
Office Oft. NJ. Fisher, Esq, at s o'clock
this evening, and the officers will be Sc
lected.
Secretary Bayard still dresses IN blue
flannel, says an exchange. If the mer-
curry continues to go Up the way it did
last night he'll have to put on red flannel
pretty soon.
John w. Ransono and company are
playing in Denver at the Academy OF
Music a drama called lcJosS tLc atlantic,
which was written by the city editor of
THE LEADER,
Sam Jones was employed to go to st.
Joe, Mo-, to draw II big crowd so the re-
tail merchants would be enabled to corral
a boom in sales. Sam found it out, and
became %irreligiously mad about it.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
44.9'; lowest, 242'i mean temperature,
3l.7 mean humidity, 65.O per cent; high
est velocity of the wind, Is miles per hour.
Sunday evening during an alteration
between A. T. Brody, engineer at the
packing house of the Wyoming Meat
company, and James l.. Mahoney, the
former was cut slightly in the left chest.
Mahoney claims that he acted in self
defense.
The Fort Collins Courier says. Knud
Patton's impromptu speech before Satur-
days convention, nominating Sheriff
Sweeney for reelection, was a fine bit of
oratory which took his friends by sur
prise. Knud has a splendid future be.
fore him.
Mr., Mcdonald, of Silver Crown,
brought to this city yesterday a fine speci-
men of lead carbonates carrying consider
able silver. The ore was taken from the
Carbonate Belle, a claim belonging to
Mcdonald, Joice and Phillips. Mr..
Mcdonald says they have n large vein of
these c~arbonates, which assay near the
surface 81 per ton. Instead OF a copper
camp, Mcdonald says. the Silver Crown
district will soon be known as a silver and
lead camp.
IL Is understood that Secretary Morgan,
wlo Is the custodian and discussing officer
OF the $4,000 appropriated by congress
for legislative expenses in this territory,
has applied to the authorities at Wash
ington for instructions in regard to paying
the members of the Legislature as the
lesality Of hat body has not been estab-
lished. The answer to be received by
Secretary Morgan will probably decide
whether the legislature will meet next
January or not. If the secretary is not
authorized to pay the members, there
will be no legislature. Our law makers
do not propose to labor for the fun of the
thing.