The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-21
NEWS BREVITIEs,

Onc hundred ana lnlfty-lWO vessels
were built in the ship-yards of New
toundland last year, measuring an az
grcgate Of 1898 tons, and receiving
bounty Of Sli,SJ6 from the government.
An increase Of 60 per cent. in its gas
bills has induced one Of the large steam
ship companies in New York to use the
electric light in lighting It's pier, and
also in the holes while loading and dis
charging.
The silk industries of the United
States last year gave employment 10
81, 4iO operatives, who were paid an
aggregate Of S9.lO7, S25 in wages Cen
sus office returns show that the total
value Of finished silk goods produced in
this country during the year was nearly
S3j ,000 and the capital invested
Sl9,OO0,OyQ.
About the beginning Of August the
seventh biennial international Medical
Congress will be held in London. The
last meeting took place In Amsterdam
in 1879. OF the 1900 invitations lately
issued it is expected that at least 1000
will be accepted, and the papers to be
read are likely to exercise very con-
siderable influence on the various
branches of medical science and prac-
tice.
Ward A. Knox. formerly Of Compa-
ny y. First Maine Heavy Artillery, has
just received a pension Of Sl2 month
on account Of almost total blindness
due to the pressure of air produced by
a cannon ball which passed close to his
face during the battle in front of Peters
burg. The testimony 70 the injury and
the cause Of il is perfectly satisfactory,
though the case is very rare and pos
sibly unique,
Mr.. Jerry NJ Snyder, Of Bedford,
Pa, died recently Mr. Snyder was
an undertaken Last summer he had
presentment that he WAS going to die,
and located his grave and gave direc-
tons how it should be dug. He also
made his own coffin and box, after set
ting into the former 50 rs TO make sure
that its proportions should be accurate
He was found dead sitting in his chair,
The plan which ex-Gov. Hubbard, Of
Connecticut, instituted, Of requesting
the legislature to adjourn for one week
just before its final adjournment, in
ordcrthat he might have time thorough
~ TO examine the great number Of bills
pa, -ed in the closing hours of the scs-
sion, met with much favor in that state,
and it is said that Gov. Biglow will
make a similar request.
The French legation at Mexico in
cludeS a minister with SIC, 900, a chan
cellor with $1,000, and two secretaries
with 3, 400 and 81, POO The consuls
at Vera Cruz and Tampico have $4,000
each and their Chancellors $1,000, a
$500 clerk being also attached to the
former consulate. The Mexican mis-
sion is claSscd with those to Brazil and
the United States, and comes just after
that to Italy. to which is attached a sal
AIRY of 81, 900, and before that to
Switzerland.-Sl2, 600.
The recent carnival at Rome produced
an unusual number of unfortunate re-
suits, owing TO the exubcrance OF
licensed iolliy An English woman re-
cciycd black eve from a solid bunch
Of flowers; u German baron, in frenzy
of rage at the bouquet-throwers, rushed
at his ASSISTANTS with u big stick, and
an infantry sergeant killed u boy whom
he suspected of some deviltry or other.
1t used to be said that the peltings OF
flowers and conpetti never raised a
row.
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at
the large amount of ophthamia and
blindness prevalent among the inhab-
itants. Want of cleanliness isthe cause,
An Egyptian mother, under the intlu-
oncc of widely prevalent superstition,
does not wash her child's eyes until
eight days after birth. BY that time
the organ is frequently ruined. The
teachers in the American and British
mission schools of Cairo say that Egyp-
tian mothers become invariably angry
when urged to wash the eyes of their
newly born infants, and can rarely b.
persuaded to comply with request OF
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