The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-23
NEWS BREVITIES.

The girls of the high school at Spring
field. Mass, have been told that they
will be suspended If they exchange
significant glances" with the boys
1t was despicable in Rupe to shoot
Fuller, so thought the people of Tom
linson, Ark, for Fuller was at the mo-
ment proffering his hand in token OF
his desire to be friendly. A mob muir
dered the murderer.
The wife OF William Bancroft, OF
Marysville, Ohio, obtained a divorce
from him, on the ground of drunken
ness and cruelty, and on the following
day, won over by hispromise of REFORM
she married him.
Pastor Marsden said to his Methodist
congregation, at Yarker, Ontario, that
if certain members persisted in attend
ing dancing parties they must withdraw
from the church. Six persons instantly
stood up and asked for dismissal.
Evangelist Moody emphatically de-
MES that he ever said, as has been re-
ported, that his grandmother having
died without hope in Christ, he knew
she was in hell. The story, he asserts,
is twenty years old and has been at
tributed to half dozen ministers.
A gentleman not unknown to literary
circles was present at one OF the pope
receptions. The holy father approached
him and said You are an American?
Are you Catholic or Protestant
holy father" replied our friend, | am
neither Catholic nor Protestant. |
am journalist"
Nothing MAIDS a man more than to
come down to breakfast and have his
wife tell him he has been talking
in his sleep, and refuse to give him
away what he said Not that his con-
science troubles him; oh, no! He is only
after psychological facts.-Lore3 GU
zen.
Gull island, at the end of Long Island
Sound, owned by Capt Brooks, who
keeps the lighthouse, is great breed
ing place for gulls and source of
profit to its owner, who sells the gullS'
eggs. They have no fshy taste, but,
on the contrary are superior to hens
eggs, selling for fifty cents a dozen
when the latter are worth only twenty
five
Clarence ii. Thayer, the choir master
at st. Peters Episcopal church, Cam
bridge, Mass, refused TO conform to the
ritualistic manner in which the Rev.
Edward M. CASHIER conducted the SER
vices, and was therefore compelled to
resign. The rector openly accused him
of lying and stealing, and he brought
suit for $20,000 but recovered only S23.
Berlin has 3,239 sets of apartments
without fireplace or chimney, and
half the population lives in dwellings
with only one fireplace. Privy Coun-
cillor Starke draws shocking pictures
of the immortality that exists in the city.
Drunkenness is attaining alarming pro-
portions. Over 10000 youthful Grim
inals are turned annually into the
streets out of prison, and more than
5000 are hopeless vagabonds.
A return of onenscs other than agrari-
an in Ireland in 1880, presented to the
House of Commons, shows that the to-
tai number of such ollcnses was 3,0Si.
OF these nineteen were murder and
forty-four manslaughter. The total
number of cases in all Ireland in which
offenders were convicted was 69i; the
number of cases in which offenders
were made amenable but not convicted,
APO; the number of offenders awaiting
trial is l55; the number of cases in
which offenders were neither convicted
nor made amenable, l,Sl5
The Western device of a creased pole
in fire engine houses, on which the fire
men slide down, instead Of using the
stairways, is ridiculcd by officials OF the
New York department. Cincinnati fire
men respond with a defense of the pole
and declare that the celebrity claimed by
the New Workers three seconds be-
tween the first tap of the alarm and
readiness to starts an impossibility.
They gave an exhibition recently, and
the best achievement was twelve sec
onds, the men being in their rooms
when the gong sounded.