The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-11-29
ALL SORTS,
A good choke--the hanging of Gu

Patrick, but sky-blue.
A small boy was sentenced TO jail at
Chattanooga, Tenn for one hour for
stealing dime novel.
II Is estimated that there are SO, 525
men and boys employed in and about
the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields.
Johnnie Miller, l0-months old boy
of Everett. Blair county, Pa, swallowed
pin A few days ago it worked itself
out Of his neck, just a year after it was
swallowed,
A new submarine cable, the most
northerly in Europe, is to be laid be-
tween Thurso, in Caithuess, and Ice
land, passing by the Farce islands. The
chief office In Iceland will be at Reiki-
avik.
Austin, Tex, has q female Deputy
Sheriff, and when she tells man she
has an attachment for him he don't
know whether to blush and try to look
sweet or to light out for the woods.
Mr. lie Dues tea farm turns out to be
even greater failure than was at first
supposed, For the $4,000 put in to
the venture the Government has an iron
safe which cost $500 and some no-ac-
count tea plants.
The will of an eccentric gentleman
recently recorded in the Surrogate's
Office OF Canandaigua, N. Y, provides
for having his portrait cut on his tomb
stone, giving explicit directions for the
same.
The punched half dollar is worth
nIx bn ptipphnH al
ter dollar about l8 or 20 cents The
proper thing to do is to keep these
punched coins in the hands Of the pet
~ thieves who punch them.
"Bill Nye" has been writing about
the hump backed patriarchs Of the Nor
mon Church, and he SAYS that there
isn't gravel train on the Union Pacific
Railroad that does not contain great
er amount Of intellect than the church
at Salt Lake City.
The sette's upon the upper Column
bia river, both in Oregon and in Wash
iugton territory, are constantly agitat-
ing the matter of completing the locks
around the Cascades, in order that
they may have an open highway to the
ocean.
The pope is said to have authorized
the members of the dispersed religious
orders OF Francs to assume the dress of
secular priests, or even of laymen, and
has empowered the French bishop to
give them appointments AS parish
priests.
Anent the increasing price OF provls-
ions, Georgia farmer sent an order
to his grocer for 80 cents worth of
bacon. The merchant just creased the
order all ovor and sent it back with a
bill charging mp the farmers account
with 80 cents
In Idaho, according to correspon-
dent of the San Francisco Bulletin,
John Chinaman is "allee samee AS Mel
lean man, muchee on the make" In
Galeua City the Acknowledged laundry
man. CHARGES 81 a dozen for plain
washing of small pieces, and So for
shirts; about what most Of them can be
bought outright for.
The practice Of cremation is gaining
popular and official support in Hunga-
ry. The Municipal Council Of Buda-
Peft hdhyP S,rGafGil In djag66f ctsmati'6aai.
Following this example, several other
Hungarian towns have dccreed that it
may be adopted by all those who de-
sire it.
Commissioner Raum has thus replied
to an internal revenue officer in Mary
land, who said that druggist residing
in his district was putting mp bottles Of
whisky aud water, and adding TO each
pint bottle, with other ingredients a
grain of stryclnine. and labelling ii
"tonic bitters.' "Such compound il
regarded by most competent druggist
TO be dangerous to life, and if dispensed
by regular druggist, should be labeled
poison, so as to protect unwarv per-
SONS against its too free use. Under
these circumstances il would, in my
opinion, be improper to give the sane
ton Of this Office TO The sale of this
compound Of medicine"
A club has been rSlah,h in s.
Petersburg the membcrs Of winch bind
themselves, under penalty Of heavy
tines, to wear only clothes made of Rus
sian cloth, to employ only Russian
workmen. TO dine nj Russian restau-
| rants, and to abstain from everything
coming from foreign sources,
A Tonawonda On. W merchant sent
a notice to the NearS Of that village
| saying that he would give a special
premium to the lady exhibiting at the
fair the baby most resembling her He
couldn't understand why all Of his lady
friends cut him until Ito saw the Vews
and found that the notice read most
resembling him."
The first official Sunday-school cen.
sus in the United States is heirg taken
by the Government Circulars contain
ing questions are sent to every Super
intendent. These cover the number Of
teachers and children, the ages of
scholars the number, value and char
acter of books in libraries, tho property
owned, the money collected, and the in
crease in attendance since 1870.
The yield OF hops throughout tho
country was fully rs per cont below
the average. The quality of the hops
raised in New York wasgood, and they
are quite free from vcrmn. The yield
in Wisconsin was fair, but considerable
injury was produced by wet weather
during harvest time, There is large
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