Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-01-28
FACT AND FANCY.

are about 1000 pupils.
Large quantities of ralsins are being
shipped daily from Fresno.
The Saturday holiday of the negroes
troubles Alabama farmers.
In Berks county, Pennsylvania, ma
ny horses are dying from lockjaw.
"GlObe-trotting Americans" is an
English description of American tour
lists.
Natural history: If the swallow
had no throat there would be no
swallow.
In California agriculture has dis
placed mining as the chief business of
the state.
Manganese mines of great value
have been opened in Independence
county, Arkansas.
At Athens, Ga, the other day, ne
gro was seen hauling buggy through
the streets, to the back of which was
tied a mule.
President Cleveland S stableman saws
the president does not care much for
horses. In taking exercise he much
prefers to walk.
An irrigating canal carrying eight
thousand inches OF water is to he built
at the confluence of the Aqua Fria and
Gilarivers, Arizona.
The first copper furnace in Cuba
will be put in operation in n few days,
and the metal will hereafter be export
ed instead of the ore.
! Small Mediterranean oysters, con-
sidered by gourmands as the most del
icate OF all bivalves, are now canned
for expectation from Italy.
1.-The hight of impudence" is defined
in Vancouver, Washington territory,
to be the calling of one doctor up TO
learn the address of another doctor.
J There are about seventy steamers of
various sizes plying the st. Johns
river, Florida, and its tributaries.
The largest is the Alice Clark-592.12 II
tons grOss-while there are thirteen
under four tons.
An autopsy on California horse,
recently made, showed that death was
caused by a 50-cent piece, which had
lodged in the animals heart and
worked itself into such position as TO
stop the flow of blood.
The American who has taken the
prize of 81, 900 and the order of the
Red Cross for the best portable field
hospital shown at the Antwerp expo
siton is collegeman and the head of
great cracker bakery.
Owing to the frequency of fatal mis-
takes through the great similarity in
appearance of morphine and quinine
IL physician urges the plan of color
ing morphine red and enacting law
prohibiting the sale of white NOR
phine.
One of the Mexican editors who re-
Gently travelled in the United States in
a well-intentioned effort to express his
delight at the busy air of Pittsburgh,
Pa, described that city in letter to a
Mexican journal as "the workhouse of
America"
The French cooks at the Hotel Meth
erwood, New Jersey, took good time
for pressing their claims against the
landlord afew days ago. They struck
before breakfast, and there being 175
guests in the house their back pay was
at once handed to the enterprising
cooks, though it amounted to $4,000.
Cincinnati is, by kind of tradition
that has Outlived its day, called the
hog-packing city of the west. 1T used
TO be familiarly known as Pork
Opolis." But it is now at the bottom
of list OF eight great packing cities.
Chicago packs two-thirds of the hogs
treated in this way, and Cincinnati
less than 3 per cent of the whole
number.
A young lady died in the Roosevelt
: (New York hospital last Nav shortly