The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-28
GLEANINGS.
The New York street cars carry lG5,.
900, 600 passengers year.

VOO,WO passengers q year.
The mocking bird is becoming rarer
In Georgia, by reason OF their capture by
the professional catchers, who sell them
In the Northern market.
The Washington STIR says it is not
true that Mr.. w Nv. Corcoran has given
$4,000, or any other amount to be dis
tributed among the discharged Govern
ment employees.
A Cattaraugus county On. W girl
has sued her father for $500 for breach of
contract. She says that while he was
widower he offered her $500 to get him
wife. She got him a wife and now he e.
fuses to pay,
The Boston GloJe's correspondent
at kars writes II have done some tall
travelling in my time, hut all the things
known in America rs 'pri mitive' are
illumnatiors of the nineteenth century
compared with the pre-Adamitc con.
veniences to be met in these desolate and.
| was going to say, devii,h regions"
Edward O'Neil, Superintendent OF
the Dominion Police, is dead. lie
took prominent part in hunting down
Whelan, the murderer Of Thomas D'Ar.
cy Niece, and prevlous'lo that time At.
tanned considerable police la'ac by get
ting himself elected to Fenial lodgr
at Toronto and learning all the secrets
uf the brotherhood ~ Cdnad",
A Vlrginan has Just compiled agen.
ealogy of the descendants ofPOc ihontas.
During the course OF his labors hC incl
dentaly gathered he pedigrces OF
nearly ell the prominent families OF Nir.
GINA. aud his Investigations reveal the
singular fact that nearly every family in
the state of any duration OF residence
may be interlinked treaty orcollaterally.
An English library IS negotiating
tor the purchase OF the larges. book III
the world. Il is II Chinese work, con
sisting OF 6 1903 volumes, and is entitled
kin ting koo Kin too Shoe tseth chin"
which. as everybody knows, Ia heather
tor San illustrated Imperial Collection
of Ancient and Modern Literature"
Crop reports from California where
harvesting has already Legun, show thai
the great wheat producing regions, the
San .JOanquin and the Salinas valleys, have
droulh, and 1t is stated that there will
not be enough grain there tor home cons
stump lon and seed. From other local
lite however reports are more favor
able, anl enormous crops OF cereals and
other products are said TO be making up
the deficiencies in the better known agri
cultural sections.
The watering place season is almost
at its height. Dressy Saratoga, dinlo.
matte Long Branch, select Newport. and
even the more plebian resorts of Coney
Island and Rockaway have all received a
fair quota OF visitors, and hotel mon are
beginning to wear Il less doleiul eX-
preston rs the season advances. Each
waterng-place is miniature world in it.
self, AMI there the intelligent observer
can note and partcularize almost every
variety and phase of human character.
Nee 1orh Star.
Paris has newspaper called The
otter World. 1t is printed in red let
lers on black ground, and admits no
article which does not alludo TO the
world of spirits. In most Of its articles
the chief parsonage Of llades figures
conspicuously. The feuilleton is called
"Ic DabIe chez lie Ron dc prusSe. The
price Of the journal is announced as %
confines "ior this world only" The
price tor internal subscribers is not
mentioned. IT is probably paid In shot
coppers. "-Ne,o loh WorR.
The aX was lad TO the trunk Of the
oldest tree in Albany, \. Y, few days
ai".e. Traditis" 10. 49,. '"t,' ,Vie.
whispers that about 1876 Philip Livings-
ton, one of the singers OF the declaration
OF independence, saved the life of the
historic elm by staying the hand Of a
sailor who was threatening to cut il
down with his pocket knife. The trosts
of centuary and halt had been power
less to kill the old elm, but, at last, Pearl
street had to he widencd. A ring OF
spectators stood behind the wood chop.
per, and choice chips and sections OF the
tree were sold as relics ut prices ranging
from 10 cents to 81 80.