The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-14
The BULLETIN.
Rsadiss matter On every mage.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Maryland 10. 10 have five executions
before August If the ropes don't break.
Turkish baths are q failure in Cincin-
natl there isn't water and soap enough.
Recent endowments have swelled the
resources Of Lee university, In Virginia
100000.
Chicago has discovered that the state
OF Texas beats her on the monthly mum.
Der Of murders, and she is grisved.
When telegraph operators have no other
news to transmit they can always branch
of on "anOtber murder in New York"
There 10 one monagerie travelling this
year which has not got the "wiid Austria
liam children" but Of course has the wild
man OF BOrneo."
The Cleveland 'Plaindes,er' thinks
that dime-novei writers will stand ashast
al the idea OF Capt. Jack beng captured
with a satchsl la his hand.
Says the Boston DGlobe:' "what IL
the use Of living If seventeen female lectur-
ers are to be turned loose TO alright ana
desolate the next season y
The cost Of maintaining tho public
schools OF New YORK Tor the coming year
will be g., $50, UOO. or this sum teachers
Will receive little over s2,VVOOOo.
"A clerk nj Xsnis, ONO, voted himself
$50 back pay, aud was jagged AS quIcs ss
WAX. liz cant understand why he hAdn
rs good right ss congressman.
A New Yorker, who has had bis
pockets packed ono hundred tunes during
tue inst i've years, at n cost oi forty cents,
says u 10 all amusement much cheaper
than the thsstres.
An Old lady passenger WAS so much
Impressed 10y the ponte suentiOn she re-
coiyed ir I'm railroad conductor, in Con-
nectlcut, that sue recently lett INN TWEEN
ty-fys hundred dOllars by her wlil.
The edilor ofthe Fredericksburg, Va,
News Wa. ask-d by . stranger, "lft was
possible that that little town kept up four
hewpapsr,, and the reply was mo, It
lakes four newspapers 20 keep up the
town.'
Some men a, Louisville were betting on
the weight ofa large mule, when one man,
VINO was q good Judge of the weight of
i've stock, got behind the mule and WAS
measuring his hind quarters, when some
tnlng appeared to loosen up tho mule.
rhe expert gave 1t as his opinion that II
behind, be must weigu not far from ~,
0OU pounds.
The Pennsylvania railroad manage
ment, besides inslructiDg conductors TO
permit no article 10 DO sold which nigh,
soil or injure the upholstery OF the cars or
the clothing OF the passeng gers, directs
those officials TO soc that train peddlers
are not allowed to offer their cOmmodi-
81 In
quency, rs TO discommode and annoy the
psssengcrs.
Tho proprietor OF Newstead Abby,
the home Of Lord Byron, has attempted to
close the road leading TO the soby, which
is known to have been q public way more
than seventy years. 40 resist this, a
mum Der of residents of Hucknall Torkard
proceeded to force /, open, and broke
down tho barriers. Three Of these have
been served with write, but At . public
meeting /, has been decided 70 defend
them and sustain all the costs Of the &C.
ton.
The India.rubber hustle" 10 again
heard from. This time 1t was Brooklyn
Young lady, who WAS thrown from her
carriage coming down the hill from Pros
pee, Park. She made ninety-seven and q
half boupces In all, and was finally rescued
by a hook and ladder company, from III.
top Of telegraph pole, where she bad
stuck in attempting to complete the nine
" eighth bounce.-[ New York CONNER.
cisl Advertiser
Experiment. have Just been instituted
in Berlin with q view of determining
wha, harm is really done to the roots OF
trees aud shruhs by coal-gss escaping from
pipes and permeating the soil. Ii has been
. found that even SO small a quantity a,
| % cubic feet OF gas per dag, distributed
through $40 cubic feet OF earth, rapid y
kills the rootleis Of all trees with which IL
| comes in contact.
SO rapid is the destruction of Holsters
that il 10 predicted that the present gem
Grafton Of humans is the last that ia to en-
| Joy the luxury of this valuable shell-ash
| Despite tho statements that the supply II
| inexhausisble, any one who looks into q
| fish market will And that the reverse Il
the fact; that the rapidly diminishing
size Of those caught points to their speed J
| extinction unless the merciless slaughter
is arrested.
| The Mobile Register says that thu
Egyptian govern ment is turning its atten
ton 20 the improvement OF the cottor
lands, every year opening new channels Il
facilitate irrigation, employing steam
pumps for that purprse, and doing all IL
its power to make the cotton cror source
Of continual prosperity. The Eg,ptsir
crop for the past year is estimated at TIVE
hundred million pounds.