The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-22

about the streets in the upper portion of
the city nearly all the forenoon. They
were not residents here, but were on their
way to Jackson, Tenn, where they said
they had relatives,
| "A team of horses attached to an empty
dirt wagon ran away yesterday forenoon in
the extreme lower portion of the city. The
driver sat on the lose boards and tugged
hard at the reins but without avail He
was badly shaken up and tumbled about,
and might have been bounced off under
the wheels had not the horses stopped
when they did, near the foot of Walnut
street, where the mud interfered
very much with their progress. No dam
age was done, but the man was badly
| bruised.
When Boston "lady," in imitation of
the English so called nobility, said to an
| applicant for the position of governess,
"You understand that | do not take
governess into my family, or receive her at
my table; several ladies and myself have
| determined to begin a new system here
| the governorness spanked up and retorted,
ut must be difficult TO find person in this
American republic who, being fitted to
form child's mind and manners, would
submit to being treated like servant by
the family that employed her. wish you
good day"
The charges made some time ago
that Philadelphia druggists were given to
substituting cheap drugs for those called
for in prescriptions, has been substanti-
ated by the Press of that city. 1t EN-
ployed a practical chemist who examined
fifty five prescriptions filled at the most
prominent drug stores in the city. He
/ found that large proportion of these were
made up Of substtutions and weak adulter-
atoms of the ingredients called for. The
circumstance HAS CauScu stil III 'ho Wy
of brotherly love, the most indignant per
sons in the community being the druggists
whose rascality has been exposed.
Prof. E. E. Barnard, Of Nashville, on
the 14th inst, discovered new comet TO-
Gated near the star Lambda, in the constel
lation of the Twins. His discovery was
announced by telegraph to Mr.. H. ii.
Warner, at the Warner observatory, Roches.
ter, ~ Y, and almost at the same moment
Prof Lewis Swift, director of the Warner
observatory, received intelligence that
large naked eye comet had been discovered
in Rio Janerio, South America. PIof.
Barnard is the first person the present
year to receive the Warner prize of 5000
The fact that these two comets come into
view at the same time is extremely signi-
ficant.
The Wabash r. r. Co. is bringing in
train load of gravel nearly every day,
which it is having distributed along the
track between Sixth and Twentieth streets.
This section of track will be in excellent
condition when the company gets through
with It. If the tracks above and below
this section we're in equally good condition,
and if the ordinances against switching
and permitting cars to stand upon the
tracks in the lower portion of the city were
obeyed by the company, there would have
been little or no ground for the strong
protest made by some of the citizens living
add owning property and doing business,
(or trying to- on those parts of the avenue.
A significant feature of the use of
electric lights in agriculture, and one
pregnant with great possibilities for the
insect. tormented farmer, is, the London
Globe thinks, the wonderful inducement
which the light offers to all sorts and con-
ditions of insects to attempt multitudinous
suicide by hanging their heads against the
crystal globe all through the night and the
small hours of the morning. A simple
mechanical arrangement, in the shape of
grated trap, into which the impulsive
creatures could fall, and whence they
could not extricate themselves, would assist
them to complete the happy work of self
destruction, That single electric light
near a hop garden or corn field would
completely exterminate many dreaded in
sects is, Of course, not certain, but it is
possible -pcrilously possible for the bugs
and bottles.
There have been several boy murder
ers and they are good many juvenile
petty thieves, but boy forger is new thing
in the history of crimes and criminals.
julius Rosenheim is business boy of Is
years, whose home is ia Baltimore, or was
before he took quarters in q New York
Jail. He presented check for 800 to the
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