The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-18
GLEAyINGs.

The marriage insurance craze has now
injected southerners.
Gustaye Dore is sketchng and paint
ing scenes among the Alps.
There are 5000 Cinnamon engaged
in making boots and shoes in this coun-
try.
Railroad property inGeorgia increased
two and a quarter million dollars in
value last year.
The abbey Of st. Vincent, near Lat
robe, Pa, Is the oldest monastery in
America, having been established in
1890.
Oscar Wilde has unusual qualities at
"poteen." Even in Colorado no one
could be found who could drink him
under the table
A Boston millionaire recently said
Thank God, although ] have been
very poor. never was so poor that |
was obliged TO live out Of town"
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston says that il
he had stad in congress he would have
become beggar. He is an insurance
man now, and presumably makes more
than $1,000
Some of the richest men in Boston are
said TO be the ones who could close fast
houses and gambling-dens if they would
withdraw the capital they have invested
in them.
The sheriff of Chehals Co., Washing
g., la nll hn
Northern Pacific lands within his juris-
diction, on account of nonpayment OF
taxes in 1881
One of south Georgia's most popular
society ladies, a resident of Lowndes
county, has cleared this season on an
acre and half truck farm over $3.50.
She superintendent its cultivation in per-
son,
Gold is coming in quite rapidly from
the mines in the foothills near Oroyille,
Cal The large amount of snow in the
mountains has afforded the miners an
abundance ofwater to work their claims
with
Professor Schiff, the vivisecior of
Florence, has used up more than a.
600 dogs in his experiments, and in or
der to silence their complaints always
begins work by cutting their vocal
chords
Capt. Constantenus, the tatooed Greek
is soon to be admitted into the masonic
order. He will become voter next
year. and means TO take up his resi-
dence in New York. having amassed
fortune.
The queen of Italy has nice sense of
the picturesque, and in summer never
wears bonnet if she can help it, She
takes her afternoon drives with her beau
tful head covered only by the mantilla
or the black lace veil.
A lady lecturer in Chicago asserts
that II chicken should be boiled one
hour for every year OF its life, The or
binary restaurant fowl would by this
rule simmer in the pot about twenty-four
hours
Within less than four months of 1882,
1891 miles of new railroad have been
built. Only in one year 1856, was this
mileage exceeded during the whole II
months before 1869 So many miles
were not built during the whole of any
one year from 1873 to 1873, 1t is 605
miles more than were constructed dur
ing the same period of 1881.
The Oldest decd in America is said to
be in the possession of Maj, Leland, of
New York city It was written eighteen
years after the discovery of the new
world by Columbus. This document is
a conveyance of Fishers island, near the
mouth Of the sound, from certain Indian
chiefs to the celebrated navigator, John
Cabot, whose signature 1t bears.
While DR., Glenn, the great California
farmer, will not clear any money in his
farming operations. still he will realize
enough to pay all his expenses for the
current year. He expects to realize at
least 100000 bushels of wheat from this
years crop. This will give him 3O,O0O,-
600 pounds, which, If sold at /! cents
per pound, will amount to $3.50, 600 for
the entire crop. lie estimates his ex-
penses for the crop this year at some
thing near $9S0,000.