The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-04

AT the Monadnpck blanke; mills, New
Hampshire, recently, the help was sud
denly taken III. No cause could be dis
covered, and new set Of hands had 70
be substituted. Next day they also we're
seized with the same sickness, and at
noon so many Of the employees had left
the premises that the mills were shut
down. II is supposed that somethingin
the rags caused the illness.
Mr.. Holloway. Of England, in memory
OF bis deceased wife, has endowed ut
Bingham an institution for the higher
education Of women. The college build
ings are palatial in size. The principal
is TO be a woman, and qualified female
physicians are to reside at the college.
Mr.. Holloway has conveyed to the truss
tees n sum of 100000, The students
are to be allowed TO choose their own
places of worship.
While Bernhard was in st. Peters
burg Russian count fell madly in love
with her, and when she left for Vienna
he followed in her footsteps. Many
sensational stories Of the affair have
been printed in continental newspapers.
One Of them says the count made her an
offer OF marriage, to which she replied
that she could not marry a man because
she was already married 10 her art "A
remark, by the way, which is not origi-
nal with this woman nor these times.
Vanity Fair, Of London. publishes an
article describing the extraordinary de-
yelopmcnt Of poker-playing in fashiona-
bic society, Large sums, it is said. are
lost and won, and some well-known
ladies' are pointed at a. regular players.
1t adds that London is undoubtedly in
debtcd TO General Schcnck for lis pres
ent gamblin. mania in private life
which is carried to suchlengths rs TO be-
come a serious social scandal.
II is estimated that the Mormons gain
about 1900 n year by immigration.
From 1910 to 1854, or in fifteen years,
2l,9ll crossed the sea and the mount
aims. Between 1910 and 1860 2S.740
had entered the Land Of Promise With
in the next decade some $4,000 more
took ship from Europe to Salt Lake,
and not far from the same number be-
tween 1870 and 1892, or. in all, from
the first ship-load, in 1910, say about
$1,000.
A young lady in Milwaukee has sued
ayoung man for kissing her, claiming
$1,000 damages. She AYERS that "he
then and there did seize plaintiff by the
shoulders, put his arm around her neck,
and did then and there kiss her" and by
reason of said act the plaintiff ''waS
greatly hurt in her feelings, and suffer-
ed and underwent great mental pain
Milwaukee girls are much more scnsi-
tive than those around these parts
Boston Post.
Highly cmbclIished dinner cards are
no longer in good form. A simple
white card with silver or gold edge and
the guests monogram in silver and gold
in one corner IS considered the elegant
thing. Iland-painting has been 50
freely INDUCED in. and the results have
frequently been so crude and inartistic,
that public taste, always searching for
novelty, has said 'pooh-pooh'' to it, and
passed the craze along with discarded
crazes of the past.
The fayorite poison--for there are
well-marked predictions in the matter
of the Young servant girls Of Berlin, is
sulphuric acid. In fact, 80 per cent. Of
the suicides in Berlin among females are
now committed by this acid. while no
such proportion or spccia.tyi> remarked
in the other large German cities. The
preparation known ~ coll and which
is diution of the raw English acid
mixed with five parts of water, is used
for cosmetic purposes, and it would seem
that life below stairs is not insenSibe
to the advantages offered by chemistry
for shutting of this mortal coil"
The breed of Russian horses known as
0rlons are much esteemed in England
now as carriage horses. They have
clean heads, wide noStrils. and bright
eyes, and show high breeding, no doubt
nm Arabic cross The horses have
more weight than the English end are
mostly dapple grays and blacks. Mr..
William c. Winans, the American mil
lionaire. residing ut Brighton, bought
seven pairs of these horses at great
prices, and in the drive from there to
London passed all goers.