The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-05
GLEAK~IGS.
We caught, cured and CONSUMED $780,
600, 900 worth Of fish in 1880.


land from North Greenland with 200
bottled-nosed whales and 500 seals on
board.
Boston paper has discovered that
oscar Wide can eat peaches out Of
paper bag, on the street, more graceful
ly than any other man in America.
Young men bicyclers around Boston
90 armed with torpedoes charged with
cayenne pepper for protection against
barking dogs,
The drum, which was abolished in the
French army by General Fare, has
been restored by General Bllot, the new
Minister of War,
Governor Bloxham, of Florida, re-
ports that one Of the most marked in
dustrlal features Of that State is the ten
dency toward small farms.
There are in Ohio l7,274 more boys
than girls within the ages prescribed for
attendance in the public schools, the to-
tai number Of boys being 3G2, 1875,
At the seashore, as usual, one wave
from woman's handkerchief will con-
tinue TO attract more attention than hum
dreds Of waves from the ocean.
1t is said the sunrise and sunset guns
fired periodically at the United States
military posts costs the government
slS,25O a year.
There is an apricot tree in Fresno
county, Cal, that measures sixty inches
around the trunk three feet from the
ground. 1t is estimated that there is
not less than ton Of fruit on the tree.
why in snch hurry?' said a man
to an acquaintance. Sir said the
man, Il have bought new bonnet for
my wife, and fear the fashion may
change before get it home
The saEdine disappeared from the
coasts Of France fully three years ago
and has not been seen there since. Yet
sardines are just as plenty in the mar.
ket as ever, which leads one 10 believe
that we do not have sardines at all.
An interesting phase of society life is
seen when young man goes to call on
a young lady and his setter dog follows
him and waits outside, each passer-by
stopping TO read the name on the collar.
This happened in Lowell.
The arm Of Bertholde's statue to LIB
erty," which has held its flameless torch
in Madison Square, New York, since
1876, is being removed for shipment to
Paris, where it will be put upon the
statue, which is nearly completed.
Farm laborers are said to be SO scarce
in Montana that $40 and $50 a month
is in vain offered for them. Farmers
are forced TO let their cows browse about
on the meadows with full udders, be-
cause they cannot get help enough to
milk them.
The common affection experienced in
the birth of the two-headed girl has
been counter-balanced by the birth at
Brownsville, Neb., Of one-headed girl
with four perfect legs and four perfect
arms. Thus does the whirligig Of time
make all things even.
A Laramie man who was divorced
from his wife explained the circum-
stances in these words; Il allus liked
Sal purity well, but she he'd a habit of
jabbin' her feet under me nights, an it
was just like sleepin' on a corn husk
bed"
One OF the younger Coquelin's stories
relates that during visit to Brighton
Sarah Bernhardt lay down on the beach,
dressed in white. She was brusquely
awakened from her reveries by a wash
er-woman, who picked her up, having
mistaken her for bath-towel laid out
TO dry.
At Oxford porter encounteriug on
his rounds two undergraduates who
were without their gowns. or out of
bounds, or out of hours, challenged one:
Your name and college?' They were
given, Turning to the other, And
pray, sir, what might your name be?n
Julius Caesar was the reply. What,
sir, do you mean to say your name is
julius Cesar" "Sir, YOU did not ask
me what it was, but what it might'be
An iron chess board, provided with
magnetic chesSmen, is Berlin novelty.
The small magnets concealed in the
figures cause them to adhere to the iron
board aud retain their places in spite Of
considerable shocks, such, for instance,
as are received on shipboard or on rail-
road trains.
Philadelphia kills her superhuous
dogs not by drowning them in a cage,
but by introducing carbonic-oXide gas
into an apartment which, after the dogs
have been driven into it. is made air
tight, One hundred can be dispatched
in this manner at once, and their death
is quick and painless
An eminent Boston physician says
that persons who use the telephones
constantly and are apt to apply the same
ear to the instrument every time, soon
er or later are sure to become deaf in
that ear from the effects. He recon-
mends that both ears be used alternate
ly, which will obviate the danger very
much.
An honest bourgeois is entertaining
his wife at dinner at restaurant, and
at the conclusion of the mealtreats him
self to a cigar, Zone frame" almost
screams the woman, looking at the box;
"well Alfred, do hope you are enjoy
ing yourself" "My dear" says the
husband maiestcally, nothing is too