The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-22
GLEANINGs.

A western paper describes woman suf-
ffage as "the right of females to coerce
males by law-making.
Liberia has population Of about
twenty thousand American-born negroes,
who exercise control over million ma
tive blacks.
Swedish matches have attained great
popularity all over the world. In the
year 1880 about nineteen million pounds
were exported.
1t takes about six million barrels of
crude petroleum to supply the world
one year. About thirty million barrels
are now stored in Pennsylvania.
The tall son of President Arthur, is
said to be as fond of dancing as was
Nellie Grant when she was a belle of the
white house
And now they say the Chinese are re-
sponsible for the smallpox. If people
could be made TO believe this, it would,
so to speak, knock Johns laundry bus
mess
New Workers feel rather ashamed to
talk about polygamy in Utah when they
recollect that the Oneida community
does not reflect much credit upon their
state.
81 love diamonds" says Alphonso
Karr, "but l have horror of those
which show me woman carrying in one
ear the bread of her children and in
the other the honor of her husband"
The managers of the Garfield monu-
ment fund for the Pacific coast have in
vited designs, accompanied by plans,
specifications, and an estimate of cost,
not to exceed $4,000.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt tells New
Orleans reporter that she has life of
Longfellow nearly ready for the press,
and that the poet has promised to revise
the proofs. She used to be newspaper
correspondent
Mr. Francis Wise, distiller and the
richest man in Ireland, has just died.
He left no will to dispose of his wealth,
which amounts to S15,000.000. A rea-
sonable share of this is in American
securities.
Within the presbyterian synod of
Kansas the Gospel, or something else, is
preached in eight different languages
English, German, Bohemian, French,
Welsh, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Nez
Perces
In the Bay State mine, Newark dis
trict Nevada, at depth of 204 feet be-
low the surface some bones were recent
ly discovered that SO far no one has
been able to classify. How they came
there is puzzle.
A young man, recently from Manito-
ba, Is commissioned by a number of
bachelors TO offer such inducements to
like number of manageable young la
dies as may induce them to leave On
tario and accept a home and a good hus-
band in the great northwest.
There is ayoung man travelling around
in eastern Texas vaccinating the negroes
with bees-wax. He charges dollar
vac, and represents himself as being
appointed by the United States govern
ment, and threatens that dire penalties
await those who refuse to be operated on.
A Boston florist says that for year
past the ladies of the best society ofthat
city have affected aesthetic flowers, pre-
ferring anything of yellow tint At
this season the lighthouses are taxed TO
their utmost to supply lilies and French
marguerites, which latter are sold as
daisies"
AtPalouse Ferry, Washington terri
tory, an old Indian died. recently, who,
according to all accounts, was Ito years
old. In the memory of the oldest set
tiers this old man has not been able to
walk. He was blind and almost deaf,
and remembered Lewis and Clark on
their remarkable tour through the coun-
try.
A correspondent of the Boston Jour-
nal says: IA young lady in Paris was
recently fined 80 francs and sentenced
to pay so francs damages for rushing at
another young lady who was walking up
to the altar of q church on her BRIDE
groom's arm and tearing the crown Of
orange blossoms from the brides head.
You don't deserve to wear it; you have
done me too much harmy" shrieked the
girl, after which she tainted away, but
was picked up by the beadle and handed
over 70 the police"
A Pennsylvania firm is manufactur.
Ing paper at Savannah from what is
called ''the saw palmetto" a material
heretofore regarded us nearly useless.
The paper is said to be of superior quail
ity, and especially useful as transfer pa
per, which has heretofore been import
cd.
Paul Boyton, in his rubbers, floating
down the Arkansas, stopped at Ozarkin
passing to light his pipe. A little lower
down he came silently up to skiif con-
tanning three negroes. They ret up Q
yell when they saw the paraphernalia,
padded rapidly to shore, and then made
hurricdly into the woods
An out-of-town druggist entered .
Boston apothecary shop and had \ SIM
pie prescription put up Tho chsrge
was &l.b0. He remarked TINT II ywas