The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-07

representing al increase Oh oniy ioo,OVO
within the last five years. Paris has
1869, 600 inhabitants. Lyons $4,000,
Marseilcs 100000, Lille $4,000, lou
louise 100000, Havrc l05, 900, Rheims
$4,000, Anglers $4,000, Nizza $4,000,
Dion 3d. 900.
A Mediord rum manufacturer meant
TO leave will under which his distillery
would be torn down and the business
discontinued; but, rs he wrote "after
the expiration of three years" without
specifying how soon after, the heirs will
continue at the old stand SO long as it is
profitable,
The spread Of information in the
South cannot have been very general in
all these years, if there is any truth in
the statement that in Lee County, Ga,
is an old colored woman who does not
vet know that she is free. She thinks
that her mistress retains her as house
servant, and that all the other darkies
have been sold.
The other morning when Montreal
brd-fancier opened his store he was
much surprised to find six of his best
canares minus a leg each and fifteen of
the birds missing. Rats had gnawed n
hole through the floor, had got on the
counter, and from there to u large cage
in which we're the birds. The mutilated
birds are doing well, and seem quite
lively in spite of the professional ampu-
tation to which they were subjected
The Superintendent of Castle Garden,
New York, has collection of several
hundred letters which bear requests
from old and young bachelors in the
West that he will send them wives.
These have been sent TO him during the
past three years. Many of the writers
seem to think him regular matrimonial
agent He has never replied to or for
warded any of the letters, as were he
once to begin he would have more than
he could do.
\ report is current that 800 of Carl.
baldi' $ old comrades have banded them
selves together with the determination
of taking his body from its present rest
ing place, and of causing it to be ere
mated according to the desire expressed
in his will Whether the report, which
is believed in Italy, be true or not is not
yet known; but it has been thought adj
visable that guard should be placed
near his grave.
In Williamsburg, L. l., the other day,
ayoung German woman was sued for
rent She sworo she had paid in full.
Ibid you take receipt when you
paid?" asked the court. II did" "Well,
let's see it," Il drank it up, your
honor" Drank it upP" queried the
magistrate, in amazement. What do
you mean?" when | paid my rent
the landlord gave me pint of beer as
receipt That's what he does with all
his tenants" Other witnesses swore TO
this fact and to seeing the defendant
drink a pint of beer furnished by the
landlord. The court decided in favor
of the defendant,
The Bank Of France is having printed
60,000,000 of l00-franc bank notes at
the printing Office attached to the bank
building. The new note has been drawn
by the painter Baudry and engraved by
Robert, and will, it is reported, be a
marvel of beauty and elegance OF its
kind. The original drawing was three
meters long by one and half deep, and
when completed was photographed on a
reduced scale to the size of bank note.
Robert was engaged on the work of en-
craving it for several weeks in the strict
est secusion, in an inner chamber in
the bank
Guaymas, at the mouth of the Gulf
of California, is place of which even
well-informed people have rarely heard;
but it is point from which, for two
years past, a railroad has been slowly
creeping north, and it is announced that
this road will connect with the South
western system in October. The road
was started by Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe capital; but that line is not yet
far enough south to make a junction
and it is possible that a connection will
be made by way of the Southern Pacific.
The new route will be four days shorter
than any existing route to Australia,
New Zealand or the Western coast Of
Al.