The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-26
GLEANINGs.

A doctor Of Helena, Montana, made
S437 in one day, recently, by vaccinat-
Ing III persons at $3.50 each.
A giant, Abeokuta by name, born at
Dahomey, 20 years of age, eight feet
high, and still growing, is among the
distinguished arrivals in New York.
Land commands high price at VIM
nipeg, Manitoba. Lieut. Gov. Cauchon
recently sold farm of five hundred
acres in the suburbs to a syndicate for
100000.
America does not monopolize the en-
tire race of Enthusiastically cashiers. A
Florence, Italy, cashier has defaulted in
tie sum of 100000 lire.
A COW was recently slaughtered near
Reno, Cal, and its stomach was found
to contain large quantity of nails, bits
of glass, bones, piece of gold, and
various other rare and costly articles of
yertu
The Erie railroad is having construct
ed fifty new passenger cars. They are
finished in natural woods and are eX-
ceedingly rich and elegant. The capac-
ity of each ear is sixty-four passengers.
1t is said that bookings are already
secured by the agents of the different
steamship lines for 100000 emigrants.
Ii is evident that the population is to be
largely increased next year.
1t took six years for the New York
surrogate to make up his mind to admit
to probate the will OF the late Samuel
Wood, in which 81 100000 was devoted
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music.
A cattle drover tells of an old Cana
dian farmer who keeps his money rolled
around broomstick The other day
when he bought some cattle Of him he
had nearly SO 600 in tive-dollar bills
thus preserved.
Miss Parnell has received letters from
over one hundred ladies in this country
who volunteer to 90 to Ireland to adj
dress public meetings and assist in the
agitation, the majority refusing any
salary,
What is regarded as a very important
discovery has recently been made in
Butte county, California; rich silver
bearing quartz lead near the north line
of the county. Heretofore it has been
supposed that the quartz lodges of Cali
fornia contained no silver.
A seven foot vein of coal is being
opened few miles east of Miles City,
Montana. The coal has been pro-
nounced by chemists 80 per cent super
Tor to the Ignite now in use on the line
of the Northern Pacific. The coal is
the pure peacock.
Smith Wright, of Willston, Vt, annu-
ally fattens 5000 to 1000 turkeys, 1000
to 5000 geese, and 1900 to $500 ducks
He cutiyates farm of 800 acres, and
manages dairy of forty cows. One
lot of his poultry last year brought him
S16,800.
Says The Gridicy (Cal) HeraN: Will
liam James, while splitting stove wood,
found in the heart Of pine log over a
| foot thick piece Of slate rock an inch
| thick, four inches wide and eleven long.
| The log was deposited on the Ord ranch
| by the high water last winter It's out.
ward appearance was that OF sound
| piece of timber.
In Congers Ca, mare and a cow,
on the place of Mr., Copeland, who olives
in Rockdale county, gave birth the same
evening, one to colt and the other to q
calf. That night the COW died. where.
upon the mare adopted the calf as her
offspring, and has been nursing her ever
since.
The Toronto (Canada) Mail makes the
statement that some portions of Mon
treal are so overrun with hungry rats
that cats frequently become food for
their voracious appetites, They will
fall upon pussy in batalions, and when
they depart few bones and little fur
only remain.
In the village Of Pines Bridge, ut
Croton lake, N Y, large gathering
assembled at the Croton Lake hotel to
guess at the weight of big hog. The
number of chances bought at 80 cents
each was l23, and when the drawing
took place the result was the most re-
msrkable ever recorded in hog-guessing
annals. Four men guessed the exact
weight-5s9 pounds-and divided the
price of the hog.
OF polled cattle writer states that
they are not wholly inofensive; that he
has seen a man very quickly lifted over
a fence by pollcd cow, and these
beasts will push and strike their heads
in the manner of other cattle, quite as
savagely. The proportion Of cross or
savage cattle will be found quite as
great among the polls as among the
horned
There are about 100000 acres of ex-
cellent pine lands in Louisiana, which
are beginning TO attract northern atten-
ton, and Michigan parties have recently
purchased 1000 acres in Calcasieu
parish, with a view to the manufacture
Of lumber. These lands are offered at
Sl.25 per acre, and n lumber-man who
smells pine land at that figure usually
may be counted on to take up the trail
The New York Express was $4,000
IN debt when 1t was purchased by Cyrus
w. Field II had meyer mid curpenk