The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-17

the concession of being allowed to as
sumo the title OF royal highness could
not overcome, The present marriage
of the prince is entirely one of conven-
fence The bride is described as being
German all over" large-footed, flat
nosed, close-6sted and learned But
she is passionately fond of music, and
perhaps lateron may be brought to love
'boedry and banding"
mo" said Miss Eastwood, 81 don't
care about seeing Patience again, I've
seen 1t six times already. But that hor-
rid Kate Carleton, whom detest, hasn't
seen it once, and when found out that
she was going, l learned what seat she
had bought, and bought the one just
in front of it, and | shall wear the big
gest hat I've got and you can be sure
she won't see much of the play"
Woman's hate cannot be thwarted.
A curious wager has been won by the
Vicomte de Civry He made q bet with
the Marquis de Peiilitz that he would
swim his mare, Gphelie, one of Gladi-
ateurs progeny, across the Seine. The
mare, taking kindly to the water, started
with her rider from the Bots de Bou-
logne side and got safely over to the
Suresnes bank, about two hundred yards
lower down, having been carried that
distance by the current, which is toll
erably strong at this point of the river.
Catharine Doyle, of Hoboken, is o
heartless young woman. She was q
school-teacher, and ran away with q
policeman. OF course he deserted her,
and her mother, condoning her fault re-
ceived her with open arms. The girl
protested sincere repentance, but while
her mother was asleep she gathered to-
gether all the portable property she
could find, including the old lady's en-
tire wardrobe, and disappeared.
Brains do not always depend on the
size of hats, as witness the following
list; Lord Chelmsford, 81 full; Dean
Stanley, 81; Lord Beaconsfeld, z; the
Prince of Wales, 7 full; Charles Dick
ems, "a; Lord Shelbourne, "a; John
Bright, "a; Earl Russell, %; Lord Ma
cauley, 7s Mr.. Gladstone, u; Louis
Philippe, ~; the Archbishop Of York,
full.
This is the style of poetry the papers
publish away out in Washington Ter
ritory. We quote from the Walla-Walla
Union:
Mary had a vaccine scab
Upon her snow white arm,
She warned her beau to this effect
For fear he'd do II harm.
But when they came to part that night,
She gave mighty grab
And whispered, thug me awful tight,
And never mind the scab,'
A matter-of-fact young man from
New York during a recent visit in Bos-
ton received an invitation from lady
an old acquaintance-who has just BIOS
somed out into typical specimen of the
Boston aesthetic, requesting his presence
at her house on certain evening ito
meet two minds" 1t happened that he
had just accepted an invitation to dine
elsewhere on the same evening, and so
he replied, expressing his regrets that
he could not avail himself of the oppor-
tunity "to meet two minds owing to a
previous engagement ito meet four
stomachs.n
The old Duke of Wellington carried
his punctiliousness into every transac-
ton. He was very DESTROYS Of purchas-
ing farm adjacent to his estate Of
Strathfeldsaye, and gave his agent or
ders to negotiate. A few days later he
was congratulated by friend upon
having obtained bargain, as the owner
of the farm was in difficulties. ''What
sort of a bargainp" askedthe Iron Duke.
"Well, the property was valued at
&l1,0O0, but the man was glad to take
fS,00Q." as that sog' asked Yelling
ton, turning to his agent. Receiving
an affirmative reply, he said quickly:
"Then take the extra $4,000 to the
last owner, and never speak to me of
cheap land again.
The gigantic new bell for st, Paul's,
London, weighing 174 tons, was recent
ly cast at Loughborough, About 81 tons
of metal were prepared, and when the
three furnaces had been opened, the
streams of molten metal poured out for
Al minutes before the huge casting was
filled. The new bell will be the largest
in Great Britain, if not in Europe. TO
give an idea of its size the following
comparisons are made; The first big
Benz at Westminster weighed Is tons
cwt,, and the second two tons less;
Great Peter'' at York weighs l0f tons;
Great Tom" at Lincoln, 81; the former
big bell at st. Pau's weighed 3 tons Is
cwt. that at Olmutz weighs II tons Is
cwt.; that at Vienna II tons Ia cwt;
that at Erfurt, 10 tons Is cwt; that at
Sens, Is tons; that at Paris, II tons.