The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


costs $35, 900 year
Springfield Gil. bootblacks recently
paraded the streets with banners carry
ing 40 cents or no shine"
A turtles head that had been cut off
several days. lately bit ducks neck
and killed the fowl, in Taluotton. Ga.
One of the grounds on which an Ohio
wife demands a divorce is that her hus-
band habitually sleeps with pistol in
bis hand.
In the Isle of Man the right TO vote
has been accorded to all women who
possess an estate yielding pound
sterling per annum.
A petition is in circulation on the
American side of Niagara Falls, TO
have the name of the place changed to
that Of Cataract City.
A Manchester. Vermont. marketman
has had to pay $500 Of doctors bill for
customers who were made sick by eat
ing cheese he sold them.
a railroad ticket issued twenty years
ago, good from Burns TO Hornellsville,
on the Erie Railroad, was recently Of
fered and accepted for ride.
De Winter Dumas, a colored clerk in
one of the departments at Washington,
speaks half dozen different languages
and is an expert shorthand writer.
A paper on which was written ''AIrs.
Sophia Lopez is my helress,' with a
date and signature, was admitted TO
probate as viii in New Orleans.
There is, in Springfield, Mass, a pi-
ano made in l770 by an uncle and
brother of John Jacob Aston, both Of
whom were at that time piano-makers
in London.
An Elmira, n. Y, lady who sent an
order in response TO an advertisement
Offering twenty-five useful household
articles for three-cent stamp, received
twenty-five pins.
Some Of the plate-glass mirrors in
the new Grand Opera House in Paris
are 45 b. 81 feet, equal to 23I0 square
feet of unbrokeu glass. Eighteen OF
them would cover an acre.
The graceful testimonial presented
by the parishioners Of parish near
Moffat, Scotland, TO their pastor, as a
mark Of respect when he resigned. was
apIat in the parish church-yard
A German girl Of Sheboygan, Wis
consin, has been married TO a Chippe-
wa Indian. and has followed him to the
lodges Of bis tribe, where she dwells
with him in the usual attire OLA squaw.
Two Of the four new air locks which
are being placed in the Hudson river
tunnel have been successfully set three
hundred and sixty feet from the Jersey
City side.
1t is stated that Russian police
agents are to be sent to the principal
cities of Europe to search for socialists.
Four will be sent to London, and a SIM
liar number to Paris and Geneva.
Akron, Ohio, now lights its streets
with four Brush lights, on an iron mast
two hundred and eight feet high, sup
plemented by a similar cluster three
quarters of a mile distant, on high
building.
Thousands of the red American fox
skins are annually sent TO Russia.
They are used to line costly garments.
That we should send furs to Russia is
as odd as that we should send wines to
France.
A Chicago man handed his wife $500
in bills, the other week, to be put in a
safe place. Having one hand full OF
papers she intended to burn and the
money in the other. she threw the bills
into the fire.
A lake has been discovered near Or.
lando, Florida, that has no visible out
let, and yet it receives quantity OF
water equal to its own bulk every TWEEN
ty-four hours. 1t is supposed to have
an underground outlet.
For over two years the County Cour
at Lafayette, Yamhill County, Ore.
has been engaged, at intervals, in dc
iberating as to the ownership OF Ger
tain calf A whole herd of full-growl
cattle, with a corral full Of calves
could have been purchased by eithe
party in interest with the money ex
pended in this suit.
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