The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-01-12
GLEANINGS

house of the Tennessee legislature are
white man and negro who held the re-
lation Of master and slave before the war.
Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-five
boys who have been rendered permanent
cripples by attempting TO jump on rail-
roadtrains while in motion.
Australia imported English sparrows
to Kill worms, but it is found that the
birds are the worst pests of the two, and
bounties are offered for their destruction.
A farmer in blowing recently over the
site OF n granary burned by Indians in
1853, in Douglass county, Oregon, found
quantity of wheat in a good state of
preservation.
Miss Florence E. Cory, of the new
Woman Institute OF Technical Design
Of New York, has a salary Of $4,000
year for making designs for acarpet fac
tory.
Miss Davis, the daughter of the Presi-
dent Of the late Confederacy, is a tall
young woman, with dark hair and eyes,
an extremely pale face and an express
sion Of intense reserve.
According to some experiments which
were mentioned at "A late meeting of the
French Academy of Sciences, one can
cause an unusual number Of tadpoles to
turn into male frogs by supplying them
with a special diet.
A portrait of Luther, until now un-
known, has been discovered in an old
Leipsic church II is stamped upon gilt
leather, and bears IN inscription which
Identifies it, II is well preserved and is
good likeness and fine work of art.
parcel Of San Francisco girls who
were photographed in carnival cos
fumes are troubled because an enter
prising theatrical agent bought lot of
the pictures and is exhibiting them as
yeritablc representations Of his variety
company.
Edward Payson Weston, the great pc
destrlanic failure, IS lecturing in Eng
land on temperance. He says he has
walked $4,000 miles duringthe lastfour-
teen years and that the training he has
undergone has improved his consttu-
ton.
The Shah of Persia, when Teheran
was recently lighted with gas for the
first time, had platform erected for
himself in the public square, that he
might witness the operation. Cannons
were fired and the national hymn was
played
4 Boston man at theater asked n
Gainesborough hat with a girl in it
| whether she would not allow him to
| have momeutary view Of the stage -
The girl replied that il was the only hat
she had He gallanily offered TO con-
tribute "A half-dolar toward new one.
Col. John $. Mosby is said 10 have
written home TO friend in Alexandria,
Va, that good dentist could make "
fortune IN Hong Kong China, in less
than ten years, as good dentists are hard
TO find there, and the charges for any
kind Of dental work are enormous.
Dog-stealng has lately become very
common uptown, Among the latest
Victims tx Mr.. Louis l.. Lorillard, of
East fifiy-dGh street, whose valuable
French poodle Flora has been stolen.
With view TO Furnishing the criminal,
Mr. LoriIlard has offered reward Of
$500 for his arrest and conviction, with
out reference to the recovery of the
doc. NcW York. Ereaing Post.
Letters received in Hartford from the
Chinese students recently ordered home
say tbat on arriving in Shanghai they
were sent to confinement in remote
part Of the town, the Governments in.
tcnton apparently being to examine
them W. TO their belief or disbelief OF
Christianity before they had y chance &c
scatter through the country. None OF
them had been much inclined 10 the
Christian religion.
Cardinal Newman docs not approve
OF the current fashion for writing tho
lives OF men while they are living al
any rate,'so far Ms his own life is con.
cerned. When il was recently anno,inc.
cd that mn English firm had arranged
for biography of him, he prompt,
caused il TO be made known, over hi,
own name, that the work was not ap
proved by him, in fact, he had decline,
to read the proof-shcets when asked {,
doso, saying "the time for biograph,
| of him had not come"