The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-21

Ahc Plicc VI DOaru III llHrVaFu Me-
mortal hall, Cambridge, Mass, has
finally been set ut S42 per week, the
steward having consented to the vote Of
the directors by which he is compelled
70 keep the board at that price on pain
OF a forfeiture Of 800 month from his
salary for each month the board exceeds
that sum.
A learned Chinese physician, who has
Travelled much and studied in Europe,
expresses his surprise that medicine is
regarded as reputable profession. In
China II seems the better classes regard
1t as humbug and superstition. Posi-
ply Americans do not speak so frankly
on the subject that he knows what they
think
There is a pleasant story in HarperS
for April about the late Rev. Qr. Bel
lows. He was invited to see the opera
OF don Juan" with the assurance that,
while some supposed it TO be immoral,
1t was quite the reverse. ssThe Doctor
accepted, enjoyed an admirable per-
formance, and on retiring thanked his
host for the delight he had been afforded
to enjoy a sermon in five acts.
Ii is said that more success has been
achieved in converting the Chinese to
Christianity in Salt Lake than in any
city in the country. The cause lies, ac-
cording to the conductor Of the work, in
the use of stirring Methodist hymns.
Little is done in the meetings except to
sing. The music, so unlike his own, en-
raptures the Chinaman, and after that
the conversion is easy.
A Mexican correspondent says the
skill of the natives in making little fig
ures in clay is astonishing. They are by
nature artists and sculptors. They will
produce your own portrait for you in
pottery, or cloth or waX-a bust or
has relief with fidelity which is re-
markable. To ''see yourself as others
see you" you have but to say to one of
these Indians that you desire your
counterfeit prescntment," and he will
produce it in a style which, if not Hat
tering, will at least be faithful.
The credit Of discovering anew meth
cd Of raising the wind belongs to a young
man Of Louisville, who earned neat
amount Of pocket money by exchanging
his mothers pet mocking bird for one
whose death had carried desolation to
the heart Of a saloon-keeper, even as It's
melodious lays had brought him many
customer in the happy past. The good
lady was overwhelmed with grief, and
buried the dead songster with all the
honors, her scapegrace son being con
spicu0us mourner
The Postmaster General of England
| said in the House Of Commons recently,
that the female telegraphists and clerks
employed BY the Postoiiice had given
| general satisfaction. SO much was that
the case that the employment of women
had been gradually and steadily extend
ed. Any claims that they had to pro-
motion would be carefully considered,
and he could readily give an assurance
that he would lose no opportunity of ex-
tending the employment of women when
ever it could be done with advantage to
| the public service.
Twelve boxes of young monkeys ar
| rived at New York recently. They we're
seasick all the way over; howled and
coughed like babies Among them were
two ''holy monkeys" worshiped by GER
tain African tribes. They-the mon
keys, not the tribes are covered with
long, soft, white hair. The importer
said there weren't monkeys enough in
this country TO supply the demand.
They die Of consumption at the rate of
five hundred annually.
A writer in a European paper gives
the following enthusiastic description Of
Gen Skobeleif: when | met him in st.
Petersburg he was young and handsome
a., indeed, he is still, He had mas
culine and yet feminine beauty which
neither time, nor fierce struggles, nor
work, nor ambition has impaired They
have. indeed, refined it. Though he was
only an officer, with his spurs eth UNI
won, he attracted the respect Of men
and the love Of women There was
something luminous and dramatic on
his brow whtuh seemed TO mark him Us
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