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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1883
Page
20
A yellow faced insect expert named William P. Driefield keeps a room full of mosquitoes and other bugs at 119 East Market Street. He claims to have identified many mosquito varieties and to have learned to train them with sound, planning a book titled Twenty Years Among Mosquitoes.
In a New York World interview, Confederate General Beauregard recalls resigning from the U S Army in 1861 to join the Confederacy. He details his wartime absences from home, Butler’s orders to vacate Beauregard houses, and a poignant tale of a noble pass allowing him to see his dying wife before her death.
New York writer and lawyer George M Weston testified to a senatorial committee on labor about land taxation. He referenced a line about buying land in Yazoo County Mississippi and recited a short poem that joked about failure, drawing a restrained smile from the room.
The Chinese minister marked his daughter Miss Mi Ju turning four weeks old with an American style dinner for twelve at the Chinese legation in Washington. The baby, named Mi, symbolizes America and is the first Chinese child born in the city.
Langston, US minister to Haiti, called Douglass the most impracticable leader of his race and said he had accomplished nothing despite his abilities. Chicago Tribune notes the St. Louis interview remarks.
The Inter Ocean reports England supplies India with salt at 25 cents per pound, a 3000 percent tax. A native must work about two and a half days of hard labor to earn one pound of salt.
The Inter Ocean reports Narragansett park judges timed Jay-Eye-See at 2.10% in a test heat last Saturday. Owner J. S. Case celebrated by kissing his wife. A boy's composition notes that onions are vegetables that make you sick when you don’t eat them yourself.
A Boston Herald piece by Joe Howard weighs the sorrows of actresses and the cost of fame. It cites Bernhardt Morris Langtry Patti Nilsson and Edwin Booth to illustrate stage hardship, low pay, and personal losses behind the footlights. It recounts cases where family tragedy clashes with rehearsals and performances.
A Chico Enterprise report describes an Indian burning ritual near Bloomer Hill across the river from Cherokee. About fifty Indians prepared wood and soup to perform the rite at noon on Saturday, a practice tied to sacred beliefs. The burial ground near Bloomer Hill has long held numerous graves, with flour sprinkled on graves at sunset and raucous cries observed by the community.
A narrator records observing two swallow-tailed butterfly larvae maturing into adults. One emerged in a bamboo cage, feasting on honey and basking in sunbeams, living three weeks. The second butterfly showed more intelligence, walking the cage bars to a window, then returning to the keeper's finger.
In 1869 Paris a rich eccentric left his fortune to a veiled seamstress who proved her honesty by returning excess fare on a bus. After testing many travelers with larger change, the sixteenth passenger was the poor girl who refused the excess and touched the man’s heart, securing her about half a million francs in value.
The Paris journals rely on a few reporters to America who chase celebrities and secrets but deliver biased, unreliable prose. Reporting is rapid yet often lacks impartiality, with catastrophes like Lyons described by telegraph and only vague details promised for the next day.
The Chicago Herald describes moonshine operations as crude and dangerous. Buyers place money in a hollow tree to receive liquor, then encounter a horn racket with a hidden girl prompting payment. A six foot moonshiner stands ready, keeping customers at gunpoint.
In The Century Professor Fisher quotes Luthor stating that anger at inspiration makes him write pray and preach well. He asserts anger quickens temperament sharpens understanding and dispels mundane vexations and temptations.
A west side physician urges American women to improve health and appearance with proper diet, outdoor activity, and careful grooming. He prescribes warm underclothing, shoes, skirts, and limited housework, plus walking to save money, and cautions on meals, hydration, and fruit. He advises facial cleansing, gentle shaving methods, and remedies for skin flaws, urging medical help for liver issues and skin blemishes.
An 19th or early 20th century style medical flyer offers Dr Henry Wagner at 343 Larimer Street Denver. It promises cure for seminal weakness and private diseases with guarantees of five hundred dollars for any failed case and free consultation. It cites urinary symptoms, deposits, and age groups 30 to 60 as conditions treated without knife. It promotes The Young Man's Pocket Companion and lists postoffice box 2389 Denver Colorado.
An Old Soldier at Calvert Texas writes May 8 1852 praising valued qualities of comrades and community spirit in a brief expression of appreciation.
During the Civil War I suffered a severe cold and dangerous cough. A country store recommendation led me to AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL and I was rapidly cured. Thousands attest to its relief for bronchial and lung issues. it is palatable for children. Dr J C Ayer & Co. Lowell Mass. Sold by druggists. Gray & Pharse wholesale agents Cheyenne.
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