The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-04
ALL SORTS.

Colorado. Who can beat this?
What's going and what's past help
should be past grief,
A night gown is nothing but nap.
sack
Some of the Egyptian mummies are
encaSed in bandages more than one
thousand yards long.
The government of Vera Cruz is be-
Sieged by persons claiming the 100000
reward for n cure of yellow fever.
A quarry of variegated marble equal
to any in Italy was recently discovered
in FIuvana county, Virginia,
The product of tho gold, silver, and
copper mines of the southern states for
this year promises to be above the
startling figures of 100000 600,
There is great excitement in the 10.
cality Of tho 2iuC mines, in TaIowelI
county, Tennessee, over finds sup
posed to he silver
In Marion county, Florida, orange
groves near lines OF transportation arc
valued for taxation purposes at $500 an
acre.
Tenders wife's uncle on her mothers
side is so scrupulously temperate that
he won't eat cider apples nor patronizo
mosquito bar.
A thief in Rochester robbed seven
contribution boxes, and got twenty
cents. And he thought that for con-
trlbution boxes they PANIED out well.
at is fine morning as the Judge
remarked when he mucted the prisoner
at the bar to the tune Of twenty dollars
and costs.
us your daughter at home, Mr..
Bru,k?' Eyes, sir; and so is her mo-
ther.' CaIow said he'd "caIl some
other day. bat he never did.
Blessings brighten as they take
their highland 50 do summer visi-
tors remarked farmer Jones, as he
saw the last Of his city relations skip
for home.
Philosopher Shellman remarks that
"a GOOD many people who are always
ready to amen during service in
church, are not quite so ready to amend
after ii.
The most horrible case Of insanity in
the Massachusetts Asylum is that of Il
man who imagines he is Chicagoan.
lie gets up in the middle OF the night
to brag. Boston POST
The canal around the Muscle shoals,
Tennessee, will be completed within
two years, when the Tennessee will be-
nayigable from Paducah to Knoxville,
some $50 miles,
The Methodist Episcopal church will
establish a magnificent university in
Chattanooga, provided that city will
give the ground for the structure that is
TO be built.
If man declares himself to be so
thoroughly religious that he has not
committed sin for twenty years, you
are safe in concluding that he does not
regard lying as sinful,
A firm at Augusta, Ga, received a
cabegram from London for bottle OF
medicine. The message cost $50, the
medicine 81, and the express charge to
London is $3.50,
During the White Pine excitement of
1868 Hamilton, New, had a population
of thousands, two large daily news
papers, and all evidences Of prosperity.
To-day it does not contain sixty souls
The guupowdor plot at GAINESVILLE,
o., wasn't plot at ALL, The roll of
| dynamite found on the railroad track
proved TO have fallen out Of poorly
nailed box containing the blasting ma
terial
1t is reported that a prominent east.
| ern firm of silk manufacturers arc
negotiating for valuable property in
San Bemardino county, California.
with view of starting a colony of silk
rasers.
The governor Of Texas ha, called the
regents of the state university to meet
at Austin for permanent organization
and 20 take the necessary steps TO erect
the buildings. They are supplied with
$4,000 for that purpose, and $4,000
with which 10 purchase furniture,
library, apparatus, museum, and other
appliances.
There were chips and WRITINGS
enough left on the door.steps and yard
OF the courthouse at Pikeville, Tenn,
after the adjournment of the circuit
court says the local paper, to supply
Nndling-wood for an ordinary family
the whole winter.
The old Middle Dutch church prop
erty in Albany, n Y, has been sold
for $50, 600, and large and commodi-
Gus market will be erected The old
church in North Pearl street, Albany,
is to be transformed into roller skat-
ing.rink.
A new telegraph wire has been put
up from New York to Buffalo, and will
be used for railroad business exclusive
ly. There will be only five offices on
the wire-Grand Central depot New
York; Albany Syracuse, Rochester, aud
Buffalo.
In the German town Of Herxhiem
there were such hords of mice that
reward Of a fourth of cent for every
one killed was offered by the municipal
authorities. Under this stimulus proof
has been furnished within short time
OF the death OF over 100000.
A tailor IN New jersey who had a
case in court lately undertook to bride
the judge by pretending to Him that
there was wager regarding his size,
and, after measuring him, leaving at
his house II vest which was an exact fit.
But it didn't work, and the ingenious
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