The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-23
GLEANINGs.

Epitaph for successful paragrapher
He never pointed his jokes with
italics.
During the last three years Germany
consumed 1857, $50 tons of rails.
Nearly all the rails were made of steel.
Mrs, Collins, Of Troy, N, Y, has been
seriously poisoned by wearing scarlet
dyed stockings.
AtLouisville, an old man aimed kick
at his wife, lost his balance, fell, and
was fatally injured.
The interior Of the capitol of Virginia
is being reprinted by convict from
the penitentiary.
The rubber sings used by the little
boys are getting to be as dangerous as
the gin sling handled by their daddes.
A million of dollars in our gold coin
weigh 3,685.7l pounds avoirdupois, and
million standard dollars in our silver
coin weigh So, 928.57 pounds.
One hundred thousand dollars have
been spent in gold mining in Ogle-
thorpe county, Georgia, without the in
vestors realizing anything in return.
The valuation of California, real and
personal, is 1868, 69l, 059, and taxation
Is at the rate of esq cents on the 800,
producing "a, 3l4, 426.
The total production vf wine in Napa
county, California, this season, Is 2,0l6,
600 gallons, falling off Of S94,7 gal
Ions from last year.
The California woman who gave her
old blue petticoat to make the first
American flag raised in that state lies
In an unmarked grave.
The great Maryland litigant, Har-
rison Wagner, has suffered perpetu-
al injunction in one of his many casse,
which practically kills the rest Of them.
The people of Truro, Nova Scotia, in
recent public meeting, authorized the
giving OF 100000 in bonuses for the
promotion of manufacturing industries
there.
The old Baptist parsonage in Green
wich, Washington county, N. T., once
the home of President Arthur, has
been sold for $75, and is to be remodel
ed.
A Frenchman has established lion
preserve in southern Algeria. For
those intrepid hmtsmen, who think the
homesick lions of the menagerie quite
fierce enough, there will he placed port
able fortresses about grounds
Threeinew war-ships which England
is about to add to her fleet will make
heavy demands on her treasury. Fol-
the steel-faced armor of the Colling-
wood, nearly $500, 600 will be required,
and the revised estimates provide fol
the hulls of the Colossus and the Males
tic the total sum of 81 100000.
The mayor of Richmond, Va, has
vetoed an ordinance for compulsory
vaccination, the penalty being IS. His
objection to the ordinance is that the
provision for free vaccination is sucl
that laboring men and women would be
forced to lose days labor in order *
be vaccinated.
A we'll was being dug at Rrming
ham, Ala, when at the depth of four
teen feet q stream of hot water wa
struck, which flowed 50 rapidly tina
work was stopped. A steam pump wa
attached, and water has been pumpe,
out at the rate of 750 gallons pc
hour.
| No church in New Haven, Conn.
has adopted tho revised testament il
public worship, the Protestant clergy
men having decided that it is too fault
to be adopted. The chief burden of th
criticism upon the revision was in re
lation to its bad English. Rev. DR.. j
Il. Dodd stated, at recent meeting {
the clergy held in that city, that he ha
counted $50 instances of bad Englis
In one of the epistes to the Corinth
ans.
OF Lieut.. Berry, the young command
er of the Rodgers, writer in the Wasl
ington Cdpttdt says: Just before h
sailed met him ut q reception; love
ly western girl was talking to hin
looking up at him with eyes that migl
make any man 10th TO 60 on u cruis,
She said: It's horrid! What are you e
ing forp and he answered In his grave
quiet way: "If. after three years {
hardship and suffering, l should fin
one man of tho aeannettes crew aliv
to bring home should be repaid fc
everything had endured"
Big college joke: He was fresh
man and in all his morality was watcl
ing Rossi as 'Othello." 81 though
Italians were white" he said.
A massive marine railway, $50 fet
long and 80 feet wide, and capable {
hauling out 1,500-ton vessel, has ju!
been completed at Fair Haven, Conn.
Is to be put up ut Campeachy CIT.
Mexico, and the cost Of its constructio
{ and erection there will be.noarly $500
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