The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-13
ITEMS or INTEREST.


Professor Spencer r. Dairl, Of the
Smithsoniaa Institution in Washing
ton, has labored there for thirty years.
His chief work has been in regard to
1sh and birds.
A Philadelphia paper says that the
Boston women ut bwampscott battle
. In white kid gloves and bonncts. La
dies hcreabouts generally battle In wa
ter
One Of the finest sights TO be witness
ed up at the Catskill is sunrise, and it
compenaates one for arising at an UNI
seemly hour. 1t is sight long TO be
remembered.
"Can mans attention be riveted
with copper rivetst" asks CONNER
cial paper. Il Can, If the riyels are
sharpened and put where he will sit
upon them.
"Adirondack' Murray says he has
"retircd from the ministry and from
public life" and is now giving his
whole time TO private business en-
terprise.
A woman near Cairo dressed up as
man TO sec how much bluff her old
husband would take from stranger.
She got f0rty-six bird shot in various
parts of her body.
Tho American colony in Paris is
snaller than at any previous time in
twenty years. IL costs twice MS much
now TO live in Paris rs in America IN
the came style. Formerly it cost
double Paris prices in America. There
is nothing now cheaper in France, ex-
cept apparel, and only parts of that.
Beccher alleges that he was at one
time offered $500, 900 for twelyemonths,
OF his time, including Sundays. The
syndicate which made the oiler pro-
posed to pay down $3.50, 600, and Sl2,-
800 monthly thereafter. Mr.. Beecher
told this to a newspaper man in the
whilom zenith city of unsalted seas"
A lady at White Sulphur Springs,
when asked by q reporter for de-
scriptiOn Of her dress, said: III don't
wear very handsome costume, bat |
have the incest husband and two Of
the sweetest children in the room"
For sound sense and happy fortune
abe deserves to rank with the mother
Of the Gracchi.
The province Of Bnenos' Ayres
counts 100000 sheep, of which 49,
100000 belong to Irish settlers within
days ride of the city. The focks
will suffice, if necessary, TO feed the
National Government Amy for many
years, without counting 100000
cows, which belong mostly TO natives.
II is said that the Bank OF Montreal
is the largest bank on this continent,
having q capital of twelve millions,
reserve Of five millions, and about eev-
entcen millions OF deposits. Its total
assets amount TO over thirty-iye mil
lions OF dollars. Compared with the
banks even of New York city, these
are stupendous figures.
The Cologne Gazette, the Oldest ex-
jsting German newspaper, noted for
its enterprise in slow-going Germany,
before the electric telegraph, employed
carrier pigeons 10 obtain early news
from Paris. One relay of birds car
ried the messages from Paris to Brus-
sells, another from Brussels 10 Aix-la-
Chapelle, whence the messages were
forwarded by railway to Cologne,
where they arrived sixteen hours in
advance Of the ordinary post.
DIR. Blyden, himself pure African
of high atlainmcnts, says the mission
ary societies have made a mistake in
sending to Africa mulattoes instead
of pure Africans; the former, wheth-
err born in the West Indies or in the
United States, being almost universal.
ly of delicate constitution, and hav-
ing certainly no advantages as to en-
durance of climate over white men,
while negroes of pure blood, wherever
born will be found better adapted to
tbc African climate.
In tho beautiful church of st. Mary,
at Bury st. Edmunds, Eng, is an al
tar-tonlb, surmounted by a ecumbeDt
figure OF a starved man, the details OF
which are we'll executed and CHASTITY
enough. 1t was erected TO the memo
nv of John Barct, who. died of starva-
ton in l46S while attempting to fast
forty days and forty nights.
Winking photographs are said to be
produced in the following manner:
One negative is taken with the sitters
eyes open; another, without change of
position with the eyes shut. The two
negatives arc printed on opposite sides
OF the paper registering" exactly
Held before pickering lamp, or other
variable source of light, the combined
photographs show rapid Alterations
of closed and open eyes, the elect De-
ing that OF rapid winking.
In Russia the railways are so many
separate thread lines, monet work be-
iny formed. Thus two lines are in
stanced which run parallel to each
other for nearly 500 miles and have no
connection. The result is that to get
from one town to another almost in
the same latitude long journey north
has to be made, and then return to
the south; the two sides of the TRAN
gle between Tzaritsyn, on the Volga,
and Kharkotf, via Orcl, measures some
$50 miles, while as the crow flies the
distance between the two towns is not
more than 375 miles.
Professor Marks. Of Philadelphia,
stated at q recent meeting OF the