Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-06-15
PASSING EVENTS.


ers.
Chinese failures at Portland, Ore
gon, of late, have been frequent and
settlements small.
Two vessels are on the way from
Hong Kong with seven hundred coolies
for Victoria, b. G.
Every county in Indiana except two
is represented by democratic office
seekers IN Washington.
Experiments show that the heating
value of wet coal is % per cent less
than of that which is dry.
1t is calculated that the Mazatlan,
Mexico, custom-house will this year
collect S3,000,000 in revenue.
Byron's original MS. of his poem,
'Fare thee well, and if forever" was
lately sold in London for about SSS.
Only three hundred copies of the re-
port of Guiteau's trial were printed by
the government. and most of these are
in the hands of spectators.
The United States steamer Chicago,
the last and largest of the new steel
cruisers built at Roach's ship-yard,
Chester, will be launched June 22.
Hon. Daniel Agnew, ex-chlef justice
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
has been chosen to address the alumni
of Western university. He is one of
the Oldest graduates.
The Yuma Indians, who numbered
three thousand fifteen years ago, are
now reduced to fifteen hundred. Their
chief, Pasqual, Is supposed to have
long since passed his centennial year.
Parlor-cars are now constructed
with bay windows. Some on the line
between New York and Baltimore are
fitted with a series of five such win
dows, each about seven feet wide and
trifle higher than usual. They COM
promise central light about three feet
wide, from which two smaller lights
defect in contrary directions. There
is no projection beyond the outer line
of the car, the DETECTION of the wings
being inward, and there is no exten-
sion beyond the limit of safety.
The late Franz Abt, the song writer.
was surprising gourmand. A
"goose," he used TO say, sis very
pretty bird, but it has one great fault;
it is little too much for one and much
too little for two" Coming out of
restaurant the other day, looking su-
premely happy, "Herr Kappelmeis-
ter" said friend to him, ''you seem
to have dined we'll" "Ycs, l had
fair dinner; it was a turkey" "And
was there good company around the
board!" Eyes, goOd-but small; just
two, indeed, the turkey and myself"
An intelligent physician has dis
covered that color blindness is very
rare among girls, though it is common
among boys. From this fact he draws
the conclusion that in most cases color
blindness is due to want of early ed
ucation in discriminating betweeH col
ors. Girls are taught to become
familiar with every shade of color,
while boys receive no instruction what
ever in colors. Hence, boys frequent
ly show an ignorance of colors which
is confounded with true color blind
ness, but which girls rarely show.
A complete collection of the native
woods of the United States is being
prepared for the New York Museum
OF Natural History. 1t will comprise
thirty-six varieties of oak, thirty-four
of pine, nine of fir, five OF spruce, four
of hemlock, twelve of ash, three of
hickory, eighteen of willow, three of
cherry, nine of poplar, four of maple,
two of persimmon, and three of cedar
Each specimen will display both longi-
tudlnal and transverse grainings of the
wood, as well as the log in its natural
condition, with the bark attached
The following complaint emanates
from The Boston journal: 1t is a pe-
culiar police regulation which forbids
1orciple entrance upon unoccupied
premises for the purpose of eXtinguish-