The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-05-14
RATES OF FREIGHT.
INTERESTING ITEMS,

4"S III pchIIuc uldkcTS OF North carolina
never have headache or catch cold. A
hint 10 the wise, etc.
Dennis Kearney, the great workingman,
has done no manual work for five years,
and is said 10 be worth 100000.
Seth Green says that much money can be
made by those who will raise frogs. The
frog business will now take a jump
Bismarck now wants it understood that
he WI! not retire. Farmers can 90 ahead
ana plant corn and sow buckwheat.
Yes, there is great deal of poetry in the
sp!ashIng waters of fountain. but il is
not appreciated by those who pay the water
tax
a woman al Des Moines has hen which
she declares TO be twenty-eight years old
More than fifty hotel keepers have sought
TO buy the fowl
Clothes don't make the man, but good
suit goes a ong ways with the car conduc.
tor whe2 he finds man who left his wallet
a. home.
M. Seth B. Hunt, one of the founders
and original proprietors of the New York
Independent, died recently, at the age of
siIty-nine years.
4 Buffalo man who refused to put
mourning band on his hat when his wife
died was so scandalized in his neighbor-
hood that ne had TO move away.
The young emperor Of China is allowed
to smash $500 mirrors when he feels funny.
instead of being greeted with single sere-
made, well aid on.
a Cleveland tug-boat started out this
year without a horseshoe nailed to her tow
lng-post, and Of course she met with a $500
accident inside of week.
The Chicago journal heads an editorial
"Our Relations With Canada" MANY of
US have no relations there, and consequent.
ly take no interest in the matter.
A coffee mill which will run twenty min
ltes by machinery has lately been invented
but what is wanted is mill which will sep.
arate the beans from the coffee.
The late editor OF the Pail Mall Gazette
hated the United States for twenty-one
straight years as hard he he could, and vet
we never lost as much as lambs tail by il.
A Florida hunter says he will fight an
alligator with a clothes pin if any one will
make up purse Of 800 Why not pass
the reptile through clothes wringer3
zone was killed and the other had his
head severed from his body" saws an
Arkansas paper in speaking of an accident.
That's better than saying that two men
were killed
The Georgia colored man is getting his
nose up in the world. One Of them who
was called to testify in hog case paid $40
fine rather than be mixed up in such a com
mon case.
Five different parties have this year at
tempted to whip Michigan journalists. The
last one is stIl! in the hospital and the
oiher four are very humble minded as they
wander to and fro.
The average citizen of this country has
had economy flung at him so often and
50 persstently that the thought of squan-
fcring a nickel for glass of soda water
makes his hat tip up behind
Peru is about the worst gone-up nation
IN the globe. The only thing she has not
ost is her complement of five or six hundred |
generals, none of whom have been at the
ront when they could stay at the rear.
The late DR.. Webb, brother to Mrs. Pre-
ldent Hayes, was modest, handsome.
plainly dressed, soid-looking man of per-
laps fifty, with the vivid colorings of his
lister. He looked like a country doctor
Who would do his wise and conscientious
'cst for his patients,
Most poets are imprNctcab!c. They've
got to have something beautiful or grand to
inspire them to glorious song, but it isn't
with the sweet singer of Michigan. She
an write jest as sweet an ode to one of
larry Walkers old pairs of trowsers as she
an TO Mary Anderson.