Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-06-30
PASSING EVENTS.

ness.
1t costs only 20 cents to get drunk
in Japan, but about $40 to recover
from It's effects.
California is to print and sell at cost
the text books used by the quarter of
million school-children in that state.
A young married man in Waterbury,
Conn, has persuaded both his wife
and his mother-in-law to leave off cor
sets.
1t is reported that Cinnamon are be-
ing smuggled from Victoria, b. c..
into Washington territory at Gray's
Harbor.
This is my wife; she is very enter
tainlng, and 1 am highly pleased with
her." is the way Natick, Mass, man,
just married, introduces his wife.
A New York man is held in $500
bail for shooting three cats and break
ing up a feline concert at midnight.
And this is called free country.
The remains of what is supposed to
have been huge mastodon were laid
bare few days ago by the caving in
of the bank of Putah creek, Yolo couu-
ty, Cal.
have about the same number of war
vessels, yet our navy cost us $17, 292,-
601 during 1884, while the Germans ex-
pended on theirs but Sc, 752.094.
A nice coffin is considered a very
appropriate present to send an old
person in China. You are, however,
expected to find out what size the
candidate will require without asking
him directly.
A man in Upson county, Georgia,
twenty-five years ago buried three
thousand silver half dollars, and did
not unearth them again until last
week, when they were exhumed and
put into circulation.
A spoonfish weighing nearly twenty
! pounds, and measuring four feet in
length, was captured one day recently
in Dooly county, Georgia. The fish is
rarely found in the streams of that
vicinity, and was sold for So.
An immigrant who landed at Castle
Garden the other day had in his pos
session a $3.50 confederate note, for
which he had paid London broker
APO marks in gold, under the impress
ION that it was United States currency.
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100000. The railroad has contributed
materially to this total, though some
of the net gain of 100000 by rail IN
the past sixteen years has gone to
swell the population in adjacent states
and territories.
A large white bird is on exhibition
in Sumter county, Georgia, which has
certain of the characteristics of the
guinea fowl, with neck in part like
that of rooster, with long ornament
al feathers. 1t has a mere semblance
of comb, but no spurs,
The steamship City of Toxic, which
arrived at San Francisco recently, had
on board 76S Cinnamon destined for
that city. OF these 712 had Gus
customs certificates. There were Sc
who had no certificate recognized by
law, but who hoped to be allowed to
land.
The oldest soldier, measured by his
term of service in the United States
army, is Ordnance Sergt. Charles
Lange, now on duty at San Francisco.
Serg. Lange is few months over SO
years of age, having been born in
Hanover, Jan. 27, 1927. He has been
thirty-eight years and three months
in continued actual service in the
United States army.
A smart colonel of an Irish militix
regiment was lately found fault with
by the inspecting general for the indif-
ferent shooting of his regiment. The
colonel replied; "Sir, / must explain
that l stand before you in two posi-
tions, one as colonel of the regiment
and the other as an Irish Iandlordp