The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-20
GLEANINGS.

In West Tennessee, it is said one-third
Of the farms are incumbered with mort
cages.
A big cast-iron dog in Sacramento
store frightened away three armed burg
lars.
\ member Of the Chinese legation at
Westinghouse 20 years Of age, and boasts
that he is grandfather.
Esthetic swells in New York and Bos-
ton have adopted the single oyeglass,
after the fashion of London snobs.
Ex-Congressman John T. Wilson has
presented Adams county, o., with $780,
600 for the foundation of a Children's
Home,
Judge James X. Brown, of the Blue
Ridge circuit, Georgia, recently sem
fenced negro to the penitentiary for
natural life and thirty months over.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to see the Ideal Opera Company. When
NJ. W Whitney gave particularly low
note the chief said: "Uh; him heap dug
Out"
A man who left Syracuse thirty-one
years ago without a word to anybody
returned last month and tried to make
folks think he'd only been fishing and was
determined to stay until he got bite
Cooperative stores are success in
Philadelphia. The stockholders eat up
the goods, the president runs away with
the loose change, and the landlord loses
the rent for six months.
The latest style of Paris suicide is
shooting yourself while ridingin hack
1t is a good idea. You get ride for
nothing. Not even a hackman would
have cheek enough to dun corpse.
New York streets have 23,52l public
lights of an evening, SIS of which are
electric. The consumption of gas by
the street lights last year was II, 10000
cubic feet.
A young couple were baptized togeth-
er at Trousdale, Tenn, and immediate
ly afterward were married, in their
dripping garments, by the same clergy
man.
NJ. Tran-Uguyenen-Hauh is Chinese
lawyer now practcing in Paris He is
intelligent and speaks French accurate
w. He wears his cue rolled on the top
OF his head.
General Skobelef, the Russian war
rior, has received forty-three challenges
from Germany to fight duels in conse-
qucnce of anti-German remarks in his
speeches.
Two American ladies, now ut the
court of Queen Margherita, of Italy, are
spoken of as possessing jewels eclipsing
in brilliancy the famous diamonds OF
the Roman princesses.
There is bachelor in Ipswich, Mass,
eighty-tiye years of age, who has worn
the same hat for over sixty years. He
has never used anything but peat for
fires and he burns tallow dips for light.
Gen, Sheridan has fought sixty-four
battles, and he never knew what fear
was until he stood on his front door
steps, and heard the bells strike two, and
realized that he had forgotten his excuse.
A young man writes to the A kron
(Ohio) NeWS to know how he can live
on $500 per week, and is seriously add
vised by the editor of that paper to get
married and board with his father-in-
law.
The New York HOtel Mail finds fault
with the lady at q hotel table who, at
the eleventh hour of decision, fringes
her plate with various kinds Of food,
and, when she has poured gravy over
everything gets her chin on level with
II and shovels it in.
A Montreal tobacconist put some ci-
gars on the market that he had given
the name Of ii like" A neighbor fol-
lowed with the you like brand, and
tho 81 like" man has sued his You
like rival for infringement Of his trade
mark.
The novel spectacle Of a colord jury
was presented at the recent term of
SQUIRT in Clarke county, Virginia, in the
~ial Of u colored man named Morris for
stealing a horse. The jury brought in
svordict of guilty, and fixed his term OF
Imprisonment in the penitentiary atfour
years.