The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

'N'D' 'AN 'tti9Nb Az
almost insensible.
A nicely dug grave on his premises
was the gentle hint given Mr.. Lambert,
an Irish landlord, by his tenants.
An injured woman in st. Louis has
sued her husband for divorce on the
ground that he called her ian old cow"
The Duke of Portland is so pleased
with Lord Bute's beaver colonies that
no is going to establish several on his
estates.
New Orleans has organized a COM
pany with 100000 capital to manufac-
ture jute bagging, which has hitherto
been imported.
A California inventor has devised a
process for pressing and drying pota-
toes so that they will keep for years
without loss Of aavor.
Twenty-nine cousins contest the will
Of an itinerant preacher in Westchester
county, New York, who had managed
IN some way to leave o property of
$4,000 behind him.
In a certain English parish the curate
bears the name of Hare The ladies
there being sufferers from the unac-
countable mania of curate hunting,
haVereceived the title OF the "Harriers."
The Russians are paying great atten.
ton to the revolver as an instrument OF
warfare. Upwards of sixty thousand
OF these handy weapons are being man
ufactured at Berlin for the Russian
army.
A bather in Bridgeport, Conn, bar.
bers shop recently fell asleep in bath
tub full OF water, and remained there
five hours before he was discovered and
awakened. The water was barely be-
low his mouth.
Mr. Elisha Shepperson, aged 70 years,
OF Hanover county, Va. died recently
While letter he had jrAA written to a
lady in eastern Virginia, to whom he
was engaged TO be married, was being
carried to the postoiiice.
Smithland Chambers, of Barren coun.
~ Kentucky, weighs 1870 pounds and
his wife ll2 Their 6-year-old daurh-
ter weighs 239 pounds and measures "a
inches around the waist. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cham bers have lost son five years old
weighing 200 pounds.
On the Hawley branch of the Erie
railway, the other day, deer spranp
from the woods to the track in front of
q loaded coal train, and kept ahead of
the engine for about two miles; then.
startled by the appearance of a pedes-
trian, leaped into the Lackawaxen river,
swan across, and disappeared in the
forest.
The Americans, says The Spectator.
have invented, and Englishmen are
slowly adopting into their political vo-
cabulary, q new word, intended to ac-
count for the unaccountable popularity
of some politicians, They say they are
magnetic '-that is, they attract as the
magnet does, by virtue Of some quality
not yet explained.
Two men are litigating at Elizabeth
town, Ky, over slave trade that took
place in 1856. The defendant bought
negro of the plaintiff, but finding the
slave unSound made the plaintiff take
him back. Plaintiff discovered that the
negro was unfit for work, and in 1869
brought suit to recover his value. The
case is still on. The plaintiff is 70 wears
old and the defendant 50.
The city of Cambridge, Mass, has
recently set three memorial stones,
over ton each, at as MANY
points within its borders to mark GER
tain events in its history. One on Ninth
avenue corner of Spruce street, is in.
scrbed; "The site where four citizens
were killed by British soldiers retreat
ing from Lexington, April l6, l775."
One on lnman street containing the fol-
lowing; "Site Of the house which was
The headquarters of Gen. Putnam in
l05." The other monument, located
on Buster street, has the following in
scription: este Of the residence OF
Thomas Dudley, A. d. 1890 founder of
Cambridge and Governor of Massachu-
sets" Each stone also bears the words,
Erected by the city-lSS0."