The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-15
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The Lick house property, San Fran
CISCO is now valued at Sl,2J0,0O0,
Any woman found Oh tie streets on
Conyers, Ga. altcr9 clock Mt night
without an escort, will be arrested.
The Domestic Cabinet has decided to
abolish postage on all newspapers mail
ed to regular subscribers in Canada.
A landlord expects per cent, more
rent where the street is called an ave-
nue..
A bee flying into the open mouth Of
a Colorado man stung him in the throat.
The swelling choked him to death.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. of Boston, is
said to have learned Greek after she
was 80 years old
The United States Fish Commission
has shipped over 100000 young shad
and herring for the rivers OF Virginia,
South Carolina and Texas.
The production of domestic wool has
increased 400 per cent since the year
1850, the total production in the year
1880 having been 232. COO COO pounds.
The Syracuse HeraH asserts that
frogs, toads, and rats are among the in
gradients which help to make the wa
ter in that city paatable.
The new German test for petroleum
is equivalent to ll5 degrees burning
test. Refined petroleum for the Ger
man market has hitherto been tested at
ITO degrees burning point
The seaside sanitarium at Eldert's
grove, Rockaway, l.. l., has begun its
work of caring for poor sick women and
children, OF the metropolis, free Of
charge.
Rev. John Jasper, the distinguished
uphoider of the theory that ode sun do
move thinks that hi, scientific critics
would better remove the 'mokesn from
their own eyes before trying to elbow
the beans out Of his NJ
A Chesapeake fisherman, while fish
ing in the North East river with his gill
net, caught 7Si shad in one drift, and
but for timely assistance the boat would
have sunk by the great number of fish
taken.
A member Of the Sacramento (Cal.)
boardo education has succeeded in eff
fectug the passage If resolution to
pay $50 TO the young lady graduade
who appears at the high school COM
mencemenl exercises in the least eXpen-
siye dress,
1t is said that the city of Boston has
received proposition from private par
ties guaranteeing the expenses of a
noiseless pavement on Devonshire st, f,
if the city government will rcscind the
order to pave the street with granite
blocks.
An expert examination OF the New
ark On. J), aquoduct board of finances
shows that in forty years, though vast
sums were handled. not u cent went
wrong. In fact the acco1ts show that
the board somehow has 1922 more
than is called for.
II is now fashionable for ladies 20 DO
square-shouldered, OF course very few
ladies are square-shouldered now-a-
NuN ~ uul LllN Ull VI ult NllNHolllthNl lNiV
shows up to good advantage. All u
dressmakcr needs is something that can
walk; the rest may be artificial
The private eoachmcn Of New York
are about to organize for mutual pro-
lection, and TO devise way Of securing
wages when due. II appears that the
most stylish people are generally back
ward in settling little bills, They think
servants can wait,
Hobart college, Geneva, n Y, at the
beginning Of this year, had S36S,000 In
vested, and its expenses were more than
paid by It's receipts last year, BY $1,000.
An effort will be made to erect IN
alumni hall TO cost 100000, where the
library containing $4,000 volumes can
be placed
Strange freaks of vandalism were per-
formed in Harrisburg, Pa, n few nights
since by some miscellaneous scamps.
They consisted OF removing and carry
ing away the plates from all the water
and gas stops on tho payements along
several streets, chipping wooden door
steps with knives and piling loose bricks
IN The cutters.
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