The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-25

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carriage.
There comes Mrs HAYES called
out the fat correspondent and the at
tcntion of all was directed to the private
gallery which Mrs, Hayes had just enter
ed with beyy of young ladies'.
'Do you know, observed the pen
cil-sharpener, II think she is the big
ceSt woman in the country
How that?' inquired the plug hat
man.
well, she's democratic A person
can get near her without feeling uncom-
Portable. If | were public man
would rather own her as a piece of
property than any woman in America. y
In forty years the imports Of British
India have risen from the value Of eight
millions sterling to that of ffty-three
millions. The exports have advanced
from twelve 10 siXty-seven millions
sterling. The imports from the United
Kingdom are valued at thirty millions
sterling per annum The exports
amount to twenty-cight millions.
In the Lpp-Schaumburg forest at
Turbs, in Hungary, peculiar animal
was recently shot, which was at first
supposed To be avery powerful fox.
The Vienna BIOLOGISTS, however, have
shown that it is cross between wolf
and a fox. lis form is that of fox,
but it has the color of a wolf.
A woman died in the medical college
hospital at Nashville, Tenn, recently,
who is said to have twice enlisted in the
regular army during the war, and to
have served for some months each time
before her sex was discovered. Her
name wa, Jennie Robinson, but she was
more famiiarly known as Soldiers
Charley.
The following are the principal items
in the permanent property in the city
of Paris: Churches, synagogucS and
other places of worship, POP, IFS, l3if;
cemeteries, 1869. Sl6f. theatres, H.
l30,064f.; parks, squares, and nurser-
les, 272, 1903, 03lf; statues and foun-
tains, 3,233, 705f The total value Of
the property of the city is 1853, CPS
S79f,
Stllmann b. Allen, Of Boston, has
Just distributed $500 in prizes to Maine
boys under Is years of age who have
raised the most Indian corn on one
eighth of an acre in the past season.
More than six hundred boys in all parts
of the State competed, and the first
prize, $500, was awarded TO Frank +.
Small, Of Stockton, who raised 2,2i6
pounds,
Three islands in the Hudson, near
Albany, known as HillhouSe island,
Draker island, and Island Park. and
containing an aggregate of 26O acres,
have recently been purchased by Mr..
EraStus Corning, for the purpose, it is
said, Of dumping ground for the i'm
mense quantities of cinders, scale, Stag
and ashes coming from the Albany and
Rensselaer, steel and iron works,
There are in the United States, ne
Cordingt to the census report, u, j2O, 5S2
males and 2i,642, 2Si females. The ma
tives number As, AS, 500 and the FOREIGN
born 6,677, 800. There are 33,3O4. 81
whites, 6,477, l5l Colored, l05, 463 Chi
nese, and 2j5 other ASialics. There
are 10, 1873 colored persons to each lOO,.
600 whites, against l4,52S in 1870, and
96,5l9 females to every 100000 males
against 81, S0l in 1870.
A queer old lady, just dead in Berlin
used to lie abed all day, rising just a
dusk. and spent the night in preparing
sumptuous meals for herself and hcl
female servant She was surrounded
by dogs, cats and birds, and she causcc
every new work on animals to be pur
| chased for her as soon as il was pub,
lished. After her death il was found
that she had left q handsome legacy
TO her servant, and all the rest of hel
property to Il grand-niece in England,
TO revert, after the lattcr's death, TO an
asylum for dogs. For many years she
wore no body garment except mans
dressing gown, On one foot she wore
n boot and on the other n shoe and her
hands were encased in gloves day and
night.
One OF the best attcSted cases of ex-
IRENE longevity is that of Mrs. Eliza
beth Treadwell Weston, of Peterboro',
N. H.. who celebrated her one hundred
and third birthday at Greenfield, Fcbru-
airy 10. 1t has been maintained with
nuch pains and ingenuity that there is
Nv PROOF that any person in modern
. unleo mas lived TO the age of 100 years,
pul most persons believe that over
whelmlng evidence exists TO unset mi,
theory In the case of Mrs. Weston III,
iahiiy records are very clear. Accord
ing 10 these, she was born February 10
177S, in Petcrboro', and married Abe
Weston in 1896. Five Of her lively,
children are now living, the eldes, q
them, Deacon Samuel Weston, boinc i