The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-10

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Cal, has hefer II months old, half.
blood Devonshire, that is perfectly form.
ed, has nice little horns, handsome
coat of rich brown hair, and is as merry
| MS a kitten, but is so small that it can
easily be picked up in ones arms. II
has not visibly increased in size fol
months past, and from present appear.
ances may never be any larger
A thrifty young farmer living neal
Crittcnden, Ky, is now 80 years old,
and was first married August 2S, 1872.
Since that time he has buried two wives
and is now living with the third, having
been widower twenty-one months He
is now the father Of eleven children
eight boys, and three girls. lie has two
pair of twin boys, one brace OF which
were born recently.
The crown jewels of France, concern
ing the disposition of which there has
been great hesitation, comprise famous
diamond called the Regens and the Jew
els called MaZarine, all Of which will be
preserved. The whole valas .. ;he crown
diamonds is $4,000, 900 francs (S4, 400,-
000). Those which will be sold are worth
about S1,7O0,0O0
Nobody having believed jF Sarah
Bernhardt's marriage until confirmatory
news of it was received from England,
the Figaro has risked detailed account,
purely imaginary, Of the wedding Al
Naples of NJ Gambetta and the Italian
countess Raviolni. whose millions had
enabled her to buy up the greater part
Of the Italian press. Some of the even
ing papers have been hoaXed by the
Figaro.
One of the largest alligators ever seen
on Flint river was killed few days ago
on Allen plantation. Upon examination
after being killed it was found that the
alligator had swallowed whole, with the
exception of its feet and legs, small
dog which had been missing for three
days. There were also found in the en-
trails OF the alligator large rock, light
wood knot and several sticks.
A writer in q German paper states
that it is a custom in offices in that coun-
try to have q sliced potato on the desk
in commercial houses. He does not
state whether the esculent should be raw
or not, but the probability is that it is
boiled. The use of the potatoe is to clean
steel pens, und generally act as pen
wiper 1t removes all ink crust and
gives % peculiarly smooth flow to the
ink. lie also states that tho Hamburg
clerks pass new pens two or three times
through gas fame, and then the ink
will ilow freely.
Mr., John Jones, the Picadilly tailor
who recently died and bequeathed to the
South Kcnsington Museum n choice col
lection of art objects, gave also, it APP
pears, the sum Of Sl,0O0,O00 20 another
public institution Of exceptional worth
aud desert At Ventnar, on the Isle of
Wight, there was founded, some years
ago, a hospital for consumptives, on
the cottage system, and tothis Mr.. Jones
has left his $l,0OO,000. The hospital
is one Of the youngest in the country,
and one of the best,
James Hilton, of Wells, Me, is nine
ty-two years old, and is n wonderfully
preserved man. He reads fine newspa-
per print, and writes his name in clear,
plain hand without the aid of glasses.
Can take IN eight-milc walk with ease;
can get IN and out Of a carriage as nim-
bly, as man OF forty; has been user
of tobacco about seventy-lye years, and
when demonstrated with for its use, saws
he has used it for number of years,
and it has not killed him yet He can
hear readily and has good memory.
Mr. Longfcllow in September, 1880,
told James Grant Wilson that of all his
poetical writings he preferred Evan
geline, and in letter addressed TO
Gen. Wilson in 1889 the poet writes;
"Yo,, are wrong in supposing 'Evange.
line Ia have been suggested by the 'Neu.
trial French Of Mrs. Williams. The
,.an Was told 10 me-,hai is, the bare
outline So. il by = friend Of Hawthorne,
aa9 h1.i been urgin. him to write a,ale
'1 subject said 10 Hawthorne.
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