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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1882
Page
4
A Friday evening banquet in Omaha honored Gen. Crook with mottoes of his engagements and ornate floral tributes in the shape of a major general’s shoulder strap. Speeches toasts and responses followed refreshments as guests enjoyed the event.
The Laramie Bicycle Club organized with M. Barrow as president and W. O. Owen as captain. The seven active members include five honorary and one ornery member, Bill Nye, who jokes about riding a 54 inch wheel in his mind. The club claims to be the first in the territory.
The Wyoming Press Association holds a regular meeting at Rawlins on Monday Sept 4 with a social focus. A complimentary ball by the Rawlins cornet band and an excursion over Union Pacific lines to Gunnison country are planned for members and guests.
The School for Young Indians leader Miss Alice C Fletcher arrived at Carlisle on August 19 with thirty six Omaha children. Thirty-one go to Carlisle and five to Hampton Institute. She met Sitting Bull at Fort Randall selecting ten children. Captain Pratt will take these ten and sixty more from Rosebud and Pine Ridge to Dakota schools in September, totaling about three hundred sixty pupils from twenty nine tribes.
At Eddy street foot a hawk attacked a flock of chickens but the game rooster fought back, fighting fiercely for ten rounds until the hawk retreated. The rooster emerged in prime condition amid a noisy spectacle as Wyoming exhibit praise grows in Denver coverage and tributes to Governor Hoyt and Professor Bailey.
Telegraphic reports from the Drovers Journal show extensive cattle shipments to the Union Stock Yards with Wood, Richman, Burke, Bass, and Adams handling Texas cattle and mixed herds. Prices hover near steady with a market dip noted despite strong ranges in the Black Hills and New Mexico growth.
A Philadelphia press promotes What Women Should Know from Fireside Publishing Co as a fast publishing venture. The reviewer notes bold treatment of physical, moral, and social topics by a wife and mother author while praising its provocative aims and urging reliance on medical care and sensible habits for women.
An old New York Commercial Advertiser note describes looting and quick thefts as a person slips away toward a riflemen in the brush. The terse lines capture a moment of pursuit and stealth amid a tense scene.
The article argues that consumption formerly deemed incurable is being overturned by post mortem findings. Edinburgh hospital examinations showed that about one third of deaths in people over forty had lungs with past consumption evidence. Damaged lung tissue had healed by contraction and fibrous formation, implying prior disease and later cure.
A collage of aphorisms and reflections from Eliot Hugo Ampere Lavater Petit Senn La Bruyere Balzac Chamfort Lingree and Lingree on trust doubt happiness manners religion travel and self sacrifice. The loose text presents paired quotes and contrasts between virtue and vanity.
The Texas fever appears in Central New York causing farmer excitement while Pennsylvania and West Virginia report spread. Central New York reports 11 deaths among 32 cattle. Chicago markets face corn scarcity and high prices reducing feeding. Western cattle show strong through summer.
The piece muses on how youthfulness shrinks with age, noting teens see twenty five as old, thirty five fears forty, and fifty still fights aging. It claims life’s drive keeps people feeling young, with sixty reflecting on past deeds and the hope of continuing in life.
University laboratories at Harvard report that intense cold produced by solid carbonic acid can remove nearly all magnetism from magnetized steel bars. The finding suggests temperature changes may influence earth magnetism observations, as steel's molecular state shifts with cold. In Russia, sanfower cultivation yields oil from seeds, animal feed from residue, and edible flowers for tables and honey appeal to bees.
Scientific American reports M Leven on coffee delaying gastric digestion by causing mucous anemia while stimulating nervous centers. Sugar improves digestion, aiding meat breakdown and offsetting coffee effects. Excess coffee and tea commonly worsen dyspepsia. sugar addition is urged. A curious note adds that U S population center has not moved due west from Baltimore since 1790.
The piece reviews early theories that meteorites are solar or cosmic fragments entering Earth’s atmosphere. It cites Greek thinkers Plutarch and Diogenes of Appollonia, mentions Chladni and Sir H. Davy, and notes Prof H A Newton of Yale as a modern advocate, outlining spaceborne origins and meteors’ varying combustion.
A historical note extols bananas as superior to meat and potatoes and describes their tropical cultivation yields. It details banana varieties such as platino manzanito and platino grande, uses in Brazil and Cuba, and how plantains are prepared. Also warns that broken bottles can start fires in dry scrub and camps.
Fragments mention Aug dates, river encampments, political figures like Ex Gov and London, labor strikes, prison mentions, clemency, and various place names including Dallas Philadelphia and Arizona. References to theaters Daly Niblo's Bijou and performers hint at entertainment ads. No coherent narrative. OCR appears garbled with mixed topics.
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