The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-08
GLEANINGS.

Many thousands of horses, cattle, and
sheep are being driven from southern
Oregon.
The Hoosac tunnel has cost the State
of Massachusetts, $4,000 600 since it was
finished
An Oneida. n. Y, man drives an OK
hitched to buggy like horse, and the
animal goes first rate.
Nevada has only two Indian tribes,
the Piutes and Shoshones, who number
about ISL combined
The stock of the Wesson Cotton Mills,
OF Mississippi, is worth 300, and pays an
annual dividend of 26 per cent.
Thirty-one murders have been COM
mitted in Pittsylvania county, Va, since
July |, 1875, and only one man hung.
From the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia until the present time mining has
paid IS per cent on the money invested.
Emerson was almost as sparing Of
words as Lander, of whom Sidney Smith
said, "His language does not clothe his
thoughts"
There are ASP Indian children attend
ing the Government schools at Carlisle,
Pa, at Hampton, Va, and Forest
Grove, Ore.
Girard College is to have complete
machine shop, with workbench, forge
and gas-cngine for each of the ninety
pupils in practical mechanics
The silk-works at Allentown, Pa, en-
ploys all the girls over Ii years of age
in that town who want work, aud is
compelled to advertise for more.
That is a bon-ton family, indeed, on
Fifth avenue, New York, who call the
servant who washes and takes care of
the dishes, "Our Minister to China
Mrs. Carlyle said she was never in
love with her husband; she married him
for ambition and was more than graft.
fled; but her life was most miserable
Gladstone is credulops enough to be.
lieve that, because the revenues from
the sale of beer and liquors have fallen
off, the English people are becoming So
Der.
An Oregon man fell on the icy walk
and broke his nose, and when he came
to sue for damages the jury held that
his looks had been improved per cent
He therefore got nothing.
A San Francisco jury last week award.
ed n book agent Sl20 for an assault COM
mitted on him by a man who didn't like
his book and the book agent wants to
find more men who don't like it.
st. Louis boasts of an abandoned ar
tesian well which was sunk at great ex-
pense to the depth of $3.50 feet, when,
as salt water was the best which could
DO produced, the well was abandoned in
disgust,
1t is stated thatexpcriments at Mossrs.
Krupp's great shooting grounds near
Meppen have afforded practical solu-
ton of the problem how to construct
missiles which after piercing the object
aimed at, shall explode with torpedo-
like effect.
The marble statue of Ex-Governor
Buckingham, which is to adorn Connec-
ticut's State Capitol, will be carved by
Oliver l.. Warner of New York. Two
years time has been allowed for the
completion of the work.
Nine. Nilsson has resumed her own
name, and when visitors ask for Nine.
Rouzaud the servant says, "You mean
Mime. Nilsson, do you notp' She says
she determined on this course shortly
after her husbands death.
In the course of It's work in fine lock-
making n Rochester firm uses many
hundreds of screws so small that the
thread can not be distinguished by the
naked eye, and the shoulder can hardly
be seen. They cost 80 and VA n gross,
and man can take 500 worth into his
mouth at once.
Henry James, Jr., the young man
who 'wegrets the thirkumstancc that he
was born In America, but weally couldn't
help il, you see, as no wasn't consulted
about the matter. you know" has re-
written Frederick HUDSON" which had
some merits he was always sorry for
and had doubtless cut out, --NcW York.
SLar