The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-30
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The be widow and and l HfIipssns' one %sI T'
white of an egg, will give ladiq1 =
shoes color and shine without r&N
off.
A little Waterloo Sunday school mss
was asked by her teacher: "What
must people do in order to 90 to heav-
emp 'Die, suppose" replied the lit
tie one.
The amount of business done by
tourist agents in this country is enor-
nous. There are four firms on Broad
way, New York, that sell 81, 100000
worth OF tickets year.
In London there are 1902 public
houses, and 4,425 beer houses. During
1880, 29,S6S persons were apprehended
for drunkenness. OF these, 1898
were males and 1880 were females.
1t is probable that the southern part
of the Territory of Utah will supply
enough anthony for this country. The
ore mined about 140 miles from Salt
Lake City yields from GO to 65 percent.
of antimony.
When you see fruit-peellhg on the
sidewalk, push it off into the gutter; it
will not take long, and there is no tell
ing but that the first person to be dis
abled by il if il remains there may be
poor man who owes you money.
dearest" said u sick wife fondly TO
her husband, "if should die | wonder
if you would marry agaipw ono, in
deed" was the prompt reply. 81 have
tried it once, and that's enough for
me-" She was so mad that she recOy-
cred almost Immediately.
Professor Pictet, the dscOveror OF
the liquefaction of oxygen, has invent
ed an improved steam vessel with which
he expects to attain speed of thirty
five miles an hour. A model vessel is
being built and will shortly be tried on
the Lake of Geneva.
There are now in the United States
about ffty-six cotton-soed oil mills, Of
which nine are in Mississippi, eight
each in Tennessee and Texas, nine in
Kentucky Gall in Louisville), four in
Arkansas, two each in Missouri and
Alabama, and one in Augusta, Ga.
81 lust went out TO see friend for
moment" remarked Jones to his wife
the other evening, as he returned to bis
seat in the theatre. Indeed replied
Mrs j. with sarcastic surprise, 81 sup
posed, from the odor of your breath,
that you have been out TO see your worst
enemy" Jones WINGED.
Dan" said four-ycar old, give
me five cents TO buy monkey" "Wo
have one monkey in the house now,'
said the elder brother. 'Who is it,
DAMP" you" was the reply. "Ihen
give me five cents to buy the monkey
some nuts" The brother could not
resist.
In Spain a village priest preaching
on the miracle of the loaves and fishes
made mistake, saying that five thous-
and loaves and fishes sulliced for five
persons. "And did they not suffer
from indigestionP" asked u wag of the
priest after the sermon was over.
mo" replied the latter, not to be out
wlted: 'thcroiu consisted the mir
acle ~
The marble quarries of Vermont
have become enormous excavations,
several being $50 feet deep, and the
openings arc only slightly protected, if
at all, while rude stailways down the
sides of the shafts afford the only
descent; yet there is hardly ever an ac-
cident, and it is several years since n
fatal fall has taken place.
Two Irishmen were porting over the
news in one of our city papers, aud
coming to the heading --latest" and
Immediately followingi il VERY Latest"
one said to the other, can sure, Tim,
will we be afther eXplainin' what this
meansp" "Arrah bedad," said Tim,
IAN its meself that can explain that to
We. Sure the latest is what comes in
time to be printed, and the very
latest is what comes afther the paper is
out"
A colcred preacher in Louisville,
KY, has found in his church u daugh-
ter from whom he was separated at the
auction-block twenty-odd years ago
He was much reioiced, but was prey
| to conflicting emotions when he learned
from her that her mother is still liy-
ing, he having been legally married to
another woman after becoming a freed
man.
Hon. j. Milton Turner (colored),
late United States Minister to Liberia,
who has recently made tour through
the Southern States, says the future
prospects of the black race are very
hopeful. Many colored men have
farms of their own, and the chief need
among them is industrial schools. lie
declares emphatically that the South is
the place for the negro, for he can there
engage in agriculture and be encour
aged in 1t by the people,
At q recent examination in GIRLS
school, the question was put to a elias
of little ones: "Who makes the laws o
our Governmentp' Congress- wa
the ready reply. GLOW is Congress di
videdp" was the next question. A lit
tie girl in the class raised her hand
"Well," said the examiner, "Nliss Sal.
lie, what do you say the answer isp'
Instantly, with an air of confidence
as well as triumph, tho answer came:
Civilized, half-civilized and savage"
In 1888 the French Government be-
gan the sinking of an artesian well at
Grenelle, then a suburb, but now q
portion of Paris. This well was not
completed until February 26, 1871,
when, at q depth of l,792 feet the