The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-30
NEWS BRRVITIES,


SlOOO,OOO worth of fruit last year.
A gentleman in Athens, Ga, claims TO
be the owner of the whistle about which
Robert Burns wrote "A ballad It's history
dates back 10 the time when Anne of
Denmark went to Scotland with James
VI.
In the last twenty years the Comstock
lode has yielded 50, 300 600 tons Of ore,
which averaged $40 50 per ton making
the total value Of the ore extracted
s323,67 ,60j OF this ore the gold
formed As per cent. in value and the
silver 30 per cent.
London and New York have met Of
late on common ground The abomn
able state Of the streets has been the alb
sOrbing and eXasperating topic 10 all the
inhabitants of either metropolis, and
politics have sunk into comparative
insiguiicance,
A Hartford Conn man has invented
contriyance for announcing the
stations on railroad trains, which can
be worked by steam from the engine,
or by electricity, and company has
been formed with capital of 100000
10 manufacture il.
The history Of Germany and Of Ger
man literature is being rapidly written
in bronze and marble ToQueen Louise
and 10 Gothic statues were erected in
Berlin in the course of last year, and
committee for the raising Of monu-
ment TO Leasing has issued an appeal to
all Germans abroad for subscription in
aid of the purpose.
DR.. William a. Hammond SAYS, in
the International EcctCr, that he gave
water from Lourdes 10 a pious patient,
calling it something else, and her symp-
toms were AZ once aggravated; but
when he used common water, telling
her il was from the miraculous springs,
she as quickly improved.
Engine All on the Philadelphia and
Reading road is said to be the most
powerful locomotive in the world. The
boiler is 5Si inches in diameter, with
lS4 two-inch tubes; 10 feet y inches
long, and a CRATE area of 76 square feet;
cylinders u inches in diameter and %
inches stroke, 6S-inch driving wheels,
and 81, 250 pounds on drivng.wheels.
A bill before the California legislature
provides that the widow or children Of
any victim of murder, whether the
murderer be declared insane or not,
shall be empowered to proceed against
him in civil suits, and if he be dead the
action may be brought against his wild
ow aud children. or his heirs, admins
traitors, and assigns of any kind what
sOeyer
The Rcmjhgac FRANCHISE says that
Carlyle popularized German notions in
England in "Sartor Resartus.n A pro-
fessed liberal he was rooted in the past.
He dcuied progress, Knocked at civilza-
ton, and adored force. He was
writer without taste, but endowed with
great Imagination. He had the art of
dressing up eccentric IDEAS in taking
form.
Carlyle has been more fortunate than
was Dickens in having his wishes in re-
gard TO his last resting-place obeyed.
Dickens expressed in writing his desire
that he should be buried in a quiet
church-yard in Kent. Clerical influence
was brought to bear on the family Of
the novelist to have his body Inferred in
Westminster abbey, and that influence
prevailed
The ghost OF Mexican bandit is said
20 haunt II cell in the jail at San Jose,
Cal, and the prison authorities use it
to enforce discipline by playing upon
the fears of offenders. A young man
who had been sentenced 10 the chain
gang. aud who refused TO work on tho
streets, was placed in his cell, but after
passing one night there he gladly went
To work aS ordered
Two hundred and forty-cight yards
OF velvet is pretty tidy pile to have
concealed about ones person when pas.
sing the custom-ho,se officers, vet this
Is the precise amount which Mrs. Ray
Gordon concealed beneath her clothing
on landing from the steamship Britain,
mic, at New York, Shrcwd officers de-
clare that dozens of such eases po nm.
detected every day vessel arrives.