The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-22

No mineral acid has any effect upon
the tubercle-bacille discovered by Dr.
Koch, the ectoderm being impenetrabe
by sulphuric or nitric acid. Alkaline
solutions, however, soon become diffus-
ed throughout the interior of these par
asites and rapidly destroy them-a fact
which may prove of great practical inn
portance in the treatment of consump-
tive patients
A Chinaman who was defeated by
some of his relatives in suit at law
concerning burial ground murdered
three Of his opponents. The criminal
was sentenced to death, but it is princi-
pie of Chinese law that the punishment
shall be as far as possible commensur-
ate with the crime, and accordingly the
criminals wife was sent into penal SER
vitude, and his son was condemned to
mutiation. His daughter, luckily for
himself, was engaged to be married,
and she was accordingly delivered to
the family of her betrothed to be mar
ried when she comes of age; otherwise
she would have had TO share her moth
ers fate.
Bishop Wigger, of the Newark Catho-
lie Diocese, has examined the play
known as the 1.-TWO Orphans, and has
found it very Objectionable in charac-
ter, with suggestions throughout of inn
morality" lie has therefore prohibit
ed the acting of the immoral drama
again by any Catholic society in the di-
geese. The Bishops attention was call
ed to it by its production in Newark
some time ago by the Catholic Institute
Dramatic Association of that city. The
objection to the play arose from the fact
that Sister of Charity in the prison
practiced an act of deception to save
one OF the Two Orphans from exile.
Martha Francis, an old news woman,
OF Brooklyn, spat in the face of Alder
man LePine when that functionary at
tempted to interfere with her as she was
separating two fighting street hoodlums,
one of whom was her son. The crowd
that gathered after the commission of
this heinous crime applauded the wo-
man, and so stoutly took up the cudgel
in her behalf that the combined efforts.
of four policemen, one Alderman and
an express wagon were necessary to Of
feet her arrest. II seems that Brook
Ign is very like other cities in some re-
spects. Two thousand citizens who fol-
lowed Mrs. Francis were pleased with
her temerity, and saw to it that she was
Immediately released on bail.
A black barber of Greenpoint attend
ed the wake of a deceased Hibernian
customer, drank freely, whistled lively
waltzes while the assembled company
tripped the light fantastic toe, and final
ly to crafty the circle, among whom he
had become favorite, consented to
sing. But alas for his Judgment In
stead of selecting one of the wierd wild
airs of the Emerald Isle he warbled a
plantation song and thereby so enragcd
some of the Irishmen present that q
fight ensued. The colored troops
there was but one Of hm-fought no.
bly,, but was at last overpowered, badly
battered as to his physiognomy, and
then dragged off to the police station.
The next morning the Judge told him
that any one who would get drunk in
the presence of death ought to be ser-
ously dealt with, and so sent him to Jail
for ten days.
The oldest bank notes are the "nyng
money" or convenient money!" first
issued in China 2697 b. c. Originally
these notes were issued by the treasury,
but experience dictated a change to the
system of banks under government in
spection and control. The early Chi
nese "grcenbacks' were in all essentials
similar To the modern bank notes, bear
ing the name of the bank, the date of
issue, the number of the note, the sigma
ture of the official issuing it, indications
of its value in figures, in words and in
the pictorial representation of coins or
heaps of coins equal in amount to its
face value, and notice of the pains
and penalties for counterfeiting Over
and above all was a laconic exhortation
to industry and thrift Produce all
you can; spend with economy" The
notes were printed in blue ink on paper
made from the fibre of the mulberry
tree. One issued in 1899 is preserved
in the Asatic Museum at st. Peters
BURG.