, 1889-12-22
MARINE NEWS.

of Corners when the city clerk calls the
roll. Most people would expect an Irish
man to respond and as a matter of fact
the e~x-subject of King Oscar has no right
to the name. His name when he was
among his hardy countrymen was a col
lection of letters which defed with studied
persistence all assaults of English speak
ing people and one day some one called
him Corners and the name stuck until
now, even his neighbors never think that
he brought over a cognomen which had
to be handled in sections.
sas-Patti Rosa is INCIDENTALLY the soub-
rette pet of the American people to-day
and her fetching ways. graceful dancing
and deft banjo twanging have captivated
audiences. across the waters. In the
class Minnie Palmer is her only modern
rival and the latter rather takes to the
Legitimate" Patti is a Cheyenne girl
and being only % years old has a brilliant
future. Her mother was Mile. Cerito
who did ballet dancing at McDanieIs
theater here about thirteen years ago and
whose nimble heels gave her a warm place
il the hearts of patrons of the great moral
variety show conducted by Mac. The
little girl who Is now a star was seldom
seen in Cheyenne. being in an Eastern
school most of the time, but when here
she was reckoned the sweetest and cutest
bit of sunshine in the whole town and a
darling little tyrant she was. Mr.. Dunn,
PATHS husband and a really good actor in
the modest parts he assumes, is a printer
and was at one time foreman Of The
LEADER office. HIS brother is a machinist
in the employ of the Union Pacific at
Evanston.
sa5~ Being a volunteer fireman is lots
of fun. That is. it's pretty nice when the
company gives a ball or when a turnout is
made for the benefit of the mayor or a
party of swell visitors. On these occa-
sions the fireman is in his glory. The
work OF squelching a blaze on a bad night
is no picnic, as witness the keen enjoy
ment of the boys at the Murray barn fire
night before last and the weather was not
nearly so disagreeable as is too often the
case. There was a high, cutting wind
which filled the air with dust and with &C.
cursed perverseneSs sent the dense smoke
and the stencil from burning horse into
the faces of the fame fighters. No duti.
full fireman can perform his work properly
without getting wet through and through
and ~ fhn losf g.. tha urntor 1-o,a ~ oo~
ments after half an hour and made the
condition of the wearer pleasant in the
extreme. Each active fireman well nigh
exhausted himself before the flames were
extinguished, which was not until after
midnight. Then they returned to their
houses and spent two hours in pre-
pairing for another alarm and in
this case it came about 3
o'clock, when the enthusiasts came to
the front again and succeeded in getting
wet once more. Yesterday half the boys
were laid up from exhaustion and attacks
of rheumatism. The city treats its fire.
men pretty well and they like the work.
The compensation is exemption from
poll taxes and the glory of thu thing, but
the man who would miss the chance to
serve at least five years in the department
has a soul smaller than a gold dollar.
The congeIiality of the associations is ex-
tremely ~alluriug and when your company
distinguishes itself you ere allowed to
share the honor.
las-The Union Pacifc's fast mail came
in from the West right on the dot yester-
day morning. as it usually does, but
transferring an immense amount of ex-
press held the ~Thunderbolt here seven
minutes past the leaving time. A dozen
letters will be written about that trifling
delay, but the correspondence shall not
enter into this paragraph. Fred Post was
in the cab of the locomotive which started
east with the swift train and his mill
was coughing sparks before they were 100
yards from the depot. and that seven
minutes was made up in the first hour.
Post likes to run fast. The boys say he
knows the road between this place and
Sidney like a man knows his house.
There is one level stretch of track OF fifty
eight miles on the run and it is the de-.
light of Post and others to make up as
much lost time as possible on this favor
able spot. 1t is related that time after
time Post has made these ffty-eight
miles in exactly itty-eight minutes, and
that he is proud of the feat is no evidence
of vanity in his makeup. John Furniss
and Tom Reed are other engineers on
this run, and have made remarkable runs
and sensational trips. Reed seems to
have an especial iondness for making
pretty stops, and can come into the Yards
at fifty miles an hour and pull up at exactly
the desired place in front of the depot.
Ras~No opera house audience is COM
plete without its quota Of Jays" These
are usually recruited from Western Me-
braska or Northern Colorado and afford