Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-04-03
PASSING EVENTS.


making pie crust and other light past
res.
Hood River, Oregon, claims to pro-
duce the most lucious peaches in the
west, and Will have an abundunt crop
of them this year.
Paper from cottonwood is being sue
cessfully manufactured at La Camas,
Washington territory.
Patience has limit. A French tailor
recently committed suicide after pay
ing forty-six unccessful dunning visits
to a single creditor.
A small speckled trout haveing been
found in the milk of Philapelphia
milkman, he has raised the price of
his milk to 40 cents pound.
A rose bush in Chico, Cal, is be-
tween thirty and forty feet high, and
fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, and
the top is now mass of white roses.
Cincinnati stands fourth among the
publishing centers of the country, her
annual product of books and papers
amounting in value to more than $5,-
600, 900.
1t is singular fact that many of the
most popular hymns were written by
persons who were not religious at ali,
or whose claims to religion were based
on very slight foundations.
There is bill before the Massachu-
sets legislature to punish person
who makes noise in public library
and disturbs other people. Now for a
bill to punish persons who talk at the
opera and the theater to the annoy
ance of others.
The latest novelty in "ginger ice
cream" in which the heat of the gin
ger counteracts the Chill of the cream,
and the frigidity of the cream nullifies
the fire of the ginger, producing, it is
said, happy medium most gratifying
to the eplcurean palate.
The schools established for boys and
young men and young women by
Evangelist Moody, at Northfeld and
Gill, Mass, cost S105. 900, and two
more buildings will soon be completed
at a cost of 100000 The money was
obtained from rich friends of the dis
tlnguished evangelist.
Leaf-cutting bees cut cylindrical
and spherical patches out of rose
leaves and seal up their nests to pro-.
tect the young. The mason bees make
Il ~
and clay attaching them so solidly to
walls that hammer and chisel must
be used to break them off.
The use of the railway on the Brook
lyn bridge is steadily increasing. About
four tifths of the people who crossed
it last month were carried in cars. AS
compared with March, 1884, the num-
ber of railway passengers increased
"a per cent. while the number Of foot
passengers fell off 8 per cent.
The president of Costa Rica lives in
the finest house in the capital city.
and his residence and the Palacio Fed
eral, which is near it, are about the
only two-story structures in the place.
He receives house-rent free, the use
of two horses ard carriage, salary
of $4,000 year, and uses soldiers
for his servants.
Chickens, two minutes after they
have left the eggs, will follow with
their eyes the movements of crawling
insects, and peck at them, judging
distance and direction with almost in
fallible accuracy. They will lnstinc-
lively appreciate sounds, readily run
ming toward an invisible hen Hidden
in box when they hear her ''call."
An immense ledge of white metal
has been discovered in Antelope val
ley, Mono county, Cal, the nature of
which puzzles all mining experts to
whom specimens have been submitted.
The metal is fusible at first, but after
the first time it yields to nothing ex-
cepta mixture of acids. A pound of