The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-28
GLEANINGs.

"Shillymahoyne" is contribution
made TO the English language by Gin
clnnati lawyer. 1t is synony nous with
"shenanigan."
The people Of Prince Arthur's land
Ing, Canada, wish TO drop that name and
call the place Shuniah, an Indian word
for silver.
While blowing at Wartsboro, near
Middleton. n. Y, last week, CHESTER
Stanton turned up gold ring belong
ing to his aunt, lost thirly-Gve years
ago.
Emerson memory had failed a good
while before his death After Longfel-
low funeral he said 20 4 lifelong friend:
THAT gentleman whose funeral we have
been attending was sweet and bcauti-
full soul, but forget hi, name"
Piute John. Of Empire, New, was re-
Gently bercaycd By the loss Of his wife.
He swung her body over his shoulder
and went 20 the foothills, where he bur
led the remains in hole about two iept
deep, covering the grave with pile Of
touldcrs He returned to the lodge aud
Joyou,ly selected shapcly sQuaw, TO
whom he was Immediately married
Tennysou is fond of the sca,hore; but
not much 20 The lights are too bright
and the mood is too even. He likes
drowsy, brown Autumn hill,ides SOM
nolent sheep, and deep, dark inland
lakes, not easily accessible or too near.
Sheep are his especial pets, and he likes
10 lie in high-backed chair smoking "a
pipe while be looks at them
A sad story of desolation comes from
the west side OF tho San Joaquin river,
California, There the crops have failed
entirely, and there ha, been an unheard
of extent Of sickness among the people,
measles and pneumonia being the prin-
cipal ailments, Scarcely family, it is
said, has escaped, and everybody is dc
pressed and discouraged
The whipping post was established the
other day at Lexington, Ky, 10y consent
OF colored man named Eph Woods,
who stole goods from Is, 7. Dawson
Go TO jail or take cOwhding was tho
slate fixed up for the negro, and he
chose the latter lie unshirtcd himself
and took forty lashes on the back, draw
ing the blood freely
Miss Ella Crane, OF Manahawkin, n.
j., has a curiosity in cat, which has
adopted two young chickens, which fol-
low her about through the day aud at
night sleep with her in box, The cat
has several times taken the chickens
carefully in her mouth and deposited
them on bed in the house,
A little romance in real life occurred
in Tacoma, Washington territory, few
days since in the marriage Of u couple
who had been divorced from each other
n year or moro ago in California The
reconciliation was consummatcd at the
dcath-bcd of an only child, a beautiful
boy, the father going from Portland ut
the summons of the mother TO assist in
nursing him.
Two ash knots, weighing l,l50 and
l,i90 pounds, were recently shipped TO
New York They are steamed which
soitcns them and develops their color,
and then used in exceptionally fine vc-
neeriug. Persons who are experts in
judging what knots are of value mako
considerable by going about looking for
them. These two were from Caledonia,
n. Y.
The Worcester SPY says that from
Oxford, Mass, comes the story that u
short time since dog caught wood
chuck, but owing to poor teeth, could
not bite him sufficiently hard to cause
death, whereupon the dog took tho
wookchuck 10 a pool of water u short
distance away, and with teeth and paws,
held him under water until drowned
A newspaper correspondent who sat
BY Lieutcnant De Longs side at tho
hotel table during the last few weeks Of
preparation for the Jeanette expedition,
said one day to that'll.fatcd officer that
the little family he was about to leave
was worth more TO his life than all the
glory he could hope to gain Would
you then let the bachelors have all the
gloryP" asked De Long, pleasantly; and
his wife, who, with her little daughter,
satby his side, added al want him to 20,
am as enthusiastic for him as he Is"