The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-01
GLEANINGS,

NO clergyman Is cllglOle 10 SeaU I'D
the British House of Commons.
The Dallas Times reioices over the
fact that the penny is to be added to the
currency in use in Texas.
The government building in Utica, n.
T., is now practically completed, at a
total cost Of about 10000.
Deer Lodge City, Montana will re-
main the terminal point of the Utah
and Northern for some months.
Windmills are coming into genera
use in Paradise valley, Nevada for
pumping water for irrigating purposes
Harper's Ferry is the dullest, sleep
lest and most dilapidated place on
Gods foot-stool.
One result of the large crops already
noticed is that the lucky farmer feels
his oats and is happy.
The merchants of Dubuque. Iowa,
claims that theirs is the strongest city
financially in the Union.
There are seven thousand five hun
dred men employed in manufacturing
and mining in and near Birmingham,
Ala.
The shipments of peaches by express
from North Carolina to the northern
markets have been greatly in excess
this season above those of any previous
years.
During the reign Of Ismail Pasha he
involved himself and Egypt in debt
amounting to S432, 223, 700. Once he
paid $4,000 for two beautiful Circas-
sian girls for his harem.
An Indiana man gave his horse pint
of whisky to send him along in the race.
The effect was so hilarious that the ami
NAL tried to step over the grand stand,
and in the effort broke two legs,
Some of the California fruit-growers
are not pleased with the Chinese immi-
grafton bill, and say it will be mpossi.
bic to raise fruit at profit in that state
without Chinese labor.
Excellent crop prospects are reported
in the New England states, although the
season is backward. A large amount of
hay will be secured, and an immense APP
pie crop is expected.
The largest belt ever made from a
single width of hide is said to have Just
been made at Hartford, Conn, for a
New York ilouring-mill. 1t is forty
eight inches wide, seventy-six feet long,
and weighs one thousand pounds.
The driver of farm wagon near Sun
bury, Pa, finding the railroad crossing
INSTRUCTED by cars undertook to play
brakeman and cut the train, instead of
which his arm was literally burst from
the shoulder to the elbow.
The NewS, of Fort Jones, CAL, saws
that the Umatilla Indians are becom-
inc more self-reliant every year They
have two thousand acres Of land under
cultivation, flour and saw-mill, thresh-
ers, reapers, and other agricultural inn
plements.
The men on a north-bound gravel
train on the Texas Central at Waco eX-
hibted the other day petrifed leg Of
q monster animal. 1t was found in q
pit south of the city. II seemed to be
one of the bones of the lower hind lee,
and measured six feet in length, aud
was half the size of mans body.
A large and peculiarly shaped calcu-
lus was removed from the bladder of u
man is years of age, at the Swinburno
dispensary in Albany, N. Y, few days
since. The stone weighed nearly two
ounces. and measured one and three.
quarters by one and one-half inches Its
form was that Of an oblate spheroid
A man at Monterey, Cal, the other
day observed squirrel cleaning out hi,
burrow, and, while watching, noticed
him drag out something resembling II
piece OF money. Picking II up, il was
found to be coin Of the time of Char.
les ILL.,, king of Spain and of the In
dies, and bore date Of 1882.
A novelty in the shape Of a strawbcr
~ bed is to be seen at WestIield. II Is
a hogshead filled with loan and stones
and from It's sides are growing. from
holes bored through the wood into the
loan, over one hundred thrifty straw
berry plants. bearing protusion Of
large, luscious fruit.