The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rev. DR.. Crosby has received several
gross insults at the hands OF students OF
the New York University, OF which he
is Chancellor.
Russian monasteries seem to be In
perilous state. The trial OF monk Tor
the murder of another monk has brought
out some damaging testimony concern
ing moral and pccuniary matters.
Mr.. Joseph Cook has decided to re.
main abroad for another season, and
will then return to America by way OF
India and Japan. He has had exceed
ingly large audiences at his lectures
throughout Great Britain. He is about
TO give another series OF lectures IN
London.
Minnesota has new law permitting
teachers in the public schools to give
daily instruction in social science, good
morals, and patriotism. Thirty topics
are specified, such as health, honesty,
industry, and chastity, but none OF them
are distinctly religious.
The consumption of opium is rapidly
increasing in San Francisco. There
are 400 places where opium is sold, and
each one of them receives an income
averaging S75 day from the traffic.
The religious and secular press are cal
ling attention to the matter.
A ferocious bloodhound was added to
n New England Uncle Toms Cabin "
company. He was expected to chase
Haley with simulated ferocity, but on
his debut, ut Providence, he bit the fli-
gilive in earnest. This was valuable
advertisement for the show, but it al
most cost the life of the actor.
In England there is just now Curl
Gus rage for one style OF dressing the
hair. 1t is very simple and very ugly.
Imagine pretty blonde who has shorn
the sides and top OF her head until the
golden locks are about three inches
long, curled into bushy mass, parted
it on one side, and coiled the remainder
of her browning glory into a light little
knot on the nape of her neck.
A Cleveland man sold q finger to
surgeon to be transferred to wealthy
patients incomplete hand. The price
was 800. Hall was paid down on am
putation, and the other half has become
the subject of a lawsuit The other
owner demands its return in default of
payment, and the question arises wheth-
er u Judge can order it cut off the hand
of the present owner.
Col. Forney says: j. T. Raymond told
me the other day, that while playing
Col. Sellers in London, he received
dozen or more letters asking the mean
ing Of the word appropriation, in the
phrase 81 90 in for the American flag
and an appropriation" After while
they found out appropriation" meant
the same as Parliamentary grant,"
and then they saw the point Of it.
Hodscha-Ahmet, who was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life for having
translated the Bible into Turkish, and
for having circulated it in the States of
the Sultan, escaped from the prison at
Chic after the earthquake. The prison
was thrown down by the violence of the
shock, but Hodscha-Ahmet was not
hurt. He managed to get on board an
English vessel anchored in the harboE
and he is now in London.
The Home for Incorporate Women
in Boston has, since its opening in JAN
uary of last year, furnished shelter and
care for over 800 women. The institu-
ton, though unsectarian, is conducted
rs Christian home. A laundry and
sewing-room enable the inmates TO pay
part for the benefit they receive. The
institution has just been Incorporated
under the State laws, the corporators
including, among others. Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe and Mrs. James L. Fields.
Denver. Col, has q population of less
than $4,000, but il includes six men who
are worth from 81, 900, 900 to $4,000
each, twenty who are worth 100000,
and 200 who represent $3.50, 900 in their
own right. Mining fortunes, however,
have a way of vanishing, as they are
usually reckoned by calculating the out
put of mine as II dividend, when in
fact it is a payment off the principal.
Denver, has, besides its batch of rich
men, six widows whose combined for
tunes aggregate $3,O00,000.