The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-05

Peter Bo.art, of townsville, Della
ware county. \. Y, was born on May
IA, 1856 His vile is only three months
his junior, They were united in mar
riagc in 1906. having lived together
seventy-iive wears. Both are enjoying
fair health, and bid fair to celebrate
their one-hundredlh birthday.
According to the financial reform al
manac OF Great Britain for 1881, there
are nearly thousand persons, male
and female, attached to the royal house
hold and paid for rendering some real
or imaginary service to her majesty.
The poet laureate, A. Tennyson, re-
ceives fl00 yearly; the examiner of
plays f400. There are five pages of
honor" who receives Gl20 each, and
the ''master of the tennis court" the
Right Hon. w. Beresford, who receives
fl32 yearly. The amount chargeable
to "annuilies, pensions, superannua-
tons, compensations," in 1878 was
| G1S,0iS, $40.
An old steamer, the Planter. has just
been sold to Junk dealers in Baltimore
to he broken up. During the war it
was known as Grants Apothecary
Shop Just before the war the Planter,
then in command of Capt. George
WeemS, was put on the Potomac route,
plying between Baltimore and Wash
ington. Shortly after the outbreak Of the
war the steamer was seized at Wash
ington by the government, At first she
was used as transport, but afterwards
as medical p,Tveyors boat Capt
Norris commanded her at that time
For a long time the Planter was stationed
on the Appomattox river, and while
there, in charge of DR.. Brinton, the
name, Grants Apothccay Shop" was
| bestowed upon her
The late English naturalist, Gould,
used in summer to continually haunt
the banks of the Thames upon his scien-
tlic expeditions. One day there was
rare laugh raised at his expense at For
mosa; he had gone up tree to explore
the contents of nest, when, gancing
by chance down at a hollow formed by
the bifurcation of two large branches,
he suddenly exclaimed: GAS I'm a liv-
ing man, if there is not large owl here
in this city, looking straight at me with
its ghoul-like eyes The excitement
was great; but imagine the merriment
of the bystanders, and the discontinue
of the naturalist, when, on putting
down his hand to seize the supposed
OWL he found il simply in pool of wa
ter, which had reflected his own face as
| in mirror.
As a member of the French diplomat
ic body was recently travelling to Te-
heran to join his legation there, he was
, seized by a band of brigands, who put
his uniform on their chief, and turned
the filings of his dressing bag Che was
great Partisan dandy into useful and
ornamental articles of various kinds,
according as their fancy suggested
The only thing they could make moth
ing of was the pomade Hongroise. The
unfortunate Frenchman, on being asked
what il was, could only reply in Per-
sian: Butter" The brigands at once
tasted the compound, and, concluding
practical joke had been intended,
they forced their prisoner at swords
point to eat the whole OF the six pots
he had brought with him, and, having
completely rihed his baggage and peck
cts left him to complete his journey
more dead than alive.
Among the insane convicts in the
Eastern PA. penitentiary is middle
aged man who has propensity for
burning barns and houses simply be-
cause he thinks no one is entitled to
have more property than himself Re-
Gently one of the inspectors was en-
gagged in conversation with the incendi-
airy and inquired his name. "Well,
SIT" replied the convict as he pressed
one Of his hands against his forehead as
y TO refresh his memory, "you have got
n inc best of me. ] did have II name
g once think it was jack but the fact
n am now too miserably poor to have
= name. But, sir,''-and there was
! look OF earnestness in the old mans
eyes--"l wish you would please inquire
among those who know me, and IL YOU
q can find out what my name is tell me.
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