The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-11
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A brother and sister have become
husband and wife, at Youngstown, q.
Learning that they were to be prosecu-
ted, they have fed together.
Some cigars Gfty-two years old, which
have lain most OF the time in "a garnet,
forgotten, have been brought to light in
Rochester. They were almost taste
less.
There is domestic cat at Hartford,
Conn, which weighs twenty-seyen and
a half pounds, and its owners assert
that il is the largest animal Of the kind
in the world.
So many people commit suicide by
jumping off the three bridges across the
Tiber, at Rome, that philanthropical
society keeps boaimen at each bridge in
order TO rescue the unfortunate.
At the gambling establishment of
Monte Carrie the police have strict or
ders 10 search the grounds every night
for the bodies Of suicides, and to re-
move them as quickly as possible, that
visitors may not be shocked by discoy-
ClIu1 llle TcUhdluS'
Billy Forrest has written for IHS'ey'S
NagdziRe q sketch of sailor who in
1873 jumped from the steamer Russia
and tried to save boy, being almost
drowned himself. The sailor afterward
became famous as Webb, the swimmer.
The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail
road company are adding five hundred
and twenty-eight cars of various grades
to equipments, and eleven locomotives,
five Of which have been received. The
aggregate cost Of this rolling stock is
Si2G, 400.
1t is proposed TO rule ont large class
that cumbers the reading-rOom Of the
British museum, to the Inconvenience
Of students, by cutting off the supply of
new fiction. The suggestion is 10 with
hold works Of fiction until three years
after publication.
The amount of money invested in
manufacturing enterprises in New Jer-
sey is about $50, 100000, capital which
employs seyenty-five thousand persons,
thirteen thousand being engaged in the
manufacture of silk in Paterson. The
horsepower which runs the machinery
is estimated at fifty thousand.
A short time ago the postal authori-
ties at Vienna were startled by the re-
ceipt of letter addressed to her royal
and imperial highness Maria Theresa,
who died in 1850. The letter might
have been written by Rip Van Wrinkle,
and was one hundred years too late.
1t was returned to the sender marked
"dead:n
The luck Of the Beresfords is proven
bal. 1t is not so long ago that Lord
William, "Tlundi Beresford,n as he is
called, bought the Bend Or ticket in the
celebrated Umballah sweep, realizing
thereby some 10000 or fl2,000
More recently he purchased half the
share of Robert the Devil for the St.
Leger in this same Umballah specula-
| ton, and as the sweep was worth be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000, the result
was another remarkable success
The other day the Paris police arrest
ed man who was running about on
the banks Of the Seine in state of abb
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station-house and supplied with cloth
ing, he told the following tale: He had
made up his mind to drown himself, so,
proceeding 10 the bank Of the river, he
undressed himself, rolled his clothes up
into bundle, threw them into the river,
and then waded in himself. But the
water was cold, and, as he lamcntingly
said, at gave him contraction of
the stomach" so he waded out again.
But his clothes were at the bottom OF
the Seine, if he was not, and so he was
obliged TO wait, half-frozen and very
much addressed, until he fell into the
stern clutches of the guardians of the
peace. Greatly to his surprise he found
that he had made himself amenable to
the law by his abortive attempt at .felo
de SC, or rather by his preparations for
the event, and that a fine and term of
imprisonment would be the penalty for
drowning his clothes before he drowned
himself. Moral-Never begin any inn
portant piece of business at the wrong