The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-21

~, I'd inc Dellel llluJ lHuuSty anu USE
fulncss in trades are more honorable
than smartncss and fine clothes in COM
mercial lines of business, and the result
is larger proportion OF persons who
| live from hand to mouth than in the
earlier days of the republic.
Lucius Hubbard, of Cottage, Cattar-
angus county, N. H., some time ago
was married for second time. His
daughter, who is 80 years of age, was
opposed to the marriage, and finally
| told her father that either his wife must
leave the house or she would. The
gentleman concluded he could live bet
J ter without his wife than daughter, and
so parted from her. Both were wealthy
and respected.
From crevice in the stone front of
the state library building in Albany n
vigorous young elm, now five feet in
height, has pushed its way into the
world, A large elm, doubtless its moth
er, stands almost opposite the entrance
to the library, and the offspring is as
green and hardy rs the parent. Nature
is evidently determined that such an
ambitious sprout shall not perish, but
in what manner she supplies it with
sustenance it is impossible to say. The
building is soon to be demolished, and
then perhaps the mystery will be solv-
ed.
A great sapphire mine was recently
discovered in the lIimalayan region by
Il landslip which carried away the side
of mountain and exposed the long
hidden treasure. No sooner did the
news reach Serinugger than the nahara-
iah sent n strong sepoy guard to the
spot. Previously, however, some epter-
prising prospectors had done u little
rough work, and their prizes have duly
reached India. The stones are pro-
nounced to be genuine sapphires, but of
poor quality. 1t isconsidered probable,
however, that better ones will be found
when the mine comes to be systematical-
" worked
Land in the Warren, Pa, oil-feld is
sold evidently on the basis of ,0OO-bar-
rel wells. The McCalmont Oh company
las been accommodating q few with
lands from their 70-acre purchase ON 6l9
mt 81 600 for location of three and a
fraction acres and half the oil. Mr..
Murphy is selling some lands near his
well at -, 900 per acre aud one-quarter
royalty Col. N. Payne and his party
are leasing their lot636 in six-acrc pieces
at 800 to 1000 per acre, according to
location, and one-quarter royalty
Lands II ltl'e of the belt can be had at
from 5000 to $500 per acre and aquartcr
royalty.
a remnant of the once powerful Pc
quot race still maintains tribal organ
ilation in Connecticut. Schagutcoke,
the ancient seat of this people, is situat-
ed in the town Of Kent, under the
Schaghticoke mountain, in the middle
OF the valley of Housatonic. Schaghti-
coke now consists of six, little brown,
clapboarded, one-Story houses, tenanted
ny some seventeen persons, and the
whole tribe numbers about fifty. The
reservation of three hundred acres COM
prlses Schaghticolie mountain, valuable
only for timber. Winnie, the aged queen
of the tribe, is nearly white, earns her
hNlIlP ny -IliklHp, anu Is IL mem
Der OF the nearest Congregational
| church.
Mr.. Guilliot accuses the sewing ma
| chine of causing two cases of loCOmotOr
ataNia, which he considers brought on
by constant use of it. LocomotOr ataXia
Is disease of the nervous system in
which the patient is unable to manage
his muscular movements and is in a con
ditiOn somewhat similar to ntoXication.
Hereafter if man has the symptoms of
II too free indulgence in sour mash, all
be need do is to assert chat he runs
sewing machine.
A young man seated beside an elderly
passenger on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton train the other day made
considerable sport in quiet way of the
hat of a lady near them. At last his
elderly companion replied; That lady
is my wife, sir; and / told her that every
fool who saw the hat would make fun of
it; but she wouldn't believe me, and in
sisted on wearing it, The young man
slommered an apology and retreated to
the smoking ear.