The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS

Corn is now so plentiful in Ala
bama that bushel Of IL is freely ex-
changed for sixty cents.
At Radsco,e, in the college Of RAIDS
chkoumar, the Ilindoo students per
form Shakespeare's plays. They don't
care who wrote them.
We are indebted to a providential
arrangement of Tuper's liver for his
absence from this country. Here is at
least one advantage in having liver.
Savannah is situated in the midst Of
diaries that have furnished her with
twenty thousand pounds of fresh but.
ter during the last year.
The French colopials 10 Franklin
county, Kansas, engaged in silk cul.
ture appear at last to have got their
business on a satisfactory basis, says
the st. Louis Republican, and it will
not surprise us if Kansas yet becomes
one Of the best of silk producing re-
gions.
Everybody should Tiue Ia RepuJ-
legue at Morlaix on the occasion of
McMchon's visit General lie Flo
said to little boy, "Silence, ragmuf
fin, some one has given you two cents
to shout for the republic" laid the
ragmuffin, ala, old one, they gave
YOU a great deal more than that for
serving q republic that you don't
shout for.
| Landseer's lions in Trafalgar square
are now ~ DO surrounded By gravelled
walks and shrubbery. AS the place
is used by Odger and other sgitators
for public meetings, and there is no
pretextfor preventing such as-emblages,
this shrubbery is. perhaps, ruse, for
the whole police of London can be
called out to prevent the trampliDg
down of the shrubbery.
ain the north sf England and in
Scotland they have made the discov.
cry that our great national game is a
modification Of the old game Of round
ers, which was favorite in that region
forty years ago" II an American
should invent method for propelling
ships by the captain standing over
board and kicking against the stern
some Englishman would certainly turn
up ready to prove that British inyen-
tor sold the patent right Of that mo-
tive power to Noah just before he fin
ished the ark. These Englishmen arc
somewhat like Chinese, who, as soon as
they heard there was a game called
billiards, produced documentary eyi
dence that Chinaman named Fune
Sang played the pocket game in &
match on the planet Saturn four thou
sand years before the creation Of The
earth.-[ Max Adeler.
The Montgomery Gala } Advertiser
and Mail says there is likely to be con
siderable trouble for somebody con
corning the distribution Of the Gov,
eminent grub" Charges are thick il
the air concerning the favoritism Of thu
Radical factions in the issuing of III,
rations, and it is stated that some freed
men had drawn two and three time
the amount they were entitled to do.
Canada is making great efforts t
bring emigrants from England to thu
Dominion, and to divert them from tn,
United States. Two weeks ago ST,
hundred English immigrants arrived
at Montreal, five hundred Of theuI Lvru,
farm laborers. All were under tn,
care of the Secretary Of the "Nationa
Agricultural Laborer's Union"
A short time since little commerce
ial drummer" Glanced to get into tn
same railway carriage, in England, il
which the Dukes Of Argyle and North
unberland were travelling. The tire,
chatted familiarity until the train stop
ped at Ainwick Junction, where tn,
Duke of Northumberland got out. anc
was met by train of fupkeys and ser
wants. THAT must be great swell,
said the drummer TO his remaining
companion. eyes" responded thu
Duke Of Argyle, "he is the Duke o
Northumberland" "Bless my eyes 7
exclaimed the drummer, sand to thlnl
that he should have been so condescend
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