The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-12-11

firOm the I.Out-Niile 'DNFitf-tOWiuni.l
William Hour. of Detroit. passed
himself from time 10 eternity the other
day.
MIR. Cot. the proprietor OF the
Cardiff giant, is about to take that hard
cned oil humbug to Europe.
--"Thc gay world of fashion in n fer
meut." announces Chicago sheet. as II
the gay world oflashion ever worked.
A heartless New Yorker. on the
death Of his mother-in-law. sang "Now We
20 round the mulberry bush, the null
berry bush"
Sixty innocent children Of Mr.. Lee.
of Utah, are In disgrace because their
father has been locked up for numbering
Gcntics.
Indianapolis l. not entirely absorbed
in her cock-piis. \ Chinese gambling
house Just started there j. exciting con
siderable interest.
An Ohio sheriff felt a good deal of
embarrassment on having to take to tile
penitentiary man who had IL, con
yicted Of voting for him thrce tiinc-.
What will Sambo say when he hears
that his old friend Ben Wade has gone
back ON hims--N. J. Com. dr..
Sambo will never hear anything about II,
and he doesn't know who Ben Wade Is.
anyhow.
That great ecclesiastical nomad, Par
SON Newman, Is gradually drawing near
| again to the shores of hi, native land.
lie comes with the genuine Jerusalem
odor OF sanctity about him and bottle
of Jordan water in each pocket. His
country allowed him 900 in gold dur
ing his absence. which is 5000 for the
Jerusalem odor and -, 600 bottle for
the Jordan water: and he's willing To do
IL again on the same ms.--BrooklU,
Aryus.
Washington lctter-writer: II caught
Butler against closed door in the CORR
dor of Willard'-. and asked him his idea
Of the curious results of the recent clcc-
ton. 'Nou are newspaper CORE
spondcntt Z he Snortcd. interrogatiyely.
| nodded an alluring assent. You are
anxiou, to know what think about the
elections? Another nod. Then why
in HI don't YOU find OUT was his graf
flying rcjonler, q, he rolled himself
through the door aud -nrgcd up the
street"
"A paragraph has been going the
rounds stating that in France straw light
ming rod, had been used with great sue
ces, for the protection of buildings. \
western professor has made some expert
ments. in which he found that a straw
offered resistance To the passage of clec-
tricity a million times greater than that
offered by a copper wire of the same di-
men,ions. He says that he can only re-
gard the French straw theory ~ cauard.
but adds that If il had originated in New
Jersey he should have considered it only
az ''the consequence of verbal Hnbi
guilty, ~ We know that New Jersey
lightning moderately diluted. pa>se'
with great facility along a straw
Boston .idrcrtiser.
In "a certain town in Rhode Island ia,
parents of two children. boy and "a girl
died 4 meeting Of the local authorize
was held to decide upon some actor
that would relieve the town OF the cX
penSe of supporting the children. Thu
matter was discussed freely. and at al
adjourned meeting held at u private resi-
dence the children were required To b
present. The boy was told to 90 int
an adjoining room, where hc would fin
man asleep, Ia a certain pocket o
whose clothing was five ccnt-piccc
which he was to bring to the committee
The boy obeyed the order. The girl wa
sent to another room where woman
was sleeping, from whose pocket a peo'
of money or scrip was TO be taken. Sh'
also obeyed the Instructions given her
and the children were aflcrward arrested
upon II charge of petty larceny ''e'
found guilty. and sentenced To the STAR
Reformaiory school during their minor
ity.-PyoridsRse JoURdi.