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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
EXTENSIVE ELECTRIC LIGHT EX
PERIMETS.
Holyoke Mass Journal

AA''@ONS N-uoss'j vodInaI
The Paper City is to be the scene of an
extensive experiment in the use of the
electric light. II. c. Spaulding, of Boston,
who was at first going to put his plans into
effect IN that city, has come to Holyoke on
account of the cheap power, and has made
arrangements with the Water Power com.
pany to put wheel into their new pit
near Cabot street expressly for his use.
To make the experiment which he will
attempt will require $50 horse powers, or
over two mlll-powers, or enough to run
paper mill. A tower about IT'S feet high
WILDE built, and surmounted by an i'm
mense lantern of such power as to put all
former electri: lights completely in the
shade. Mr.. Spsulding will put up this
tower and apparatus at his own expense,
but he hopes to succeed so we'll that the
city will adopt the system. He is extreme.
ly enthusiastic and sanguine as to the re.
suits OF the experiment, and his expecta-
tons go far beyond the achievements of
any previous electrician He says that
with seven such towers as he intends to
build he can make the entire city as light
as day both indoor and out. His idea is,
that by filling the atmosphere above the
city with light he will get effect that we do
FROM the sun and its reflected light, and
that tAe shadows will be no dsrker than
are those made by the sun. His idea is to
fill the stratum Of atmosphere lust
above the city so completely with
light that it will permeate spaces
which no direct rays reach, just as the suns
light does Immediately after the sun, has
set. The light which he expects to throw
out from one lantern will be equal to 800.
600 candles, while the largest electric light
yet attempted by any one else has been Of
but 10000 candle power. The apparatus
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
WIDOWS AND wIDoWERs.
Letter to Chicago Tribune

yes continued my brother-in-law, I'm.
conscious of my silent contempt for his
opinions, ''your Uncle John is in danger
Gus condition, for there are two widows,
four old maids, and six schoolgirls dead
set after him, and feel it is only cues.
ton of time, and that sooner or later
probably sooner-he will have to succumb.
Lie is man of great strength of character
and | believe he could withstand the school
girls and maidens, but feel in my Utmost
soul that the widows-heaven help him
will prove too much for him, for nv
brother-in-law reasons in the usual logica!
way, that man is weak because he is
strong, and woman strong because she is
weak.
u have" said he, as if endeavoring to
justify his actions, "acquiesced in my wifes
diaoolical design to have them up to tea,
because /, who have had so much expe-
rience with women, know that they will
rule, and, as I have been there and know
how it is myself, " he continued in his
slangy way, ~ believe it is much better to
wed widow as did, who knows how to
rule, than to be experimental on by
raw recruit. After all, mat
rimony and driving horses are a
good deal alike, and the widow will gath
er up the lines gently, hold them we'll in
hand, and drive your Uncle John on an
easy trot over the road of wedlock; but, if
he marrles one of the girls who does not
understand the art Of driving, she will
pick up the reins with a spasmodic Jerk.
rear him back into mill race or an abyss
yank him this way and that, run
into every rut bound over each
stone, and strike every stump. drive
on the road on one side to see if there is
birds nest in certain tret, and through
mud puddle on the other to discover what
kind of flower that is anyhow. She'll
run him down hill and gallop him up, whip
him when he doesn't need it, and let him
go when he does need it, keep him in a
lather of perspiration, and all the time
weeping and yelling that she never saw
such a vicious old brute in her life, when in
reality the animal is all right and only the
driver is at fault and here my brother-in-
law picked up his hat and went out to get
shaved.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27

TIE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE OF THE
NURsERY-The following is an extract
from letter written to the German Reform
Messenger, at Chambersburgh, Penn:
A BENEFACTREss.
Just open the door for her, and Mrs.
Winslow will prove the American Florence
Nightingale of the Nursery. OF this we
are SO sure, that We will teach our "Susyr
to say, "a blessing on Mrs. Winslow" for
helping her to survive and escape the grip
ing, colicking, and teething seige. Mrs.
Winslows Soothing Syrup relieves the
child from pain, and cures dysentery and
diarrh9a. 1t softens the gums, reduces
Inflammation, cures wind collie, and carries
the infant safely through the teething
period. 1t performs precisely what It
processes to perform every part of it-noth-
ing less. We have never seen Mrs.
Winslow-know her only through the
preparation of her Soothing Syrup for
Children Teething." If we had the power
we would make her, as she is, a physical
savior to the infant race. Sold by all
druggists. % cents bottle.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
DIRECTORY.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Of the leading business houses whose advertise
ments may be found In THE BULLETIN.
DRY GOODS.
c. o. pater Il Co., commercial avenue and Nine
teenth street
GROCERIES.
q. d. williamson y Co,
Yocum & Broderck, Wash. Ave, cor Eighth.
7, j. OLougnlin, Poplar, cor, Twentieth.
PHYSICIANS.
Dr. j. H. Marean; Office, 40 Commercial avenue
Drs. Leach g. Wheeler Eighth street,
DENTISTS.
DR.. W. c. Jocelyn, Eighth near Commercial.
Dr. Z W Whitlock, 1876 Commercial avenue
LIQUORS.
Robt. smyth, No. 60 Ohio levee
INSURANCE.
II, H. Candee, No 70 Ohio levee (up stairs)
Equitable Life. of New York, corner Twelfth anc
Washington avenue.
GIsTs-wHoLRsALE AND RETAIL.
Geo. T. oHara, Eighteenth and Commercial.
BANKS
Alexander County Bank, sth and Commercial.
City National, Ohio lcyee.
STEAMBOATS,
Champion. TIree States.
John sproat, corner Twelfth and Leyee.
BRACKET STORE.
Z. c. Ford. Corner Ninth and Commercial
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
MEDICAL.
TRUTHS

Hop Bitters are the Purest ard Best Bitters
ever made.
They aye compounded from HOPS. BCCIC,
MANDRAKE and DANDELION-t the oldest,
best aud most valuable medicines IN the wor,G
and contain all the best gaG most curative prop.
critics Of all other Bitierr. being the greatest
BLOOD PURIFIER, LIVER REGU LATOR,
and Life and Health restoring agent on earth
No disease or III health car possibly long ex.
is, where these Bit,ers are used 20 varied and
perfect are their operations.
They give new life and y3go. 70 the aged aud
inAgl. To al whose employments cause irreg.
u!Gfty OF the bowels or urinary organs, or who
require al appetizer. tonic and mild stimulsnt,
these Bitters are invaluable, being highly cura-
tive. tonic and stimulating, without iatoSiCat-
ing
No matter what YOU, feelings O. symptoms
are, what the diFegse or gilmert H. use Hop
B!t,ers. Don't wait until you Gre sick. out II you
only feel bad or miserable, use the Bitters At
once II NAV saYe gOur .ie, Hundreds have
| been saved by so doing. ~ S50w WILL be paid
Tor Gaze they vii! not cure or help.
Do lot suffer yourselio or ,e, your friends fuf-
fer but Use and urge them 10 use Hop Bitters
Remember Hop Bitters IL no vile, dragged,
drunken nostfIn, but tue pG-es, and best medi-
cine ever made he "luyslids Friend and
Hope and 10 person or family shogld be with.
out them. Try the Bit,ers to-day.
Hop Bitters Mfg Co.. Rochester, New York
aua Toronto Canada
FOR SALE By ALL DRUGGISTS,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
"swAyNE,s OINTMENT AND Pulls The

''SwAYNE's OINTMENT AND PrLLs."-The
greatest remedies the world has ever known
curing the most inveterate case of skin
diseases, such as letter, salt rheum, scald
head, barbe's itch, sores, all crusty, scaly
skin eruptions, and that distressing COM
plant, itching piles. AS a blood purifier
and regulator, Swayne's Tar and Sarsapa-
rilla Pills are excellent Cure sick and
nervous headache, dyspepsia, Indigestion,
ward Oft malaral fevers, cleansing the sys-
TEN and bowels of all impurities, restoring
to healthy activity every organ of the body.
Price 25 cents a box, five boxes 81. Oint-
ment so cents, three boxes Sl.25. Can be
sent by mail to any address on receipt Of
price. Address letters, DR.. Swayne & Son,
$50 North Sixth street, Philadelphia.
Sold by all leading druggists, (2)
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
MOHAWK. Feb o..

HAOhNN n, ICO. 81, 4C'Os
VIM. M. Giles 6 Co., 100 West Broad
way, N. Y, Dear Sir; Enclosed please
find check for one quart of your Lini
ment. use it for almost everything, and
| know it to be the best know Of or have
seen tried. 1t prevents all discoorations
from bruises, and in neuralgia, headaches,
etc, it is king. When you struck Iodide
Ammonia, you struck bonanza, and a big
one, too Send the Eminent to the address
Of Fl. II. Ranney, Mohawk, N. Y
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27

NOT A BEvERAGE-"They are not bey-
erage, but medicine, with curative prop
critics of the highest degree, containing no
psor whisky or poisonous drugs. They do
not tear down an already debilitated sys.
TEN, but build it up. One bottle contains
more hops, that is, more real hop strength,
than a barrel of ordinary beer. Every
druggists in Rochester sells them, and the
physicians prescribe them" Evening Ex-
press on Hop Bitters.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
CARD.
system.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, ETC., I
will send a receipt that will cure you,
free of charge. This great remedy was
discovered by missionary in South
America. Send self-addressed enevlope
to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Station D,
New York City.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27

The man who heeds not the warning Of
pain or suffering, which always precedes
maladles, often becomes, through Incidence,
the victim of incurable disease. Lassitude,
weakness, aching Of the limbs indicate ner-
vous disarrangement, the forerunner of
many organic and functional disease. The
early employment of Fellows Hypophos-
phites will etfectually ward off such mala-
dies.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co., MARsHALx,
Mich will send their celebrated Electro
Voltaic Belts TO the afflicted upon 80 days
trial. Speedy cures guaranteed. They
mean what they say. Write to them with
out delay.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
City 0hcers.

City Officers.
Mayor-N B Th!stlewood 2
Treasurer-Edward DeZsnia.
Clerk-Denns. J, Foley.
Counselor--W m. Is. Gilbert.
Marshai--J c. LsHue.
Auorney-WilliAm Hendricks.
BOARD or ALDERMEN.
First W.rd-M. J. Howley. ~.
second Ward-Dayid T. Linegar, c. K WOOD
ward rot.A
Fourth Ward--Chsrles o. Pauer, j ames hynss'on
fifth WArd-T. " Halliday, Ernest b. Pe''it.
County Officers.
Circuit Judge-D. J. Baker.
Circuit Clerk. A. Reeves.
County Judge--R 5. Iocum'
County Clerks. J. Hamm.
Comfy Attomsy--W. c. Malkey.
County Treasurer-Mies W. Parker
Sherid-John Hodges.
Coroner-R FitzgeT9Ic. 49, u,
County Commi-siouers--T. ". Halliday a
NJ Gibbs, samuel BrileY.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27

PERSONS whose occupation gives but liz
tie exercise are victims Of torpid liver and
constipation. Carriers Little Liver Pills
will relieve you.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
THE MAILS.

ENERAL DELIVERY open .:3O q. m; closes
VI $50 pm; Sunday: tos a. IN.
Money Order Department open at 8 a. m; closes
Through Express Mails Wis Illinois Central 3p
.. m.
Cairo and Poplar Blud Through and Way Mall
closes ut p. m. w.
Way Maj via Illinois Central, Cairo, and Vim
cenues and Mississippi Central Railroads close 81
Way Nal lor Narrow Gauge Railroad closes at
& 30 4. IL. -. o.,o
Cairo aud Evansville River Route closes at 259
.. m daily Except Friday.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
CHURCHES.

FRICAN N. E.-Four,eenth street, between
n VALIANT and Cedar streets: services SAbbsth IL
A. m and 80 p. N; sunday School ~ p u
Observation-Disclosures street; meeting Sab
\ bath 10 30 p. IN; preaching Occasionally
f,HuRcu OF THE REDEEMER-tEPiscopaD
l } Fourteenth street; Sunday Morning prayers
i0:9O a M evening prayers, 80 p N SUNDAY
school 80 q. m. Friday evening prayer ~ p m'
J,IRsT MISSIONARY BAPTIST cHURcH.-
II Preaching al 1920 8. m p n ana ~ p N
sabbath school al 7 80 P. m Rev. l. D. snofes'
pastor
RAN-Thirteenth street; services SAD
i 4 bath 80 g. IN. Sunday school 2p m rev
knsppe, pastor
aTETHoDIsT-Co Eighth and Walnut streets
III Preaching Sabbath 1870 q N. and p. m ;
PRAYER meeting Wednesday 7:SJ p N; suhuS!
School. ga m. Rev. Whitaker, pastor
DRRsBYTERIAN--E Eighth street: preaching on
/ Sabbath at II 90 a. m. and 7Sl p M prayer
meeting wednesday at 7:39 p. m; sunday schoo
at3p n Rev B. Y George, pastor
CECoND FRHE.wILL BAPTIST - f1neeLth
y street. between Walnut anu Cedar streets se'
vices sabbath at 8 and 1:3D p. m
OF. JOsEPH's-iR Roman Cathoicl Corner Cross
- and Walnut streets; services SApuath io'oua
M sunday school at Up. m; Vespers 3 p M ser
wees every day st p, m
OF pkTRICK'S-IRomsn Catholc) Corner MINI
y street and Washington avenue; services SOD
oath and 10 a. m; Vespers p. m; snnday Scho9i
~. m services every dsy at r. N he'' r. Haoe'
priest.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-27
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
FLEMING BROS. Pittsburgh, Pa.

the market being full OF limitations Of the
name McLASE, spelled differently but same
pronunciation.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
A Persian Lady.

l will here give a description of my
hostess and her dress. She wore a
bright red satin skirt richly embroidered
with gold lace; it was very full and
sheet, barely reaching to her knees; a
loose jacket Of blue velvet, also much
trimmed-this time with silver lace;
the sleeves were made OF Cashmere
shawl, buttoned by about twenty small
steel buttons. She wo,e several neck
laces, most of them very massive, and
studded with fine turquoises. On her
head she wore a white shawl, with a
band Of jewels round her forehead, and
at one side a large pearl star. She had
on both arms at least a dozen bracelets,
some handsome ones, some only bands
of colored glass. Her feet were covered
with coarse white stockings; her shoes
green leather with scarlet heels; Some
of the ladies wore bright red trousers,
reaching to the ankle; but this was
quite the exception. They wear a long
veil, reaching from head to foot, gener-
ally made of some smart print or mus
lin. | ought to mention that every
lady wore a snail leather case around
her neck, containing some earth from
Mecca and verses from the Koran. The
faces of my hostess and friends were
much decorated, the eyebrows broad
ened and carried quite across the nose.
Some had small designs tattooed on the
cheeks. The hair is very long and
thick, generally dyed red; it is worn
plated in many thin tails twisted with
gold thread. The hands are we'll shaped,
but the nails and palms are stained a
dark red.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
Origin of some Famous Legends.

Not among the different members of
the great Aryan family only, are the
germs of many of our best known stories
d~iscoverable. They seem to belong to
humanity. Prof. Fiske, of Harvard
University, noticing how the civilian
Tell" legend (for it is a legend), and
that which among WEIGH celebrates the
death of Gelert's faithful hound, and a
good many others besides, are found
everywhere, says: "We must admit
then, that these fireside tales nave been
handed down from parent to child for
more than a hundred generations that
the primitive Aryan cottager, as be took
his evening meal of Java and slipped his
fermented meal, listened with his chill
dren to the stories of Boots and Cinder-
ella and the Master Thief, in the days
when the squat Laplander was still
master of Europe, and the dark. skinned
Sundra was as yet unmolested in the
Punlab." True; but may we not go
farther, and say that, finding these tales
or counterparts among Zulus and Mon
gols, and Red Indians, We must either
pronounce them TO be climate ideas,
or else holG that men had invented them
in the old old time when the difference
between Aryan and non-Aryan had not
grown up? Sir II. Raw linson seems to
prove from the earliest Assyrian re-
mains that, Gin the beginning" Hamite
and Shemite and Japhetian were all one
that even what. afterwards became the
tongues were then "agglutlnative," like
the Red Indian OF to-day. Some one,
too, has just proved that the old Peru
Wan was a kindred speech to the San
skirt No wonder, then, that the same
stories are current ali the world over.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
Not Wanted.

In the Spring of 1868, when Sheri-
dams cavalry moved up the Shenandoah
Valley to have a last wrestle with Ear
ly's troops, a halt was made by a por-
ton of the Union troops near Waynes-
boro. Guards were thrown out to pro-
tect property, and among others the
house of a lone and aged widow received
sach protection. Two d~ismoua.ed cav
alrymen were stationed at the front
door, and it was half an hour or SO before
any stir in or around thu. house gave
token tina. 1t was inhabitedN Then the
widow llmped to the door on a crutch
and called one of the guards to her and
asked:
What are you doing here 2
"We are guards to protect you n
your property" was the reply.
"Well, you needn't fool away any
time here. Early he came and took our
hay. Then Sheridan came and he tool
our corn. Then Mosby he stole our
hams and Eaters. Then Sheridan took
our flour ond cider. Then Early ran of
all our horses. All / had this morning
was an old sick mule and meal enough
for n hoe cake. The mule died two
hours ago, and if you can find anything
worth guarding around here you can
have it and tote it OFT.
but some of the soldiers may dis
turb you"
"I1guess not" she said, as she pointed
to the spot where a cannon ball lad
torn through the house. "Tne day that
hole was shot through there, | was rock
ing and singing the Pilgrims Hope,
and l didn't miss a rock or drop a note
l don't hardly think one brigade OF
horse-sojers can disturb me very much.
You will obleege by joggin' along"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
Minnesota Wheat.

"Let's see, they raise some wheat in
Minnesota, don't they q asked ii Scho-
harie granger of a Minnesotian.
"Raise wheat Who raises wheat ;
No, sir ; decidedly no sir. 1t raises
itself. Why if we undertook to cult
vate wheat in that State it would run
US out. There wouldn't be any place to
put our house."
"But I've been told that g'ssshoppers
take a good deal of it."
"Of course they do. If they didn't
l don't know what we would do. The
cussed stuff would run all over the
State and drive US ~out-choke us up.
Those grasshoppers ar a God send, only
there amt half enough of EN-"
SIS that wheat nice and plumpT
"Plump Why, l don't know what
you call plump wheat, but there are II
in our family, including ten servants,
and when we want bread we just go
out and fetch in q kernel of wheat and
bake it
"Do you ever soak it in water first p
ooh, no that wouldn't do. 1t would
swell a little, and then we couldn't get
it in II range oven"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-15
In Perihellon.

The suns face is again spotted. A
small spyglass shows a rowof spots north
of his equator, running in a northeast
direction, and q group OF huge spots Just
coming into view around the eastern
edge of the disk. With a suitable tele-
scope the ridging of the surface about
the spots and the broken edges and
gloomy depths of the vast caverns can
be studied. Jupiter, now very bright
in the early morning sky, is Fastening
toward his perIhelion or point of nearest
approach to the sun, and some %astrono-
mers have conjectured that it is his in
~fluence that is throwing the great cen
tral orb into such O. state of perturba-
ton. The periods of greatest sun-spot
activity, at any rate, correspond pretty
closely with Jupiter's p~erihelia. Whether
the action of these forces causes cyclones
and other atmospherical disturbances on
our planet is an unsettled question, but
there are two things that the presence
of the sun-spots promises with certainty,
to wit: northern lights and unusual cleo
trical activity.
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A Great Actress.

Sarah Bernhardt is ambitious of shin
ing before mankind asa universal gen
ious. Hidden in her slender frame
there is a deal of vital energy. With
out being comical, she has what the
French call esprit. He perceptions are
all true. Sarah pants for money as
there are souls who part for the ideal.
She pants for domination and for fame
or at least for its dollar making coun-
terfeit publicity. She has all the dis
tinction intellect can give without the
warmth Of soul that elevates great talent
into the highest genius. Nature, far
from giving her universality, rigor-
ously confined her in certain branches
of dramatic art. Sarah is best seen in
profile, and her sidefa,e is Of a cast
which precludes mobility. Her eyes
and nostrils are expressive, but only of
a few emotions, and ths outline of her
nose is opposed to varying shades OF ex-
preston. Lips, wide and strong, are
formed to emit sound we'll, but not to
modulate the voice, which is sweet and
full in the medal register, but weak
above and hcarse betimss, and too often
on a false pitch, Or to adopt Emile An
gier's witticism, email guidee." Pathos
of a peculiar soN she can command. 1t
will never turn her head gray before its
time. 1t is very pretty, very interest
ing, very fascinating, but leaves the
heart untouched, for Mile. Berhardt is
essentially feline, ant felines do not
touch deep-lying chords Of sympathy.
Her "Phedre" is a lagu;shing feline
rather obeying the fatalities of her Or
sanization than u victim of Divine
anger. Good and evil principles do not
war around her. The moral IL is no,
brought into sharp a%niagonism with ami
NAL propensitiei, and "Phedre," as 1
saw her p~ersonated by Sarah Bernhardt,
is only elegant, picturesque, love-sick.
One pities her, because she is such a
wonder Of physical grace and cannot
help herself. Angler took this ground
in criticizing Sarah's personation of
"L'Aventuriere," which, IN his opin-
ion, she rendered badly. Yet Sarah
Bernhardt is remarkable for the
absence in her style Of what. is COM
monplace and prurient. "LAven-
turiere" is q most difficult and complex
character, and not suited to the range
Of Mile. Bernhardt. In "Dona Sol "
and "Marie dc Neubourg" Mile. Sarah
is incompatible. The pathetic note dom
mates in these characters, and the
actress, with admirable art, opposes the
strength of undying love to her physical
weakness. Most dramatic is this con-
trast; but it fails to moisten eyes. The
capacity to draw tears is not granted to
Sarah. She is the Alabaster Muse, and
was not created to play strong passions,
or to call the emotions of the heart into
action. But in her way she is very
beautiful. We should not run down
Tennyson because he is not q Homer.
Sarah Bernhard is of the age OF Jenny
son, although the best living interpreter
of the sublime Victor Hugo, whose
women are delicate and delicious flowers
OF humanity.