The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-27
GLEANINGs,


a quantity of ostrich feathers at Pensa,
cola, Fla, was arrested and locked up.
An enterprising merchant Of Thomas
vile, Ga, offers from $2to So per pound
for alligator teeth.
Winter street is an airy avenue in
Boston, but New York has Blocker
street.
A young man who was presented with
eleven Queen Anne pen-wipers on
Christmas, by his lady friends, continues
to wipe his pen on his coat-tail
The state of Pennsylvania has recov-
cred $4,000 from ex-treasurers who
withheld money received for liquor
The blackleg, or mountain fever, has
made its appearance among the cattle
OF Chewaucan, Oregon. A few have
died.
In the year 1880 the total loss by fires
in Boston was $1,173,594, while up to
Dec. /, 1881, the losses footed up $780,
5S5.
New York state is first for the past
year in number of killings. 1t has had
l0l, Of which AZ were committed in the
city.
The report that Sarah Bernhardt was
drowned recently by falling down an
artesian well is denied Philadelphia
NeOS
President Arthurkeeps his dead wife's
portrait, which hangs in his room at the
white house, wreathed with flowers,
which are renewed every day.
Fox-hunting in Ireland receives SER
ious check from the farmers, who poi
son the dogs and use pitchforks against
the huntsmen.
Locust eggs in Cyprus sell at 500 o
ton, which is paid by the government,
in order to reduce the ravages of these
hungry insects.
Laboring men are in great demand at
Apalachcola, Fla. One man recently
offered rs cents an hour or $3.50 per
day and board for laborers without eff
feet.
Gen. George Macdonald, now over 81
years old, has the honor of being faith
err of the British army, He is colonel
of the Bedfordshire regiment, and enter
ed the army in September, 1905.
The Emperor William and the king of
SaXony went out hunting together
recently, the former killing thirty mine
deer and wild bears and the latter
thirty-tve.
Coal has been discovered twenty miles
northeast Of South Pueblo, Col, and
one mile from the Denver & New Or
leans railway A company has been
formed TO work the mine.
1t took 40 wagons daily for the
Adams Express company to deliver in
New York the goods intrusted to It's
care during the week before Christmas,
each team delivering all day long.
Military classics have now an addition
in the shape of the official history of the
Franco-German war, which has been
principally edited by Count Moltke, and
which has just been concluded.
The Empress Augusta of Germany is
far from being u beautiful old lady. She
is tall, painfully slender; n woman of
many angles, whose sharp features ex-
press a stern, hard and naughty nature.
A solar locomotive has been placed
on the French Northern railway. 1t is so
called owing toan electric light which is
placed in front and fed by the engine
itself and intended to illuminate the way
for a long distance in front.
The New York authorities are very
careful Of their police force. They never
put two officers on the same boat be-
cause it is said to be unhealthy for two
persons to sleep together, Philadelphia
NCWS.
Abel Smith, of North Andover, Mass,
is charged with giving his wife $500 for
signing deed of u farm, and then rob-
bling her OF the money on the highway
through the persuasive Influence of %
revolver.
The mormons object to the term
polygamy, and would like to have it
spoken of us celestial marriage" 1t
will take the saints a long time to make
the average married citizen believe
there is anything celestial about the
possession of q dozen wives and thirty
five or six children. --NcD Haven Regis
ter.
India possesses a coal-bearing areaor
$4,000 square niles and yet twenty
years ago she was unable to supply the
wants of a single line of railway Last
year, however, she furnished 800
tons, which was equivalent to one-half
the total demand of all the railways and
factories in the country.
Mr.. Bennett was thoughtful enough
on receiving the first news OF his lost
Arctic ship to send the glad tidings to
the commanders wife, living way out
in Iowa. II is curious, moreover, that
this dispatch crossed the ocean three
times within as many hours
Beecher says Of the great number OF
free sitting reserved in Plymouth church:
They give nm opportunity for hundreds
Of persons TO hear the gospel preached
allthe year round without paying 2 conf
tor " 0r getting one cents worth \ ~ "