The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-05-20
ALL SORTS.


ing dssipated young mon out of So
ciety.
AT Bodic, recently, n Mexican played
his wife off at game OF poker and she
cheerfully went with the winner.
Josh Billings thinks out his sayings
as he walks along the streets, and when
he gets one he rushes in doorway and
jots it down on pocket tablet.
Miss Pillow, the youthful daughter OF
Gen. Pillow, who is in Washington with
her mother, is considered one of the
most brilliant young girls who has Wis
tied that city.
The new settlers in Texas will find
plenty of elbow room, If nothing else.
One of them writes that he has "the
Rio Grande for a bath-tub and all Mex.
leo for back yard"
With population no larger than tn at
of Pennsylvania, Canada has seven To-
cal Governors, Lieutenant Governors,
Cabinets and Legislatures, besides the
General Government.
A pit one hundred and thirty-fve
feet deep has been discovered in the
Mammoth Cave. Its mouth is reached
by crawling on hands and knees through
u long passage.
The death of Gen. Joe Lane leaves
only two surviving generals Of the Mex
lean war-Gcn. Harney, aged 81, and
Gen. Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia,
now in his Goth wear.
The new Car leads very simple
life. He rises early and breakfasts with
his family, and then puts on his boiler
iron overcoat and takes walk in the
back yard, Boston Gt0be.
In the opinion of the Burlington
Hawheye, good poet, with light
touch of humor, can make more money
writing liver-pad "ads' and liniment
notices than Virgil got for his "Eneid." "
The management of a Boston Thea
tire have long made it practice to invite
blind people from the asylums and their
homes in this city to attend the musical
performances given in the theatre.
Gen. Grant saw an artis; copying a
picture in gallery, and ne said, "I
would rather have the original than the
copy" 1t may not be necessary to ex-
plain that the original was handsome
female.
The Viceroy of the Celestial Empire
wants the Chinese navy reorganized on
the American plan. AS soon as the
Chinese find out what the American ma
Wy is like, they will probably hang the
Viceroy for treason.
John Conyers, born in 1884, and now
passed ninety-seven, was married in
Shelbyville, Ind, recently to Martha
Mathues, aged forty-live. The old gen.
tleman is quite spry, and has lived a
widower for the last thirty years.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
held in a recent decision that bargains
in stock by way of margin, where no
intention exists of actually delivering
the stock at issue, are wagering con-
tracts, and thereupon utterly void"
Here is the last portrait of Jay Could
A massive black beard, parrot-like
beak, and a pair of jet black eyes,
piercing and intense in expression. A
red handkerchief encircled his neck,
and the diminutive body was incased in
plain overcoat.
1t is proposed to put iron stairway'
on the outside of school-houses in Bal.
timore that are now supplied with but
single stairway within the building.
The city has appropriated $4,000 to
furnish additional means of egress from
such buildings.
The Pluto Indians believe in witch
craft. and occasionally execute, on the
graves of their supposed victims, the
unfortunate squaws upon whom has
fallen the suspicion of being in league
with the devil. Not long since young
squaw was adjudged to be witch and
sentenced to death, but on the way TO
the place of death effected her escape.
As no member Of the tribe have since
died under suspicious circumstances, it
is sbelieved that the evil spirit was fright
ened away, and the young woman has
been allowed to return TO her home,
pardoned.
John G. Whittier bought a copy of
Shakspeare's works with the first money
he ever earned.
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