The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-13

A physician falls into fit while max
ing n round Of visits, and is carried in
to drug store. "Send for DR.. X"
says somebody. .No, no, not for him."
says the dying man, feebly, at the men,
ton OF his rivals name; ''if he brought
me round it would advertise him!
prefer to die"
Lake George as summer resort has
made marvellous leap into popularity
Twelve years ago there were only four
hotels there. Now sixty hotels line the
sides Of the lake and dot the islands.
The four or five thousand tourists who
used to visit the lake have increased this
year to forty or fifty thousand.
North Carolina is getting famous for
its YARDS" One day recently fifteen
hundred pounds of roots and herbs were
shipped from Shelby to New York. A
shipment of similar importance was
made the week before, and another of
cherry bark. butterfly root, tansy, and
catnip was to follow speedily.
A gentleman, while working on
new building at San Jose, Cal, the other
day, discovered tarantula hole in the
ground, in which were three large tar
antulaS and kind of shell or cocoon,
which was supposed to contain tarantu-
la eggs. The shell was broken and he
counted three hundred young ones.
The project of cutivating oysters in
Salt lake, Utah. is regarded Whereabouts
as impracticable, as there is in the lake
no suitable food for oysters, and art-
fetal feeding would be Improbable,
while there is danger that the mud and
salt that is carried into the lake each
spring would smother the oysters,
Henry johnson was sold on the auc-
ton block in King and Queen county,
Virginia, when eighteen years Of age.
He served General Dick Taylor until he
was transferred to General Andrew
Jackson's household, He was with
General Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. lie is now living at Oberlin,
at the age of 100 years.
New Orleans claims to lead in rose
growing. There may be seen in that
city Lamarque rose vine with a stem
eight inches thick, In some private
gardens there are 100 varieties. The IA
vorte rose is the Gold of Ophir. 1t is
small, of very pale pink, shading toward
the heart into deep, rich gold color,
while faint streakS of crimson touch the
outer petals.
The ex-King Cetywayo still sticks to
beef as the chief article of his Diet
English beef he considers good, but not
so good as that of his own country, for
there is too much fat about it. The
other day fourteen pounds had been
prepared for his breakfast and that of
his three chiefs. The latter ate thirteen
pounds before Cetywayo made his APP
pearance. so fresh supply had to be
cooked.
TIE operator of the Mobile office of
the Mobile and Gulf Telegraph Company
was recently surprised by hearing over
his wire through messages from New
Orleans to New York. An investigation
showed that an unfortunate frog had
found its way into cable box, and its
body, burned almost to crisp, formed
a sufficient connection between the
Western Union and the Mobile and
Gulf wires.
The story is told that in SCHUYLER
county, New York, there is young-old
man, who without apparent cause, lv-
ing plain" on q farm, has in eighteen
years passed through the physical
Iaa"EpSGfS Of four-score. At the age of s,
land muscle usual in a lad o" nj os:'repgth
his beard was grown and gray hairs APP
speared. Now, at Is, he is decrepit as
Ian old man of so, and seems lettering
ON the verge OF the grave.
The graziers of Australia and New
Zealand, OF late years have reckoned
the rabbits rs their worst enemy. In
many districts those prolific creatures
have left so little grass that the sheep
have been kept from starvation only by
their transfer to other localities. Some
idea of the size of this invading army
of rabbits may be gained from the fact
that two rabbit preserving factories"
one at Colac and the other ut Camper
down, have been known to destroy Co.,
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