The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-14

In Philadelphia pantomimic play
coach is drawn on the stage by live
horses, two wheels come of, and the
upset throws the passengers, who are
skilled acrobats, into grotesque atti-
tudes in all directions.
The marriage of Lord Broke, M. p,
heir Of the earl of Warwick. and Miss
Maynard, the beautiful heiress whom
the gossip be,rothed not long ago to
Prince Leopold, is fixed to take place
soon at Westminster abbey.
America boasts of the biggest father
in existence in the person of John Hcff-
ner, of Reading, Pa, who emigrated
from Germany in 1854. BY three wives
in Germany and America he has had no
less than forty-one children.
Mr.. Henry Willard, who is trying to
obtain control of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, was formerly an army cor
respondent of the New York Tribune.
He married daughter of William
Lloyd Garrison, the great anti-slavery
leader.
Col. r. G. Ingersoll said in a lecture
in New York: "My tears are not shed
in st, Petersburg, but in Siberia"
from which it may be inferred that the
Cars sudden taking off didn't afllict
Robert to any great extent.
Five generations of one family live in
Madison, Wis. They are Mrs. Wallace,
aged 70; Mrs. Langdon, her daughter,
aged So; Mrs. Lewis, great-grand-
daughter, aged Is; and an infant great
great-grand-child.
Few cities in America are more in
tested with beggars than Washington.
The police are making an effort to rid
the streets of mendicants, and all vag-
rants arrested are sent to the Washing
ton Asylum, where they will be put to
work.
Thomas Jefferson was the only skep-
tic in the line of American Presidents;
only two of them, Washington and Gar
field, have been communicates. jack
son was Presbyterian, and Harrison,
Polk and Grant were all Methodists and
the rest belonged to different denomina-
tons.
Mr.. Henry o. Tiff, revenue boatman
at Newport, X. l., is probably the Oldest
man in the revenue service in the coun-
try, being 50 years of age. He has
been in the service there for more than
half a century, and is still an efficient
officer.
Hennenway, one Of the most stirring
Methodist exhorters in Massachusetts,
has gone to the Penitcntiary for steal
ing bag of corn, He conducted his
own defence in court, and made
fervid appeal to the jurors, but they did
not melt.
A fashionable young woman of Gales
burg, ILL.,, has undertaken alone to re-
form the men of that town. She enters
the saloons, gambling houses, and 9TH
er low resorts at late hours, often sur
prising her male acquaintance, with
whom she then pleads and prays.
Two Cambridge letter carriers, men,
bers of churches and possessing high
regulations, have been dismissed from
their places and are to be prosecuted
for stealing fancy advertising cards
from letters. The plumber was Of slight
value, and was taken to add to chill
dren's collections.
Mr.. Yoshida, thes Japanese Minister,
Is devoted art student, and has for.
est scene on exhibition at the Academy.
He is considered an amateur artist Of
promise. 1t is said since the day Of Sir
John i. Champion, the English Minis.
ter, we have had no diplomat who could
use the pencil with equal facility.
A Mississippi planter wanted to turn
his land into stock farm. His neigh
bors, who stick to cotton, applied TO q
court for an injunction TO restrain him
from growing grass-seed, on the ground
that the grass would spread over ad.
Joining plantations and unfit the ground
ior cotton. Tho injunction was grant
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's now
oPeretta mentioned by the London
World is advancing rapidly. Two
poets play the most prominent part; a
high-hown poet and an idyllic one who
gives details about sweet Jane and teas
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