The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-11-13
The 8ulletim.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1874.
MISCELLANEOUS.

amily and creditors. in Western Yer
mont, five years ago. lie has lately been
heard from III western territory. and, OF
course. is an Office holder.
The winter carnival ut Washington.
will this time not be as gay and brilliant
among the ruling powers as they had in
tended it should be before their eyes were
drawn to the handwriting on the wall.
This somewhat singular and wholly
unwarranted statement appears ia the
Milwaukee Sentinel: "lOu may gloat
over the failure of the rebellion and the
Louisville editor will bear it patiently.
But spell Fort Sumptcr with p and he
will fight you till he falls exhausted on Il
pile of Southern exchanges. i Courier
journal.
Europe j. discussing the celebration
of one more centennial. This Is the cen
| tcnnia of the potato. oroi it, introduction
TO European tables. Although the po-
tato went to Europe much more than Il
hundred years ago. it, introduction to
the table OF Louis XVI. by Parmenticr
| IN 177l. j. the date counted rs the begin
ning'of its history beyond the water.
--TalIeyrand died May 30. 1888. lii
memoirs were to have been published in
thirty years. His executor, NJ. de Ban
court, determined TO delay the publica-
ton fifteen years longer But the exec
utor died a few years since--and the eX-
exutors OF the executor are reported To
have decided that Talleyrand's will is Of
more consequence Than Bancourt's opin-
ion. Hence AN early publication is looked
for.
Already such men rs X. NJ. T.. Hun.
ter, a former United States senator from
Virginia, has proposed that the losses %
the slave-aristocracy, both in their slave
property and in other values. shall b,
paid for by the general government. ant
the Democracy of the South has not beer
slow to follow that proposition up witt
others equally rcpulsive.- Wahiagto,
Republican.
Delay there. Mind your grammar
S-t-e-a-d-y.-C01ier-Jounai.
The Edinburg iScotchman says that tn,
present English government are pre-
pared, for political reasons chiefly, to b,
very liberal in regard to arrangement
for the due representation of Grea
Britain at the Philadelphia Exhibition o
1876. 1t Is not improbable that tn
Prince of Wales will occupy the position
he did ut Vienna rs head of the British
| Commission, and the list of noblcme
and gentlemen who have consented I
their nomination is distinguished an
large.
Three mariners appeared at the Port
land, Me-, custom house the other da
and requested to have the register c
their schooner changed so as to hail lroi
Portland. On being informed that
could not be done. rs from their papc
they belonged in Gloucester. Mass, the,
stontly declared that they did not bclon
anywhere except on the high seas tia
for the past twcnty-onc years they In
lived aboard their vessel, only landin
| at times for provisions or stores ha
paid no taxes and had not voted
that twcnty.one years ago, when ut Que
bee, an attempt was made to make then
pay taxes. and the matter went to Wash
ingtOn, but resulted in their getting oi
free. The matter remains under advise
mcnt.
"A Paris letter has thi, story of al
actor who was too thin: 4 well-know
physician advised him to 20 To one of Tia
bathing places in the Pyrenccs. Pcrle
accordingly asked for leave of abscnc
from his theatre, and wont oil to the pre-
scribed locality, where he drank an
bathcd with the utmost zeal and pcrsc
vcrancc. But neither drinking nor bath
ing seemed TO have any effect on him, ant
he remained just as much Of Il skeleton al
before. Patience" urged the local doc
tor, in reply to his expressions of disap
| pointment; there is nothing like In,
water of our springs for making pcopl
| Fat ~ One day, when Pcrlct was per
fectly soaking himself in BATH in TN
hope of AN Increase of weight whicl
seemed in no haste to declare itself h
heard a colloquy in the bathing cabinet
next his own, between the local Escula
plus and Il lady of enormous obesity
Doctor" remarked the lady, II I'm
really losing heart and patience" "Wh!
| soY' inquired the doctor. because
though have been taking these water
regularly for two months, am not ON
ounce lighter - Patience, Madame =
said the doctor in his most persuasive
tones; there is nothing like the water {
| nnr snrinn. for mink inc nnnnlr Him =.