The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-03

The London society Of arts has de-
cided TO award three silver medals for
as many London houses as may be
found furnished with the best known
sanitary appliances The conditions
include proper provisions against frost,
infection, damp, and ike evils.
The Irish prisoners in Kilmainham
jail have decided to accept the prison
dietary, and thus to save the Land
league the sixty cents a day, without
wine, which it has paid for their din
ners. Complaints, however, had been
made that the dinners were not served
hot.
The Trmbull portrait Of Washington,
which has long occupied place in the
city couscil chamber at Charleston, S.
c., has been sent to Mr.. Robert G.
Winthrop, Of Boston, who is to take
charge of the picture and see to its re-
storation. 1t is now worn with age
and neglect.
A shoemaker in Broadway has adopt
ed uoy. node of ADVERT .ing. A
large dog stands in front Of is ,tore
holding b:,ket filled with business
cards in his mouth. lie can be seen at
bis post through the whole day except
when he is called into the shop to get
his dinner.
Alfred Damper, the tragcdian, who
recently PLAYED an Improbable engage
ment in several American cities, will
no longer fret nor strut upon the stage.
While acting in Australia he was in
formed that he had fallen heir TO for
tune Of $500, 600, and he has gone home
to England TO enjoy it.
Since a sheep was first burned to test
the furnace, twelve human bodies have
been ncinerated in the lie Moyne Gre
matory at Washington, Pa, four of
them the present year. OF the sub
jccts," five were from New York, four
from Pennsylvania, one was from Ohio,
one from Indiana, and one from Massa-
chuSc'ts
In Kansas has been found the site of
an ancient fertilization, supposed 10
have been constructed by a party of
Spaniards who visited that region some
S00years ago. The fort is a high point
Of land on the banks of the Missouri
River, ten miles south Of Leavenworth
City. II covers an area OF about twenty
acres and consists of evident remains
of redoubts, bastions, and rihe-pits.
The gamblers are already planning to
circumyent law passed by theMissouri
legislature making gambling q felony.
They say the law will not apply to the
river, and they propose TO charter a
steamboat, which will leave st. Louis
every night Ind return every morning,
fitted up for gambling purposes. The
validity of the new law will probably be
tested.
The question what degree of heat is
necessary to destroy trichinD in swine's
flesh is of Importance. A German ex-
pert says that il the pieces put into a
pot to boil, are large, trichine in the
middle are not certain to be killed by
such degree of cooking as they are usu-
ally subjected TO- As long as meat re-
tains the pink color known as rare"
ii has been in sufficiently cooked to de-
stroy the parasites. Smoking and pick
ling the meat are of no use whatever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson tells his
daughter that it matters little what she
studies, but everything with whom she
studies. Our modern manipulators of
educational appliances have made it
appear that the reverse is true. Let
the system and method be perfect and
it matters little who guides these child
rem to the knowledge fonts. Out of
this policy has come Q) the degrade
ton of the teacher, (2) the overburden-
ing of children with school work, (3)
show, brilliancy at the expense Of
thoroughness, () too much supervision.
A correspondent of The London
Echo writes that matrimony, an expen-
sivo luxury at all times, Is rendered
still more so in England by u tax upon
wedding-rings. The duty Is II shillings
an ounce, and the revenue derived
therefrom is about 100000 per an
nun. The fashion of wearing yerv
thick wedding rings has greatly in
creased the revenue Of late years, viz. :
from $4,000 to 100000 The CORE.
spondent adds; Foreigners may we'll
laugh at our calling ourselves a free
trade nation. In no other country in
the world is wedding ring taxed.T
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