, 1885-09-04
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Hang out your banners.
The bananas are already out.
The Western riots were town talk yes
terday.
There was a dense fog at 3 o'clock this
morning.
The squirt target on Sixteenth street
should have some draping.
There will be a total eclipse Of the sun
on the Sth, but it will be invisible here.
You ought to read THE WEEKLY
LEADER. you who do not take the daily.
Its a daisy.
The CARPENTER Union will hold their
meetings hereafter in st. Johns hall, be-
ginning this evening. va
Thou shalt not kill is a law of God
and man, which the riotous miners should
have remembered.
The black flag system of signaling APP
preaching cold waves will not be used by
the signal Office here,
The wrong.doers who fail to pay their
fines in the police courts are doing the
city service in cleaning up the streets and
alleys.
Judge Fisher has found a man who
would rather be a private than a staff
officer. Strange things happen every day
in Wyoming.
Some Chinese going west on the train
last evening looked las if they hadn't
heard of the fun that the Rock Springs
miners are having.
Judge Fisher had yesterday three
DRINKS before him. One paid the fine
and the other two ven to Jail. Judge
Lee had two DRINKS and one tramp. All
wen to jail.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
77.5'; lowest, 46.5o; mean temperature,
59.5; mean humidity, $50 per cent; high
est velocity of wind 81 miles per hour
The selection of Mr.. J. c. Baird as the
orator to FIJI the FIJI the place of the alb
sent mayor, in delivering an address of
welcome to the ''old boys on behalf of
the city, is a happy one. He will do the
occasion full justice.
The school people will have an unusual
ly interesting meeting at the opera house
tonight. The city schools will give an
exhibition in ~calisthenies in addition to
the other exercises, the programme OF
which is printed elsewhere in these
columns.
Kimme and Justis had lots of fun out
on a ranch Wednesday Jnstus got most
Of the fun, however. He was thrown
from a donkey and has a lump on the top
Of his head which looks as if his phre-
biological development of generation is
remarkably abnormal =
The Omaha Bee says, "Work has be-
gun on the electric light plant in Chey-
enne.' The fact is, Mr.. Bee. that
Cheyenne has been lit for years by cleo
tricity. and it was the first city in the
United States, or the world, in which the
incandescent light was farmed out in
business houses and residences. The
plant" spoken of is simply a new
building which the company is erecting.
OF the amount subscribed for the en-
campment fund, 5000 have been col,
lected, $500 more is needed to make uI
the sum of 50, 300 required, and thus
amount has been subscribed except about
$50, but is not collected yet. Mr.. J. F.
jenkins, of the committee, who has beer
working with great zeal in the matter o.
collections as well as in everything els,
that has been asked of him, thinks tina
it will be an easy matter to secure tn,
subscription of the lacking $50.
On Friday evening of next week vii
L. Visscher, Of THE LEADER, will de
liver his humorous lecture Sixty
Minutes in the War in the Presbyte.
rian church for the benefit of the church.
and a brilliant musical programme will b,
given also. Friday evening has beer
selected because the only other attraction
that evening will be the bali, and those o.
the audience who desire to attend tn,
ball will have time enough to go there
after the entertainment at the church il
over.