The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-04
ALL SORTS.

Dysentery is increasing to an alarm
ing extent in the German army, and
many regiments are compelled to dis
continue taking part in the maneuvers.
Small coaches for four persons have
been put on the streets of Boston by u
new company. The fare TO any point
within the city limits is 25 cents per
passenger
An Ohio man named Jacob Carter,
who was on a visit to his friends in In
diana, lost 25 cents in the grass, and
became so excited in looking for it that
he burst blood vessel and died.
A Tennessee girl went out for q sail
with a man who was painting to die for
her. A squall upset the boat, and he
painted for shore and let negro rescue
her.
John b. Raymond, of Fargo, Dakota,
says that he has harvested this season
$50, worth of wheat from farm
that cost him only $50, 900 two years
ago.
1t is the Australian and New Zealand
markets which take much Of the sur
plus hops of the Pacific coast The
amount reaching New York is not be-
lieved to be large.
Over 100000 sheep have been
sheared this year in the state of Michi-
gan, and the clip of wool amounts, by
official figures, TO 1924, 1863 pounds, or
nearly 81 pounds per head.
1t is said that Sitting Bull has be-
come sad and respondent, so much so
that a vague hope prevails that he may
commit suicide. This is about the only
sanguinary act he has not committed
in his illustrious career.
Three methods are practised inFrance
to protect the vines from phylloXera,
according to Mr.. Percival; First sub
mersion of the vineyard, when practi-
cable; second, employment of nsecti-
cides, and third (where the vineyards
have been destroyed), the planting Of
the more hardy American vines.
p T. Quinn, who has tried fifteen
different mixtures for the cabbage
worm, prefers twenty parts gypsum,
three or four of quick-lime, and one of
carbolic acid, sprinkled thinly over the
leaves when wet with dew or rain, re-
peating the application as often as me-
cessary, which may be number of
times.
There are two distinct coal fields in
Kentucky--the eastern and the western,
the combined area of which is said by
biologists to be more than Is, 900 square
miles in extent. The western coal
field, which has an area of about 1000
square miles, contains vast deposits of
bituminous coal and a large area OF
camel coal of great purity and rich.
ness. In this region and near the
town of Owingsville is what is said to
be one of the largest beds of iron ore in
the world. Exposures and workings in
this bank show thickness OF from twelve
to twenty feet.
The late M. Blanc once paid for q
parasol for his wife the usua, .um OF
$4,000. The pair started from Wies-
baden one Summer morning to spend
the day at Hamburg, and upon their
arrival at that paradise of the green
table Madame Blanc discovered that
she had left her parasol at home. She
insisted that her husband should buy
her n new one, and reluctantly enough
he invested SIC in a parasol of great
fashion and bnauty. He determined to
recoup himself for this extravaganza at
the tables, and walked into the room
devoted trente-et-quarante, where half
q dozen chairs were obsequously prof
fered by the officials. He declined them
all on the ground that as he only in
tended to remain at the table for a
minute or two, it would not be worth
while TO sit down. He then addressed
himself 10 the enterprise Of recovering
the price of his wife's new parasol by
setting two louis on the black, Without
following the courses of losses it is
enough TO record the fact that his wife's
forgetfulness cost M. Blanc the thou
sands mentioned above.
The great advantage in raising viii
low-trees for fuel and shelter consist in
the fact that they grow during longer
period in each year than other trees,
Willows are the first TO put ont leaves
in tho spring and they continue TO grow
till heavy frosts occur in the fall Will
lows are now growing finely in spite Of
the protracted drouth.
Stanley Rigsby killed a bird on the
Humboldt, Nevada, the classification of
which puzzles the heads Of Elko's
wisest naturalists. The bipcd resem-
bles "ly-up-the-creek,n but is much
larger, measuring from tip TO tip five
| and a half feet, The most remarkable
feature, however, is the bill, which is
nearly foot long, perfectly round, and
when closed is so true that il is difficult
to find the line of diyision.
The new Capitol Of Minnesota, at
st, Paul, to supply the place Of the ono
destroyed by fire last Winter, Is TO be
built entirely of Minnesota brick and
stone. Tho interior will be finished in
natural woods throughout. The base
ments walls are broken limestone; the
first belt of the superstrucluro of brown-
stone from Fond du Lac; the walls OF
red pressed brick from the Rod Wing
kilns, with trimmings of the handsome
| Frontonac sandstone, and tho cornice,
which will have no projections but be
flush with the walls, OF sandstone,
They were bidding each other good
night, the rich mans daughter and the
poor mans son, when she took occasion
to remark, "You say you have no ex-
pectations from your fatherp" mo"
he answered frankly "And all your
relatives are deadP' "All dead, dar-