The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-01

completed the payment or losses caused
by the railroad riots of 1877. Thus far
claims amounting to about $3.50, 900
have been liquidated, and bonds TO the
amount of S2,650,0 600 have been issued.
1t is thought that $4,000, 900 will cov-
er all unsettled claims.
The most valuable diamond in the
world is in possession of the King of
Portugal. 1t weighs 1850 grains, and
is computed to be worth S2S,000,000.
The largest diamond ever known was
the "Pitt'' diamond, found in India. 1t
weighed 410 carats before cutting, but
was reduced to 500. 1t is worth about
100000.
A poor darkey was in despair at the
immortality of the world He said:
"Moses cut all the commandments wild
a chisel in stone, but he broke 'em all
before he got down the hill. Den, when
he cut new set, de chillum of Isr' l
broke 'em all agin."
This is the way they do it in New
York, according to the Graphic
"Ah Sam. Chinaman, was stabbed to
the heart by some West Side Americans
on Sunday evening. They were re-
turning from divine worship, and felt
moved to do away with all forms of
heathenism."
AT fashionable wedding in NewYork
horrid old uncle presented the bride
with a beautiful cradle of ebony and
gold. and when it reached the house it
was filled with flowers. The uncle can
not yet be made to understand why it
was not exhibited in the parlor with the
other presents.
Never judge by appearances. A tenn
perance lawyer engaged in a Troy
(Kansas) liquor case, bounced a
would be juror, because he had Grim
son face and a fiery nose, and subse-
quently found out that the man was
strict church member, one of the most
radical temperance men the country.
The bloody-minded Nihilistic editor
of the New Orleans Times suggests
that banana skin dropped carelessly
on the steps of the Winter palace, at
St. Petersburg, might be more effective
than glass bombs, and remarks that
good work might be got in some MORN
ing when the Car is running to catch
street car
Barbour, of Memphis, has a straw
berry farm of twenty-five acres. In
some years he raises 1000 quarts to the
acre. The pckers are almost exclu-
sively negro women and girls, who earn
from 80 to rs cents per day. They used
to be paid by the quart, but they
grabbed green and ripe berries and
leaves alike to fill up.
Tunis owes much of its old reputa-
ton to the manufacture of the skull
caps worn by Orientals, for which it
was once famous. At former period
it was almost the only place in which
these caps were manufactured. In the
last century $4,000 persons were en-
ployed in Tunis in making skull caps,
and 5000 balls of Spanish wool were
annually used in the manufacture.
The central station for the carrier
pigeons kept by the German Govern
ment, for use in the event of war, is at
Cologne, in disused monastery. The
keeper and offices are located on the
ground floor. The birds are kept in
training by being sent on regular jour
neys, short in winter. They are all
reared at Cologne, and thence dis
patched to Mayence, Strassburg, and
Metz. The central station is connected
with Berlin by intermediate relays.
A very pretty little romance is told of
the Governor of California, George G.
Perkins, and tho story runs to this eff
feet: Years ago, when he had but 81 in
his pocket, and no employment, Mr..
Knight, merchant Of Oroville, gave
him steady situation at $40 month.
Afterward, and when their fortunes
were reversed, he found Mr.. Knight
poor in San Francisco, and took him
into employment for Goodall, Perkins
g. Co. at $l75 month, which was
handsome return for the kindness of
Mr.. Knight when Perkins was poor.
But it did not end there. When Per-
kins became Governor Of the State he
remembered his old friend and book
keeper and appointed him Harbor Com