The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-10-18

The pleasures incident to life in Ari.
zona are shown IN the experience of
the young woman Of Tucson who,
when disrobing Tor slumbcr, discovered
a huge scorpion so securely fastened ia
her corset strings that it bould not in
jure her.
Among the astonishing performances
oil persons deprived Of sight that of the
man who ascended Mont Blanc is
worthy OF mention. England has a
blind Postmaster General who manages
the department with unprecedented sue
cess.
More than 100 per cent. Of the school
children Of Pittsburg are afflicted with
myopia, or near-sightedness. Faulty
constructed school buildings, fine print
IN text books, pale ink, greasy states,
and poor blae1Doards are some of the
causes. In other cities the percentage
is equally great
The perycrse use Of words is well il
lu'trated in adalogue between an Eng
lish lady whose little three-year-old boy
was playing on the deck Of a Cunarder,
and an American lady who, desiring to
compliment, said. "What a cunning
child you have "Not at all, l." curtIy
replied the mother, "hc is As frank and
honest a child as you would meet"
NJ. Verestchagine, the painter of bat
Tie pictures, has recently had two sim
gular compliments paid him by conti-
mental governments. SO viyidly has he
depicted the horrors Of the battlefield
that in Rn,sia the public exhibition of
his painting, WAS altogether interdicl-
ed, while at Berlin the military autho..
lite, forbade soldier, to pay them a
visit
\ few months agoa man by the name
OF Warner WAS found dead in or near a
spring IN South Canaan. Conn. 1t was
supposed that he had died in an epilep-
Tic III. His neighbors thought be was
man in moderate circumstances, but
while the administrator was recently
looking over his effects in an old tool
chest, which stood by an open window,
he found bank books, government bonds
and gold and silver amounting to be-
tween $50, 800 and $4,000.
The Chinese laborers on the Northern
Pacific Railroad make Sll6 a day, and
are hired by gangs Of forty from agents
OF the Six Companies in San Francisco,
The usual estimate OF the effectiveness
OF their labor is that three Cinnamon
are equal 70 two white men; but the
superintendent of construction on the
railroad asserts that be prefers the Chi
nese, man for man, TO such white labor
as can be had on the Pacific coast.
Justice Robinson. Of Easton, Md, dis
covered in his office a curious instance
OF what a spider could do. A cowsucker
snake, a foot long, had sccreted himself
under an old sofa where a large spider
bad a web The spider succeeded in
entangling the snake, and when dscov-
cred half OF his body was raised from
the floor, doubtless to the great dIsgp-
pointment Of the spider Mr. Robinson
eXtrcated the snake from It's hanging
position, killed it, and threw it out Of
the office.
The capital stock of the New York
Sun company is $3.50, 600 which repres-
cnts the amount paid for the original
paper and the Office property. This is
divided into $50 shares OF 81 900 each.
One Of these shares was sold not long
ago for 81, 100, but this was below the
present valuation of 5000, which
brings the estimated value Of the prop
erty to $1,000 900. For years the an
nual dividends amounted to 80 per cent
on the par value, and lately they have
ranged from Go TO IS per cent.
a lean and hungry New York City
tramp exhibited 10 cents to passing
stranger and piteously asked for five
cents more that he might have cup of
coffee with the sandwich which his 10
cents would buy. The appeal was re-
sponded TO, and the tramp departed. -
The gentleman followed, and saw the
same ruse successfully worked upon an
other gentleman. Then he collared the
tramp and told him that be could either
go to jail for obtaining money by false
pretenSes, or he could expend his two
nickles for the purpose for which they
were given. The tramp decided to buy
coffee and the gentleman stood by and
saw that he paid for it..