The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-28

Mysterious music III tne ait III
O'Clock one morning at Madison, Ga,
started the awakened residents and led
them to believe that Gabriel was taking
his resurrection revcille The sound
was beautiful and plaintive, resembled
the sighngs Of an eolian harp and con-
tinued for two hours 1t is still mys-
terry.
The largest chestnut tree in Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania stands within
a few hundred yards of the Mannheim
borough line on the public road leading
to Sporting hill Its circumference is
twenty-three feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured forty-iiye years ago, when its cir
conference was twenty-one feet four in
cheS.
A curious thing about corn is the ORR
Gin of the red and speckled ears, when
nothing but white kernels are planted
Another peculiarly sthe mathematical
regularity of even numbers of rows Of
kernels upon cob, An odd number of
rows is thing more rare than the four
leated clover What objection has ma
ture to old numbers2
A New Orleans man has invented a
device for opening iron shutters from
the outside in case of fire, Briefly, it is
an iron handle which, being pulled, OK
plode5 cartridge on the inside of the
shutter and at the same time draws the
bolt. The cartridge is designed to pre-
vent its being used by burglars,
The Cleveland City Council appoint
ed committee to induce the trustees of
the Garfield monument fund to consent
to the erection of the monument in the
centre of the city rather than in Lake
View Cemetery, and one of the trustees
has said that he sees no way by which
the $40 600 subscribed can be used for
the erection of the memorial at any
point other than Lake View.
A singular fact has been ascertained
by mutual insurance company That in
Ohio which is the largest consumer of
lager beer and malt liquors, the deaths
are annually over sixteen to 1000 in
habitants, while in Ontario, where
whisky is almost the sole liquor used,
there are six, and Kentucky, Tennessee,
Illinois, and Indiana, where more whisky
than beer is used, they are eleven. This
does not prove the claimth beer is the
healthiest beverage
The thousands of doves in Milan
which have for centuries past made
their nests in the roof of the great ca
thcdra are finally making sad havoc
with the artistic mounlings Of this beau
tilul traccry of architecture. Even the
interior is suffering, aud Italian artists
are vying with each other for the finest
decorative inspiration to remodel the
ceiling.
The model Of u "Sun" engine was
recently exhibited by Mr. Gamble to the
Philosophical Society Of Cape Town
The apparatus consists essentially Of q
silyer-piatcd parabolic reflector, adjust
able by simple mechanism and which
concentrates the suns rays on miuia-
ture boilor raising steam in very
short time The engine is a new idea,
the value OF which, however cannot
yet be estimated,
A new use has been discovered for
potatoes. They can be converted into
Il substance resembling cellulod by
peeling them and after soaking in wa
ter impregnatod with eight parts Of
sulphuric acid, drying and pressing be-
tween sheets Of blotting paper In
France pipes are madeof this substance,
scarcely di,tingui,hablc from mccr-
schaum, BY subiccting the mass to
great pressure billiard balls can he
made of it rlyallpg ivory in hardness.
There is ON exhibition at Concord. \.
H..a nccde.book, the materials Of
which it is made being from dresses
worn 10y the Countess OF Rumlord while
with her father 90 the court OF Bavaria
in 1925 II is Of yellow satin which
trimmed a white Grape dress worn 10y
the countess at ball which she gave
at the bath, Of 1iyoIi, in Paris in 1852,
and drab silk from dress worn by the
mother Of DR., Ezra Garter, in 1902, The
yellow gimp was from - hat-band worn
10y the countess iootmsl The needle
book was sewcd aud furnished with
needles purchased by Count Rumford
IN 1913, and the covers were made from
an arithmetic published in 1902.
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