The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-18
GLEANINGs.

A $780, statue to John c. Calhoun
will soon be erected in Charleston, S, c..
Candy pulls are known in Boston as
"glucose tensions"
There are over 1000 insane people in
Texas, and only $50 in the asylum.
A pompano fish was exhibited at Sell
ma, Ala, few days ago which weigh
cd six pounds and half
The Rainbow Fire company, Of Read
ting, Pa, has celebrated the l09th ami
versary Of its organization.
Mississippi has changed her lien law.
Liens on personal property for rent or
supplies are repealed.
A man in Knox county, Maine, who
wanted to vote against projected high
echool, wrote his ballot know"
A committee of council estimates for
needed sewerage in Pittsburgh, Pa. will
cost from 5000, 900 TO $1,000, 900.
The St. Louis grand jury recommends
that saloons be limited TO one in each
block.
Gov. Crittenden, OF Missouri, forcibly
says that parsimony toward education is
hberality toward crime
Maple sugar is made by tapping ma.
pie trees with gimlet and grocery store
hogsheads with an anger.
1t takes 100000 elephants yearly TO
supply the ivory Of the world. When
the elephants are gone the COWS will
have to lock up their horns to keep 'em.
The Unseen Hand" is the title of o
new book. Probably the other man
didn't have anything better than a pair
of trays, and didn't dare TO call
Some one who has been there remarks
that young author lives in an attic be-
cause one is rarely able to live on his
FIRST story.
A boy baby, recently born in Lancas-
ter county, South Carolina, has been
christened John Franklin Thomas Ed
man Andrew Calvin Wesley.
There are now in the three southern
provinces Of Ireland as many troops as
Lord Ragland had when he landed in
the Crimea TO fight the Russians.
A drive-well sunk at Vancouver,
Washington territory, was found TO
bring up grain of coarse gold, so cents
worth being got in four barrels of water.
George Biggerstaff, Of Glasgow, Ky,
having lost an eye in an election day
row in November, 1880, sued his assail-
ant for s20,0OO and a jury has just
given him 81 800.
Counsel for prisoner You see
the prisoner at the bar knock down the
deceased" Pat-"No, yir honour; he
was alive when see him knocked
down"
John Miller bought planing-mill at
Dunkirk. N. T., u month ago. lie lost
finger the first week, two fingers the
second, and whole hand the third.
The mill is now for sale,
Russia has 24,746 mobiles with an av.
erage Of $4,000 per annum; l23,0OC
merchants with yearly income Of ST..
900 each, and l6,25i.000 peasants with
an annual average Of $3.50.
The Boston and Albany railroad has
begun work on four newly designed post
al cars for the United States mail ser
vice They will be Of the largest posi-
bic dimensions.
"a Canada has i07. 1922 Indians, for who's,
benefit a sum Of SS 0s9, 1888 has been SO
apart There are about 1900 lndiai
children on the school rolls of the do
minion.
The young women Of the sophomor,
class OF the Wisconsin State universit,
have determined 30 wear mortar. boarC
hats, which would be Il great improve
ment upon the cart wheel"
ID. /. X. Rine, well-known in Canad,
as somewhat eccentric, but at on,
time popular temperance lecturer, il
now raving maniac in the dungeon o
ON insane asylum at Wayne, Mich.
A foolish man in Detroit removed hi
front gate so his daughter and ten beau
could not swing on IL every night, whore
upon twelve COWS came into his yard
broke down all his trees and ate up hi
\ garden and kicked twenty-Gve-dolla
Wat'h-dog In the car SO that he die
" mart day.
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