The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-10

DFfltIAL fAfEh VI ll1l AM IoNNI
Worth, as general rule II is said,
makes no charge for Innings, Lately,
however, he departed from his custom
by requiring payment for the fur lining
of a cloak he made. The fur used was
Russian sable, aud the charge was
$1,000
The official report of the United
States local inspector of steam vessels
for the district of Superior shows that
during last season 1909 passengers
were carried ON steamers in that district
without loss Of life, and only one wreck
occurred This is remarkable show
inc for Lake superior,
A Cambridge (MasS) letter says th at
dancing is rare diversion in that place.
excepting for Young girls and under
graduates. A Methodist preacher, VINO
looked on at n small dancing party at a
house in Cambridge, observed with sec
tartan humor that the young women
went through their quadrillcS and walt
yes rs gravcly as if they were 'under
conviction,
A school friend OF George Eliot says
that while Marian Evans was the plain
est-looking girl and the poorest in the
aristocratic Edinburgh school, she was
universally respected as intellectually
their superior. The school girl Of l6 was
of sensitive and retiring disposition
and far before her companions as
writer Of prose and verse as we'll as in
her various studies.
A correspondent explains the Signii
cation of the shattcriug of the glass at
the Rothschilds wedding; wine is
brought in a brittle vessel, and being
six times blessed the married couple
drink thereof, and the rest of it, in
token of JOY, is cast on the ground;
then the bridegroom, in memory of the
ruin of their city and temple, with force
dashes the vessel to the ground"
Mr.. George Dennis has discovered on
the earliest rock-hewn monument of
Asia Minor the prehiStorcal statue of
Niobe, sculptured on the cliffs Of Mount
Sipvus, near Magnesia, and mentioned
by Homer, cartouche cut in the rock
at the right of the head, with hero
glyphs that have not yet been copied
They are in low relief, distinguishable
with difficulty, and not easy accessible
One of Bret llarte's stories has been
dramatized and placed upon the stage
at Berlin under the title of The lost
Som but it has not met with much
success, The Germans say that the
authors humor is not fitted for stage
representation, and that scenes Of dis
sipation, which can he effectively and
humorously described in narrative,
become repulsive when an attempt is
made TO act them.
Sir Henry Ilavelock, the son of the
Indian hero, was two years ago left n
valuable estate by a cousin on condition
that he assume the teStalor's name Of
Allan. 1t was left, however, in such a
fashion that Sir Henry can not enter
upon its enjoyment until his children
have attained their majority, at which
period he will be 70 years old, In order
to educate his son properly, Sir Henry
has just appealed to chanccry for a
moderate allowance from the accumula-
ted income of the estate. and has been
granted Sl3,5O0 a year
The cotton mill in Augusta, Me-,
belonging to the Sprague property, has
the past year, under the management
of Mr.. Chailee, the trustee Of the pro-
perry, manufactured over 9,OOO,0O0
yards of print cloth, being an increase
in the production of over 10000
yards over the production of two years
ago, with the same machinery and the
same number of hands employed The
product Of the mill is all transported to
CranSton, r. l., where it is printed in
one OF the mills owned by the Spfague
company
New York which has large expen-
diturcS every year, is now clamoring
for the opening Of Harlem river around
the north of this island, New York is
now spending SS,OoO,O0O TO increase
her water supply by tapping the Bronx,
another small river many miles up in
the country, running their surplus into
reservoirs, to he conducted into the
Croton Aqucduct The elevated rail
roads use $50, 600 gallons of water a
day, beyond various consumption.