The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-16
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS,

EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
"SEvEYTY-rwo winters and summers have
passed over the head of Tcnnyson, but the
poet in him has external youth"
WILLIAM WnEELwmGHT, Of South Am
erican celebrity, left $l38, 0OO-which is
now ready for use--to found a school in
Newburyport, Mass, to educate youngmen
in practical business knowledge
DIRECTOR SWIFT, of the observatory at
Rochester, n. Y, says that at the very hour
President Garfield was passing away a new
comet made its appearance, and could be
distinctly seen with the aid of good tele-
scope
"CoLvMBlAs hand shall write his name in light,
Her sons shall lisp it by the hearth's red fame
Ana generations hence shall measure height
By this great mans white altitude OF fame"
MISS WrNsLow, living ten miles from
Boston, now in her ninety second year, pos
sesses the original certificate Of member
ship, belonging 10 her father General John
Winsow, as one of the formers Of the So
cicty of the Cincinnati, dated May ;, 1888,
and signed by George Washington, Prcsi-
dent, and H. Knox, Secretary"
"RosE TERRY COOKIES house is in Win
stead, c. 1t is an old-fashioned country
house, with antique furniture rdci from
many garnet She not only writes poetry
about her garden, but gets up before sun
rise to work in it, Her roses are her pride,
She takes almost the entire care Of all the
flowers, and they repay her richly She is a
famous cook"
"YoUNG women have taken a remarkable
place in the late examinations Of the Lon
don University. The class for mathemati-
cal honors had but three members, one Of
them a girl, who took the palm; n girl also
came out ahead for English honors; and
two of the four for German honors were
girls, who again distanccd their male rivals
one Of three, again, placed at the head for
pharmaceutical chemistry, was girl; and
Miss PrideauX was first in the honors list
for anatomy coming from the London
School of Medicine for Women, and beat
ing both other rivals from Guys Hospital
"HERE is new anccdote of NJ Theirs.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Times once said to him ut is marvellous,
NJ lie President, how you deliver long i'm
provised speeches about which you have
not had time to reflect "You are not
paying me a compliment" he replied "it
is criminal in q statesman TO improyise
speeches on public affairs The speeches
you call improviscd why for fifty years
have been rising at five in the morning to
prepare them" The same thing is true Of
more "improvised' speeches than most peo-
pie imagine, The man who delivers bril-
liant "impromptu remarks" has generally
meditated over them several days in ad-
vance"
"Thc monument to be erected over the
grave of Bayard Taylor at Kennett Square,
Pa, by his widow, will be circular Greek
alter of granite, three feet six inches in
height, and two feet eight inches in diam
eter of the die, bearing on the top a lamp
with flame, and on the ground a bronze
bas.relief by Launt Thompson. The Int
ter will be of two thirds life size and be
partly surrounded by wreath cut in relief
on the stone, One.half of the wreath Will
be Of bay leaves, in homer of Mr.. TayIors
career as u poet, while the other will CON
sist of oak-leaves, in memory of his civic
honors as member of the diplomatic ser
vice. Underneath will be a quotation from
prince Deucaion." s.3.He