The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-30
GLEANINGs.

A clock made Of paper is the latest
acquisition to the field Of mechanical
ingenuity.
The Philadelphia medical colleges
graduated 709 students in 1881. The
number for 1880 was 73l.
The coffin used at Pleasant Ridge
(Ohio) funeral was painted red, white
and blue and draped with Union flags.
Girard College is to have complete
machine shop, with work bench, forge
and gas engine for each OF the ninety
pupils in practical mechanics.
The difference in cost between q mar
row and standard gauge railroad is 3
to per ceW in favor of the mario"
roads.
The only railway in Yucatan, Mexico,
charges 10 cents per ton per mile for
carrying freight, and is said to be earn
ing about 80 per cent per annum on its
entire cost.
The lowest average price for running
a locomotive last year was 1852 cents
per mile. This was on the Illinois Cen
trail. The cost of fuel is 40to so percent
of the expense.
The snuff box that used to travel across
the table from Charles Lamb TO his sis
ter and back again is now owned by j.
Hollingshead, the London theatrical
manager.
When the prince of Wales heard that
Sara Bernhardt had really and trulype
petrated matrimony, he is said TO have
exclaimed "By Jove! Sara getting
married! She must be madn
The Geological Metropolis society, of
London, England, has set apart $4,000
for the purchase Of dogs and cats
cemetery, and home for domestic ami
mails while their owners are out of
town.
King Humbert, Of Italy, refuses to
allow an appropriation to pay the debts
of Victor Emanuel, but takes upon him
self the honorable duty of paying his
fathers debts, and lives close
The dying patient of San Francisco
doctor has confessed that he was one of
four Communists who killed the French
Prince Imperial in Zululand. This lets
out the Zulus, if anybody wants to be-
levc the dying patient.
The London Builder attributes the
marvellous durability of mortar in Italy
to the fact that the lime remainsin pit
covered with water for two years before
it is used. Here the lime is used half
an hour after it is slaked.
Senator Hill cannot recover, but is
not troubled by regrets. ii cannot
complain" he said, recently. II have
lived tifty-eight years, and l suppose no
man ever lived ifty-eight happier years.
1t may be best that they be AL"
Baron dc Bourgoing, the Frenchman
who was close beside the late ear when
he was fired at by Berezowski in Paris,
and whose courage in placing himself
between the GEAR and a second shot from
the assassin was much admired, has
lately died.
Mrs. Arnold, the only sister Of Stone
wall Jackson, was stanch unionist,
and during the war showed helpful kind
ness to countless federal soldiers. She
opened her house ut Beverly w. Va.
where she still lives, to the sick and
wounded among them, and herself ten
DERBY nursod them.
1t has been ordered that one "service
stripe" for every five years continuous
service in the police force Of Boston
shall be worn on the outside half ofboth
sleeves of all coats worn by the sergcants
and patrolmen OF the department, This
order will take effect on the adoption Of
the summer uniform.
Charles After got cable dispatch
from Bonn, Prussia, saying that he had
fallen heir to $50, 900 in money and con-
siderable real estate. He was working
for 81 n day at Peru. Ind, and wasn't
able to reply by telegraph without bor-
rowing. After his friends had made up
the required sum, he hcsitated about in
vesting it, us he surmsed that the news
was a hoax. But he finally sent the d.
rections how to remit, aud has received
money enough from Bonn solicitor to
take him across the water, where he will
vat tho v,,orertv