The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-22
NEWS BREVITIEs.


was paid on 1904, 1923 packs Of playing
cards in England last year, amounting
to S65, $50
Wood is said to be so scarce at Can
delaria, New, that shavngs 90 for frac-
tional currency, and u handful of kin
ding is good for drink in any saloon,
Wilkcsbalre, Pa, has "A pigeon which
is II bird of prey 1t swooped down up
on flock of sparrows the other day
and carried one of the birds to its cote
A dove as desperate is u new thing
in ornithology.
Some specimen potatoes were brought
to the Office of the Grass Valley Tidings
ten months ago, The other day, ON
cleaning the editorial room, it was dis
covered that from one of the potatoes
seventy-siN others had sprouted and
grown,
The report that smoke has been seen
issuing from one of the Olympic range
of mountains, directly beyond Eagle
harbor, has been verified, and the peo-
Pile in the vicinity of Seattle are in
hourly expectation of Witnessing "A
grand sight.
An old man named Jeffry Jackson,
belonging to Melville, n. D., wandered
of in the snow on Christmas eve and
has not been seen since. He was a be-
lever in witchcraft, and the loafers OF
the town had tcased him until his life
became uncomfortable.
Williams College has now two hum
bred and twenty-seyen students. The
freshman class has seventy-two mem
bers. The requirements for admission
have lately been increased, and now
include additional Greek and an Eng
lish composition.
Dr. Folsom, formerly secretary of the
Massachusetts board Of health, who has
lately returned from Europe, is in Wash
ington. He reports that the MaSSaChu-
sets system OF dealing with juvenile
offenders is receiving much attention
in England,
Croker, the Central Pacific million
aire, had TO pay 100000 taxes under
the new California constitution last
year, and has decided to bring his mil
lions TO New York, where he will build
a mansion on Fifth avenue to rival even
the Vanderbilt palaces,
Prof. Steltz, "a German gardener in
the Third district of Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, went coon-hunting Nov. 20,
Of
a moSs-gatherer, named John Mitchell,
recently found Steltz' gun in the midst
OF Il swamp.
EX-Gov. Rice of Massachusetts, has
presented to the library of Roanoke col
lege of Virginia an old Latin Bible,
printed by AntouiuS Coburger, of Nu-
remburg, in l477. 1t is printed on vel
lum, in black letter and fabricated cap
itals, and contains 9ii pages, in an ex-
cellent state of preservation.
John Holland, the master of board
school at Castleford, England, was re-
Gently fined los. and costs for severely
6ogging boy with short stick. De
PENDANT explained that he had abolished
the cane out of Difference TO public
opinion, as expressed in the newspa-
pers, and had substituted short shil-
lelah.
Public opinion on the subject of faith
less husbands is very strong in Somerset,
Ky, Mr. Love was that Kind of an Of
fender. His wife led a mob against
him. He fled hastily, without coats,
trousers or boots, with the crowd
in close pursuit. At the end of a mile
he was oyertaken, and left suspended
head downward from a tree. He was
almost frozen to death, when two hours
afterward, humane preacher cut him
down.
The number of cases of sardincs eX-
ported from PASSPORT, Me, in 1850 is es-
timated to be about $1,000, valued
al about $500, 800. During 1879 there
were exported about twenty-five thouS-
and cases, at value of $3.50, OUO. I'm
1879 there were only six factories in
Passport. During the past year the
number has been increased to thirteen.
The last two or three were built late last
fall, and did not do much business,
but are now ready for work,
Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, the famous
public speaker, once said: THE trouble
with members of the bar is that they
don't get down low enough. They
shoot over the heads of The twelve
numbskulls before them / have seen
Ewing, Stanberry and Hunter, leading
luminaries as they are, dumbfounded at
being beaten by some stump tailed,
pennyroyal bull of country attorney
with no more law in M head than a
snake in dog days Inever score sue
cess in a jury trial that | don't feel hui
inflated, Even if my side has the
right, know that have used means to
win that ought TO shame a down east
stock pedderN