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

American MaSons will not fratcrnl2e
with those of Chinese origin.
The policemen's clubs in New York
are almost rs fatal as the grip ears in
Chicago.
The Rev. Congressman A. Hyatt
Smith is opposed 10 the delivery of let
ters by carriers on Sunday.
The Cincinnati Commercial is trying
to get up boom for eel pie by recon-
mending it for disappointed politicians
Memberships in the New York Pro-
duce Exchange sell for S2,525. 1t costs
good deal more to get out the con-
Germ.
The California state prison jute fac
tory is now turning out $500 yards of
burlap daily, There are four hundred
convjcts employed in It's manufacture.
A schoolmaster of Wayne county,
Pennsylvania, in attempting to chastise
girl, one of his pupils, was set upon
! by the boys of the school, who literally
stripped him.
benjamin Groves, who bought the
wonderful calf at Fredericksburg. Va,
recently for S35, now values it at So
600, Its value consists in its being eye
less and tailIess.
There is some talk of placing on Bos-
ton common a statue Of John Morrill,,
of Maine, who for ffty-eight years has
devoted his entire time to cooking pork
and beans for the lumbprmcn of that
state.
The intention of the authorities to il
Illuminate Bellevue avenue, at Newport,
X. l., the fashionable drive, with the
electric light, is meeting with OPPOSE
ton from millionaires and other cot
tagers whose property fronts on the av-
enue.
A calf fell over prccipicc at Bakers
Falls, Washington county, n Y, and
lodged on a shelving rock inaccessible
from below. II was fed by lowering
Il pail until the next day, when n man
descended by rope and it was hoistcd
up
DR.. Miguel Faragas ascrbes the aro-
ma of roasted coffee to a peculiar SUBJ
stance called Cafcone, which is devel-
oped during the process of roasting.
lis action on the heart is Supposed to that
OF caffeine, rs IT increases the force and
frequency of its pulsatons,
Mackerel Gamers are. determined to
do very extensive business this sea-
son, if the catch will allow. Already
al L., A.. l.,
been canned, chiefly by one firm, al
though the fish have been obtained at
high prices
This season 200 acres of the Stewart
farm, at Garden City, l.. l., are planted
in rye, 25O acres are in oats, 200 acres
are in potatoes, and 800 acres in corn.
About 1000 acres are seeded in grass,
upon portion of which 800 sheep are
pastured, In addition to the above,
there is large vegetable garden.
A young lady, while passing up Chap
el street, New Haven, Conn, the 9TH
er afternoon, was startled by the out
cry: "Your hat is all on fire" The
young lady quickly removed the hat
and found hole had been burned in it
about twice the size of silver dollar. .--.
II is supposed that u match dropped
from an upper window caused the mis-
chief.
There are over live~hundred summer
hotels and boarding.houses in Greene
county, New York, by actual count ac-
commodating from ten to one thousand
guests each, at from 50 TO S25 n week.
The aggregate capacity OF these hotels
and boarding houses is between 10000
and $4,000 persons and at the height
of the season they are pretty much all
filled.
+. ii. Holden, while raking over the
shell heaps at Friendship, Me-, recently
came upon n skeleton, which is I'M
doubtedly that Of an Indian, who ac-
cording to all appearances, was buried
there some five hundred or one thou
sand years ago, the heaps are known
to be five hundred years old The bones
were in good condition when found. and
were taken up 10 Bowdoin college,
where they are now being thoroughly
cleaned preparatory to being set up in