The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST

II is dangerous to ask woman idle
questions when She is adding up
grocery bill
The nearest approach to perpetual
motion that has yet been discovered is
rent Day and night it keeps going on
and never stops
ain the bright complexion of my
youth I'll have no such word as pale"
and she reached for the rougc-box with
the clutch of an angel.
A young lady graduate may, In after
years, forget the title Of her essay, but
she will always remember how her
white dress was made and trimmed.
II can't 60 to Europe" lady is re-
ported TO have said; II am reading
forty.iive continued stories, and my
limited means would not let me pay
the postage"
"No woman Of proper self-respcct,"
says man's-rights journal, discussing
the marriage ceremony, twill submit
to be given away This is very true.
But then no man of self-respect would
ever give woman away.
There are now 1851 pupils in the
Maine schools, fewer than ten years
ago, while the population has increased
$4,000 The superintendent advises
the people TO pay as much attention to
the children as they do the live stock,
and all will be well.
George !. Seney, Of the Metropolitan
bank of New York, sends 1000 10 the
Peoples church Of Boston for the build
ing fund, saying: "Let it be spent in
furnishing comfortable and cushioned
seats for the colored friends in the hes.
part Of the church, toward which the
white people in the little upper attic
pews' may look to see the coored man
worship in the broad aisle"
The French government intend to
establish an observatory al Cape Horn
for the purpose of accumulating data
regarding terrestrial magnetism. Those
who are TO take charge of the establish
ment will sail in the same vessel which
is 10 bring out the astronomers, who
will try TO make what use they can Of
the approaching transit Of Venus.
A Boston Statistician finds that the
whole number of snow Storms in Bos-
ton during the last thirty-eight years
was 1,107, and the aggregate depth of
snow was 100 feet 81 inches. The az
erage number of snow-storms yearly
during this period (thirty-eight years.
was 20 5-38, and the average depth of
snow was feet Sl-l52 inches.
electricity has been applied to pro-
pei velocipedes. NJ. Trouve recently
drove an English tricycle. through the
streets of Paris by means of electricity
stored in aPlante secondary battery
and pair of Deprez electric motors,
The weight of the apparatus was four
hundred-weight, and the speed was
not great.
In a paper on the theory of the gal
vanic element, DR.. +. Exner shows that
between metals and liquids, where no
chemical action takes place, there is no
more electric separatiye power than be-
tween two metals. The entire effect of
a galvanic element depends exclusively
on the chemical action.
A black mare, seized at Boston for
violation of customs revenue laws, has
been sold by auction by the United
States marshal for $3.50. The animal
was shipped from New Brunswick at
an invoiced valuation of 500, but the
appraisers valuation and the duties
combined was $500
Sara Bernhardt, upon arriving at
French hotel, registered as an Ameri-
can. Please don't do so any more,
Sara. The United States has enough
sins to answer for already.
Il is pointed out by the Levant Her
aid that theGl5, 900 paid as ransom for
Mr. Suter represents 26i pounds of
gold, whereas that gentleman s weight
probably does not exceed l54 pounds;
while 2ll pounds weight of gold was
given for Col. Syng, who can be little
short of 35 pounds heavier than Mr..
Suter. Statistically considered, this is
very striking increase in the price of
human life in the brigand market.
The registrar general OF England, in
his report for the year 1879, Just issued,
remarks that of the 364, l6i persons
who married in 1879, 5S,64l, or 1862
per cent, signed the register with
marks, aud of these 25,037 were men
and 33,604 were women, In 12,2l0
marriages bridegroom and bride alike
were unable 10 sign except by mark.
The proportion of persons who when
they marry are unable to write their
names is steadily diminishing.
As an illustration of the compensa-
tons brought about by the whirligig
of time, attention is called to the fact
that while no relative of Gen. Washing
ton has lived at Mount Vernon for
many years, and none of his family
own any part Of the estate, descend
a.. ants of three families of negro servants
still live there, and neither they nor
their ancestors have known any other
home since Gen. Washington brought
their ancestors there
Molle Armstrong yielded to the i'm
portunings of her lover, and left Lewis
county, Kentucky, with him in search
of convenient Gretna Green. Billy
Vance. al Old admrer Of Mollio's,
heard OF the proceeding and followed
up the clippers. Catching them before
they could get into Ohio, Billie took
the trembling Molie aside, set the "old,
old story" TO new variations, and sang
IL into her ear SO SWeetly that the Darty