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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1882
Page
15
A garbled OCR text fragment references names and places with unclear meaning. It mentions a Mrs and possible city ties, plus scattered terms like Ingle, Ack, Mo, and Bond. The readable items are too partial to determine a cohesive event or notice.
A feature describes a fashionable home kitchen styled with artful shelves andJapanese screens, showing off prettily arranged china and an opera themed stove. It details clever storage for utensils and groceries, a dry slop basket solution, and a woman of high society living with stylish practicality.
Artemus Ward spoke to students at a New London seminary after a lecture and used a runaway horse incident to illustrate his talk. He quipped about moral entertainment and warned that a man tied to a woman may run away with her, joking about a coral pin as a lost heart.
A quaint miniature house features numerous additions, with a brick court, flower yard, and a green light through a privet arbor. Walls weathered and covered in hollyhocks, roses, and honeysuckles frame a cozy interior of clever cupboards and garden views, showing compact comfort.
A New York Tribune correspondent portrays Mmo Bernadaki as the fair Russian aiming to be Paris’s most beautiful woman. The observer notes blue eyes aquiline nose a Cupid bow mouth and an exquisitely set head and shoulders. If her face proved expressive she might be divine and could become a Parisian society queen next season.
The author argues that a woman with common sense does not fall in love suddenly without realizing it. Even if she tries to deny it, she secretly understands the depth of her feelings at the core of her heart, in both sweetness and bitterness.
In a Curios case Mrs Honora T Baird won equity rights to her late husband’s estate despite previously signed trust deeds. The court held her pre marriage actions could not bar her as widow of a man of property, showing law protecting one woman despite herself.
San Francisco Bulletin reports winter hats feature revived spoon bonnets with Paris and London styles. Show cages display bizarre and grotesque headwear, signaling a fashionable yet odd trend for the season.
The piece describes oversized crowns and dramatic dental designs, noting a revived old-fashioned model once known as the P borne. It mentions a poke bonnet idea applied to a friend’s head to mimic the look of a spoon bonnet, illustrating a fashion satire from a up-town setting.
An English journal claims Britain produces the world’s handsomest women and that continental beauties lag. It argues climate and an excess of women over men drive selection, while noting Americans dispute the claim and praise U.S. women’s looks.
The Christmas card design prizes were awarded with eight prizes in total. Miss Dora Wheeler won first prize and the popular vote, each worth 1000 dollars, with Miss L B Humphrey second by artists and Mr Walter Saterlee second by popular vote. Others named include Fred Dielman and Miss Florence Taber.
At an English sanitary congress F A Russell reported that climates are drier and milder at heights similar to upper rooms. He urged placing invalids in high sheltered rooms and building houses on arches or piers with ventilation underneath. He warned against habitable homes with damp walls or ground-level floors.
The Inter Ocean reports little change in juvenile footwear and bonnets. Devonshire and Mother Hubbard styles reappear with fur felt beaver plush velvet and cloth materials. Boots stay practical with low heels square toes and comfortable arches, while pebble goat leather is praised for outdoor use reducing rubber overshoes.
Demorest's Monthly notes a Finnish Russian sect where men cede domestic authority to wives and a queen is chosen from among the women. It contrasts with an older Siberian faith, the Puvi tieres, that also honors married women.
A satirical notice argues that lavish wedding gifts and rented displays make costly weddings affordable for the average man. It mocks the trend of exchanging bonds and expensive presents as a new standard in matrimonial celebrations.
Mme Madjeeka comments on her beautiful sister Mrs Langtry in England. She calls her charming and notes her short stage career, praising beauty over acting power while admiring her as a public figure.
The South American theatre agency hires Sarah Bernhardt for fifty performances mainly in Brazil. The salary is $165,000. She departs Paris on April 20 and will tour for 134 days.
The Women’s Silk Culture Association of the United States offers $500 in ten prizes ranging from $10 to $100 each for those who produce the ten largest amounts of cocoone of the best quality.
An interview with a leading caricaturist explores how satire evolved from crude to artistic. He credits reader education and newsroom collaboration for sharper images, notes risks of early release, and recalls a Chicago 1880 machine incident that boosted their prophetic reputation.
A fragmented lecture outlines a self styled mesmeric method using a bright object and eye fixation to induce sleep and dream states. The piece also muses on Mrs Langtry’s fame, consumer spectacle, and the furniture age's appetite for celebrity sentiment.
English Corny Tribune laments the vast retinues serving wealthy families in the United States. It lists the many roles from gamekeepers to maids, farm laborers, and house staff, noting their wages clothing and beer costs. The piece mocks the scale of domestic service and its social implications.
A Seventh Cavalry officer at Fort Lincoln receives a letter from a Mandan ranch owner describing her widowhood and heavy work. She seeks a reliable private or sergeant to marry if they can live together, offering a good home and partnership.
New York Tribune notes a Dublin magistrate named Tua O Malley whose vivid phrasing frames a moral courtroom moment. He roars at an offender that Justice may pursue with a leaden heel yet she also strikes with cast iron on the toe.
The verse names Gerald Meseey and proclaims a forward march. It frames struggle and renewal with a changing force, hinting at a call to steadfast effort and future triumph.
Excerpted from a New York Tribune piece discusses the enduring cycle of suffering and grinding of the human heart. The writing contrasts idealistic aims with harsh reality and questions moral progress. It asserts that without purpose people become the agents of their own ruin, a warning about complacency and conflict.
An excerpt from Burdetto's Life of William Penn recounts Penn negotiating a land sale offering $500 for Pennsylvania with all appurtenances while an interpreter names Onas questions the fairness of selling to rightful owners for such a price. The exchange evokes tense silence among delegates.
The article explains capillary bleeding from congested vessels and oozing without rupture, detailing nose throat gums stomach and lung cases. It notes cirrhosis can weaken intestinal capillaries and lead to intermittent bowels bleeding, while dangerous hemorrhages stem from vessel wall failure due to ulcers abscesses cancers or brain capillary rupture causing paralysis or death.
Dr. Allen notes a century of shrinking family sizes among strictly native New Englanders. He cites weaker physical strength in men and deteriorating physiology in women, including reduced nursing ability, suggesting a coordinated change in organization affecting propagation, despite constant climate and food.
The Rev. Ma gave a humorous account of misreading a hymn in the pulpit. He attempted This world is all a fleeting show but botched it into a floating shoe and a shouting flow. After further slips he admitted he could not read the hymn and proposed the choir perform a voluntary.
The piece attacks George Alfred Townsend and public figures like Conkling and Cameron, branding their imitators as Falstaffian and calling Stalwartiam cowardly beneath a surface of thieflike desperation. It condemns figures such as Smyth Platt and French as nervous flunkeys compared to the bullies.
A woman faces a social trap arguing that marriage or remaining single carries sharper insults. She fears being called a spinater if she stays unwed and a relict if she marries and forgives an unworthy husband.
General Booth of the Salvation Army has ordered several thousand pairs of leggings to be added to the uniform, to be known as Salvation leggings. The move signals a standardized attire addition for future use.
The article narrates a perilous elevator ascent nearly 400 feet to the Washington Monument’s top amid rattling mechanisms and fierce winds. Reporters describe the dizzying drop, rope nets, and a brave crowd, then praise the panoramic view of Washington landmarks, including the Capitol and Treasury Building, emerging like models from the height.
The piece lauds Hugo as France’s leading poet and a generous, active writer. It recounts a banquet he hosted for orphaned children in Veules, quoting a grandfatherly appeal to love France, education, and kindness, while noting his patriotism and exile.
The article cites Grant praising English soldiers at Gibraltar for their distinctive gait and Anglo Saxon blood, noting their swing of conquest. It highlights their well knit frame, endurance, discipline, and iron will, seen as shaping both history and future outlook.
A fragment reports a light catch in the Arctic ocean with about eighty whales taken previously. It notes a repeat pattern of limited yields and references a recent year, indicating the ongoing whaling activity and its modest outcome.
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