The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-10
VARIETY.

three great-grandfathers and two great
grandmothers.
The number OF horses, cattle, mules,
sheep, and hogs in Ohio by the returns
Of 1881 is as follows; Horses, 707, ops;
cattle, 1888. 1852; mules, 23.07s; sheep,
1923, ia, and hogs, l,795,77Q.
An ant town in the Allegheny noun
tains consists of 1000 or ZOO nests.
which rise in cones to height of from
two to five feet The ground is riddled
in every direction with subtcrranean
passages.
A New Hampshire soldier, who made
application for pension eighteen years
ago has just received from tho depart
ment the customary circular specifying
the evidence required TO establish his
claim.
Walter Bray. for thirty years q popu-
lar negro minstrel, is hopeless luna
tic in q Massachusetts asylum. His
right name is Baker, and he is a son
OF the Gen. Baker who was killed at
the battle of Balls Bluff.
A sheep dairy for tho manufacture Of
cheese has been started near Chatta-
nooga. Sheep cheese is popular az
ticle Of food in Austria. and this enter
prise, beginning with one thousand
sheep, is under the management of an
Austrian.
For number of years the lighthouse
keepers on the Long Island coast have
taken summer boarders at the stations.
Orders have been issued by the light
house board that any keeper Of lights
who keeps boarders shall be dismissed.
Sixteen years ago Loren Bartlett, Of
Grandy, Mass, cut the figures 1875 on
the back of turtle found in his
meadow, and every year since, with
one exception, the animal has been seen
in the same field Not TO be behind the
times, he wants his date changed
A resident OF San Jose, Cal, sent TO
New York for three pairs of blankets,
the finest TO be had for money, and now
California newspapers are jubilant over
the fact that, when they arrived, one
pair was found to bear the brand of q
San Jose wooden mill.
hlcAdnuol oulluN, lColulu8 III bulc
county, Alabama, and now over eighty
years Of age, is developing new strength
and preparing to enter upon a new life
He lost all Of his teeth years ago, and
now, out of the order of nature, he is
being favored with another supply.
Two new jaw teeth have appeared each
week during the past four weeks.
Norway exported in 1880 an aggre-
gate quantity Of s94,8l6 register tons
Of lumber. England took 81 p cent.
Of it, and France II 2 cent By com
pairing the foregoing figures with those
Of the current export lists in previous
years, we observe that Norway has only
in the favorable years, 1871 up TO 1876,
excepting 1875, exported larger quanti-
ties than in 1880.
A large soda ash mandatory is to
be located in Geddes, n. Y. 1t will be
the only one Of the kind in the United
States, and when completed will con-
sumo 400 tons of coal daily. A build
ing will be erected this fall, 800 feet in
length, which will furnish employment
TO about 300 men. When all the build
ings proposed are erected, 1000 men
will be employed.
In the forei ign settlement east of the
Cape of Good Hope there lived, not
many years ago, a person whom the
public called 'the sef-made man."
They almost insisted that he put him
sell together in the morning-inserted
his glass eye and his false teeth (some
said added an artificial nose), adjusted
his wig, strapped on his wooden leg
and sailed forth. 1t happened that
trouble broke out between the country
to which he belonged and the one in
which he was living, and it was then
and there reported that he had gone to
the United States consul and claimed
protection. On being asked on what
ground ho founded his claim, he was
said to have promptly replied that "his
leg was made Of Oregon pine and an
American dentist made his teeth,
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in the
christian Union, advocates that the
State of New York purchase tract il
the wilderness lying Immediately wes
of the Hudson river, and extending
from perhaps FIVE miles above Wes'
Point, and give it, untouched by land
scape gardening, to the people for 9
park. The tract designated is part o
the Hudson highlands
There is parish in London which
consists for the greater part of thirteen
houses on each side of Bishopgatt
street. The income is nearly IS, 500 ,
year. The rector has never done duty
for the last three or four years, living
peacefully at st. Leonard's. But h,
pays a curate 5000 year, out of which
that gentleman has TO pay for gas, fo
the organist, aud other expenses o
conducting divine service
An invention for easing the strain OIL
horses in starting horse-cals has beer
in six months successful service il
Boston. A little pedal touched by TIL
drivers foot put, the device into opera
ton, 10 connects the tongue of TN,
car with lever. which operates
latchei, taking hold Of cogwhcol OF
the axle, thus easing the dead pull
nearly one-half.
Careful observations have shown tn,
following to be about the averag
| growth in twelve vpars of several ynri