The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-13
W. C. AND L. ASSOCIATION COLUMN.
Edited in the interest of the Cairo Public Library
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.

public library,
WHEN TO LEARN.
History very clearly pro7es the tact that
one is never too old to learn;
Plutarch began the study of Latin when
near eighty.
Socrates learned to play upon musical
instruments at very old age.
Cato learned Greek when eighty.
Franklin began his philosophical pursuits
at fifty.
Dryden began the translation OF Had
when sixty-eight.
Tudovico wrote history Of his lite after
he reached the good old age of one hun
dred and fifteen.
Colbert, the famous minister to France,
returned to Latin and Law at sixty
Many more could be recalled, but space
forbids, yet we should learn the lesson well
from these. Never put aside that which
We needs should have, because age has
worked over time so far.
In the choice Of the time for reading, as
in that Of the books to read, large liberty
must he given to individual needs and
habits. There is no hour of the twenty
four which may not, under certain cir
cumstances, be proftably spent in reading.
In the lonely watches of a sleepless night,
in the precious hours of early morning, in
the busy forenoon, the leisurely afternoon,
or in the long winter evenings, whenever
the time and inclination comes, that is your
time for reading. If the inclination does
not come with the time, if the mind is
weary and he attention hard to fix, then 1t
Is better to lose that special time so far as
reading is concerned, and to take up some.
thing else. A much shorter time chosen
under more favorable circumstances, if it
Is only five minutes in busy day,-will
more than make up your loss.
THE DISCOVERY OF LITHoGRAPHY.
Munich was the seat of the discovery Of
TYPOGRAPHY There was a grand opera
played in the place, it was Mozart's rem
dition Of Don Juan" and the theatre was
packed After the performance was over,
the audience deserted the building, with
the exception of one man, and that was
Alois Sennefelder. He had great deal to
attend to yet. He first Of all examined the
stage, to sec il any sparks had ignited, and
then he retired to his room to stamp the
tickets for the next days performance. He
held in his hand check, which was hand
ed to him as his weeks salary, a polished
milestone with which TO sharpen razors,
and ticket stamp, which he had moisten-
ed with printers ink. He placed the check
on the table, when all of a sudden a gust
Of wind swept across the room, which
tossed the paper into the air, finally des-
cendng into basin OF water,
Carefully our hero picked up his treas
urc and dried it as well as he possibly
could, and placing the stamp and whet.
stone on it to press it out more smoothly, be
left for home.
Returning the next morning he was
greatly surprised to find that the stamp had
printed very accurately upon the damp
check. 1t set his mind to studying. lie
unused tor long time, and then the thought
presented itself-could he not invent some
method by which he could copy the songs
or the chorus, preventing the tedious task
Of doing it by hand. So he at once pur.
chased larger stone, and began expert
mentlng, until he finally succeeded in
bringing to climax the celebrated art of
printing from stsne-lithography,-
quarian.
BRAZILIAN LADIES IN A NEW YORK MEDICAL
SCHOOL.
There are at present residing in New
York City two young Brazilian ladies,
Donna Maria Augusta Generoso Estrella,
native of Rio de Janeiro, and Donna
Josefa Agueda Felisbella Mercedes de
Oliveira, native of Pernambuco. One has
been in this country for period Of about
four years, and the other one year, and
both are students in the New York medical
school for women.
In addition to their medical studies, in
which they have gained high honors, these