The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-28

There are some people who think
they make the most Of life when they
make 1t rs wrctched as possible. Lut-
tress once asked ii an acquaintance Of
his was not very disagreeable We'll"
was the reply. che is always as disa-
greeable as the circumstances will per-
mit.n
Mr.. Tulane, who recently gave 81, OO0,-
OOO for the foundation of q university in
New Orleans, is Northern man, who
rode into the Crescent City more than
half century ago in search of modest
business opening. He found what he
was looking for, and retired with for
tune soon after the late civil war began.
Minnesota papers report that the fish
Watchers in that State are very success
ful The first experiments were made
IN l8ih under rldculously small State
appropriation of $500, but three years
later PSI 900 fry were distributed
throughout the State in the following
proportions: Land-locked salmon from
Maine, 1850; yearling California sal
mon, 2,75O; young fry California sal
mon, l47 100; shoal fry from South
Hadley, Mass, 100000.
The Bay Railroad running from
Rochester, n. Y, to Lake Ontario, last
Fall sank three wells, one 230, one $50
and one 100 feet deep, near its pavilion.
No water was obtained, though the
wells cost 81, POO They were all filled
up, and so left all Winter. II is now
found that much of the filling has been
carried from the last well, and that it
contains twenty feet of water. The
phenomenon is considered inexplicable
Two years ago Oscar Parker, of
Granville, Vt, while drinking from a
spring after dark, was disagreeably con
scious Of having imbbed something
little livelier than a hemlock twig and
lesspugnacious than bectle-bug Since
then he has never enjoyed an entirely
peaceful gastronomic conscience A
short time ago he gave himself into a
physicians charge. and, after enduring
medicinal torture for ten days, present.
ed Esculapius with a striped snake
twenty inches in length.
Dr. Adams, prominent and wealthy
physician of Denven Col. made a sim
gular experiment Four years ago he
found GusSie Rogers in bagnio at Las
Vegas married her, educated her, and
installed her as mistress of his elegant
establishment in Denver. Though he
was very kind to her and gave her plen-
ty Of money, she was incapable of re-
form. Her husband being compelled 10
get a divorce from her, she returned 10
her old life.
The English Board of Inland Reve-
nue. attributes the decline in drink rev
enues on which Mr.. Gladstone dwelt in
his budget TO want Of means rather
than the want Of inclination. and antic-
ipates return to the old figures when
trade improves. Mr.. Gladstone points
TO the savings banks deposits as indi-
eating there is growing tendency to
saye, since these are higher than in the
prosperous year Of 1872. On close ex-
animation the London Economist is
compelled TO side with the board,
A Maine paper relates that a maiden
AN'AN Nv" i'0lblii-- III Nll' t'Nh vi LIZ
man that state, at the age of ninety
eight years, was in her youth engaged
to be married to a respectable young
man, and was making her Wedding
dress. Her father, entering the room.
forbade the marriage. She answered
"Well, father then You must maintain
me as long as live" She stuck her
needle into the unfinished dress, arose
and put il into the drawer and there it
has remained until the present time
seventy-iiye years. How long the faith
er survived such treatment is not told.
At London auction-room was re-
Gently sold library comprising, it is
believed, the whole literature of tobac-
co. II was collected by Mr.. Bragge,
who gave to the work thirty of the best
years Of his life. Tobacco is treated Of
in all its forms, and in almost all the
languages. One lot is a collection of
pamphlets, engravings, and other small
publications, inlaid. mounted, and
bound in seventeen large and thick vol
umes, Professedly, this collection con-
tains about all our knowledge on this
important and growing industry.