The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-14

There is young mother in Portland,
Oregon, whose age is but twelve, weight
cighty-fye, yet her infant son weighed nine
pounds at Its birth
A largo bird at Keokuk. Iowa, dnrted
swiftly downward in It's flight, and striking
hghtning-rod the iron run through its
body, and 1t remained impaled,. iluttering
and struggling until death came.
AS Jared Dingman was shaking $1,000
in gold under the nose Of steam-tug
owner in the Detroit river, endeayoring to
tempt him to take that amount for his
boat, the tug struck q steamer and the gilt
tering gold was the property of the fishes
A Wisconsin COW with persistent cough
that baffled tho skill Of aveterinary surgeon
TO cure died, and upon opening her wind.
pipe to discover The cause Of the irritation
there was found in the upper part of the
lung live stripped frogoe. ordinary size.
Eleven children at four births was the
feat Of Mrs. Scanned Hickson, Of Shamrock,
Mo. First birth, three second and third,
two each, and at the last interesting oc-
casion there were four, all the latter being
alive and doing wei Ten out of the eleven
are alive.
An event probably without precedent in
railway annals has just happened at Provins.
A passenger train leaving Paris at . 30 p.
m, arrived safely at its destination, but on
getting down to let the passengers out of
the cars the guard was astonished to lind
neither passengers nor passenger cars. They
had forgotten to hook the cars on at Paris.
While riding horseback John Eller, OF
Alden, Iowa, saw coming from the sky a
ball of fire, apparently about the size OF a
-four barrel. He was paralyzed with fear,
and saw the globe strike the head of the
animal he rode, when he tainted. Upon
coming to his senses he found that the
horse was dead, the head OF the animal be-
ing scared az if by a red-hot iron.
The queercst companions for man are
| those of an old man in New Orleans. he
has mania for spiders, and in his rooms
are more than 500 of every shape and color
The ceilings are hidden by the webs that
they have spun. Occasionally the old man
throws handful of flies into the webs and
is greatly delighted at seeing the spiders
seize their struggling victims.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widower found wife by queer method
In coffee grinding mill in Chicago q
female packer placed in several bundles
Of coffee card saying that any gentleman
matrimonialy inclined might address her
This widower found the card while prepar
ing his lonely breakfast after qusrre
with.his housekeeper, and now the Chicago
girl is Mrs
An Italian fisherman recently discovered
petriiied woman at Cascade Lake, New. Ii,
was going out to fish, and when pushing of
his boat, struck his oar against something
which attracted his attention. Upon inves
tigation u petrifed hand protruded iron
The sand on the beech. In short time ht
had unearthed woman in compet,
state of petritcation. 1t was small in size
brown in color, scrawny and emaciated.
About midnight, just after the acclden,
in the Consolidated Imperial Mine, Ncva
da, the wife Of Matthew Winnie was found
on her way to the works. She said she had
been awakened just before by her husband
who came all mangled to her and told hel
he had been killed in the mine. She got up
dressed herself and started to ascertain the
truth Of what she was only too well con.
WINGED was true, There had in reality
been fearful accident; Mr.. Winnie was
indeed killed, and the trembling woman
went back to her children and her dosolate
home.
AS John b. Coyner, farmer residing
near Palestine, Ind, was watering nine
COWS at pump trough, recently, they
made q stampede down the lane as fast as
their legs would carry them. The cause of
this sudden freak was q mystery to the
hired man, but il was not long before he
was let into what appeared to be the secret
Of the stampede. Suddenly, although the
sky was clear and the atmosphere clear, q
young cyclone, not over twenty feet in
breadth, darted down from the sky, and
striking the earth near the pump, twisted
of five large beech trees as though they
were weeds.
In Lincoln county, New, there is spring
of ice.cold water that bubbles up over a
rock and disappears on the other side, and
NO one has been able TO find where the
water goes. At another point in the same
county is large spring, about twenty fec,
square, that Is apparently only some eigh-
teen inches deep, with sandy bottom. The
sand can be plainly seen, but o. looking
closer It is perceived that this sand is in
a perpetual state Of unrest, and no bottom
has ever been found. II is said that q
tesmster, on reaching this spring one day,
deceived by Its apparent shallowness, con.
cluded 10 soak one Of his wagon wheels to
cure tho lcoseness Of its tire. lie took it
off and rolled it into the, as he thought
shallow water. lIo never laid his eyes on
| Tint wounn wheel apain