The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-03
INDIGESTION.
C0STIVENESS.
ALL SORTS.

President Gariield's life is insured
for S25,O 600 for the benefit of his wife.
The evidence in San Francisco di-
vorce suit was all found in diary
which the defendant kept.
Field Marshal Won Moltke has very
small feet and narrow, long hands;
Prince Bismarck has large feet and
big, ileshy hands.
The japanese stage is made to re-
volye. While one scene is before the
public another is in process OF arrange
ment
The wife Of an old colored man in
the eastern part of Georgia recently
presented him with the sixth pair of
twins the family having been previous
ly endowed with two pairs of triplets,
all flourishing.
Texas is the greatest cattle raising
State III the Union, yet the beef eaten
there by the fastidious is chiefly brought
from Kansas The reason is that Tex
as cattle are fat only two months in the
year, when the grass is green.
In Belgium, postage stamps of two,
five, and ten-centimes are to be receiv-
able as savings banks deposits. but the
two-centime stamp is to be available
only by school children, and postage
stamp deposits are limited TO ten francs
month.
At recent half-yearly rent-day din
ner in England the tenants of GER
tain peer were intensely disguised to
find that they were being regaled on
timed beef and mutton One of the
farmers declared that such meanness
would make the old lord turn in his
grave.
A recent visitor at Cologne asked
what the curious figures on some beau
tiful carved oak stalls depicted, where
upon the guide, evidently rather proud
of his English, replied: ''Oh, Mr., Samp-
SON." Further questioning elected
that they mean Samson and Delilah.
Tobacco is prohibited to the students
of Oberlin, College, Girard College,
and the Naval School at Annapolis. A
similar rule has been recommended for
West Point by the Board of Visitors.
At Cornell University nearly all the
students have voluntarily signed a
pledge of abstinence.
A London paper says that American
agriculturists are well enabled to COM
pete with the British farmer when the
rate OF freight on wheat from New
York to Liverpool is Sl.20 per ton,
while the railroad rate from Liverpool
10 Birmingham (about 100 miles) is
50. Is per ton.
"Now I've fixed you," said Jim Ho-
gan TO his wife, at Monticello, Ohio.
He had good reason to think so, for he
had shot five bullets into her body; yet
he was mistaken, for she revived soon
after he had killed himself with the re-
naming charge in the revolver, and is
now as well as ever.
A Washington girl has highly inter-
esting hair Its color used to be light
blonde. DR.. d. w. Prentiss reports to
the Smithsonian Institution that he
gave her jaborandi, a Brazilian plant,
us a cure for blood poisoning. Her
hair soon began to darken, and in four
months was almost black.
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, is TO
be put to mercantile uses. 1t was when
first erected, if not still so, the hand
soonest and costliest theater in the
United States. The owner was the late
S. n. Pike, very wealthy distiller,
who also erected the Grand Opera
House in this city.
After Capt. Fritz, San Francisco
politician OF local prominence, had
committed suicide, the police found
him hanging with his wrists fastened
together with handouts, while on his
ankles were shackles. The keys were
produced by his wife, who explained
that the irons had nothing TO do with
the suicide, but had been habitually
worn. Politics took him away from
home great deal at night, and in or
der to compel himself TO stay in occa-
sionally he would thus manacle HIM
self, give Mrs. Fritz the keys, and tell
her to keep him prisoner till morn