The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-21
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Wouldn't hotel milk do just as wellp
Madam" he CALAMITY observed,
III have an image photographed upon
my heart" Indeed" she said, "a sort
of negative impression Of me, sup.
pose.
Texas furnished forty Generals, thir.
ty-four being Brigadiers, to the Con.
federato armies. Mrs. Jane Mikell, OF
South Carolina, has learned recently
that thirty of the forty are dead.
Housekeeper How can you tell il
an egg is badP One way TO tell is to
taste IL, II II makes you so sick you
want to die to get rid of the taste, you
can feel pretty sure its a bad egg.
Attendant Crying to'be civiD: ayes,
miss, your feet are small {; what ladies'
aren'tp But the skates--I never see
such small skates, l think it would be
better if you changed with the gent,
do"
A "notice to vacate' in Arkansas
need not be served by an officer of the
law. The muzzle OF shotgun stick
ing through front window is invari-
ably taken as due and sufficient notif-
cation.
Women are rapidly entering the
medical profession. There are forty
two women now studying medicine at
the School Of Paris, three Of these being
Americans, eighteen English eleven
French, and ten Russian.
"How does this strike your" asked
the lightning of tho barn.-M Y.
News. ut is electrical, and very
sparkling!" replied the barn. "But
as Pm down, please do not strike me
again. Philadelphia Item.
Now the chowder's in the pot, and
the days are getting hot, and we all be-
gin to swelter with SWEET, swelt, SWEET.
While the crimson lemonade through
a straw enchants the maid, who dis
plays a bunch OF flowers at her belt,
belt, belt.
1t has been affirmed by DR.. Arnott
that 10 wave of the ocean rises more
than ten feet from the ordinary sea
level, which, with the ten feet its sur
face afterwards descends, gives twenty
feet for the maximum hight of the en-
tire wave.
The man who invented the fifteen
puzzle is now making patterns for the
latest style of oil-cloths. The rumor
that he had been struck by lightning,
last summer was canard, published
by his friends to throw hired assassins
of the track
A London paper asks: "ls this a fair
bet9 If | win, you are to keep me in
chocolate creams for year. Mind, |
like the pointed ones. II you win, I'll
work you something There is GER
tain vagueness about that something,
though none as to the creams"
Baltimore and New Orleans are the
two cities that have placed value on.
their streets as franchises for horse
railways. The latter has secured more
than 100000 in two years, and the
money is used to extinguish the city
debt Baltimore maintains its Druid
Hill Park from the same source.
There was young girl Of Eau Claire,
Who was witty, and good, aud seau faire;
All the other girls found,
That when she was around,
They were just counted out as neau whaire.
There was an old darkey in Guinea,
lie had big daughter named Muinea;
She fed curds 10 the COWS
And hay to the sOws-
Obi How could she be such nuineaf
Down in Salem the other day
bright little girl was sent to get some
eggs, and on her way back stumbled
and fell, making sad havoc with the
contents of her basket. won't you
catch it when you get home, thought"
exclaimed her companion. 'No, In.
deed, won't" she answered; I've
got a grandmother"
One of Sir Edwin Landseer's pictures
recently brought at a London sale the
sum of Sl4, $50, The auctioneer re-
lated that while Sir Edwin was engaged
upon it Mr.. Millais happened to call
upon him, and the elder painter said
to the younger, "If don't live TO finish
this picture. you will do it for mt"
Sir Edwin did die, leaving the work
unfinished. and Millais completed it.
While the family OF an English Of
ficer, Maj. Gen. Byers, were making an
excursion on the coast in the Leonbes
quarter, one OF the daughters, named
Ada, slipped into the sea and disap-
peared. Two others, Lillian and Vio-
let, In endeavoring to rescue her, also
disappeared, and the mother who tiled
to save her children, was likewise en-.
quilted.
"Why is it," said q Chicago woman
to the proprietor Of hotel at Boulogne
sur Ia mer where she was staying"
that American hotels are almost the
only ones that supply their guests with
soapW Pardon, madam" returned
the polite maitre. "If I supposed that
there was any danger of my guests
coming to the table with soiled face or
hands, | should supply them with soap,
too"
We have rarely seen a finer bit OF sar.
casm than the following; A little Shell
byyille boy, who is in the habit of say
ing his prayers before going to bed, the
other night asked his mother, "Mam-
ma, how long will it be before I'm big
enough to leave off saying my prayersp
You never say yours, do youP" And
the mother said, Little boys shouldn't
ask so many questions. Go to sleep,
child"
Mrs, Mary A. Livermore states that
one evening, twenty years ago, few
ladies, interested in the welfare of
women, discussed the employments
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