The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-07

lies in this When have a subject in
hand study 1t profoundly; day and night.
it il before me. ] explore it in all its bear
ings, Ny mind becomes peryaded with it
Then the effort which make the people
arc pleased 10 call the fruit OF genius. IT
is the frcit Of labor and thought" Genius
is eternal patience,
FIFTEEN thousand dollars have been
offered TO establish girls college in
Austin, Texas; more money is needed.
AMONG the successful candidates in the
recent Cambridge university examinations
i, Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter Of the
British premier.
THE library Of the university Of st,
Petersburg contains 1884 volumes.
Harvard university library contains about
$4,000. Aston ibrary in New York has
10000.
Or M.iam Donne, mother-in.lsw Of
Theirs, it used to be said, she governed
France IN her son.in.aws name
RoDHIA, Moorish.Spanisrd, wrote sew
CT Il volumes on rhetoric.
IT js the humble, hard worker that
achieves success lie who ls willing to dig
for the gem Of truth, as for hidden treas
uTes, may expect good harvest,
HERBERT SPENCER, the English philoso.
pher, Is now nearly so. He is the son Of
teacher, profound mathematician, by
whom chiefly he was educated A. is he
became civil engineer, but surrended his
profession after eight years on account OF
the extraordinary competition caused by
tie railway in maniS Great Britain at the
period. His books have small sale in
England, though considerable sale in the
United States He has been very poor, but
has lately been rendered comparatively
independent by modest legacy left by a
distant kinsmsn.
The number Of volcanoes discovered con-
stantly increase with the progress of geo
graphical noyledge--highly volcanic re-
gions being found in the least explored
countries. A. Won Humboldt enumerated
| 407, Of which 227 were active. Several
! thousand are now known, and according to
NJ. Fuchs, the number Of active volcanoes
known 81 the present time may be set down
as S93. Il is difficult 10 draw the line be-
tween active and extinct volcanoes, for the
reason that the greater portion Of the form
er have periods of repose, sometimes cen.
tury " more in length. The anclents con-
sidered Vesuyius harmless mountain up 70
the time of the great eruption Of A. d. 70,
when Herculaceum and Pompeii we're bur
led, and il was quiet from 1905 to 1881
more than three centuries.
THR work OF each citizen will have value
in proportion ss he Can do il better than
other citizens can, and the aggregate work
of all the citizens will have greater value
in proportion as each has been trained in
his own department The highest value in
the worlds markets will be obtained by
that nation which has been at most pains
TO cultivate the intelligence Of its people
generally, and afterwards to give each the
highest education and training in his specia!
calling. In other words, the value Of IA
tons work will be augmented in proper.
ton to the excellence Sof lis system Of
Technical Education.
The PYRAMIDS OF GHlzETA-The pyr.
amids, when rightly viewed, must be re-
garded not AZ monuments which should
excite our admiration, but as s,upcdous
records of the length to which tyranny
and selfshness, folly and superstition,
lust of power and greed of wealth, will
carry man. Regarded as work of skill,
and examples of what men may effect
by combined and long continued labor,
they are indeed marvellous. and in a
sense admirable. They will remain, in
all probability, and will be scarcely
changed, when every other editice at this
day existing con the surface of the earth
has either crumbed into dust or changed
out of all knowledge. The museums
and libraries, the churches and cathedras,
the observatories, the college buildings. and
her scholastic ediiices of our time, are not
for moment TO be compared with the
great pyramids Of Egyp, in all that consti-