The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-24
GLEANINGs.

Boston has 1886 gas-lamps, and z
6S7 of them were broken last year.
Adam missed one of the Injuries of
life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve.
Asouth Florida lake is said to contain
enough alligators tobuild fence around
it four feet high.
Mining on the Constock lode has not
been so discouraging in the past decade
as now.
BY new fast mail service all points
in Florida will be reached twenty-four
to thirty-six hours sooner.
The oil production in the Allegheny
field has reached daily average Of
$4,000 barrels.
The Mississippi house of representa-
tivcs has passed bill to prevent tho
sale Of tobacco to minors without an or
der from their parents or guardians.
A school for the instruction of Eric
railway brakemen in the use of the
Westinghouse airbrake is to be estab-
ished at Holnellsville.
In Gold Hill, Ncy,, houses and lots
which few years ago were valued at
from $1,000 TO $1,000 each are being
rallied of.
1t is said that an angle worm cannot
dig more than one inch per hour but he
is always an inch beyond the shovel
when You want fish bait.
Agricultural Commissioner Hawkins,
of Tennessee, is making arrangements
for experimental tests of the effect of
commercial fertilizers on the crops in
every county in the State,
Union Springs, n. y, the home of
Courtney, the oarsman, is the home OF
Phoebe Brockway, who claims to be los
years of age. She never rode on n rail
way car
An angry woman in Newport, r. l.,
threw fork ut her son. II lodged in
his heel, making slight wound, which
resulted in gangrenc, from which ho
died in great agony.
Swedcs and Danes are said to be coll
onixing in Florida. Already have nine
hundred settled in Orange county, and
are proprictors of profitable orange
groves
Jefferson Davis daughter Varina Is a
great belle in the South. She is pale, slcn-
der and reserved. At n recent ball she
appeared MS the Margarine of Bcipthin
rose pink velvet and satin costume.
In breach Of promise recently tried
nj Dublin the first love letter read by
the plaintiff began rs follows; "If any
one reads this except Miss Helen Me-
Nulty | hold him accountable before
God and justice"
Thomas Miller, of Harrison county,
Kentucky, an industrious, Woodworking
man and the father OF twelve children,
has discovered himself to be the only
living heir TO an estate in Lexington
worth 100000.
Sheriff Bandy, OF Lebanon, Tenn,
showed some children how to work
pair Of handouts, and fastened thcmon
his wrist. He took them Off next day
when his deputy returned from the coun-
try with the key.
"Thc man who is happyis rich, =" says
Peter Cooper. Uncle Peter, send on
| your ducals and take our happiness for
the next six months. We want to know
how II will seem TO be rich and misera-
bic.
The first cat taken TO Gunnlson City
sold for SIG, but the first man IN that
town who killed u cat was presented
with purse Of $50. There's no show
in this country for the catto get ahead.
A Milwaukee girl wants $4,000 dam
ages because she wasn't quite ready to
| be kissed when u man kissed her. llo
ought TO have blown n horn or rung u
bell and given her thirty seconds warn
ing. w
Herr Karl Gchmia, of Bernc. after
series OF experiments extending over
several years, has succeeded in produc-
Ing artificial mothcr-of-pearl, undlstln-
g,lishable In every respect from the nat
ural article. II can be nodded In any
shape, produced in any color, Is imper-
vious to heat and cold, and its price will
DO much less than that Of ordinary moth.
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