The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-13
GLEANINGS.

Baltimore has population of about
34O,OO and a church membership OF
177,6S9
Eighty-eight Swiss converts contain
SAG male and 1920 female inmates. The
aggregate wealth is 25,000,000 francs,
The average height of the British
guards sent to Egypt is stated to be five
feet ten and half inches, as against
five feet ten inches in 1851,
For the first time in its history a
gloom has been cast over an interior
Texan town by the death of good
man."
A company Of capitalists are putting
good deal of money into the zinc mines
OF east Tennessee, and expect profitable
returns from their investment.
BY actual count of the Geneseo On.
W Republican, there are in that village
207 unmarried ladies OF marriageable
age, and but 55 unmarried men,
Wild turkeys are reported as more nu-
merous than usual this season of the
year throughout the west of Texas and
on the line of the railroads.
Twenty years ago there were fifteen
hundred boats on the Lehigh canal, and
now there are not five hundred.
Branded soda water is drink that's
sold in large quantities at the soda fount-
aims in the London drug stores.
TIL goonple of the United States drink
year No wonder that tm,. ""'' ny g"
many snake stories.
Large numbers of hogs have recently
been purchased in Ohio and Illinois to
be sent to Georgia to be fattened There
is something refreshingly novel in this.
Dr. Felix Oswald says that perma-
nent indoor work is slow suicide. He
adds that preaching and pettfogging
are the heaIthiest of all the learned pro-
fessions.
Fractions of penny have never been
paid by the Bank of England in distrib-
uting the dividends on the national
debt, and the accumulations of the UNI
paid fractions amount to Sl43,000
1t is proposed to open the Tennessee
Southern railroad to New Orleans with.
in year Three intermediate and part
" built roads are to be consolidated
with it,
The lumber trade of Apalachicola,
Fla, is becoming enormous, 1t is ex-
pected that five hundred vessels will
load there during the coming CONNER
cial year.
A fleet of forty vessels from Key West
are gathering sponges off Arclote and
Clear Water Harbor. On one day re-
Gently $1,000 worth of sponges were
bought at Key West.
John +. Raymond when asked by u
New York reporter why he looked so
sad, replied that he was sorrowing be-
cause he must leave his wife and part
with his moustache to strut the stage.
The Victoria Cross is a special deco
ration for personal valor under fire in
the British army, and though it has oc-
casionally been won by a lord, has
never yet fallen to Prince of the
blood.
During a dearth of news in n Western
office, says an irreverent Eastern eX-
change, the Office cat was jammed into
the job press and the editor immediate
" set up the following head lines
dreadful Accident-Ninc Lives Lost"
Capital is sought to initiate cassavo
culture on large scale in lower Flori-
da. The cassava is an edible root of the
tropics, and is very rich in glucose,
which is the object of its culture in thi:
instance.
1t has been found that sparrows vii
eat caterpillars. They never object ia
caterpillar meat, but they dislike theil
hairy covering, and now careful expert
ments have proved that sparrow vii
gobble up caterpillars just as fast as ;
man can skin them.
The Austrian military authorities have
decided to abandon the fortress OF Ko
niggratz, in Northern Bohemia, close t.
which the decisive battle of Sadowa was
fought. The site and the buildings
have been sold to the Commune fol
] $3.50, 900.