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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
The Peanut Pirate.

There is boy on the passenger train
between Detroit and Grand Haven who
speaks two languages iluently. On
recent trip the passengers in the smok--
ing-car noticed the boy deeply engaged
in counting his money and his books.
He had taken out an armful, and laid
a book in the seat of each passenger,
TO examine. and then went around and
collected them, selling a few out OF the
number, and when he got back to his
chest in the smoking-car suspicion
seemed to cross his mind that all was
not right. He counted the books over,
and then the money, then he counted
the money, and the books, while look
of deep anxiety rested upon his proud
though childlike physimahogany. AT
length the look of anxiety gave way to
one of dead certainty. and he jumped
up and said
"Somc son of gun has touched mo
for q bookV'
A dignifed old gentleman in q seat
across the aisle, who would have COM
manded respect anywhere, said;
my young friend, you seem to use
wrong expression. You say some
one has touched you for book. That
is wrong connective, and you evident
" mean that some one has touched you
with q book"
Il mean just what say" retorted
the peanut pirate, land don't you play
me for no gilly, neither. Some snoozer
has put me in the hole for book"
The old gentleman opened, his eyes
in astonishment, and then snnVly re-
peated, "Some snoozer has put you in
hole for bookp"
''Yes he has. I'm givin' it to you
straight, pardner, and you amt got no
call to copper it, either"
II haven't any call to copper itP"
asked the old gentleman, cropping in
perfect darkness,
no" said the boy, "what l tell
you you can gamble on, and you want
to play it open, too, every time"
"But had no intention of gambling"
said the old gentleman, innocently.
The boy regarded the old party for a
moment with a look of supreme dis
gust, and then said, Look here. old
man, what kind of food are you feed
ing mo onP What you want to do is to
90 off and let some house fall on YOU"
And with that he picked up tray Of
hickory nut meats, and begun dropping
a meat in the lap OF each passenger as
he went his rounds.
Curious boy curious boy" muir.
mureo the old gentleman, some mo-
ments later. "a cannot comprehend
him"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
0pium Smoking in China.

The habit Of opium smoking is COM
1mon all over China, but it is in the
awest, in the comparatively unknown
half of China west of the 10th meridi-
an, that it is most prevalent. In some
parts of western Hu Pei and eastern
Szechuen it IS all but universal; there
are few adults in any station of life who
do not take an occasional Whit, and
the very streets of the towns and viii
lagos reek with opium fumes. The
practice is there INDUCED in the most
open manner, and no more stigma or
disgrace attaches to it than TO smoking
tobacco.
Mr.. Waters, her majesty's consul at
Ichang, made careful inquiries last year
into the origin of this practice and
found that it had been INDUCED in for
several hundred years, long before
either the present reigning dynasty or
foreign merchants and their opium
We're ever dreamt of. The custom
generations ago passed into the family
Sacra, and at funerals in the west OF
China, among other gifts which arc
transmitted into the next world, by
burning paper fac SMILES of them in
this, for the solace of the departed, is q
complete set Of opium-smoking requi-
sites-pipc, lamp, needle, etc. BY the
people themselves the habit, SO far from
being regarded as curse is looked up
on rs u sine qHa non for Chinaman
who wishes TO make the best of both
worlds.
The whole of the opium consumed in
the west is locally produced, and Indi-
an opium does not come higher up the
Yangtsze than the districts contiguous
to the port of Hankow, nor is it import
ed by any chaunel into Western Hu Pei,
Szechuen, or the other provinces Of the
west Above and beyond the enor-
nous quantity there grown for local
use. there's large trade in the drug,
mostly contraband, from west to east.
Indian opium il consumed in the pro-
vinces adjacent to the treaty ports, and
being an expensive opium as compared
with native opium, is mostly smoked by
the well-to-do classes. The common
people in these provinces smoke the
native drug, which is either grown on
the borders of Kiang Su and Ho Nan,
or is struggled overland from the west
All western China, therefore, and the
lower classes in eastern China, smoke
the native-grown opium. London
Times.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Sheep.

American shepherds have much yet
TO learn in regard to the management
Of their ilocks. For example, the sheep
( in Silesla are never exposed TO much
rain. Shelter and shade are provided
for them. Nor are they exposed to
dust, for that is known to be injurious
| to the fleece. The greatest possible
care is taken in the breeding. Men of
experience are employed to 90 from
farm to farm to examine the sheep and
select the best rams that can be found.
The rams are closely examined AS to
their bearing properties, and all
but the very best are sold off. The
whole economy of tho sheep farm is rs
perfect as intelligence and industry
can make it, A ton of wool is worth
$3.50 at 35 cents pound or $500 at 25
cents. A ton of wheat is worth about
$92, and of corn about Sl6. The
freight is about the same for each,
and is thus % times more for wheat
and nearly 80 times more for corn than
wool. This is worth considering, and
shows how much better it is to turn
corn into wool than to sell it.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Snhiaots for Thought.

Would you respect yourself, Keep
your heart and body clean.
Would you retain the love OF friend,
do not be selishly eXactlne.
There arc those for whom money
does everything, except to make honor
able men Of them
Would you gain tho confidence of
business men, do not try TO support the
style Of your employer.
Even poverty Is better than avarice;
for while poverty wants many things,
avarice wants everything.
1t is not necessary to threaten bad
man, for his own deeds threaten him
with worse punishment than you can
inhict.
The mere lapse of years is not life
knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith, alone can give vitality to
the mechanism of existence.
There can not be surer proof of low
origin, or of an inmate meanness OF
disposition, than TO be always talking
and thinking OF being genteel.
Every man has in his own life follies
enough; in his own mind, trouble
enough; in his own fortunes, evil
enough, without being curious after the
affairs of Others.
One OF the greatest luXures of riches
is that they enable you to escape so
much good advice. The rich are al
ways advising the poor, but the poor
seldom venture to return the compli-
ment.
AS winter is never gone till the spring
has come, and goes that spring may
come, so mans old state OF sin is never
past till his new state of goodness has
arrived, and the death of trespasses
does but end that life of righteousness
may be established.
In general, pride is at the bottom OF
all great mistakes. All the other pas
sions do occasional good, but wherever
pride puts in its word, everything goes
wrong, and what may be desirable to
do quietly and nnocently, it is morally,
dangerous to do proudly,
Proportion thy charity to the strength
of thy estate, lest God proportion thy
estate to the weakness of thy charity;
let the lips Of the poor be the trumpet
Of thy gift, lest, in seeking applause,
thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more
pleasing to God than au open hand and
close mouth.
Every duty brings one peculiar de-
light, every denial its appropriate COM
pensation, every thought its recon-
pense, every love its elysium, every
cross its crown; pay goes with perfor-
nance, as effect with cause. Mean
ness over-reaches itself; vice vitiates
whoever INDUCES in it; tho wicked
wrong their own souls; generosity
greatens, virtue exalts, charity trans
figures, and holiness is the essence Of
angelhood.
DO not attempt to cover your faults,
but try to get rid of them. Every per-
son does wrong at times, and confess
sion is no new thing in this world One
must own that all is not right, or be-
come ridiculous rs well as hypocritical.
Other people will see, whether we try
to blind them or not; and just for what
we are worth will they value us. Let
us all be honest, no matter what else
we may be, and not pretend to be bet
ter than we are
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
In the star-route cases, at Washington,

In the star-route cases, at Washington,
District Attorney Corkhill secured m order
that two days notice should be Given him
Of any motion to quash the infOrmations, A
motion to vacate this order was, Tuesday,
made, and met with denial, whereupon
Brady, French and Turner appeared and
offered bail. The penalty for conspiracy to
detraud the government is two years I'M
prisonment or $4,000 fine, or both
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
The Malice Aforethought Broke Her Down

The Malice Aforethought Broke Her Down.
In one of the Justices courts ofBrook-
lyn the other day farmer was defend
ant in a case OF assault and battery.
The plaintiff had no witnesses, while
the defendant had his wife, and the
plaintiff lawyer made up his mind that
it was a gone case. He was bracing
up, however, to do his best, when his
charge was read TO the defendant. The
wife was deeply interested in every
phrace, and her face changed from
sober to serious. and from serious to
horror as the reading went on,
Odd then and there and with malice
atorethought beat, wound, bruise, as
sault and greatly dam"
''Hold onN' she cried at this point.
my husband never did that in his life!
] was right there and saw il all. All
he did was TO jump out of the wagon
and hit the man a clip on the eye and
knock him into the ditch"
"That'll do-there! there!' put in
her husbands lawyer, but she went on:
'lle just hit him once and only once,
and I'll swear TO itn'
Half an hour later, after her husband
had paid SIP fine and cost, the woman
was heard to sigh:
"Tm sorry. John, but when they
went on with that beating and pound
ing and malice and aforethought was
sure you'd get twenty years in prison
and it broke me down. You can sell
my COW this Fall to make up for this"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
A western cook, while dressing some
chickens, found that all Of their crops
were short This drought is terrible.

A prospecting-drill is in demand in
the mining regions. A Colorado man
says it should be simple affair, worked
by hand, light enough to be carried by
man, and not cost more than 1875 or
$780,. ms prospectors are, as rule, poor
mon. 1t should be capable of drilling
an inch hole, from fifteen 10 thirty
inches dcep thoroughly practical, and
such as one man can operate easily
Such machine, he is confident, will
lind ready and remunerative sales.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
A Dinner at Samaria.

Lieutenant Condor, while engaged
In surveying Palestine, pitched on one
occasion his camp beside beautiful
fountain in Samaria, While there the
head of wealthy native family named
Jeba invited him and friend TO dim
ner. 1--WE found the sheiks reception
ROOM" he says, "well- bult and new;
the upper floor had raised dais car
peted and furnished with pillows, and
on this we we're requested to sit The
host, dressed in long white robe, now
appeared, and removing his slippers,
stepped upon the dais, where he tapped
his breast, lips, and head, and frequent
ly repeated:
"'How is your healthP How is your
excellencyp'
"Water was then poured over their
hands from n brass ever, and the re-
qurements of etiquette being thus full
filled, dinner was Immediately served.
1t consisted of twelve dishes, of which
the first were lentils, tomatoes, ana
vegetable marrows stuffed with rice
"Then came leben, bowls of sour,
thickened milk, followed by three huge
dishes of rice and meat; and lastly, the
browning glory of the feast, what the
visitors supposed to be kid dressed
whole, 1t was exquisitely tender and
juicy, and they ate of it with much APP
petite, little suspecting that it was,
what it afterwards turned out TO be.
their own pet ga2elc.
mo water was placed on the board,
but slave stood by with huge green
goblet, from which each drank in sue
cession, each man rs he put the water
to his lips turning to his next neighbor
and saying;
d" Digestion whereupon the other
Immediately rcloincd
The Lord increase your digestion
A pious prayer not altogether uncalled
for under tue circumstances, Pipes
and coffee concluded the feastn
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Burnett's COcOaine.
A LADY's HAIR SAVED BY IT'S USE.

Burnett's Cocaine will keep the hair in
strong and healthy condition by stimuat-
ing the roots Of the hair and restoring the
natural action upon which its growth de-
ponds. Twenty years ago a single bottle
saved lady's hair in desperate case
where every treatment had failed and
since that early success thousands OF cases
of Badness, Dandruff, Loss OF Hair and r.
ritaton Of the Scalp have yielded to this
remedy.
The superiority Of Buructl's Flayoring
Extracts consists in their perfect purity and
great strength.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

Colonel Rockwells resignation of the SUI
perintendency of public buildings at Wash.
ington, and the intention of Judge Adyo-
cate General Swain to give up his post Of
duty, are said by their friends to be based
on fears of Grants influence on the new
president. They were arrayed against the
stalwart hosts in the Chicago convention,
and feel that revenge may be demanded.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Westward the aesthetic Taste Takes It's
Wav,

Cincinnati is growing more aesthetic,
A Japanese pottery painter from Toxic
has been hired TO teach his art to the
female devotees of ceramics of that city.
His name is Ichiduska Konzo. 1t would
look well on u plate itself, but the aver
age Cincnnaiian loves to eat his pork
chops on platter which has on it
picture Of green crane standing on
one leg in red alfalfa field, talking TO
q yellow goose circling in cromo yell
low sky Still, Notwithstanding all this
refinement in taste, the circus agents
report that when they hang out their
iniiammatory bills in Cincinnati some
OF the best citizens in the town come
and sit on the sidewalk and gaze for
hours at the CORY picture of the rhino-
ceros ripping up an elephant with a
shoemaker's paste horn.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
RO@nS Certificates.

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretending &c
be made of wonderful foreign roots, barks,
&c. and pulled up by long bogus certili.
Gates OF pretended miraculous cures, but q
simple, pure, effective medicine, made Of
well known valuable remedies, that farm.
ishes its own certificates by its cures. We
refer TO Hop Bitters the purest and best Of
medicines. Sec another column. -Repub
hcan.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

There is still intense excitement in the
Chicago grain markets, The directors Of
the board of trade have fixed the basis Of
margin calls on November corn at 81 cents
which will render necessary an advance Of
100000 on the corner represented by
B. Hobbs & Co. Keene and Armour are
still credited with running wheat deal.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Catarrll.

Relief in five minutes in every case graf.
flying, wholesome relief beyond money
value. Cure begins from first application
and is rapid, radical and permanent. Chok.
ing, putrid mucous dislodged, membrane
cleansed and healed, breath sweetened
smell, taste and hearing restored. Com
plete treatment for.$ Ask for Sanford.
Radical cure.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
His Opinion All Right.

Mr.. L. Shifiman, 2SO4 Calumet Avenue,
Chicago, ILL.,, says; Having been cured by
st. Jacobs Oil, recommend the same to all
sufferers with rheumatism.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

DEATH to rats and vermiu, Parsons tx.
terminator.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

Venners assurance is cool, il his
weather isn't.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
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The great problem solved, The individual car
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To maturity In PICARD to education, home, societI
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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Parker's Ginger Toni

Cures complaints Of women and diseases Of Il
stomach bowels lungs, liver and kidneys, and
entirely different from btters, ginger essence al
other tencs az 1t Iever intoxicates. scots and
sizes, Large saving buying one dollar size,
HISCO& 81 CO., Chemists, y. Y.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

The soluble phosphite- aud the other ljfcsustsn
ing principles composing Fellows Hypophosphites
are 30 carefully proportional and 90 judciouslI
mingled, that thor action upon the nerves, mus
cles and membranes in importing vitality, strength
and healthy action IL generally apparent within
twenty.four hour-, and The good effects experience
ed are Of n permanent character.
FOR SALE b. DRUGGISTS
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06
Is A REALLY RELIABLE REMEDY
FOR WASTING AND merry
Gus DISEASES.

Persons living in malRrious districts may protect
themselves from ATTACKS Of fever by the use OF Eel
lows Compound syrup " Hypophosphites. IT.
effects IN toung p Tie syst. m enables " TO ward
oil contagious disorders. and successfully combat
disease.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-12
NEHS OF The DaP

Tx Secretary Of Tho Interior Hon. O. A.
bfoSnng died Mt GairGr, IT,, las; Wtlne,lay
night.
With tho Seapii>n of light osor7. insult
clent to set, 10 tho duI', there hus buen no rain
at Cairo, ILL.,, far eight walks.
Six steamships now at or to arrive Of Ball-
moro lave been chartered to load cotton Fl
Savannah for foreign ports.
Mrs. Nll1srd Fillmore. wife of tho late ey
ifesldent Fillmore. diod ut her residence il
ButtOlo, New York, lss. night, aped II vn,rs
A posi- h0rtem examination OF The body o
Matthew Vasser, held ST Puughkcepain. N. Y -,
yesterday, reves!ca thu fact TINT no did of can
Ger ct the bladder.
An order has boon made hy tho 81 cretsry Of
the Interior That about . 1000 600 sorcs of pub
Ito lands located in the Duluth (Minn. district
shall DO sold at public auction
The value Of experts from Baltimore for The
week ending yesterday was 81 .GS4 CT. The
total receipts OF grain fer tho samn period wsre
100000 bushels.
Tho Treasury Department yts:eldly 1ur
chased 800, 600 ounces Of tnn silver for delivery
at tho Philadelphia, San Francisco and New
Orleans MINIS.
The total am1uat of Iho slb! criptious r,
ooivod by Mr.. Cyrus w. Field fer the fund fl,
Mrs. Garfield up to noon Tuesday aggregated
$l55, 900
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-12
MurNer and SRici.Ie

New York, August l2.-Aooticr terrible
tragedy, tho result Of an iasano man'5 freaks,
took place carly yesterday afternoon, wherein 9
husband brutal!y boat his rif, isto loscasitiIi:y
and then Terminated his own txisleoce By cut.
!irg his throat from car 10 cor. The characters
IN This terrible drama arc an Gil man, named
Brian Golden, sixty years Of age, aud hiz wife,
Am Golden, OF about be samo age. or lato
years, through several ihlirmisies, the ola man
was uuablo to do aoy work, and hs family
managed to huhsist 10 comfortable manner on
tho earnings OF tho ohidren. Ii appssrg that
whoa quite young ho wAs struck 90 tho hosd
with cub. acd from that tmo no was subject
tn pcrlodioal fits of i'll bumor and tnoro5nness
Understanding this. tho family overlooked tbs
macy strange things be did and attributed them
to the result of the blow on the head. lie was
also 40 Invaterate smoker, using tho strongest
Kind OF tobacco, and it was noticed that after
the continued uso Of tho weed tho fits of passion
wtre most likely to occur. This vas lhs case
with him 90 Wednesday. All day long he
smoked his faVorito strong tobacco and at night
nc became quarrolsomo and offensive to tho
different members Of his family, finally boom
leg 80 fierce as to boat his wife into inaen5ibilitv
and then took his owu life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-12
H.eiter from Fairlnx.

correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
FAIRFAX U. H., Va. Aug. 9.--Iion. p. w,
Mckinney md Hon. Il. 8. Blair, opposiog osn
dldsies Ter tho Attorney Goneralship on the
denfoiat'd sod rosc. uStcr tickets, will speak
hero oa The 18th as.., court dsy, at wa,cl time
large crowd will asssmtl', il bsiog a regula,
grand jury court.
The eraOd jury will havo before it the osseE
Ct Lucy Jenkius. for infanticidf; Frank Beach
tor III ,l.clauS'y shooting Newton Fisher; Geo.
P'iks, aged 10 years, for stealing Dir. Blocker
Can!ied's horse, and several other cases of mi
nor Importance.
Oar Jail NV las for its occupants oag three
BIRDS
"a ibutSday, Tho lS.h. the greet, tho plori-
Gus, the sublime William Alabono, esn and
II. IT, Rlddiebcrge-. Of Senatorial fame, will
speak on the subject of rcs6iustnent, oto.. 10
Slgsi grove. near here. AS they will have
II oil to themselves, wa don't eXpec; much Jun,
The nomlDstion OF Daniel, Barb Jur and Nc
kinney takes like hUt cakes and 'simmon beer,
aud on he day oi thor election, in November,
Old falriax will rel up for them an OH fashion
cd po--"nd don't You forg 1t it-Dick Farr 10
INV uou'lh'y Misunderstanding.
Ml:S,e Hose aud Plackney Thomas, d.uzh.
ters ut Ion. iion'y w. Thomas, wi leave htro
Oh ho lS,h its'. tor an extended trip to tho
Soa shore, visiting Newport, New L1rdop and
other places OF resort. and will return the latter
part OF September.
MIR. X. W. ho9ro and sister, Miss Suss, will
leave shortly tor trip to Cspou Springs.
Thomas Moore, e!q and daughter, jennie.
have returned from OH Point, where thew
went i'r The !attets health. which. we are glad
to say, ia entirely restored.
Mlsa Mfgsie tlsIl a lovely little brunei from
Washihg'on; Miss Annie L,ndstrsot, dsughter
OF KeV. John I.andstteet. and Misses Wolty
and faouoast. OF Bal imore. and Mrs. Nov eigh,
OF h'cxandha, arc among tho recont arrivals
here.
Mrs. j. K. Tsylor. Miss Maggie Thomas,
htV MIR. Denny and wfn. and +. r. Ford, elo,'
have returned from tho Wesley Grove camp.
Several OF our residents will attend the Wash.
irgtoH Grove osmp.
mess's. Jos. Willard mud Samuel w. Simp-
SOD lett Tor tho springs, at Warreuton, on yes
tcrdsY. E,y