The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-19
ALL SORTS,

VI the NIFTY eight men who framed
the Constitution and declared the indie
pendence Of Texas, March 2, 1886, ono
is still living, DR.. Chas. b. Stewart, Of
Montgomery County,
Most of the heather temples in Siam
are going to decay, and there are only
one-fourth as many Buddhist priests in
Bangkok, the capital, as there were
thirty years ago.
''The greatest burl TO fought" says Pat,
"Barring the agile Is the duck;
He has folne large bill 10 peek,
And pnty Of ple Irish pluck,
Ana thin, aye mind, the fnt he has,
Show me the fowl upon two legs
That's able fer to "Trip him upw
Yducob Strauss.
The late Fernando Wood was an act
or fifty years ago. 1t is discovered that
he quit the profession about 1882, while
he was playing at the old Marshall
Theatre, Richmond, Va, as o member
OF Richardson's Travelling Combine
ton.
AT parties and receptions in Florence,
according to a correspondent, "there is
seldom mirror before which belle
can pose and exasperate her escort by
OBTAINING him in the draughts of tho
corridor to take the chances Of catching
a severe cold"
Gen. Logan is fond Of showing two
card photographs of his only grandson.
In one he is sitting on his fathers knee.
with his two grandfathers and two great
grandfathers beside him. In the other
he sits on his mothers knee, and is sur
rounded by his two grandmothers and
his two great grandmothers.
In some of the rural districts of Italy
lover who wishes to make declara-
ton of his passion places rose leaves
before the door Of the lady. If she
rejects them she sweeps them away,
but if she accepts him the rose leaves
remain.
The following is placarded in the the
atre at Durango, Col: From and after
this date all persons who wish to gain
admittance TO the auditorium of the
Coliseum must leave their weapons at
the front bar, where checks will be CIV
en- for them"
A woman writes to the Cincinnati
Enquirer that she doesn't like the Rus
sian bath, because she cant see the
fun of being laid on marble slab and
scrubbed, kneaded, slapped and denied
from head TO foot by woman so stall
wart that one can't get quite out of
the suspicion that she is man in dis
guise."
Mount Baker w. T., has shown slight
symptoms of volcanic activity for sew
eral years. An unmistakable eruption
is now in progress, causing some little
CONSERVATION among the scattered set
tiers of that region. The display OF
fire and smoke is said to be magnificent
as seen from Upper Summas, about tif-
ty miles distant.
DR.. Crosby has for thirty years occu-
pied himself with astudy of the nation
ality of street beggars in New York,
and has during all that time failed TO
discover among them a native Ameri-
can. He says that he once devoted q
whole month TO inquiries of this char
acter, personally hunted up hundreds
of cases and found the petitioner in
each case "a liar and foreigner"
The majority of the women in CON-
hitting suicide take poison, while only
very small portion of them-9S in 2S5
shoot themselves or cut their threats.
Men do not like to poison themselves.
The deaths of men from gunshot
wounds are sixteen times those of
women, from the razor over four times
as many, and from the rope nearly five
| times.
Gambetta, when presiding in the
French Chamber of Deputies, always
keeps a glass of red wine on one side
of his desk and what appears to be a
glass of lemonade. He drinks from
one or the other every few minutes.
Besides this occupation, he is ringing q
big bell or rapping with heavy paper
cutter every minute or two, to keep the
noisy Deputies in order. He has an OPP
era-glass on his desk, and now and then
takes long and sweeping look into the
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