The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-28
GLEANINGs.

"A man who wants TO get up IN fhW'
world can select from over 300 styles OF
BICYCLES.
Tricycles, though slower than the BIZ
cycle, are becoming quite popular in
England
The Cheneys, of Manchester, Conn,
are checking, their silk manufacture,
and are said TO have discharged forty
men.
The project of flooding the Desert of
Sahara is abrpdoned. There was lit
tie obstacle il the way. The desert is
900 feet above the ocean.
The New York Mail says: "If beef
continues to advance, it will soon be rs
high rs it was when the cow jumped
over the moon"
In 1861 the War of the Rebellion
broke out, and in 1871 occurred the
great fires at Boston and Chicago. The
year 1881 is crammed full OF startling
events.
Boys in French schools are to be
taught the use of the rife. Had
French soldiers been taught how tc use
+ it, they would not have been beaten in
1870.
The Hotel Pelham, in Boston. bull
ding 96x69 feet and seven stories in
height, was recently moved back, in
order to widen fremont street, without
disturbing the occupants or the furni-
ture.
The convicts in the Ohio Peniten-
tiary have sent 800 to the Michigan
sufferers. They raised this sum by de-
nying themselves the luxury of tobacco
and by the sale of trinkets which they
had made.
According to Georgia paper, the
physician attending a lady in Macon,
that State, reports that she has been
paralyzed and is losing her power OF
speech from the free use of canned fruit
and vegetables.
$500 ilroad tunnel in Utah recently,v
tie w0fkmen discovered evidences on
tropical vegetation. A fossilized palm
leaf, three feet long, was found. while
ferns and plants had made numerous
impressions on the surrounding sub
stance.
Records show that the longest drouth
which this country has ever struggled
through was III the year 1862, when
for 1913 days in succession, ending Sep
TENDER /, no rain fell over a consider
able part of what was at the time set
tied territory.
A law of the Michigan State Normal
School forbids the lodging of male and
female students in the same building.
Three couples got married lately, and
sent the faculty petition to make an
exception in their favor. The faculty
would not permit it.
il is not ut all remarkable that King
Alfonso should be capital shot, but il
is matter for nothing that his mother
and his eldest sister equal it not excel
him with the gun. The three Spaniards
have been shooting together lately,
bagging great deal of game.
A tract of land in Oregon, between
the waters Of the Santiam and Clacka-
mas, about twenty by ten miles in d.
mansions, is covered by dense forest
of larches The trees grow from $50
to 800 feet in height, many of them ris-
ing $50 feet without limb.
The Prince of Wales is partial to bay
horses so much so that there is hardly
an animal in his stable of any other
color The Prince is capital Judge of
horses and is quick to see the points
and tailngs of such as are submitted
to him for purchase.
Clara Louise Kellogg has sold her
villa on the Hudson, and, it is said, ill.,
tends building house in New Hart
ford, Conn. Her marriage with Mr..
L. B. Whitney will take place in the
latter part of next March. The couple
will live abroad the greater part of the
time.
Governor Murray, of Utah, sent Gov
i. ernor Crittcnden, his half.brother, of
Missouri, as a silver wedding-present,
si,vH brick weighing eight and one
half oiNcrs,- and inscribed 1856 c. j.
(monogram) 1851. Affectionate con-
gratulations of EH7and Evelyn. Utah
Missouri"
Jay Gould's greenhouses, ut his Sum-
mer residence on the Hudson, which
were burned, have all been rebuilt.
They are 372 feet long by 80 wide, and
il requires sixteen men, 250 tons of coal
and five large furnaces to transform the
freezing mir 10 tropical during the Win
ter season.
A Sheriff who was called upon to
levy upon q variety actors effects in
Philadelphia the other day found that
they consisted of a pair Of side wills
kers valued at 80 cents, and whistle
worth 10 cents. The actor claimed the
benefit of the $500 Exemption law and
saved his effects"
Aeoplc should avoid. us far as posi-
bio, being run over by railroad cars. An
empty platform car weighs $1,000
ponnds,a an empty box-car ~, 0O0pounds
u passenger car $4,000 pounds and
sometimes more, and an average loco
motive $4,000 pounds. A single pair
OF carwheels weighs 500 pounds.
Mr.. Sturgeon, lecluring recently az
tho Metropolitan Tabernacle, London,
said he could never believe that God