Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-04-30

10 harvard college. Cambridge.
There is bed of clay in Greene
county, Alabama, which is said to
possess valuable medicinal properties.
Drcssmakers' rooms are now got up
in high style of art and called
'ateliers." The Customers pay hand
somely for the luxury.
1t is estimated that there have been
almost as many trees planted this sea-
son in the vicinity of Tucson, Arizona,
as the total of the last six years.
Weddings can be had cheap in
Georgia. Uncle Calvin, Clarke
county justice of the peace, only
charges plug of tobacco for marry
ing couples.
While eating its food horse belong
ing to q citizen of Williamsburgh, n.
Y, was bitten in the lip by rat, and
died from the effects of tho wounds
thus inflicted.
In Arizona any person who uses pro-
fame, indecent, vile, or abusive lam
guage, or threats, within the hearing
of women and children, is held liable
by law to fine or Imprisonment.
One hundred aud forty thousand
eucalyptus trees are being planted
near Los Angeles, Cal, for fuel. 1t is
said that an acre of them after lapse
of four or five years will yield as much
as an acre of grapes.
A buried graveyard exists near
Mesilla, New Mexico. In 1862 the
burial ground was hidden from sight
by the sands; this year the capricious
silica was lifted from its resting-place,
exposing graves and tombstones that
were covered more than twenty years
ago.
Maine papers say that Bath board
ing mistress surprised one of her
boarders, who was learning to play on
the banjo, by reducing the price of his
board, on the ground that his
singing and playing had frightened
away all the rats. The compliment
has discouraged the young man so
that he has given up practice.
The managers of the Franklin in
stitute, in Philadelphia. have decided
to hold during the fall of the present
year an exhibition to be devoted, as
their announcement declares, "to such
recent inventions, improvements, and
discoveries in the sciences, arts and
manufactures as may be deemed
worthy of the name, the place, and the
occasion.
The election of the governor of Rhode
Island is proclaimed by the sheriff
from the balcony of the state house in
Newport to the citizens assembled in
the square below; evening bells are
tolled throughout the state to announce
| Al ntI tIat-
vestiges of the ways of the old English
settlers. Rhode Island is the only state
in the union which makes the owner
ship of property condition for voting.
A good story is told in Zjon'S Herald
of wedding in a Methodist church
whereat prominent divine who was
to oiliciate, finding himself and con-
gregation in the church cOnsiderbly in
advance of the bridal party, finally
asked that some one should strike uD
a hymn to improve the time. A good
brother started off just rs the bridal
party entered the church, with the
hymn beginning
Come on, my partners in distress"
One secret of the decline of the
southern cotton-mills, which THE NeaO
Orleans Picayalne admits and deplOres,
is that there was too great "boom"
in these enterprises. Those that were
earliest in the field made heavy divi-
dends, which induced others to crowd
in, until the production of the coarser
grades of goods, to which these mills
, are chiefly devoted, was pushed be-
yond the demands of the market.
Those desiring to check tendency
, to obesity may now choose between