The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-28

The American board has sixteen
churches in Japan. Four new churches
were organized and one hundred and
twenty-one new members were added
last year. Twelve OF the sixteen
churches are self-supporting. The con-
ributions amount TO an average of $50
The manufacture of cartridges, as
conducted by the United States Car
fridge Company, is one of the import
ant industries Of Lowell, Massachusetts
The company employ, in all depart
ments, about $50 hands, and have ca
pacity for turning out 100000 pieces
per month, which find a market all
over the country. Their monthly pro-
duet of small (size 22) cartridges, for
shooting galleries, is 100000. Three
quarters, it is said, of all the large car
tridges used by the United States army
and navy are produced at these works.
Besides this, they supply State troops,
and for the purpose OF encouraging tar
get practice in the militia the Company
are offering team and individual prizes
TO such organizations.
Some idea (says the Berlin correspon-
dent OF the London Tines may be
formed of the educational status of the
German army and navy from statistics
just published, according to which, of
the li0,SSl recruits taken in during the
military year 1880, 1872, $50 were ex-
amined in the German language, only
r. Dli in anathnr 10 ID,l;gl, nhtnf
ly), while 2,2l7 were devoid of any
school training. Those who could
neither read nor write numbered l.57
per cent of the entire number, against
1.30 in the year 1883, 1.73 in 1S77-7S,
PIP in 1867, and 2.37 in 1876,
from which it would appear that educa-
ton in the army and navy has improved
at the rate of nearly per cent during
the last five years. The districts which
most require the rigorous supervision of
School Board are East and West Prus-
STA, Posen, Bromberg, Oppein, the Pa
latinate and Alsace-Lorraine.
The society known in New York as
the Central Cooperative board, the OBJ
ject Of which is TO establish system OF
cooperative stores in this country SINH
lar 10 that in operation in England,
propose the following plan: After the
payment of legal interest, that is,
6 per cent per annum, or Il per cent
per quarter, per cent of the remain
ing profit would be placed to the credit
of q reserve fund to be disposed of as
the members would desire. Two and a
half per cent Of the remaining profit
would then be placed to the credit of
an educational fund, while the remain
ing profit would be divided equally
among the full amount of wages paid
during the quarter, the full amount of
sales for the quarter, and one-quarter
of the amount of capital invested at the
beginning of the quarter. The divi-
dends on all sales made to unknown
persons and one-half of the dividends
on sales to non-members, however,
would be placed TO the credit of the re-
serve fund. This system, the commit
tee adds, has received the approval of
many of the leading authorities on CO.
operation.
Many of the leading orchard proprie-
tors in Northern Italy and Southern
Germany are cultivators of the COM
mon black ant, which insect they hold
in high esteem rs the fruit-grower' S
best friend. They established ant hills
in their orchards and leaving the po-
lice service of their fruit trees entirely
TO the tiny colonists, which pass all
their time in climbing up the stems of
the fruit trees, cleansing their boughs
and leaves of malefactors, mature as
well as embryonic, and descending la
den with spoils to the ground, where
they comfortably consume or prudently
store away their booty. They never
NEEDLE with sound fruit, but only in
wade such apples, pears and plums as
have already been penetrated by the
canker, which they remorselessly pur-
sue to its Businesses within the very
heart of the fruit. Nowhere are apple
and pear trees so free from blight and
destructive insects as in the immediate
neighborhood of a large ant hill or 6
years old. The favorite food of ANTS
would appear to be the larvae and papa
of those creatures which spend Che
whole of their brief existences in de-
vouring the tender shoots and Juvenile
caves OF fruit trees.