, 1885-10-18
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little TO
Carry a Head.

st. Luke's.
Threatening snow.
Seek the sanctuary.
The pay car will be here to-day.
This is the Goth Sunday after Trinity.
Business has been picking up consid-
erably of late.
Josh Billings turned out proverbs grin
ming with truth.
There were two carloads OF fruit with
Yesterday eastbound train.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary of
the surrender of CORVALLIS in 1881.
Mn. Goodsell returned last evening
with a full stock of fall and winter mill.
merry,
There is to be an effort made in Paris
at the exposition of 1889, to establish a
universal language. Then your French
neighbours wife can scold your children
so as to be understood.
1t is said that every member of the
British cabinet is a peer OF a son of R peer,
and it pears like that is how it ought
to be.
The attractions here are too strong for
Harry Potter and he hasn't gone to Da-
kota. He seems to be indigenous. os il
were,
The arbitration case between T.. A.
Page & Co. and the Boston Live Stock
company has been postponed until next
Tuesday.
Rev. 4. w. Brady, the chaplain at Fort
Russell, will preach this evening at the
Methodist church, Rev. RAIDER having
gone to Greeley to preach.
A Republican newspaper says Let us
have a piece, is the motto of the Demo
cratic party. Exactly, and the Repub-
lican is so greedy that it doesnt want any
other party to have a piece.
There will be a regular meeting of the
city council next Tuesday night. during
which it is to be hoped that the crying
want Of house numbers and street names
will be attended to.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
44.2'; lowest, 30. 9'; mean emperature
S7.5; mean humidity, 69.3 per cent; high.
est velocity of the wind, "a miles per hour.
Mr. Visscher received another large
invoice of beautiful and elegant millinery
goods by express last night, among which
are some exquisite pattern hats and bon
nets made up in the prevailing New York
styles.
\ party of hunters from Philadelphia in
a special Pullman coach came up from
Greeley with the Denver train yesterday.
There are a number of ladies' in the party,
and all are having a grand time touring
in the west.
Mr.. Myers, the enterprising dry goods
merchant, is going to give every one who
purchases S. worth of goods at his store a
chance in the drawing Of a diamond set
worth $3.50, which is to come off on next
New Years day.
The attention of our readers is directed
to the advertisement of C. f.. Weather
head, the hat presser, of Denver, Col. ,
who presses and r~enovates ladies' gentle
mems and children's felt and silk hats,
and restores them to their original state
of perfection.
1t takes the Laramie papers a long time
to discover a great man, but when they
do discover one they discover him all over.
Not long ago they didn't think w. II.
Holiday was fit for delegate to congress,
and now they think the earth will fly from
its orbit if he isn't appointed governor.
Chicago will please handle the base ball
pennant with care. We shall want it
back next year. Boston Post.
You cannot make it on a diet of baSed
beans. 80 Chicago Inter Ocean.
That the time you took the wind out
Of their sails.
Aunt Lucy says "Ef mos of de young
men roun' hyar wuz ez pooty ez dey
thinks dey is, dar'd be mo matches den
dar is in a box. What 'stonishes me is
how dey gets SIGH notions when dar's so
many ius-class looking glasses in town.
Dey mus be sorter color-blin or sompen
or dat sort.
Mr.. Henderson, of Arkansas, who was
appointed justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico, is about 45 years Of age,
and has held the Office of attorney general
of Arkansas for four years. While identi-
fed with the Democratic party Of his
state, he has never held any strictly polit-
ical office. He was a class-mate of this
reporter, in the University of Louisville.
By request of the president, notice is
given hat the Wyoming Academy of
Sciences, Arts and Letters will hold its
next annual meeting, for the election of
officers and for the transaction Of other
important business, at the territorial
library, on the evening Of Monday, the
18th inst commencing at S O'Clock. The
services for reading and discussing papers
will be held at some later date.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following real estate transfers were
recorded yesterday in the county clerks