The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-10
NEWS BREVITIEs.

An Ohio paper, speaking Of George
Elliot, says her "chief works were David
Deunda' and Helen's Babies, "
A wildcat appeared in the streets OF
Castinc Me, the other day, frighten-
ing the people, but was driven into the
river and captured,
There are said 10 have been about
| 500 divorces granted in Maine last year,
al one to every twelve marriages. EX-
act returns from five counties show 223.
Josephine Iurbide, daughter of the
former Mexican emperor, is to receive
from the present republican govern
ment pension o. $40, 900 year.
Bee culture is becoming profitable
industry in Texas, especially in the
BraHos and Colorado valleys, where
| quite n number Of cnterprising men
have found that it pays vastly more
than cotton raising,
A rattloSnakc which was caught last
summer in harvest field fifteen miles
south of Chatham, Ont, is still on eXhi-
bition at a local drug store. 1t has eaten
nothing for five months, but seems fat
and healthy.
The last two members of family
were burned to death in Dorchester,
Mass, recently Their brother was
killed before NickSburg, their father
was drowned, and their only sister was
burned to death some months ago,
The material used for decorating
ladies rubber oycr-gaitcrs with fancy
colorcd designs is made from the tail
of the moose, and the secret of coIoring
il so that it will stand the heat of
manufacture belongs TO the Canadian
Indians.
Gambctta, the other day, in address
ing the university students in Paris,
declared AuguStc Comte the greatest
thinker of the age, and went on to con-
graduate his hearers on having aban-
doned the spiritual view of things for
positive science.
A Russian sailor, named lvanhoH, on
board the fligate Edinburgh, in Cher
bourg harbor, having struck an officer,
was sentenced to DEATH taken three
miles out TO sea, in order to be beyond
French jurisdiction, and hanged to the
yard-arm.
A man named Robinson, of Griifin's
Corners, Duchess county, N. Y, while
taking care of his stock recently no
ticed that one of his cows appeared UNI
easy, and, upon examination, found a
large weasel hanging to the cows neck
and sucking her blood.
Dr. Carson, of Leechburg. Penn,
while attending severe case of diph-
liberia, is said to have received some of
the virus on sore spot on his hand,
and TO have died a day or two after
ward in consequence, The bad effects
were felt within two hours of the inocu-
lation,
Nine. Geis,nger, the actress from
Vienna, is said to be pretty, buxom,
graceful, sprightly, and vivacious. She
is said TO be an extremely accomplished
woman, and one feels in seeing her as
in seeing Capoul-as if she had des-
cended step in playing opera boufie.
Nine. Albani, who retired from the
operate stage at the age of sc in order,
as she said, that the public should not
witness the decline of her powers, was
recently induced to reappear in Paris
when she astonished even the critics by
| the freshness of her voice and splendid
vocallzation.
The home of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
at Gloucester Mass, is Il brown, two
story cottage, 1t is filled with rcmem-
brances of her friends, and with books
and pictures Here the author of "The
Gates Ajar' spends her quiet, invalid
days with all the calmness of the summer
sea.
The rage for forgcries still continues
in Spain. \ million Of false coupons
OF government bonds have been manu-
featured, and the latest news is that
the painter Mrissoncr is made to sail
under false colors The forged picture
represents mounted sentinel on the
top of hill His horse, however, is so
warped as to seriously disturb the nor
nal reciprocity Of action in the fore and
hind legs,