Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-10-03
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PASSING EVENTS


The Chinese make, as well as wash,
most of the white shirts worn in San
Francisco.
Four thousand persons are annually
buried in Potter . hcldS of New
York city.
An old womna of 81, the mother of
twelve children, eloped from Clinton,
Can, with boy of Il
The exports of manufactured tobac-
co from Petersburgh, Va, from the
18th to the 30th of June, inclusive,
amounted to upward of 265 600 pounds.
During one week over three thous-
and pounds of arsenic were sent into
San Joaquin valley, in California, to
be used In eXterminating grasshop-
pers.
The four American cities of above
twenty thousand inhabitants having
the highest natural sites above the
level of the sea are Leadville, Denver,
Omaha, and Atlanta, IN the order
named.
Manitoba is not creditors para
disc. BY recent act not only are q
settlers household effects AMI furni-
ture, etc, free from execution, but
portion of his stock, land to the extent
of 100 acres, and buildings to the value
of S25, 900 are also exempt.
There are in the human voice about
perfect tones. Thus, II direct mus
cles, alone or together, produce 49,
1888; 30 indirect muscles produce l73,-
741, 1923, and all in cooperation
produce the large total of 1882, 1885,
044, Ais different but clearly defined
sounds.
A Charleston, S. c., inventor has
devised n knob, which may be made
highly ornamental, to be affixed to
lady's belt, SO that her partner in
dancing can ''swing partners" with
out that offensive familiarity which
has thrown gloom over the festive
dance. With another knob on the
shoulder, dancing might be as proper
as swinging scythesnath,
Signs are taxed 5 cents per letter
every year in Cuba, and the ingenious
Cuban does not put up a sign if he
can help it, or else paints on it an
emblem, as a boot, II trunk, or cigar.
If words must be employed, it is not
an uncommon practice to dash daub
of paint across the lettering producing
legal obliteration, yet leaving an in
scrIptlon that can still be deciphered.
A ham, western cured, has been sub
mitted to New York doctor to deter
mine the nature of certain parasites
that infested it. He decided that they
were specimens of the acaruS sacchari,
or sugar mite, closely allied to the
ordinary plant louse, and closely re-
semblng it in all but color. The doc
tor gives it as his opinion that they
probably would do no harm if eaten
alive.
Celluloid may be useful materiG.
for many purposes, but ii Is not likely
to become popular among cigar smok'
ers who wear false teeth. A Pitts
burgh lover OF the weed absent mind
edly smoked the stump of cigar too
close to his celluloid teeth, and an ex-
plosion occurred which used up his
mouth so badly that he will want to
take nourishment through tube for
some time to come.
1t can not be said that the University
of Oxford is financed very well, says
London Truth: An appeal for SUBJ
scriptions is now being issued on its
behalf to meet its share of the cost OF
the drainage works which are being
undertaken in order to make the air
less malarious and the water less i'm =
pure. The amount required, it seems,
is E18,OO0, which one would have
thought should have been a prior
charge on the university exchequer to
the El20, 900 spent on the examination
palace.
From a report made to the British
government by its consul general at
Frankfort, it appears that all over
Germany the consumption of ardent
cnirits il rapidlV incrpaSInO oSDpcial | v