The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-22
GLEANINGs.

There are troubles enough in life with
out adding of your own manufacturing.
A Mexican dictionary Of agriculture
and cattle-raising is now being publish
ed.
A goldfish ten and half inches long
was recently taken from cistern in
Macon, Ga.
A iinely-set gold ring in an excellent
state Of preservation has been unearth-
ed on Antietam battlefield.
A mountain 300 feet high, composed
chiefly of magnetic iron, has been dis
covered near Cullacan, state of Sinaloa,
BY recent decision, MERGED county,
California, loses about $50, 900 in swamp
land money, loaned to private parties.
The electric light fades the colors of
clothes as well as paintings, the same
as sunlight, though not so quickly.
William Peak, father of the once ia
nous family of bell-rngers, has been
sent to jail at Goshen, n. Y, as a va
grant.
Miss Hannah Atwood, aged SO years,
of Lansingburgh, n Y, has bought
sewing-machine and intends to use it
without aid.
Lincoln county, West Virginia, has
citizen lO6 years of age, who lost his
dog recently and walked twenty miles
in search of it.
Every distillery in Arkansas has been
compelled to shut down for want of
grain, and an exchange says that this
will tend to the establishment of many
fruit distilleries this year.
A manufacturer in Macon, Ga, has
procured from the City Councila special
permit to shoot snakes on his proper
ty in the rear of his factory, where they
do abound near his tish-pond.
lndanoa has the meanest woman in
Iowa. A few nights since, when her
daughters best beau was in the parlor
the old lady came in with setting of
eggs and asked him to hatch them for
her, iRdianOIa 7ribuue.
The contrast for the casting of the
bronze statue of General Robert L. Lee
for the city of New Orleans has been
closed, and the work will be completed
in about six months. The monument
will be dedicated on next New Years
Day.
Niagara Falls fishermen have a novel
way of catching bass. A boat is roWed
along close to the shore, and the water
between the shore and the boat being
struck with,an oar, the fish leap into
the boat. Large quantities are caught
in this way.
The following is to be the inscription
on the statue of Sir Rowland Hill, which
is to be erected mt the royal exchange,
London; "Rowland Hill He founded
uniform penny postage in 1910" Mr..
Ford, the sculptor, says that the statue
will be ready by the middle of July.
The weekly paper issued by the luna
tics on Blackwelrs Island has libel
suit on hand. Probably the crazy edi-
tors had the insane idea that they were
privileged to tell the truth about the
management of the institution of which
they are inmates.
Mutton is made to look plumper and
fatter in New York by being "blown"-
that Is, the slaughtercr makes an incison
through the skin of each quarter when
warm, and initiates the cellular tissue
with air from his own lungs. Such NUT
ton rapidly decomposes.
An Englishman who formerly prac-
ticed law in England is making more
money out Of his breath in Australia
than he ever made at the bar. He has
turned physician, and is said to be cur
ing "thc lame, the blind and the halt
by simply breathing on the part of the
body that is'alilictcd when IL is Sim
mediately made whole"
The financial barometer, as interpret
ed In New York, reads thus; II wcdon't
have large crop this year we shall 500
hard times next winter. II VIC produce
q heavy surplus and II can be sold in
foreign ports, there will DO good times
next winter. II the surplus cannot DO
disposed Of abroad, living will DO cheap
sr. but . pinch " inevitable.