The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-27

Two convicts In the Californis State
Prison took delight in torturing timid
fellow, whose cell was between their
own. by pretending at night that they
saw ghosts. They talked to each other
about II, describing the most awful sights
and counterfeiting excessive fright A
week or two of this treatment drove the
victim crazy, aad he imagined that he
was haunted by the creatures which they
ronjured up
For sore shoulders on ahorse the Conn-
.ry Gentleman recommends: ''Bathe
frequently with the following: Pow
dcred alum, borax and nitrate of potash,
Of each three ounces; tincture OF elixir
pro, four ounces; water (hot three
pints; mix, II they get sore get pack
| age Of Moore Brothers gall powder, put
il into pint of alcohol and put on the
raw sores three times day and they
will heal while he is at work. Alternate
the wash above with salt water for bath
ing"
A man named John Trimm disappear
ed from his home at Augusta, Me-, five
years ago. The supposed body of the
missing man was found floating in Port
land Harbor and deceptly inferred by
his brother A few days ago the real
John Timm appeared before his aston
ished relatives and explained that he
had been living in the West for five
years He had read an account OF his
death, but really thought it of such little
consequence that he did not think it
necessary to apprise his friends of their
mistake.
While some workmen were engaged
in eXcavating on the Denver and New
Orleans Railroad, between Cherry and
Running Greeks, their progress was in
terrupted by the discovery Of buried
forest The trees are all petrifed and
agateized, Of various sizes, aud are bu-
ried at depths OF from ten to twenty feet.
as deep as the men found it necessary to
go, These trees were met in half dozen
localities, are very perfect and if proper
machinery was used could be unearthed
nearly or quite whole,
General Newton, who is in charge of
the New York improvement at He'll
Gate, is preparing for another explosion
compared with which that Of the sum
mer of 1876 viii be insignificant, Then
the area of rock blown up was about
three acres; at the next affair of the
kind about eleven acres of rock will be
treated TO dynamite Already 81, GIG, 900
have been spent in this work, and twill
take nearly four years more TO make a
safe passage for vessels of deep draught
between New York City and Long Island
Sound.
When the Emperor William was in
Paris in 1867 he visited the Sale DIES
Marechaux at the Tuileries with Marshal
Canrobert for cicerone. He asked the
Marshal to tell him the name of each
warrior as he stood before his efligy
"And who is thispn asked the Prussian
King, as be approached Davoust's bust.
"Davoust,' was the answer. And
what was his titleP" "He was Prince of
Eckmuhl," was the Marshal sreply A
moments silence, and then, suddenly,
and with firm voice, the King astound-
ed his iuterlocutor with tho speech: "He
was also called the Due d'Auerstadt;
Prussia knows this"-a reference to Da-
voust'S decisive victory. And only three
years later the position was reversed,
and Jena and Auorstadt had been blot.
ted out ut Metz and Sedan.
Some thirty years ago Mr.. Green, an
amiable Englishman, seeing a rather
shabby old man looking for seat in
church, opened his pew door, beckoned
to him, and placed him in comfortable
corner, with prayer and hymn books.
The old gentleman. who carefully noted
the name in these latter, expressed his
thanks warmly at the close of the SER
vices, Time had effaced the incident
from Mr.. Green's recollection, when he
one day received an intimation that by
the death Of gentleman named WIKI.
inson he had become entitled to S35, 900
q year. Mr. Wilkinson was solitary
old man. without relatives Green act
prepossessed him in his favor; he in
| Quired about him, and found that he
bore the highest character There was
marvelously courteous hospitality in
the matter Of pews for some time after
that beguest, but nobody else has yet
got $4,000 a year for seat.