The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The first steel pen was made in 1880.
Parisians are learning to play base
ball.
The first balloon ascent was made in
1888.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857. ........
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
The first use of locomotive in this
country was In 1928.
New York street cars carry l65,0OO,O GOO
passengers year.
Wade Hampton can call over 5000 citi.
zens of South Carolina by name.
Telegraphy has been introduced in the
school for the blind, at Nashville, as q
study
Arkansas has more newspapers in Fro.
portion to population than any other
State In the Union.
The price of sewing machines has drop
ped fifty per cent. on account OF the ex-
piration Of patents.
DIR. Theophilus Clark, who died in
Vermont last week, had been in practice
"a wears. He was OF years old.
One cent per bushel makes difference
OF $lO,0OO,00O In the value of the annual
crop OF corn in the United States.
1t takes $780, 900 yards Of muslins an
nually, and eight tons of paper daily. to
make paper collars for the American
public.
The Louisiana planters annually lose
about one.third OF their cotton crops by
reason Of insufficient labor. They call
loudly for laborers from the north.
A man at pa~lessaa,NeAnt, recently
,no. .nnrtoon COWS, which broke into hiD
potato field and ate vines that had been
anointed with kerosene q keep OF bugs.
Young men OF the middle classes aIe en-
little disposed to marry, these times, that
parents of manageable daughters will
have to resort to the seductive chrome.
A Providence physician is OF the opin-
ion that, II the city would prohibit the
schools from being open more than three
months In the year, the doctors and the
undertakers would have much less to
do.
William Cullen Bryant. Longiellow,
and Bayard Taylor have recently been
elected honorary members Of the Lltera-
~ Academy of Athens. which is under
the special patronage Of the Queen Of
Greece.
The testimony elected as to the salar-
les paid the officers Of lite insurance com.
panies fully justitles the belief that, by q
little care and frugality, almost any one
Of them could 70 through life without
suffering from chronic penury.
A maiden who keeps house for herself
in quiet way, called at store not many
miles from Boston, recently, and bought
a quarter Of q gross Of punches OF friction
matches, informing the storskeeper that
the last lot she had bought of him was
lust gone. He had sold 1t to her just
twenty years before.
The drinking fountains presented to
the City Of Paris by Sir William Wallace
the English philanthropist, have proved
to be Of such great benefit In the poor
nelghborhoods, that one will be placed
on every square and avenue before the
exhibition opens. -t. ..
The Pacific ocean covers $4,000, 900 Of
square miles; the Atlantic q, 900, 900; the
Indian ocean, l4,OOO,00 the southern
ocean to thirty degrees is $4,000, 900; the
Northern ocean, 5.0OO, 900; the Mediter.
ranean. 100000; the black Sea, nc, 900;
tho Baltic, $4,000, and the North Sea
100000.
Texas has fifty wheat producing, coun.
ties, one.hfth OF which, fully cultivated
would produce ss,OOO,00O bushels O
grain. 1t has also 69,l2O,OoO cottor
yielding acres, which II taxed to tb,
extent Of their productiveness, woult
yield s,962,C00 bales--more than
the entire product OF the world
Public opinion in Germany Is thus re
nected In q conversation between two
good burghers Of Berlin, taken from q
Berlin psper: First Burgher-"so We
are likely to have another war with
Francs?'' Second Burgher-':Let vi
pray that they may thrash us, 30 that
they may DO - poor a. we are."
The officers Of the Third Infantry have
been having rough time. They were
located 10 Louisiana with their families
when they were rushed North during tn,
riot, and then, at twelve hours' notice,
switched of to Montana, without an CD,
portunity oflooklug after their wives and
children, and with no pay since June.