The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-03-19
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There are 4, 100 miles OF railroad west
Of the summit of the Rocky mountains
Money paid on Sunday contracts, not
oelng edeotual as a discharge form debt,
may be recovered.
The First Baptist Church Of Baltimore
has sent out forty young men who have
entered the ministry. Some ofthem have
attained to celebrity.
Alta social gathering u few days since
the following toast was proposed and
drank. "In ascending the hill of pros
perity may we'never meet a friend"
Unless the coming woman is born with
longer arm than those NOW in use, she
can't wear any more buttons on her kid
gloves than the present fashion permits,
You put your finger in water. You
pull it out and look for the hole. This
Is very much like putting money in a
Chicasosavings-bank.- NashriWc Amer
icdh
The wife Of cx-Gov. Catlin, OF Con-
nccticut, at the mature age Of 70, is q
fine swimmer and every morning may be
seen bufeting the waves off the beach at
| Watch Hill.
When Miss Kate loses her slatc-strap
| she will find it in Johnnie, skate, with
her missing bottle of ink absorbed there
| in for non,detective purposes.-Roches-
ter Democrat.
The firm but gentle hornet has shut
up his summer cottage and gone into re-
tircment for the Winter. His last
words were awake me up when the
first picnic starts out next Spring"
"Sience in the court " Numbered a
Tennessee Judge the other morning.
"Half dozen men have been convicted
already without the Courts having been
able to hear word of the testimony"
Young man, beauty fades as the years
20 by. Don't fall in love with woman
simply because she has pretty face.
Remember that wealthy iather-in-law
, is better than the rosiest damsel in seven
! States
! The Rev. Eben Haley says. "The
: best contribution Christian church
can make to the future generations is an
nhexible and uncompromising adherence
to the truth.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont has informed
Olive Logan that he had spent in Lon
= don during his one years tenure Of Office
the sum Of $50, 900, irrespective of ;hc
little official salary of 1880.
1t is understood that during the Paris
International Exhibition there will be
tests made of the various methods of
lighting streets and buildings with cleo
tricity, and the relative value OF the DIFF
lereni systems will be determined.
| Neuralgia diseases of the head are now
referred by many physicians to missdjus-
ted eyeglasses and spectacles Of course
this is not always the cause Of neuralgia
pain, but in many cases has proved to be
50.
"Well, may | hope, then, dear, that
at some future time | may have the hap
piness ofmaking you my wife," eyes,
[ hope so, I'm sure" she replied, "for
I'm getting tired of suing fellows for breach
Of promise"
Germany has sent to Nicaragua de-
mand for an indemnity of $4,000 on
account of an assault made on the Ger
man Consul. If it is not paid, and the
fag saluted, a squadron with Krupp guns
will be sent over to see about it.
When man detects missing button
, after getting on clean shirt, no one is
/ aware of the fact Iictakes off the shirt
; and puts ON another, quietly smiling all
the while. He never, never speaks of it
!, to soul
A Maine girl worked the motto {"
= Need Thee Every Hour and presented
e it to her chap. lie says he can't help it;
it takes him two hours to milk and feed
D the pigs morning and night, and business
has got to be attended to.
The latest design for a funeral piece is
Z ship, with black Grape sails. The hull
of the craft is made with white rosebuds,
its masts arc of Faust pansies, the main
one being surmountcd by white dove
II with a spray Of forget-me-nots in his
Is beak.
: The crop Of cabbages is soenormous thi
year that it does not pay the Long IslanC
n farmers TO bring them to market, where
they onl y yet 81 hundred, instead of g.
!, to $40. The cabbagcs are consequently
J. rotting in the field and becoming hor
Is rid nuisance from their smell.
y There arc some things which even
n baronet can not do. The London
y Times sent out Sir Henry Havlock, M
4 p, as its war correspondent, and the ex.
y, element of the scene, with his exag.
70 gerated sense of his own importance, Sc
i, thoroughly overcamc him that Mr.
:, Delano had to order him home.
y, K. j. Calling writes to the New York
in Erentag Post that recent improvements
y, in his gun have brought it to such stage
in of perfection that it can fire 1000 shots
s. per minute, and one man can feed and fire
600 shots per minute. In an official trial
I'd $4,000 rounds were fired from single
run i'm rand siccoes;or and without