The Cheyenne Daily Leader

A correspondent of the London Lancet, the most important medical journal published in England, relates the following curious fact: A man in his neighborhood had three daughters. Wishing for a son, he made a solemn vow that, if his next child should be a girl, he would never speak to her. The next child proved to be a son, as he wished, but curiously enough, he never would speak to his father, although he lived thirty-five years with him. He always talked freely with his mother and sisters, but with no one else until after the death of his father, when he talked readily with every one. He was called "Dumb Eli."