The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-17
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liove that am standing here, that
the greatest joy Of liio hereafter is
that it will be home over again
homo better, brighter and more bliss
full than any we have here on earth"
On the other side Of Jordan is tho
town of Salt, asccrl0incd 10 be the
ancient RGmoth Gilcad, containing a
population of about eight thousand
nominal Christians and Mahometans.
There are upward of one thousand
eight hundred vineyards in this town
and neighborhood, and also large fields
of corn land. II is singular fact, rs
crcdibly reported, that these people
know nothing of intoxicating drinks,
and make their grapes mo misins,
honey and o kind OF sweeImeat called
milban.
Superstitions are often epidemic,
and sweep through the community
like disease. High and low, old and
young, the ignorant and learned, all
yield more or lcss 10 tile influence of
the strange infection, and society for
the time being seems TO have gone
mad. The heathiest constitution is
no guarantee against the conlagion.---
In all high exCilemcnts, let the occa-
sion be what it may, delusion and Sill
perstilion find acongeMal atmosphere,
and are propagated with great rapid
ity.
Perhaps the most striking and dra-
matte incident in the late General
Myers active military career was his
signaling from General Cores be-
lcagueIed garrison at Altoona, Ga,
the situation Of lhc little band of he
roes, which signal brought back to
cheer them General Sherlnan's mes
sage from the heights OF Kenncsaw {:
"llold the fort, AIN coming" This,
rs is well known, suggested the FAM
Gus hymn written by the late =. p.
Bliss, which has been sung all around
the world.
The trout is distinguished in every
stream by variations OF form and tint.
In rivers rushing over gMyely beds
it arrives at the highest perfection Of
shapely outline ana silvcry glow, its
golden sides changing inloa rich play
of grays and browns, dashed with ru-
by spots; while in q noorland slcam
it leComcs as dark rs the peat Itself.
In river flowing over chalk it ac-
quircs q whitish thge, these vara-
tions showing that nature gives it
this power OF adapting itself 10 its
surroundings as a means of prcscrya-
zion from It's numerous enemies.
A large refrigerator building has
been built near Snithfcld market,
London's greatest market, in which
the owners will test the possibility of
keeping beef forty days, the time of
passage from Australia; and ii sue
ccssful they will fit several steamers
with their apparatus. The tcmpera-
ture is to be kept evenly at 80 degrees
by acknowledgements ice, the machin-
cry costing but $4,000, including gas
engine of eight horse power, which
runs at cost of $40 per day, tie ice
costing twenty cents q ton. If meat
can be brought TO England from Aus
tralia, American shippers will meet
with lively competition.
History tells of one Mrs. Story who
went from Connecticut in l775, and
who was the first white woman who
ever slept in Sui. bury or Middebury
Vt. Her husband, after bniiding q
log house, was killed in telling trees.
She took his place in clearing up the
farm and caring for the family. From
the dense swamp near by she bcheld
her own and her neighbours house
pillagod and burnt by u party Of lndi-
ans. In high steep bank of the
creek she excavatcd place TO float
her canoe under ground, where she
made room enough for her family
This was the historic Widow Story's
cave. In 1912 she married Capt. Ste
phen Goodrich, one of the early set
tiers OF Middlcbury. There is q per-
son now living who was present at
that wedding. This witness is Mrs.
Elizabeth s. Kelsey, now in tho Gath
year Of her age.
The Ashuclot On. II.) Warp Com.
pany has completed the rebuilding OF
its factory, which was burned in jan
uary, and the entire structure, fur
nished with $4,000 worth of machin-
cry, costs about $4,000. 1t is eighty
feet long by forty wide and four sto-
rics high, and has 1000 spindles. The
product is 10000 yards Of cotton warp
per day.
A workingman in Glasgow, whose
wife is a confirmed and violent drunk
ard, has hit upon novel device for
pacifying her and protecting himself
and his family. In the morning he
passes q chain around her ankles as
she lies in bed, and secures the chain
with paddock. He then goes forth
to his daily work. On returning in
the evening he releases his captive
and allows her to remain ut liberty
until morning, when he chains her up
again. The neighbors have seen fit to
interfere and to have him arrested,
but MS his wife has acknowledged his
persistent Kindness TO her in the face
of her own glaring misconduct, the
magistrate has dismissed him after
admonishing him.
The Gentlcmans Magazine says :
"Thc consumption Of wheat in Eng
land, which was formerly estimated
Mt eight bushels per annum per head
| of the population, has recently been