The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TO its railway system last year. and OF
these the government built 7s5 miles
II is intended to expend 100000 in
hotels by next season on Oak Island
and Jones' Beach, Long Island.
Two Georgia farmers grew five
hundred bushels of Irish potatoes on
one acre of land, and sold them for
$500.
In tho Southern States the price OF
labor ranges from $l2,25 TO Sh52 per
month. The average cost OF subsistlng
o laborer in 1880 is $IlI q month,
against STA in 1876.
Since the opening of the Washing
ton headquarters at Valley Forge, they
have been visited daily by tourislsand
now the register contains page after
page of names.
Poker playing is one of the recrca-
tions of Americans on the ocean steam
ers, and the captains not intrequently
take hand. Sometimes the play Is
for very high stakes. The gratuitous
distribution of claret on the steamers
of one of the lines costs $4,000 year.
A citizen of New Orleans has cxhib-
tied fine specimens Of fibre from the
banana plant. lie estimates that an
acre will yield 10,340 pounds OF fibre,
worth $3.50; this, added to the fruit,
will make the cultivation OF this plant
very valuable.
The monument to Robert Burns,
which is to be placed in Central Park,
New York, will represent Burns stand
ing upon the trunk OF fallen tree,
looking up in contemplating attl-
tude. lie is supposed to be compos-
ing the beautiful ode, 80 Mary in
Heaven"
Prof. Robert Peter presented to the
Kentucky State Historical Society a
plaster cast Of the skull OF Daniel
Boone and the original mold in which
it was formed. The cast was obtained
by Prof. Peter in 1915, when the re-
mains of Boone were inferred in the
Frankfort cemetery.
There are five men TO one woman i'll
Leadvillc, Colorado, AT Silver Cliff
the ratio is seven to one; at Pitkin
seventeen to one. The older cities i'll
Colorado, such as Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo. Georgetown, Boulder,
Central and Golden, show fair pro-
portion of women. .--"-
The four largest boot manufactures
in Milford, Mass, are employing 1000
hands, and are making about 1880
cases of boots weekly. Two tine-shoe
manufacturers are making about 500
pairs a week. With the exception of
two factories, all of the shoe manufac-
turers have all the business they can
attend TO.
The tax rate on banking capital in
New York is nearly double that of
Boston. The capital OF the associated
banks Of New York show decline of
s23,735,000 in the last four years and
$23,945000 since 1872, while bank cap
ital in Boston has increased about ST.
100000 during the same term.
youth, just launching out in trade,
Unto wealthy merchant said;
To call the secret of successr'-~s
The naboD's eyes with pleasure shone,
AZ he replied in earnest tone.
1.-THE secret simple is, think,
You'll find IL, SIR, in printers INK"
The Mature reports q very curious
telephone experiment made in Swift
erland on the occasion of the federal
fete Of singers. A telephone had been
placed in the Zurich Festhalle, and
Two conductors connected with the
Bale telegraphic office, where a large
audience had congregated. The dis
lance from Bale to Zurich is about so
kilometres. The Bale audience en-
ioyed the singing about as well as if
they had been placed in the upper cir
Gle Of an ordinary opera house. At
the end of the performance they
proved their satisfaction by clapping
hands, which the Geographic wires
transmitted with perfect fidelity to
the Zurich performers.
To possess at once keen insight and
imperative sympathies, is to be liable
to extreme mental suffering. The
ability to discern things in their actu-
oil relations, to pierce the rind of the
conventional and draw near the heart
of Nature, may be enjoyed merely as a
scientific pastime; but when the
"strong necessity of loving" is united
to such clear perceptions, the mind
and the heart are exposed to severe
and inccssant conflict; and to recon-
Gle them is the grand problem of life.
In Whitley county, KY, a young
man sent for minister to meet him
in q certain place for the purpose of
performing marriage ceremony. The
good man lost his way, and, after con-
siderable delay, the lovers concluded
to search for him. All the parties
met in the highway, and, without dis
mounting, the young people were
married on the spot.
Mr.. e. A, Cowper, president of the
Institute Of Mechanical Engineers, in
his address before the members of the
society at q meeting at Barrow, in
Furncss, while acknowledging the
success of the efforts to promote tech
nical education in England, lamentcd
the lack of enterprise on the part of
capitalists and manufacturers in the
introduction of new arts and new in
dustrial processes, thus permitting
less favored countries to make rapid
advances over Great Britain, and even
to compete successfully with her in