The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-10
ALL SORTS.

Louis schools for the last year were
Ss3o 600. or about S239,000 more than
in Cincinnati ,.,l
Thirty-eight recent cases OF typhoid
fever at the Roman Catholic orphan
ASYLUM in New York have been attriD-
utcd to impure milk.
Mr.. Evarts thinks that the delber-
atoms of the late monetary conference
have advanced the prospects OF blme-
taIlic international arrangements con-
sderably. ,,..
An Albany jeweler has on exhibition
n large clock of ancient design, whlcn
stands about six feet high, and IS saia
10 have been made in Rotterdam ia
years ago.
Newport Ky, is briefly described as
a town of 10000 inhabitants, without
n sipclc bookstore, where boys OF or
6 wears puff cigars with an experienced
air on every corner. go.
Americans visiting England will be
Glad 10 know that large hotel, to DO
Conducted on the American plan -
about TO be erected on the site OF inc
late Dukes Theater, in Holborn, Lon
don.
At a recent wedding in Ottawa, Cam
ada, both bridegroom and bride re-
ceiyed checks for $4,000 from their
respective fathers, and the fathers uni
ted in purchasing and furnishing
house for the young couple.
A piece of rock, weighing four nun
dred pounds, WAS thrown by blast
against the front door of the parsonage
Of the Rev. DR.. Hough, at stanton,
Va. 1t crushed through the door, and
landing in the centre of the room,
broke through the floor. Mrs. Hough
was lying on sofa in the room, and
was struck by several fragments OF the
door. She escaped serious injury
Galveston NetcS Southern women
are working personally to improve the
condition of colored females by in
structing, advising, and encouraging
them, and in circulating reading mat
ter among them. While outsiders are
discussing the Incidence of southern
women, they are moving on in tho
even tenor Of their way, quietly doing
the duty nearest them and preserving
the most admirable characteristics OF
the race.
Bert Harris camped out in Logan
canyon, U. r., recently About IL
o'clock he awoke and discovered that
he and lis bedding were being dragged
down the mountain-sde by huge
grizzly bear. Harris was almost para
lied by fear, but managed tinaly to
wiggle out of the quilts, drop to the
ground, and crawl away among the
rocks. The grizzly went some distance
with the bedding, but finding that his
expected prey had escaped, he set up
dismal howl. Harris stayed SILVER
ING in the canyon for the remainder of
the night.
Prof. Beal, at the Michigan Aglicul-
tural college, has ten hundred different
grasses and cloyers growing, each in
separate bed, in the garden, attached
to the Michigan Agricultural college.
1t has taken several years to make the
collection, which is being added to
yearly. Each species is labeled with
both the common and scientific names,
enabling those who visit the college to
make their examination both useful
and entertaining. Six sets of seeds
from the plats have lt'en sent to as
many different colleges.
DR.. Nichols, in the journal Of Che
mtSt,y, tells how TO reduce bones with
ashes for fertilizing purposes. He says:
Break 100 pounds Of bones into small
fragments and pack into tight cask
or box with 100 pounds of good wood
ashes, which has been previously mixed
with rs pounds of dry water.slaclIed
lime and y pounds of powdered sal
soda. Twenty gallons of water will
saturate the mass, and more may be
added as required, In two or three
weeks the bones will be soft enough to
turn out on the barn floor and mixed
with two bushels of good SOIL
81 assure you gentlemen" said a
convict upon entering the prison, THAT
the place has sought me, and not | the
place, My own affairs really demand
all my time and attention, and may
truly say that my selection to fill this
position was an entire surprise Had
consulted my own interest, | should
have peremptorily declined to serve,
but as am in the hands Of my friends,
| see no other course but to submit
And he submitted.
A great Protestant awakening is re-
ported in several Spanish villages near
Villafranca, In one place the entire
community, numbering about one hun
| bred families is Protestant, and in an
other the Romish church has specially
painted and decorated to attract the
people, but the only attendants are one
old man, two old women, and five boys.
The government schools was closed for
lack Of pupils, while the one under the
auspices Of the Free church OF Scotland
had sixty-ive pupils. Over thirty men
attend the night school, and some
children travel a league daily in order
to be present.
Few people know that in bad season
honey is apt to be poisonous. This
arises from the fact that in such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to
gather it from poisonous flowers Great
care should be taken TO remove all poi
sonous plants from the neighborhood
Of hives. A specimen of honey from
Trebizond, gathered from the zhobo-
deudron ponticum. which is common
in that neighborhood, was sent in 1884,
by Mr.. Keith +. Abbott, to the Zoolog.
ical society of London, and in 1859 it
still retained its poisonous qualities.
Iu 1890 great many people in Phila-
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