The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-07
GLEANINGS.
About 1000 watches are made in thi


country every working day.
The Island Of Cyprus now costs Eng
land nearly S400, 900 year, and is Of
no earthly use to the country.
The orange crop o Florida is esti-
mated at $4,000, 900, OF which all but
5000, 600 will go out of the State.
How all the old fashions are being
revived. | see the hoop-skirt is coming
into style again. JET Darts.
st. Louis wants TO be considered
musical center Some of its concert
saloons now have two fiddlers. --Pht2a-
delphta NeUs.
There are sixty-one trout streams in
Pennsylvania that the fish commission
ers have stocked with fish, placing
from 1000 to 5000 in each stream.
"Who wrote the Book of James, in
the New Testamentpn asked q Sunday
school teacher in Missouri village;
and little fellow at the foot of the class
shouted: THE James boysr'
Caveats on file in the treasury de-
parment show that there are outstand-
ing S2.54l, 900 in stolen registered
bonds, for which new ones have been
issued.
According TO the evening Ne,oS, Of
Detroit, that city has bad lot Of young
men and women, whose reformation
would prove task for the Christian
people OF that goodly town.
The sowing of forest-pine seeds has
been begun by the shakers. at Enfield,
Conn, and the state authorities are
considering plans for encouraging this
needed industry.
81 never argy agin n success" said
Artemus Ward. ''When see rattle
snaix's head sticking out ov hole, 7
bear off to the left and say 10 myself,
that hole belongs to that snaiX.
An observer of human nature says:
II man is quick-tempered you had
better 20 to the other side of tho road
until the paroxysm is over. If he is
sullen 60 the other side of the street
and stay there"
A Norwich man has started out to
sue all the railroads in Connecticut for
not conforming to the law concerning
water-closets and passenger stations.
The penalty is 500 for each violation.
the informer to get The money.
A well-known newspaper correspon-
dent at the state capital of Missouri
has applied for divorce from his wife,
alleging as q reason that "he finds mar
ried life and newspaper business incom-
patible and intolerable."
Samuel Russ, of Chaplin, Conn, lost
the sight of one of his eyes several
years ago. While feeding cattle the
other day the horn of an OK penetrat-
ed the sound eye and destroyed the
sight.
The extraordinary cheapness with
which iron can be procured in Georgia,
Alabama, and Tennessee, recalls the
prediction of j. Lowthian Bell, the
English iron-master, that these three
States will outmatch the world for the
manufacture Of cheap iron.
Stewards downtown store, at the
corner of Chambers street and Broad
way, New York, is offered for sale for
S2,000,000. Stewart once refused S4,-
100000 for it. 1t has been vacant dur
ing the last two years, nobody being
willing to shoulder $500 lease.
Two hundred years ago in Boston the
merchant who sold his goods at pro-
fit Of more than sixpence in the shil-
ling was heavily fined, beside being OK
communicated from the church. AS
merchants are not so covetous nowadays,
there is no necessity of such extreme
measures.
Judge Junkin. Of Perry county,
Pennsylvania, has decided that land
lords have no right to sell liquor by the
bottle unless they know what and who
it is for. They can be held criminally
responsible if any liquor thus sold is
consumed by either men of habits Of
intoxication or by miners.
When an Idaho girl was sitting un-
der tree waiting for her lover, griz-
ely bear came along and, approaching
from behind, began to hug her. But
she thought it was Tom, and so leaned
back and enjoyed it heartily, and MUIR
INJURED, tighter" 1t broke the bear
all up, and he went away and bid in
the forest for three days TO get over his
shame. Exchange.
Statistics of the production of copper
show that of total yearly product Of
1881, 81 pounds, Michigan produces
50,993. 760; North Carolina, 4,SS0000;
Missouri, $500 600; Vermont, 2,6l7, 1874;
Maine, $4,000 The production of the
extreme western states add an estimat-
cd amount of 6,250,000 pounds to tho
above total.
The furniture manufactures Of Gin
cinnati propose to become an insurance
unto themselves. The insurance COM
panies suffered heavy losses at the fires
among furniture men during tho past
season, and propose raising rates. The
mutual proposition originated in tho
proposed advance.
The fact is patent that all over the
states of Ohio and Indiana lands in the
rural districts have enhanced in value
from 10 to 20 per cent, and this within
period Of twelve months. Farms
that last year were slow Of sale at $50
and 300 per acre now find ready pur-
chasers at from SS5 to 1920 per acre.
In order to do away with "a practice
that has brought considerable scandal,
the Austrian war Office has issued an
order that officers Of the army or navy
who adyprtise for wife whether I'm