The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| duN, Win Wllltc llNlF.
During the past fifty years dirty
nine men have been executed in New
York city. Among the list are eight
negroes The only Italian was Balbo,
the wife murderer.
A Cincinnati clergyman recently
paid his allcctonate respects to the
class of men that will spend $50 for
carriage hire at a wfe's funeral, and
never spend 81 for riding while the
poor woman is alive.
The weak, cracked voice of the lit
tie old maid up in the gallery is just
rs sweet to the One in whose praise
the hymn is raised as the bell-like
notes Of the high priced soprano in
the choir,-FHJladelphia Sanday Hem.
The passes of officials Of the India
StatemilWaysare made of gold and sill
yer. The general manager, who has the
freedom of all the lines, wears gold
pass on his watch chain, about the
size ola 500 gold piece. His subor-
dinatas wear silver.
Florida fruit-groWers are beginning
to cultivate the lemon with great
deal of care, and with such good re-
suits that it is believed that in little
while longer this State will furnish
almost as many lemons to the trade rs
she now does oranges.
The only company in the world
that makes iishhooks by machinery is
at New Haven, Conn, and has
monthly capacity Of 100000 hooks
A New York house has just given an
Ordcrior 100000 hooks and another
large order has recently been shipped
to Berlin.
On and after October /, the postage
charge on newspapers addressed to
countries or colonies of the Universal
Postal Union will be the same on
printed matter for the same dcstina-
tons, viz, one cent for two ounces
or each additional fraction of two
ounces.
The Russian battlcficlds of the year
1872 are still being explored for bones,
which are converted into bonc-blaCk.
IL may thus happen that a man of the
present day may consume sugar which
has been decolorized and purified by
means Of the bones Of his iorctathers
The German African Society has at
present six different expeditions trav-
cling through Central Africa. The
money for these expeditions is obtain
Ell from the German Government OF
through private subscription. Dr.
Nachligatt is the President of the So
olety,
Very recently n remarkable divorce
suil was decided in London adversely
to a Mrs. Butler, Il fashionable lady of
beauty, mixing in court circles, who
was married first to Mr.. Kingscote, of
| The guards, who obtained a divorce
from her, secondly to Capt. Butler, of
| the same corps, famous cricketer,
who has now obtained a divorce, there
being three correspondents, Mr.. Flow
er, Lord Arthur Hill, and Lord Mar
Gus Beresford, with two of whom the
jury found her guilty. She is TO be
again married to Lord Marcus, tho
third. Meeting the other day one Of
the gentlemen with whom it was
thought to prove her acquainted, at
the Chariug Cross railway terminus,
she began attacking him with her
| tongue in terms more familiar in the
east than in the west end circles, and,
on his attempting to make of, dashed
on him wi tn an umbrella, and actually
tlooIed him with right.haud box on
he car.
Marcport sent to the British Foreign
Office the Acting Consul General at
Bangkok mentions the discovery Of
valuable sapphire mines in that part
of Siam. Mines of inferior value have
long been known in the neighborhood,
and about five years ago new mines
were discovered by native hunter.
| Being, however, in remote and Sc
cludcd position, it was long before
their fame spread to Burmese and In
dian gem traders and miners. Even
WaIly they became more widely
| known, ana large numbers 1lockcd TO
them, especially from British Burmah.
The largest sapphire hitherto found
weighed three hundred and seventy
caruls in the rough, and when cut
turned out one hundred and eleven
carats of the iiuest water. The ruby,
onyx, and Jade are also found in the
district but are apparently Of inferior
quality.
The Duke Of Argyll, writing to the
| Naiaye, gives, as he believes, the only
case among fealhered tribes in which
yoca! is replaced by instrumental
music. The peculiar sound made with
the bill Of the woodpccker upon trees
apparently serves the same purpose a.
the song Of other birds, and ends when
the eggs are Matched. The Duke had
lately an opportunity Of closely OBJ
serving how the lesser-spottcd wood
pecker, or picaS manor, behaved at
pairing time, and the results Of his OBJ
scrvatlon excite curiosity. lie is quite
certain that the sound made by the
bird has nothing to do with the quest
for food, "The bird selects one parti-
cular spot upon the trunk or bough of
n tree, which spot is naturally sonor-
Gus from the wood being more or less
Followed by decay. The bird re-
turns to this precise spot continually
during the day, and produces the sound
by striking on the spot with its bill,