The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-05-31
GLEANINGS.

A San Antonio, Tex, woman has 4O,'
600 silk-worms at work.
An Ohio man has sued for divorce on
the ground of nonsupport.
Many Winnipeggers are pegging out
badly in their real-estate specuations.
An Athens, Ga, man asserts that ne
has not slept for six years. Whew!
Twelve thousand shovels and 1000
spades are turned out every weekin the
United States.
So far the United States government
has given away to railroads nearly two
hundred million acres OF land.
The city of Boston consumes an aver
age of 4,520, 200 gallons of water daily
from its Cochituate and Sudbury reser-
| voirs.
According to Xenophon, the complete
accouterment of Spartan soldier
weighed from ninety-tve to one hun
dred pounds.
If people would follow Emerson's res
olution, Il cannot afford to he irrita-
ble,' there would be more happy fami-
lies in the country.
Frank Stringfellow, once u rebel spy,
is now the rector of an Episcopal church
at Farmville Va. He is said to have
killed more than hundred federal gol-
diers during the war.
John Skac, who six years ago was o
California millionaire who lost every dol
lar and went to prison as q vagabond
and drunkard, is out and has made
$3.50, 900 on his new fortune.
A Spanish proverb has it that Man
is the child of his own deeds" The
Lowell Citizen thinks the American yer-
sion should be that MAN is often the
slave of his own mortgages"
Napoleon believes in omens and por-
tents as firmly as any Roman Caesar,
and openly professed his confidence in
certain lucky days, the I'd of December
and oath of October being two such.
Jesse James was in the habit Of read
ing chapter of the New Testament be-
fore starting to rob bank. He always
wanted to get ahead OF the cashier on
biblical literature.
Col Armistead, who commanded at
Fort Mcllenry during the British bonn
bardment, is to have "A monument in the
City of Monuments. The Baltimore city
council has voted $1,000 for its con-
| struction.
"Pheww exclaims Georgia news
paper; "the smallpox scare is begin
ming to be troublesome to us. The
| young ladies of Decatur are wearing as
safptida around their necks as pre-
ventve. Phew!'
A juvenile pickpocket in New York
was asked by policeman il he "took this
pocket book or not" and said: Hard
ly; | don't know whether took this
particular pocket-book or not, | took so
many"
The fish breeding and rearing estab-
lishmen OF Sir James Gibson Maitland,
at Howietoun, near Stirling, in Scot
land, is the largest of the kind in the
world. In the Matching house ore many
millions of fry.
General John M. Corsc, gallant
Western soldier, who, during his heroic
struggle at Altoona sent word to Sher-
man, I'm shot all to pieces, but can
lick all hell yet" will be married next
month to Miss Frances Mcneil, of VIM
chester, Mass.
The rates Of postage are higher in
Mexico than in any other country on
the globe The trouble is that the rulers
are changed so often that it is frightful-
ly expensive to print their heads on the
stamps. Some days the government
printing office has to get out no less than
dozen complete sets; but this is only
when pronunciamentos are more than
commonly lively; it is not so every day.
Agernon Branningsford left England
in 1850 after quarrelng with his broth
cr, and engaged as a book-keeper in
San Francisco defaulted and was dis
graced; gradually sunk in the social
scale till he became known us "Old Ag,"
u vagabond. A few days ago messen-
ger from the old country apprised him
Of the death Of his father, Lord Bran
ningford, and his succession to for.
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