The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-02
ALL S0RTs.


whale having been seen in the bay.
Johns Hopkins University at Balti-
moro has now about $50 students, fifty
or more having just entered.
A Canadian has picked up 1875 small
diamonds from the banks Of the Cat
ineau and taken them to Montreal TO
be tested.
A Butte county, Cal, rancher named
Raglan, living on Berry creek, has
trapped twelve bears and shot two 9TH
ers. Eight were of the black species
and the others were cinnamon.
Leonard Hook was taken to the aims
house in Cambria county, Pa, q short
time ago as n pauper. On examination,
bank certificate of deposit for $40 and
1921 in cash was found in his clothing
A piece of slate rock en!raved with
unknown characters has been found in
Arizona. 1t was dug ont At some old
mines in the Mayicopa villages, six
miles below Phenix. on Salt River
The first quartz mill that will be put
in operation in Alaska on the lately
discovered rich mines there will be =
rocking-mil OF four stamps, and a du-
pleX-movement rock-breaker.
According to Georgia paper, the
physician attending lady in Macon,
that State, reports that she has been
paralyz'd and is losing the power OF
speech from the free use of canned
fruits and vegetables.
At Liege, in Belgium, one may ar
arrange with the telephone company 10
be reused at any particular hour of the
night or morning; when the hour ar
rives the bell begins 10 ring, and it con.
tinues ringing till the person is an
sWered by telephone.
At Stockton, Cal, after the close of
the regular races, n 'Scrub race was
organized. The driver Of the losing
horse was accused of "chucking' the
race, and was pulled from his horse
aud logged by the indignant crowd.
In the row his morse kicked him in the
abdomen.
Hazing at Smith College, the MaSsa-
chusellS institute for Girls, Is quite
sweet and gentle, The newcomers are
seized led into thesmain hall, present
and then shown the pictures and Ntatu-
airy in the art gallery. We should like
to be hazed.
The oas fixtures that have been made
ia Mcriden, Conn, for cX-Presidcnt
Hayes consist of two Sjx-light chandc-
ier,, three fye-lighs, one four-lightS,
and twenty-five or thirty brackets, and
all made of brass, aud intended for the
eX.Presidents private residence. The
total cost win be about $500
The disbursements by the Texas State
Treasurer for the fiscal year which eX-
PRED Aug. 81 amounted to 3,04, 6l3.
The annual expenses were Sl,4l599l,
and the balance consisted in eXpendi-
lures for the permanent school, univer-
sity and asylum funds, the support of
one school and the purchase of $780,
600 in bonds for the retirement OF the
State debt
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, l.. l.,
is 500 acres in extent, and there has
been hunter kept in constant employ
ment there since 1876. II is his bust
ness TO trap all kinds of animals that
infest the place, dogs, cats, foxes, chip
munks and molcs. Sometimes the trap.
per captured as many as fifty dogs in
one night; and altogether he has taken
Is 900 animals, little aud biz, in the
curse of five years
The question OF the future petroleum
supply is growing more and more in
teresting to Pennsylvania. Regions
once spouting out abundantly are now
slrewn with ruined derricks over wells
pumped dry. New sources of supply
have hitherto been readily found in
place of The drained reservoirs, but now
the great Pennsylvania oil sponge APP
pears TO he nearly squeezed. The
Bradford region in Mexican county, for
instance, which pumps 10000 barrels
daily, and is the petroleum centre of
the State, steadily failed during the
month IF August at the average rate Of
1900 barrels daily,
A grocer's assistant named Spencer,
who is n captain in the salvation ar
my, has just come to grief in London
for embez1ling money and leading q
tender lamb Of the fold very far astray.
The magistrate vino committed him for
trial kindly remarked that he was "a
dissolnte, impious, hypocritical, Scoun-
drel."
Further excavations near the Panthe.
on, in Rome, for the purpose of isolat-
ing the structure from the buildings
which surround it, have brought 10
light the baths OF Agrippa. The floor
OF the baths is some six metres below
the street level, and is strewn with frag-
ments of Cippolino marble. An i'm
mense fragment of cornice and the base
OF a column, tluted on one side and
fully one meter in diameter are also
visible.
The report of the newly-eslablished
analytical laboratory in Paris shows
that out of 455 samples Of wine pur-
chased BY the inspectors in the mouth
OF June, 3lS were adulterated; ont Of
% of cider, l6; out Of 1870 of milk and
cream, 100; out of 10 of butter, 10, No
fewer than AZ Of the 81 samples OF
spices analysed were condemned in like
manner, The report on chocolate and
SweetmeatS is scarcely more favorable
A party of boys recently found, while
playing near the town hall in East Ma.
chias, an Indian burial place, which
proved to be the most interesting dis
pOvprv of tho Lind orar ~. a., I, Main,