The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-17
THE CASKET OF PEBBLES.

GATHERED on THE SHORES OF WISDOM.
The name, Coniucius, is Lannized from
Kungfu-tse, which signifies the Rev Mas
ter King. This great Chinese philosopher
was born 551, B. c.
The Mont Cents tunnel is. eight miles
long, and cost sl3,000,000 Two thousand
men were nine years completing 1t. The
Hoosac tunnel is nearly four miles long,
cost 100000 and occupied 700 men
nearly twenty years.
Mahomet was born at Mecca in $40. His
early lite was passed as caravan driver
between Mecca and Damascus.
The succession Of poets-laureste has been
as follows; Chaucer, A. d. 1873; Scogan,
400 Kay, 1861; Barnard, 1856; Shelton,
1910; Spenser, $780, Daniel, 1909 johnson,
1915 Dayenant, 1888; Dryden. 1850; Shad-
well, 1859 Tate, 1893 Rowe, l7l4 Eusden,
17lO Cibber, 1880; Whitehead, 1853;
Wharton, 1884; Pye, 1890; Southey, 1918;
Wordsworth, ls43; Tennyson, 1850.
CeTvsntes was born in Spain IN 1917, and
died the same day as Shakespeare, Aprll
%, 1916
ABE noble and the nobleness that lies
In other men sleeping, but never dead,
VIII rise in majesty to meet thine own"
IP our teachers would take some partic.
ular course Of reading, and follow IT during
the winter, they would be surprised to see
how much they could accomplish, and the
benefit TO their pupils could not be estimated.
Teachers who read most, think most.
Those who think, develop the same powers
in their pupils, and it is mind-power that
wins
Is IT not time our teachers were training
the pupils in our schools to write and prop.
erly direct letters Three million five hun.
dred and forty-two thousand four hundred
and ninety -four letters went to the dead
letter office in Washington last year. Look
at the cost Of this and the cost of handling
them there, and the cost of returning them,
and the cost of loss to firms and individ.
uals. Ignorance costs; intelligence pays.
THE Girls Friendly Society Of London,
manages to do very good work among
working girls, without much expense to
them. II gives them reading room
which is open two hours at noon and three
at night, for penny week, and provides
them with cup OF coffee or slice Of bread
and marmarlade for penny apiece. 1t has
classes for reading, writing and arithmetic
three timeD week, and weekly sew
ing class, and each member is under
the special care of lady associate, TO
whom she applies for advice. The society
furnishes tonic and medicines for its mem.
bers in case of sickness, and provides cot.
tages in the county at which they can board
for six shiilings week when tired with
overwork.
THoUGHT-Thought is a constant though
silent agent in making US what we are. II is
with us in every waking hour. We have
the power to cherish one class of thoughts
and to dismiss another, to encourage those
that lift us up and restrain those that drag
us down. We can never stop thinking any
more than we can stop breathing, but as
we can in measure control the quality of
the air that we breathe, so to great extent
we can determine what we will think about.
1t is quite as needful to turn away from
evil or puerile thoughts as from books or
companions Of the same sort, and it is pos.
sible to occupy the mind 81 fully with