The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-25
NEWS BREVITIEg.

The report of the State Auditor of
North Carolina shows that the valuation
u land has increased in eight years
1890 600.
An effort is TO be made to raise $jO,-
100 Tor the purpose Of rcuovating and
completing the Roman Catholic cathe
dral in Philadelphia.
1t is asserted that Amos Perkins, of
Unity, n. H., was the oldest man TO
peak from political platform in the
'ate campaign. He is 81 years old.
They claim 70 have a parrot in Coy
entiyvlle, Chester county, Pa, known
to be sixty year, old. II ha, been own
ed by members Of one family for that
length Of time
Representative Alexander H. Stcph-
en-, is 50 fond Of whist that he supports
ON his plantation an old gentleman to
make out the four persons needed to
play the game.
y duclng bin has been passed by the
South Carolina Senate. with an addi-
lional section providing that it shall not
Affect indictments NOW pending or Of
lenses committed before It's passage.
The State Of New Jersey offers $50 TO
every free public school in the State
with which TO start library, upon con-
Gi'iNu that the district raises as much
more. And $40 IS added yearly upon
TIE same condition.
A magu.ii.cn, white oak stands in the
Quaker bulliug-gound in Salem. n. j.
tbs more than 200 years old, and is re-
markable for its amplitude of shade. In
one direction its branches have a spread
Of l12 feet
Mrs. Heingartncr gave generous
breakfast to q tramp al Canton, o.. and
he rewarded her by pocketing some
spoons. She intercepted him at the
gate, shot bullet through the stomach
which she had enabled him TO fill. and
recovered the slycrwarc.
The tailc,t trees in the world are in
Australia. y fallen tree in GppsIand
measured $50 feet from the root to the
highest point of the branches. Ano,h-
er, standing in the Dundenong district
IN Victoria, is estimated TO be $50 feet
from the ground to the top.
When the Sultan of Turkey GOES to
prayer on Fridays he is attended with
much ceremony, Soldiers form in line
and national bands discourse music be-
fore his appearance and while the state
carriages are filling. Liveried officers
sprinkle the streets
a Boston man heard a burglar at
work at one of his windows, and telc-
phoned for policeman. The question
came back: "What do You want po-
liccman for az this time of nighi?"
While he was cndcavoring to explain
the burglar became alarmed and made
his escape.
DR.. John d. Gray, Superintendent of
the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, has
been chosen an associate member of the
Mcdico-Phy,iologicaI society of Paris.
SIX years ago he was elected to the So
cicta Frcniatrica llalna, and two years
later TO the British Acknowledgment
association.
In twenty years the yield of the Com
stock lode has been 1925, 00O, 600 worth
of bullion. The length of shafts and
galleries is two hundred and fifty miles.
Three hundred and sixty million tons
of waste rock have been hoisted, and
Loo, 100000 tons Of water pumped to
the surface
Lord Dunerin has been writing an
exhaustive pamphlet on the Irish land
question, to aid the Cabinet in its DELHI
eralions. He has already written one
in 1860, in which he opposed the crea-
ton OF peasantry proprietary, in on
position to the views of Stuart Mn but
he has altered his views since then.
Dublin is eminenty garrison town,
and the temors of Boycotting are almost
entirely lost in the delight experienced
at the return OF the guards, which that
process has necessiated. The guards
are chiefly composed of younger men,
bers of the arislocracy, and Dublin re-
ioiccs in live lord. When last quar-
tered there at the time of the Fcnian
troubles, the guards gave fancy ball
and several other brilliant fetes. SINH
lar Cnpa Oompnts are now hoped for.