The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-18

II is related Of certain minister who
was noted for his long sermons with
many divisions, that one day. as he was
advancing among his teens, he reached
at length a resting place in his dis
course, when, pausing TO take breath,
he asked the question; ".And what shall
| ask more?" A voice from the con-
gregation earnestly responded, "Say
Amen"
James Redpath the lecturer. says that
Capt Boycott was one of the most
brutal and foul-mouthed agents in
Western Ireland. He compelled his
tenants to stand bare-headed when he
passed, and never addressed poor man
without an oath. Redpath agrees with
Boycott that Ireland needs emigration,
but says it should be emigration of
landlords.
Tobacco has become an important
product Of Wisconsin. Formerly an
inferior quality was planted and sold TO
a small extent as low as two to six cents
a pound; but now that finer grade
known as wisconsin Havana" has
been substituted it has sprung into IA
yor, and the demand for it at twelve to
fourteen cents pound is rapidly in
creasing.
MIR. Emerson is said by the Boston
correspondent Of the Providence Press
to have not exactly approved Walt
Whitman's action in printing in a Sec
ond work the Concord sage's praise of
'Leaves of Grass" The correspon-
dent adds: "When Whitman was told
of this disrelish, he made this noble re-
mark; 4 used it because | thought it
was the chart Of an Emperor
Walker Lake, in Nevada, is about
twenty-nine miles long and fourteen
miles wide in one place and is 900 feet
deep. The water is strongly impregnat-
ed with soda, and yet the lake at the
northern end contains trout in album
dance. "At the other end of the lake.
as one of the residents remarked, "you
might fish till your hair on your chin
was mile long, and you'd never get a
A significant but melancholy COM
ment upon the value Of the work actu-
ally accomplished by the much-vaunted
boston schools is found in the fact that
a prominent lawyer who wished a copy
LIST recently was forced TO reject large
number of applicants who had pradu-
ated from the High School for the SIM
pie reason that not one Of them could
spell common words even tolerably.
Thomas Sims, who, when slave, es.
capped from Savannah to Boston, and
whose case as fugitive slave created
great excitement In the latter city thir-
" years ago. was afterward sold in Mis-.
slsslppi Ten years afterward he es-
capped with his wife In dugout canoe.
and sought Grants army at Vicksburp.
lie was given place in the Attorney
Generals office In Washington by
Judge Devens, and is still there.
The natives of Terra del Fucgo are
one OF the most degraded among the
races OF mankind. How could they be
otherwise' Their country" says DR..
Darwin, sis broken mass Of wild rock.
lofty hills and useless forests: and these
are viewed through mists and endless
storms. The habitable land is reduced
to the stones Of the beach. In search
OF food they are compelled to wander
from spot to spot; and so |
Is the coast that they can only move |
about in their wrctched canoes.' They
are habitual cannibals, killing and eat.
ing their old women before they kill
their dogs, for the sufficient reason, as
explained by themselves, "Doggies
catch others; old women, no." "
When York, Pa, was invaded by the
Confederates In 1868, General Early.
who commanded, levied contribution
Oh slo0,OOO upon tho city. As nearly
al the ready cash had been removed
Seiore he arrived, he only got $780,
30 confident was Early in the success Of
the campaign in which he was epgaoed
INA. Una. he took the bonds Of the corporn-
uoh officers for tho additional s7ll GOO
h no was beaten at Gettysburg, and the
oonds were never presented. There 10
q story now In York that Early s,ii, ,as
.no . bonds and contomplatos bringing
suit against tho city 10 recove "b,hhg e
amount. This would certoin,v h sno
novel suit at law and raise some ,n NJ
esting questions. N '"''''