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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1882
Page
6
A collage of stray notes on society, finance, and technology. Droll lines mention Egyptian expeditions, horse carts in Chester County, and presidents up to midnight. It notes Jay Gould, A Nash, and Commodore Vanderbilt with quirky figures about gold, silver, and nickel weights and horses.
A column compiles assorted items from Philadelphia society and beyond. Anecdotes include royal wardrobe counts, daring expedition fantasies, a breach of promise defense in Wales, a servant’s snake scare, and a Newport social flood of dinner invitations ending in tears.
A white man and six Indians slaughter ten buffalo an hour at the Cheyenne agency Dakota. An Indian drives five cattle into a pen and kills them with a single stroke from a long spear. Offal is dumped. squaws collect it. Major Love issues tickets for offal rewards, used to prevent quarrels.
A collage of brief excerpts features wry quotes on global trade and law, humorous lines about gin and figs, jokes about barbed wire, medical Latin, and a handful of personalities. It notes civic measures in Rockford and property purchases by an English syndicate in Minnesota with plans to settle Danish families.
The National education assembly at Ocean Grove discusses educating Indian children on reservations with schools that teach both book knowledge and practical labor. Officials like Capt. Pratt and Mr. Armstrong at Carlisle and Hampton are cited as models, urging mass education to civilize Indians and reduce savage influence.
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