The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-01

bcOIBc w. CulluS COHtcllOn OF CLOCKS,
at his residence in Philadelphia, foreign
and domestic, is said to be valued at
$4,000. For one of them, cased in
onyx and verde antique and crowned by
female figure in silver, Mr.. Childs
paid $1,000.
Oscar Wilde may, perhaps, be inter-
ested in little family canundrum late
ly put by snarling Diogenes. "Who
was the first esthetep" asks the cynic,
and answers in the next breath "Ba-
laam's ass, because the Lord made him
to (o) utter"
United States Senator Charles w.
Jones, of Florida, who is about to mar
ry wealthy young lady Of Newbury-
port, Mass, is said to be unusually well
read in the works of English statesmen.
He is tall, robust, paie-eyed, sandy
haired widower.
A fashion correspondent writes: "The
Princess Of Wales was once almost as
tasteless in dress as her mother-in-law,
but the visits of this charming lady to
Paris have gradually developed genu-
inc taste, and she is almost as much Of
a sovereign dictator in dress as Eugene
was"
Sixteen OF the twenty-one cities in
Massachusetts report less amount of
debts at the close of 1881 than at the
close of 1880, and in most of them there
has been marked increase in the valu-
alton Of taxable property.
The proprietor of furnishing goods
store in Boston was fined $40 recently,
for employing cash boy under IA years
of age, who had not attended school at
least twenty weeks in a year. This
was the first conviction under new
law.
A California paper says that Governor
Stanford has ordered the construction
of canal nine feet deep, thirty feet
wide at the top, and fifteen feet at the
bottom, and about twelve miles long, on
his Gerke ranch, near Vina, Tehama
county, Cal. Nine hundred feet of the
canal will have to be cut through solid
rock.
A liquor-dealer in a Massachusetts
town received last week postal card
signed Justice" and reading: "Mr.
-, Rumseller, Westfeld: please
attend the funeral of man whom you
have tried TO kill for the last ten years"
Oil City Derrick: A wag describes q
teachers institute as place where the
males go to look at the females, and the
females to look at each other, while bits
of learning are sandwiched in like the
Glove the young man goes out for be-
tween the acts.
The monument to Garfield, which the
society of the Army of the Cumberland
proposes to erect, is to cost $500, 900,
and will probably be placed in Wash
ington. The society has appointed a
committee to attend to the work of col
Letting subscriptions.
Near Knoxville, Tenn, an intoxicated
man fell across the railroad track few
feet in front of the engine, which had
begun to move, when Miss Sarah Shea,
young girl, darted forward and jerkcd
the man from the rail, thus saving him
from terrible death. The railroad
company has honored the young lady
by lifetime pass over the road, which
is all very well, but there is yet room
for further romance if the rescued is a
single man and properly appreciates the
noble act of a heroine.
II is said that the Rogue's gallery of
Paris contains about &C, 900 photographs,
collected during the six years since the
system was adopted. They lie in a con-
fusion, however, which puzzles the most
patient explorer. 1t has been suggested
that they be classified according to those
characteristics of the subject which his
ingenuity cannot disguise, as height,
color Of the eyes, length of the foot,
shape of the head, etc, thus separating
the vast collection into groups, any one
of which could be easily examined
whenever an individuals identity is in
dispute.
Edmund Yates says: "The American
Christmas ispurely due to Charles Dick
ems. When he invented, or rather, re-
vived Christmas, the Americans took up
the matter warmly. The celebration
had long been made out in the States to
be the festival of the winter solstice and
a purely pagan affair. Dickens infused
new life into it, and the Americans have
taken Christmas at his estimate. Be-
fore that they had only three festivals
the Fourth of July, New Year and
Thanksgiving. Christmas became the
fourth and is now very popular among
Americans, who delight in entertaining
any Briton who may be among them"
The last census shows rapid advance
ment in the growth of cotton and food
products. In 1870 the amount of cotton
produced was 1852, 3l7 bales; in 1880
more than 100000 bales. In 1870 the
amount of corn raised was 760,940, 594
bushels; in 1880, l,751,449,435 bushels.
During the last decade our agricultural
products were increased nearly 100 per
cent. During the year from 1879 to
1880 our export trade largely increased.
The cattle export rose from $l3,000,000
to $4,000, 900; wheat from $167, 69S, 600
to $3.50, SAC, 600; -four from 1876, 900, 600
to $40, 900, 900; cotton from S209, 1852, 900
to 1926, $50, $751; and pork from $4,000
600 to $S,000,000 annually.
A shrewd little female scamp in st.
Louis collected about $50 during the
holidays from benevolent persons in the
following manner: She would get into
n horse-car, pay her fare, ride a long
distance, and then tell the conductor to
let her out at q street remote from the