The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-20

some disparaging remarks touching
the reliability Of newspapers.
One of the gems in the collection OF
diamonds owned by the Duke of
Brunswick and presented TO the city of
Geneva. is now owned by q gentleman
in Boston. 1t was purchased at a sale
OF the Dukes effects for 5000 francs.
The stone was Brazilian of twenty
six carats weight, and was specially
cut ny order OF the Duke ia the form Of
q star In the tedious process of re-
ducing tito this FORM which occupied
over two years, the gem lost nearly
two-Ihirds OF its weight, its present
Status being nine and fifteen-sixteenth
oarats. The stone, says the Boston
Heratd. is acknowledged to be the on
~ genuine lemon-color star-cut dia-
mond in the world. Its appearance,
either in light or darkness Is brilliant
beyond description.
A new project for the exploration of
central Africa has been presented to
the Lille Geographical society by M.
Leon Lacroix. The extensive region
Comprised in the general limits marked
by the River Congo on the South the
Blue mountains and the White Nile on
the east. the country Of Darfor, the
Rivers Shari and Binne on the north,
and the coast of Guinea on the west,
are as yet almost entirely unexplored.
1t is this region which NJ Lacroix de-
sires to penetrate. M. de Brazza is at
lacking il from the west by ascending
the Ogov or its afluents; NJ. Lacroix
wishes to start from the east. He pro-
poses to ascend by the White Nile and
by one of its aflluents, the Djour, to
the neighborhood IT the sources of the
Welle. a region which is partly known
from the explorations OF Herr Schwein-
fulh, the brothers Poncet. and M. de
Potagos. Thence he would seek to
penetrate, following the course Of the
Welle and its affluents. into the I'M
known countries indicated above.
Silk first came from China, and the
Chinese still have many important Sc
crets connected with it unknown to Eu.
ropeans. In good year they send az
much as 1926, 600 900 worth of raw silk
to England alone. The "hanks," or
books, rs they are called. arrive with
caps made of single cocoon. This is
done by process unknown in Europe.
Yusf Arbeely, who with his wife
and six sons came to this country
from Damascus, Syria, nearly three
years ago and settled in Tennessee, is
delighted with the change. He ex-
plains that more OF his countrymen do
not follow his example because the
Turkish Government not only discour-
ages emigration, but takes measures
to prevent it.
California has perpetual ice pond.
There is a lake on the Saw Tooth
Mountains, at an altitude of nearly H.
600 feet, which is constantly frozen. 1t
was discovered in August of 1879 by
party of prospectors and named Ice
Lake. The sun seemed to have no eff
feet upon it except in places adjoining
the shore.
The following is Col. 1ngersolls de-
scription of Santa Fe: ''The city
looks as though high wind had blown
all the houses away, leaving only the
cellars Ii is strange, quaint, old,
sleepy, happy place. The people are
not in hurry; they enjoy the sun.
shines they sit in the plaza and lock
at the little monument Their houses
are really comfortable, and all the
folks seem contented."
The Galveston Nevs claims to have
the smartest horse trader in the wide,
wide world. 1t is easily explained:
Eli Perkins was stopping in Galveston
little while ago, and the paragrapher
on that paper was introduced to Eli
and heard him lie. A newspaper
man is, of course, Judge of the arti-
Gle. and Immediately gave Perkins the
place of honor at the head of the horse-
trading fraternity.
Mrs, Myra Clark Gaines is quoted rs
once saying to Mr., Webster and Mr..
Clay: IL admit you are very great
men, but you cannot compare with
Gen. Gaines IN all that is sublime and
beautiful in human character. often
told the General he was too perfect for
this world, and although we had been
married upwerd of ten years have
endeavored to find defect in his char
acter, and have been unsuccessful
| II is a singular coincidence that Sir
Edward Thornton should he sent TO an
other post after serving at Washington
thirteen years, the exact length Of time
his father served in the British Lega-
ton in the same city. The latter
however, did not attain the rank OF
| Minister. He was Secretary OF Lega-
| ton and sometimes Charge d'Ailares.
He was there as u young man before
! his sou. the present minister, was born.
A trial at Paris of an invention for
| the instantaneous extinction Of fire was
attended by Gen. Pittie, representing
the president of the republic, who es-
corted Mile Grcvy, Gen. Jeanningros,
the Spanish ambassador. NJ. Caubet,
head of the municipal police, and sew
eral senators and deputies. The gem
eral vote was that the experiments
were marvelously successful. The
most remarkable one was the putting
out in less than minute Of nm mean
descent lake Of tar containing, seven
thousand pounds Of that substance, af-
ter the flames had reached the height
of a third story.
j. I. Hinckley and wife recently left
Eureka, Nevada, for o trip to the City
Of Mexico, On the way they had two
encounters with road-agents, one Of
their exploits being described as fol-
lows by Mi. IIinckley: Tho last true
we were stopped II was BY Mexicans.