The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-05

A new medical college is shortly TO
be established in Baltimore by several
medical gentlemen OF that city. The
new college will be distinguished for
several new features, among others be-
ing tho rule that only believers in the
Christian religion can become members
of the faculty.
A Partisan piano-forte manufacturer,
having sold his fifty thousandth piano,
his employees organized fee in hon
or of the event. Fifty thousand pia.
nos!' says Cha,1ca2. "Just think
how many false notes and stupeticd
neighbors and prosecuted auditors the
wordsrcpresent! At least five million
victims. Horrible.
A town near Bonny, Africa, is called
by the inhabitants, tho Land of lsra-
ell" because there is not a single idol
in it. In another town, forty miles dis
tant, and never visited by missionary,
the people are reported to have built a
house for Christian worship which will
accommodate five hundred persons. 1t
is filed every Sunday, school-boy
from one OF the missionary society sta
tions reading the service.
Mr.. Oscar Wilde is a grand nephew
on his mothers side Of the Rev. Charles
Maturin, that other strange lrishman
who was famous as much for his eCcen-
tricitv as for his talent. lie will be re-
membered as the friend of Sir Walter
Scott and OF Lord Byron, as a familiar
figure in the literary circles Of their day
1t was Mr.. Maturin's custom in his own
home to place a wafer on his forehead
as token that he was in the tolls of
composition and did not wish TO be adj
dressed by any of the household.
Wesley Redding, a colored man, has
sued the city of Atlanta in damages of
$4,000 for being turned out of tho
public parks by city park superintend-
ent, who excludes colored people from
public pleasure grounds. 1t is credita-
bic to the people of the southern states
that prejudice to color is fading away;
not very fast, perhaps, but it is less
than it was few years ago, and tho
citizens of Atlanta will DO doing quite
right to condemn the arbitrary act Of
their servant, the park superintendent,
for in this particular instance the white
man doesn't seem to be as good as the
negro, for he has not behaved himself.
A British scion Of a noble middle
class family--came in with Cog aud
Magog was dancing one evening at II
Long Branch hotel. In the course Of
the evening the proprietor called him
aside and said "Mr. -, am a.
ways happy to have you in the parlor
and to see you enjoying yourself, but |
understand you wear boots with I'M
commonly large Jackets or nails in the
soles Now, having some respect for
my carpets, must ask you 10 change
them "My dear fellow pom my
soul, you know, they're the only pair
I've got, don't you know? But I'll
write to England for my pumps" Fact,
Georges hill the most elevated por-
ton of Paramount park, in Philadel-
phia, is SO called in memory of its for
mer owner, Jesse George, who by his
will devoted most of his estate to be-
nevolent objects. He died in 1873,
leaving personal estate of $422, O70,
and the executors were directed, after
paying the specific legacies, to make
distribution according to their discre-
ton. Up to this time they have paid
to charities and public institutions
1927 900, and have given over sos, 900
to almoners located over the city for
distribution to the poor. The disburse-
ments amount to nearly 500, 900, of
which S555, 600 has been devoted TO
philanthropic objects.