The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-28

where he made inquiries nc 1Ound enough
to convince him that the wife was tho
MASTER until HIS basket Of eggs, was
nearly empty before he had got rid Of
either of the horses. At length, early
one morning, he cameto fine mansion,
and asked to see the master OF the house.
The servant said that his master was
not yet up, but the lady was in the par
Ior, into which he was ushered. The
lady received him courteously, but said
that unless his business was very urgent
she would prefer not to awaken her
husband. ''Really, madame" he said,
''you will think my business very sim
gular one. hope You viii not consider
me impertnent but ] wish to ask q
question which you can answer as well
rs yonr husband, and considerable
wager depends upon the answer which
shall receive. The question is just this,
DO YOU govern your husband, or does
be govern your II is an odd question,
certainly" replied the lady, "but no
one, surely, ought to be ashamed OF
doing what is right. 1t is the wifc'si
duty to obey her husband, and am
proud to say that always obey mine.
But perhaps you would like TO have his
testimony also. Here he comes, and
you can ask him." The husband being
appealed to, promptly confirmed tho
truth of what his wife had said, where's
upon the stranger explained the object
of his inquiry, and said that it gave him
the utmost pleasure to ask his new
friends to select whichever of the horses
they liked best. The husband preferred
the fine black stallion, while the wife
fixed her heart upon the pretty gray
mare, and an argument arose as TO
which itShould be. An end was put TO
ths by the wife saying in determined
tone: you say you will not take her,
but say you shall, for 1 am sure that
Me qrdy mare is The better horse"
"Well, WE'LL" replied the husband, ~
it must be so, have your own way, as
you always do. Wen take the mare"
he continued, addressing the visitor
mo, you DON'T was the reply, 'you'l
have to put up with an egg, as every
one else to whom l have put the question
has done. As for me, shall take my
horses home, and shall try to live hap.
PLY with my wife, for she does allow
me to have my way now and then"
Stonewall Jackson.--It is related that
at the first battle of Bull Run, July Il,
1861, Mt moment when the day was
apparently lost to the Confederatcs,
Jackson's brigade made so firm stand
that some one cried out, "Here is jack
! son standing like stone wall" And
thereafter ''Stonewall Jackson became
his soubriquet.
Ten Penny. The word penny, whea
used to mark the size OF nails, is sup
posed TO be corruption Of pounds; thus,
a four-penny nail was such that 1000 OF
them weighed four pounds, ten-penny
nail such that 1000 weighed ten pounds.
What He Said was Mere Gibberish. -
In the eighth century there was FAM
Gus professor of occult chemistry whose
maine was Geber. He held that all met
ais, except gold, were liable to disease,
and that this in them was cured by gold,
which also was panacea for the mala-
dies Of the human family. He wrote
500 treatises on this subject, SO learned
and unintclligible that they were ridi-
culed as Geberish whence it is conclud-
ed came gibberish in our own vOcabul-
airy.
Tuft Hunters. Formerly, and in most
of the European colleges, and to this
day in the Universities of Oxford, Cam
bridge and Dublin, each student who
was nobleman's son wore distin-
gushing tuft or tassel on the square cap
which collegians wear while at college.
Hence, persons who fawned upon these
scions of aristocracy obtained the very
Ineligible title of "tuft hunters"
Mind Your p's and q's.-This express
sion comes from the printing office.
where the similarity in form of tho
slower case" or small ''p" and ~ in
font of Roman letter is always pcrpicx-
ing to the typographical novice, cspe-
cially in distributing or "throwing
into case' mixed heap of type techni-
cally known as ''pi." II is enormously
supposed by some that the expression
came from the score chalked down in
public houses of Ps and Q's (meaning
pints and quarts) not paid for by bibu-
lous customers. -
Nihilst. who believes in Mill
ism, which, according to Webster, is tho
doctrine that nothing can be known. II
is skepticism carried to the denial OF all
knowledge and all reality. 1t is probably
applied to the Russian Communistio agi-
tators because they advocate the princ-
pie of doing away with all government;
and the inference is that If this were
carried out, Russia, as nation, would
cease to exist.
Topsy-turvy.-When things are in dis
order they are often said to be "topsys
turvy," This expression is derived from
the way in which turf used for fuel IS
placed to dry, the turf being placed
downward; and the expression then
means top side, turf-way.
Cockncy term was originally
applied to . resident Of London. In
l5i7 Henry VIII, made an order in ref
erence TO the feast to the King Of the
cockneys, held on Childermas Day..Tho
term ''cockney school, was also applied
to coterie of writers consisting Of
Hazltt Keats. Hunt, Shelley, and some
others, In popular slang the word 'cock-
lcy'' is used to designate dandy 81 the
lower classes Of society.
A. M,los . Hntfnr IN, tho old time.