The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NtWChSllt, ~ ID, lllp EluNt lulllHul
port of the Dominion's maritime prov
inces, exported 3O,3G6,OOO feet, worth
$258,G00, during the summer months,
againts S,596,0OO feet. worth $4,000.
in the same time last year.
NJ. f. II. De Haas, while on his re-
cent visit to his native country, llol-
land, made a number Of water-cOlor
studies Of fishing boats of Scheycn-
ingen, as well as OF other shipping IN
the Mas at Rotterdam.
A man asleep at the top Of tele-
graph pole was a recent spectacle in
Boston. He was drunken repaircr,
who had grown drowsy at his work.
A great crowd gathered, but nothing
was done to rouse him, and he finally
awokc in safety.
A citizen of Toronto, Can, when
witnessing the performance Of THE
New Magdalen,' said Of Miss Ada
Cavendish's "lall": "She don't let
herself down easy, ez eff she were afraid
of soiling her gown, but drops like a
coon from pine tree"
w. X. Muir, one of the wcalthest
men Of Michigan arrived at New York
from Europe, and the customs officers
found hundreds Of dollars worth Of
gold and silver ornaments, lace and ar
ticles of less value slowed away in the
corners of his trunks.
General Noyes, United States Min
lister at Paris, viii keep open house
this Winter, as he did when in the
Avenue Josephene, where Mrs. Noyes'
Monday receptions were extremely
popular The General has been living
at the Hotel Birday since his return
from his tour in the East, but will
now 90 to housekeeping again.
DR.. Tanner has been outdone by
Dakota bull belonging to Capt. Had
ley, Of Fargo, which ran oil INTO some
woods with chain attached to his
horns, and got fastened to a tree,
where lie remained six weeks without
water or food of any kind. When
found he was still alive and happy.
Some good women of Paris have
formed society called the Association
DIES Femmes de Mode, which takes UNI
der its sheltering wing women who
belong to the liberal professions and
are, by misfortune or the loss of their
natural protectors, left without re-
sources.
Miss Mary Hamilton Laight, a beau
tiful young lady ofrank, whose history
would furnish material for romance
and own cousin to the Earl Of Lans-
downe, died recently in the PresDyte-
rian Hospital at New York, among
strangers. She had ample means, but
had made no friends in America.
Dora Young, the fayorite daughter
of the Prophet, and one Of the heirs OF
large portion OF his property, is not
a Mormon, despite the fact that she is
attached to the memory Of her father.
She declares the system to be dread
tul one, and says that the Norman
wives, under their outward semOlance
Of good will, hate each other with II
deadly hatred.
For some time past the Prussian
board Of works has been engaged. III
digging up the old Berlin ochloss
Platz in search of two missing Brand
enburg electors. Their remains are
wanted to complete the set OF delunct
Prussian monarchs, for the reception
OF whose ashes a splendid mauso.eum
is to be constructed.
1t has been estimated that of the
horses in tue world, Austria has 1867
600; Hungary, 2,l7A0Oo; France, s.
900, 900; Ru sia, u 100000; Germany,
1892 900; Great Britain and Ireland,
2,2Jj,UOO; Turkey, about 100000; The
United States, 9,5uL,OOO; The Argen.
tine Republic, 100000; Canada, -
1000; Uruguay, l,oOO,VJO.
The 1uSc0roya Times HcC,etC says I:
"TAe Racket is the latest ballroom
agony. 1t commences with series OF
one-sided hops, as though the dancers
had been hit on the Sims with bricks.
1t is said to be an improvement on the
Soapville trot, and the dance will,
doubtless, become tayorite in FASH
ionable Terpsichorean circles here.