The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-01
GLEANINGS.

A boy of 9 years at Searcy, Ark, has
grown heavy beard and mustache.
Music was considered by DR.. John
son to be the least Objectionable of all
noises.
When doctor can't think of anything
else to prescribe he falls back on "abso-
lutte rest"
They now have boots and shoes which
are self-ventilating and save ten per
cent, in fuel.
During the past season. in Erath Co.,
Texas, three thrashing- machines thrash
ed 100000 bushels of wheat.
Between July /, and Oct 10, 1858
bales of hops were shipped from the
Cooperstown On. ~ depot.
General Chamberlain and several
other veterans of the Goth Maine volun-
teers have been selecting suitable spot
for regimental monument at Gettys-
burg.
1t is estimated that Virginia will this
year make 100000 bushels of peanuts
Tennessee 100000 bushels, and North
Carolina 1850 bushels.
A business, s'e==-, has adopted the La
tin motto, "Frigidus dies est quinn SUI
mus sinistrum." A very free nterpre-
tation makes it "It's cold day when
we get left.
1t is said that there are 375 naphtha
wells on the Apsheron peninsula of the
CaspianSea and that they yield annually
$500, 900 cwt.
The German Government has adopted
a new regulation on its lines of railway.
In future the carriage will be painted of
the same color as the tickets of the diff
ferent classes - first, yellow; second,
green. third, white.
A Montana wife recently sued for di.
vorce on the ground that her husband
made practice Of kissing the hired Girl,
The action was dismissed by the Judge,
who held that the kissing was iustiiia-
BILE because of the wife's extreme home
illness.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun
making Improvements on the Greeley
swamp at Chappaqua, and has given
plot of ground to the Episcopal So
ciety of that village on which to erect a
chapel
A book has just been issued in Ver-
mont entitled The Resurrection of
Christ from q Lawyers Standpoint" 1t
is an investigation conducted according
to the laws Of evidence, and il ends with
full acceptance of the resurrection of
Christ as u historical fact,
You will not annex lis with bayonets,
you will annex us with the dollar" was
the prophetical observation of an intel
ligent Mexican gentleman to an Ameri
can newspaper correspondent recently.
The prophecy will be unerlingly fulfilled
within the next thirty or forty years.
Burlington, Vt, stands good chance
of getting large factory for making
paper from wood pulp. The concern,
with $3.50 900 capital, proposes to put
up buildings costing, with machinery,
S150000, and Burlington is asked to
give $4,000 worth Of help
An Italian named Conte is said to
have invented an artificial graphite OF
great purity. 1t is of the same density
lnIOWEUtuI, vi Nu'
with metallic luster. 1t is very dura-
BILE for electric lamps No description
is given of the process by which it. is
made.
Professor H. j, Rice, Of the Mchi-
gan Military Academy is trying to
propagate oysters artilicially, and hopes
to make these bvalves the cheapest ar
ticle of food A single oyster deposits
100000 to 100000 900 eggs, but ordi-
narly ony per cent of these are pro-
ductive,
The McAllister gun, invented and
patented by DR.. A. H. McAllister, OF
Union county, Mississippi, has twenty
four rifle barrels and discharges FIVE
hundred cartridges in a minute, greatly
exceeding the Calling gun in execution
and reliability. The entire work OF con-
struction was done at the blacksmith
shop on his plantation BY Dr. McAIlis-
ter and a machinist Of his own neigh
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