The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-27
THE BULLETIN.
Pub lAeasion Omce. Bulletin Building'
Wash1ngt0u Avenue.
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MISCELLAN

--Business on the levee dozy yesterday.
Nothing in the police court yester-
day.
Boys don't tear the beautiful maple
shade trees.
We are to have postal cards beginning
Of September.
1t is easier to give good advice than
TO take IL. Keep cool.
No case of sun stroke in the city, as
yet People use umbrellas.
Their was brief shower in the city
yesterday, but it did not remain long.
MIR. Harvey L. Goodall, of the Chi
cago "Sun", called on us yesterday.
old Sol didn't pay q bit Of heed to
our pitiful remonstrances yesterday.
Temperature . degree lower toward
noon, with light showers and strong
breezes.
The river in front of Columbus is be-
ing protected from the wash of the Miss
issippi. Pile driving is proceeding rapidly.
-"Juett" contributes to our columns
this morning, another Of his very interest
ing letters. 1t will be found on the second
page, and will repay perusal.
Josh Billings says opera music don't
have any more effect on him than castor
oil on craven image. He never heard
the Cairo Silver Cornet band
Peoria brags of three runaway teams
in ten minutes, besides wagon smash on
Wednesday also of blood red hen
dressed in seventeen or eighteen feathers.
In a wagon drawn by two moonly-
ribbed horses, we counted thirteen colored
men and women, none of whom, we should
judge, weighed less than $50 pounds each.
How's that for a swelter?
columbus, Ky, gloriates over n
"tarrier" calf; the calf catches rats and
squeezes them to death, as we'll as she can
with her young teeth. They ought to
find that calf in hobnail boots to stomp
the rats, till her teeth grows.
In the corn fields at the head OF
Ninth street, the stalks are nine feet
high and SO even is the growth, that the
tops of the stalks seem to be perfectly
level; the ears are of enormous size.
Egypt ahead.
This melting time be careful of your
habits. Eat sparingly Of solid food and
moderately Of ripe fruit and vegetables
don't work too hard don't drink ice wa
ter in heated state; be temperate ir
drinking as well as in all things, and rcat
The BULLETIN.
Railroad thieves around Columbus
KY, were chased and escaped to tn
, swamps the other side Of the river nea
Belmont. They left with q payroll war
rant for S6s and small amount of casl
from conductor Mimms of the NJ. &
X. r. Their names are Conger and Lynch
formerly brakeman.
Save your fuel and don't stand over
hot stove to cook. Take, say, dozer
bricks, pile them about foot and hal
square, get some common window glass
and make little rough frame slice SOM
ham, also potatoes, etc, ad tibitum
Place the bricks in the sun, Of course pu
on the meat to cook, and cover with
the glass. In Is minutes, there you are
The local has been struck will
. another idea which almost sent him Il
mother earth. In times Of great hea
+. like the present, during successive night:
! may be seen what has been sometime
!, called evening lightning" unaccom.
: panied by thunder. There being no con
: cussion, are these silent flashes of pre-
: cisely the same electrical nature as tn
Aurora Borealis under different atmos
pheric conditions Can any Cairo scien
y tist tell us?
Taking all circumstances into con
!. sideration, and that the latter half of Jul
!. and the month Of August are reckoned O
A the dull time of the year, business {
% Cairo has been remarkably good. If W
!, are not progressing SO rapidly as S
A Louis and other large cities, our advance
!. ment is substantial and permanent. w
Il shall endeavor, as opportunity offers,
furnish some mercantile statistics, whic
:. will show intending investors of capt.
~ from other points, that such investment
whether in manufactures or wholesale 10
s bling, would prove profitable beyond G
pectation. We propose to furnish stati
tical information from every manufactu
ing and business house in the city. Pc
- haps that will open the eyes of some e
a. terprising men from abroad, who a