The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-04-08
NEWS BREVITIEs,


popular in ten minutes, at Slatersyille,
n. Y, by jumping into swollen icy
stream and rescuing drowning boy,
than by his two years OF preaching in
the town
Fifty Yale boys went to a performance
in which there were ballet-dancers, and
after the performance hired q truck
with which to take them TO their hotel,
but the girls would not 90 with them.
The preparations now being made for
emigration to the United States in vari-
Gus villages and provincial districts Of
Germany indicate that the influx to our
shores in the next twelve months may
be greater than even that of last year.
Mrs. Isabella Pegeon, Of Fall River,
who was reported some time ago as
having fallen heir to a large fortune in
England, finds that she can not get it
and has resumed her occupation As a
weaver.
At dog-fght on Long Island, be-
tween Spot and Bullet the ami
mails bled so profuscly that the floor be-
came saturated with blood. The fight
kept up until the blood oozed from the
nostrils of the dogs.
The government Of the Dominion re-
public are evidently satisfied that the
bones discovered in 1877 in the cathe-
dral Of San Domingo are really those Of
Christopher Columbus, for the sum Of
$4,000 has been voted toward the erec-
ton OF suitable monument, beneath
which the relics will be deposited,
The prohibition bill passed by the
Alabama legislature for the benefit Of
Clarke and Limestone counties forbids
the sale and manufacture of spirituous
liquors in all shapes and forms, and ex-
ccpts nothing but the wine used by
churches in communion. Doctors who
find 1t necessary TO use il at all must
give ii in doses like other medicine.
Under the new military law the Ger
man standing army will have, in round
numbers, $4,000 commissioned officers,
427 900 priyates and non commissioned
officers, LOO surgeons, 600 veterinary
surgeons, coo gunsmths, 800 paymaS-
terS, and $4,000 horses. Prussia furnishes
$50, 600 men; Bavaria, $4,000; Saxony,
E,OOO; Wurtemberg, 10000.
In recent debate on the Austrian
civil service a member argued against
examinations. "When Phizmaler lived,n
said the honorable member, land
studied Chinese in the suburbs Of Wen
ma, he received privy Councillor Flicker
with the following question: Please
tell me about the war between Austria
and France, of which read here in my
Chinese documents
The Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, in Boston, has an unusual
scholar in the person of James Grant,
formerly Judge in one of the circuit
courts of Iowa, and now possessed Of
an extensive law practice. He is 6S
years old, but finding knowledge Of
chemistry essential to mining litigation,
he has temporarily abandoned his pro-
fession and become a student.
The supreme court of Mississippi has
rendered an important decision against
certain commissioners of election which
was appealed from the Tunica county
circuit court. 1t is held that the COM
missioners have right to reject bal
lots which show themselves on inspec-
ton to be illegal, and that every ballot
which has his back or face any device
or mark other than names of persons,
by which one ballot may be disiin-
guished from another milegal, and that
the commissioners of election can not be
required to reassemble and recanvass
the returns Of the election.
Prince Leopold of Hohenzollerns
second son, q boy of l6, and the heir
apparent to the Roumanian throne, has
been performing curious little farce.
lie walked into the town of St,irzelberg,
recently, barefoot, his hair cut short,
and otherwise in most dlapidated
condition, and related that he had been
kidnapped at 6 in the morning. taken
away IN carriage and had at last con.
trived to escape. There was an extra.
ordinary sensation all through Germany,
till this ingenious youth confessed that
he had invented the whole story, cut of
his own hair, and robbed himself of his
clothing.