The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-02
MEN WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Volume first Of The Young Nimrod
Series, which was omitted by the publish
ers in the list of books recently received at
the Library, has since been received. There
Ia a most excellent selection of interesting
and instructive books now on hand at the
Library, for Young people.
The regular meeting Of the study class
for Tuesday afternoon will be omitted in
honor of "tho day we celebrate" and
public session will be held instead, at the
Library room on Wednesday afternoon at
3 o'clock. The subject for discussion will
he the famous pictures, Carregio's "Holy
Night" and Michael Angeles "Fates,"
supplemented 10y readings from Miss De-
Forests History of Art.
The last regular meeting of the W. c..
and L a., for the summer, will take place
on Wednesday evening, AT the Library room.
The board Of trustees will meet at 2 o'clock !;
the association at o'clock A meeting of
the book committee will take place after
the association meeting
The original study of Leonardo da Vim,
els famous Last supper" it is reported,
has been discovered in Italy. 1t is twenty
feet long and three feet wide When
cleaned the oil color disappeared and
tempera painting remained, signed LEO
nardus ds Vnci, pinxit, 1889" 1t was sold
at Nice for $50. Ii it is genuine it is
worth fortune.
A fac smile of the MS. Of Marco Polo,
in the royal library OF Stockholm, has been
made at the expense of Baron Nordensk-
fold, By process Of autobiography. The
Life and Adventures Of Marco Polo, among
the Heroes of History" 10y George Make
peace Fowlc, is most entertaining volume.
! A bible for the blind has been presented
to the Boston public library. 1t is in G5
quarto volumes.
The sum of $4,000 was paid in London
fora copy of the Gutenberg Bible. There
are but two copies OF it in America, one in
the Lennox library, and one for which Mr..
Hamilton Cole, Of New York, gave $4,000.
Mr.. Joseph Longworth, of Cincinnati,
who recently gave $4,000 to the city as an
endowment for an art school, proposes to
give All endowment fund Of $4,000 a year
for the same end. He desires to found the
art School of Cincinnati" To no grapdel
or nobler uses can wealth be put than tC
the elevation Of the people by means of ed
ucatlOnal institutions, that shall cultivate Q
taste for the good, the pure and the beau.
tiful, and a distastc for all that is low, sen
sual and vicious. 1t is the glory of our
nineteenth century civilization that Chris
tianity, literature, art and science walk
hand in hand with wealth, for the benefit
of the masses and the good Of mankind.
Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
British premier, has accepted the vice prin-
cipalship Of Newuh4m college, and will
enter upon her duties in October next.
The Brooklyn library ha, SO, 900 volumes.
Its librarian, Mr.. Noyes, is one of the
foremost in his profession.
Dr. Schiemann, the great scientific ex
plOrer of Troas, lives in an imposing mar
bic palace at Athens, which bears on iii
front, above the door the inscription, in let.
tiers of gold, "Hall of Ilium." The spacious
parlOrs afford room for more than three
hundred guests. Here, every other Thurs.
day evening during the winter, he enter.
tains hundred or more professors, jour
nalists and statesmen. All the decorations
OF the house commemorate DR.. Schlie.
MAINS great researches. The floors are
paved with Italian m0saics, the walls GOV
cred with Pompeiian frescoes and patterns
of objects found at Troy and Mycene, and
IIomeric notices and inscriptions abound
At the family table classic Greek alone is
spoken, and even the servants have classic
names the gardener is Priam, the porter,
Bellcrophon, aud the two nurses, Hccuba
J aud Polyxena.
Mr. Panl Tulane, Of Princeton, New Jer.
scy, has just made a bequest Of $4,000,
600 for the erection and endowment Of ,
college in New Orleans for the education
Of young men, in languages, literature, ar
, aud science.
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