Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-02-20
FACTS AND FANICES.

| length 10y lVe ana nalt III Wlutn.
Vessels arrive daily at Gloucester,
Mass. loaded down with halibut, and
they are fast becoming u drug on tho
market.
A cricket eleven from the West
Indies will soon begin the task of teach
! ing America organizations how to play
that game.
A swift steel steamboat is soon to
make its appearance among tho
wooden fleet ON the waters of tho
upper Mississippi.
The young ladies of Vassar will COM
pete in the iternational cooking-match
to be held at Westminster for a spec
ial prize to be given for indestructible
| bread.
Mr.. Ferguson, of Bucksville, Ky, af-
ter twelve years distracting work,
says he has perfected an engine which
has llmitless possibilities. No water
or fuel is required.
Generals, coionels, and lesser official
military lights can be found to the
number of siXty-two in Rome, Ca, but
mot single private is known TO be
within the city limits"
There are now forty-thousand China
of whom live outside of Chinatown.
The majority of them are well armed
and prepared for attacks.
1he Laramie Boomerang calls atten-
tion to the fact that the reservation
Indians leave their reservation and
slaughter droves of wild game
by driving the animals into pockets.
The great triple toboggan slide that
Al. Al. a
ring the winter, is almost finished. 1t
has been graded for distance of 1000
feet wide. The grade is one in four.
A horse that fell overheard in New
York harbor the other night, swan
for seven hours, when rescued ut dawn
munched his oats rs contentedly us il
nothing out of the usual course OF
events had occurred
J Joseph Hatfield, II weaver in the
} Baltic mill in Sprague, Conn, has just
received word that by the death of an
} uncle in England he comes into one
fifth of an estate of 1928, 900. He sails
for England next Saturday.
Miss Florence Miller, of Texarkana.
Ark, woke up Saturday night, and
perceiving II burglar in the room
sprang at him, pulled his hair, and
showed him towards Il window, out OF
, which he jumped, Florence firing sew
eral shots at him.
There is n hill on fire near Minnedo-
sa, which caught from prairie fire
last spring and has been burning ever
( since. The smoke can be distinctly
seen, and when the wind blows from
, that quarter to the settlement it smells
like burning coal.
A tramp printer to whom the editor
of 1he Northeast Md. star gave 25cents
! two years ago acknowledged the kind
: ness last week by an editorial on Mary
, land hospitality in prosperous Mime
sofa paper of which he is now the
editor and proprietor.
7 Montana and Dakota combined
! would form domain larger in extent
t than all of the United States from the
t st. Lawrence to North Carolina and
] from the Alleghanics to the Atlantic
Custer county, Montana, alone is larger
I in area than the whole state of Penn
: sylvania.
l Near Gilmore, Neb., is being built o
I feeding stable, 3OOXSOO feet, containing
u 3, $50 separate stalls, and in which it
L will bo possible to tatten yearly II ,250
head Of cattle, for which purpose it is
estimated that 800, 900 bushels of corn
and 1000 tons of hay will be required
~ The Charleston Ae,OS and Courier
y says there is deplorabe condition OF
a morals among the colored people on
the Sea islands. If left to themselves
" they will sink TO the lowest level OF
:. degradation in few generations.
=. There is a wide field for missionary