The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-20

Madame Gabbi is coming prima
donna, There are a good many women
IN private lie who might wear that
name with prnprety.
Walt Whitman was one day saunter-
ing slowly by the White House when
as reported by the Boston correspondent
OF the Providence Ne,cS Mr. Lincoln
looked out of the window and saw him
for the first time. "Well," said the
President with emphasis, "he looks like
man!'
Miss Clara Barton, who devoted her.
self to the sick and wounded soldiers
and the Andersonville prisoners during
the war, is now at Washington. She is
q plain, sweet-faccd, elderly lady, and
pins her lace scarf with the scarlet
badge of the society of the Geneva
Cross, OF which she was member DUR
ing the Franco Prussan war.
The London Times says at can
scarcely be doubted that all London,
along its main thoroughiares, will dis
card gas for the electric light within
the present century. The really eau
tious and hesitating progress of the
invention must remind not few of the
equally cautious and hesitating progress
OF gas"
A rich and eccentric old Kentuckian,
named Lewis Hamilton, who was killed
by a fall from his horse recently, is said
to have left five children bearing tho
surprising names of Avenue Belle, q
young girl of Is; China Figure, another
daughter of IA; London Judge, a SON.
aged p; Hebrew Fashion, daughter,
aged II, and Southern Soil, q lad of 8
years.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson has written
grateful letter to the New Orleans
Auxiliary Sanitary association, thank
ing it for naming one of its public
squares in that city for her. and saying:
at contributes greatly to my happiness
to learn that any efforts l have made
for the promotion of the public health
in our beautiful city have been blessed"
There will be no college student
walters" in the summer resort hotels
this year. The proprietors of the va
rious hotels where they have hitherto
been employed have unanimously de-
cided to engage them no more, princi-
pally on the ground that they failed to
give satisfaction, being disqualified for
their duties by the sedentary and stu
dous habits of college life.
Americans are of practical ma.
ture," remarks the Boston Post, and
proceeds to illustrate: "When an Hi
nois farmer who had got rich was WIS.,
ting Switzerland, they dilated to him
on the beauty of the surrounding seem
cry. Yes he replied, as scenery it's
very good. But it strikes me the Lord
has wasted n lot of space on scenery
that might have been made level and
good farming land" They wanted to
lynch him.
A man on trial for arson in Branch
county, Mich, showed that the house
was owned by his wife, and the judge
ruled that as he occupied the house in
common with her, and the State statute
defines the crime of arson to be burn
ing the dwelling of another, setting fire
to the building would not constitute the
crime. The accused was accordingly
discharged.
Among recent inventions chronicled
in England are u new balloon, and elas-
tic lining for beer casks, new process
for illustrating soap cakes, method for
preventing collisions on railroads, an
apparatus for turning over leaves Of
music, machine for cleaning and roll
ling up carpets, coilin-handle applic-
able TO other purposes, and self
emptying mouse-trap,
Boston has an Italian colony about
1880 strong. There are few wealthy
Italians there, but large majority OF
them possess the comforts, and many OF
them the luxurics, Of life. In small
houses, located on narrow streets and
alleys, rich Brussels, carpets and costly
walnut furniture may DO found. Paint
inrs and engravings adorn the walls,
md tasteful articles Of bijouterie
abound. Their moral character also -
GOOD, Their church regularly attend
ed by over three hundred families, while
tho police declare them TO be the most
orderly class OF the city's population.