The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04

Great Britain does not frown severely
upon polygamy. To Cetewayo, who is
held prisoner near Capetown, she gen.
erously granted the company Of four
wives.
The Rockland Courier says: "Young
ladies and elephants attain their growth
at eighteen. But here analogy ceases.
One trunk is enough for an elephant.
1t is said that during his lecture at
Burlington, N. j., Col. John w. Forney
several times referred to "Gray's Eulo-
gy written ip country churchyard. -
Rochester EIpreSS.
The Trustees of the Maine Agricultu-
raj College announces that they will be
compelled to charge tuition fee of
$50 per year hereafter, because of the
failure of the State Legislature to make
adequate provision for the support Of
the college.
When Abraham Lincoln was assassin
ated Queen Victoria wrote four-page
letter TO Mrs Lincoln. 1t was the UNI
restrained outpouring from pure heart.
1t has never been published. as the Lin
coin family regarded it a violation of
propriety to do so.
An Agricultural Society in Maryland
has sued Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for
failure to meet his engagement to de-
liver IN address before it. Among the
actual damage sustained there will
probably be the alleged total failure of
the pumpkin crop of the State.
There was n double marriage in q
circus side-show at Galveston. The gi-
ant welded the fat woman, and the liv-
ing skeleton became the husband of the
Circassian girl. In celebration of the
happy event banquet was given in the
tent TO employees Of the circus.
The Boston transcripts advice to
young ladies: Remember, q pretty
hand is one of woman's choicest charms.
Never assist your mother in her house
hold duties. 1t doesn't so much matter
how much her hand is sprawled out by
hard work. She is out Of the market"
A man in Lehigh County has read the
Bible through seventeen times. Now
that the book has been revised it must
make him mad to think that he has
wasted so much time. In the words Of
"Anonymus,' never do to-day that
which can be put of for ten or twenty
years.
A new material for architectural pur-
poses, said to be entirely iire-proof, is
made from cotton. After being con-
verified into paste by chemical treat
ment, 1t is nodded into the desired form
and allowed to dry, when it becomes as
hard as stone. 1t is called architectu-
raj cotton.
Both Webster's and Worcester's die
tionaries, in themlate editions, contain
many thousands Of new words. And
yet there is not language enough in
both OF them to express the feelings OF
man who misses a picnic train, and
is left at the depot with heavy lunch
basket on his arm.
Beaconsfelds handwriting was stur-
dy and somewhat snowy. lie treated
women as pretty dolls and paid them
exaggerated compliments. Labouchere
tells Of q Wing lady who talked to him
long and learnedly, and his reply was,
"You darling" He liked show, but
cared little for money.-NeW York
Times.
Mrs. Washington, a relative Of Gen.
Washington, has written letter, which
has been laid before Secretary Blaine,
in which she contends that the spot Sc
lected by ex.Secrotary Evarts for the
monument TO mark Washington's birth
place, is some distance from the site OF
tho house in which ho first saw tho light.
She claims to know the exact spot.
The death Of one Of the two Empress.
% who have been ruling China during
the minority Of the boy King is not
without some significance. 1t was she
and her councillors who formed tho an
ti-foreign party who favored war with
Russia and Japan, Her influence Is
said to have always been exertod against
tho adoption Of foreign ways and ideas.
Her death, II this DO true, will remove
some OF tho greatest obstacles In the
way OF the opening up of tho country
TO foreign commerce and also 10 mis-