The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-08
NEWS BREVITIES.

A Cincinnati negro thought the man
he shot at was unalned, but knew bet
ter on receiving seven bullets one after
another in various parts OF his body,
A new journal for boys, under the
auspices of the proprietors Of the Illus
tratcd London .NewS, has been started
in England, and will be edited By Capt.
Maync Reid and Mr.. John Latey, Jr.
The average age OF members Of the
Garfield Cabinet is 81. Mr. Gladstonc's
Cabinet averages jS There are two
scptuagcnarians in the English Cabinet,
but the majority are between 80 and 10.
In country church in Holland there
IS painting representing the sacrifice
OF Isaac, in which the painter has de-
picted Jacob with n bunderbuss in his
hand. ready to shoot his son.
\ Paris mandatory Gains to have
discovered process for substituting
the leaves Of the eucalyptus tree, which
in burning emit a delicious perfume,
for tobacco leaves in making cigars
Col Thomas A. Scott lately bought at
a sale in Northumberland County, Pa,
clock made by his uncle in 1890. 1t
still keeps good time, and every three
hours plays tune on chime Of bells.
They are so unaccustomed to fires in
Europe that a lady who saw steamer
for the first time said with astonish-
mcnt: "But should like to know what
those idiots 90 and heat the water for
when it has TO be thrown on the fret
Kansas has secured from the United
States Government an allowance of
2Gj, 900 acres Of selected lands, worth
probably Sl,00O,000, and 1892, 2GS in
money, on account of per cent on net
proceeds Of public lands sold within the
State.
The New York Chr5Stian Adrocate
says that many excellent Christians
have smoked or chewed all their lives,
and nevertheless have Furnished the
best evidence Of piety, and died in holy
triumph
Arrangements have been made for il
Eliminating several of the staterooms
and tho great corridor at Windsor Cas-
tie with the electric light. If the ex-
pertinent proves successful, the light
will probably supersede gas at Bal
moral.
The process of swearing the allegi-
ance of $1,000 600 or more subjects of
the Car occupied more than ten days.
In st. Petersburg the workingmen in
large factories had to repeat the oath,
word for word, after the officials, who
then placed an approving mark on the
passport of each man.
An electric shock is the punishment
inflicted upon those who commit in
fractions of the rules in the Ohio State
Prison. 1t is not heavy enough to en-
danger life, yet it is pretty severe.
Some of the men rather like it, and
frequently break the rules to obtain u
good shock. 1t answers the purpose of
a drunken spree.
A New jersey preacher, who was an
moved by the ladies of his congregation
turning about in their seats, paused in
his discourse to say: Ladies, if you
will give me your attention for few
HlOlNcHtS, VIII htcp ioohout VII thc
door, and if anythingworse than a man
enters, Twill warn you in time for you
to make your escape"
The most gigantic evil of the day is
the adulteration Of food and drink.
The concerns engaged in this business
are far more dangerous than railroad
monopolies, financial syndicates, or
bloated bondholders; yet Government
pays little attention to the wholesale
murderers, who poison the food and
drink of the people.
1t is well-known that certain fowls
fill their digestive apparatus with gravel
and pebbles, which act as millstones in
grinding up their food. Recent inves-
tigation shows that other animals are
addicted to similar habits on larger
scale. Seals swallow stones weighing
from one to two and sometimes even
three pounds each, while one investi-
gator found, not long since, ten pounds
of these boulders in the stomach of n