The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-14


of $l60 per acre.
A Rhode Island man called neigh
ora"lantern-j awed cockroach." A suit
for SANDER resulted, and the jury re-
turned as follows: "Not guilty on lar
ern-jawed, but way off on cockroach,
and we find damages in the sum of ten
cents"
The Paris mint is busily engaged in
striking off ten million pieces of coin
for the republic Of Hayti. 1t has also q
job on hand for the Morocco govern
ment after which it will have to exc
cute bronze and silver medal com
memorating the works of the st. Goth
ard tunnel.
A shocking accident is reported from
n town in Galicia, where, while a con.
gregation of Jews were celebrating
their new year, some Of the curtains OF
the tabernacle caught fire. In the pan
ic that ensucd gallery gave way,
causing the death Of four females, and
series injury TO sixteen others.
In one Of the surveying parties Of the
Macon and Brunswick extension in
Georgia there were nine boys. Of
these eight were graduated of some
university with diplomas in their peck
cts. They were working at about 81 Il
day, and engaged in the hardest of
manual labor-cheerfu ambitious and
rather proud of their hard and rough
work than otherwise.
AS the flock sleep while the clergy
man is preparing his sermon, they think
it no more than fair that they should
sleep while he is reading it, 1t must
be said, however, to the credit of the
ladies, that they seldom 90 to sleep in
church. They generally keep their
, eyes open during the service. New
! bonnets are worn TO church.
There is one point on the West Shore
Hudson river) railroad, nearly oppo-
site New Hamburger, where ii is almost
impossible to find men TO work, nearly
1000 men having tried the job and Civ
en- it up. The place is a very high
bluff, with hardly spot for foothold
Rev. John A. Lansing. a Methodist
exhorter, is now in prison at Boston,
charged with swindling his dupes out
Of about $4,000. He used the money
in promoting the Jacques Cologne COM
pany, which finally wound up in bank
ruptcy. Among his dupes were four
Boston widows.
A resident of Fair Haven, Vt, for
quite a while missed wood from his
shed, and finally, to find out what be-
came of it, loaded several sticks with
powder. The next morning, hearing
an explosion at the house of neigh
Dor, he ran in and found the fire blown
out of the stove and the griddle-cakes,
which the woman was cooking, plas-
tered on the ceiling,
A boy named Nichols, of Ossian, Liv-
ingston county, N. Y, killed snake
while out hunting, and forced the reptile
into the barrel of his gun, intending to
fire at mark with it. When the gun
was discharged it burst and flew from
his hand, and was found on the ground
some distance behind him. The boy
was not injured, but he is prejudiccd
against snakes for gunwadding.
Some time ago valuable dog disap-
peared from Lower Hill. Placer county,
Cal, and during forty-one DAYS next
ensuing the owner mourned his pet as
dead or stolen, At the conclusion Of
that long time the pup was found in an
abandoned shaft, still alive, but starved
almost to 3 shadow. With the constant
care Of devoted physician it will prob
ably recover.
The personal property of the late
William g. Fargo of Buffalo, consisted
principally of stocks, bonds, etc, and
aggregated in value about 5000, 900.
No schedule has been made of the
household furniture, horses, carriages,
or other property used in or upon the
premises occupied by him in his life
time for the reason, as stated, that the
same are bequeathed to his widow and
are in her possession, and the estate is
solvent.
Opium consumption in this country
is increasing at an alarming rate. 1t
is estimated that 1000 Americans at
least are victims to the baleful habit of
opium smoking, while over 10000 Chi
nese in the country pursue the same
vicious practice. The use of opium in
other forms, however, far exceeds this.
The importation of opium in 1880 was
", 1876 pounds, an increase of 1900
pounds in one year.
1t is related that Sir Thomas Wade,
the British Minister at Peking, who
had been resident of China for forty
years and was familiar with the Ian
guage and customs of the people, hear
ing Of the death of an old Chinese
friend, started off for his funeral, when
he for the first time learned that no for
eigner, no matter what his capacity,
was permitted to attend the funeral of
q Chinaman.
Astronomers are on the lookout for
the star of Bethlehem, last seen in
1872, when it shone so brightly as to be
visible at MONDAY, then fading away
assumed various hues until it disap-
peared. This wonderful star is believed
to have been seen in 1864 and 945, and
its apparent period extended backward
would indicate that it appeared about
the time of the birth of Christ. Hence
its name. Its place is near the constel-
lation Cassiopeia.
TO pretty young girl Sidney Smith
once said: "Dc you ever reflect how
you pass your life? If you live to be
Y, which hope you may, your life is
spent in the following manner: An
hour day is three years; this makes