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

Pineapple-growing is becoming one
of the most important and profitable in
dustries of Florida
A Vermont Justice of the Peace fined
| everybody in the room 81 each because
dog fight interrupted proceedings.
Instruction in field and garden work
is to be given in the rural schools OF
Russia
The great-grandson of the author of
"Robinson Crusoe" is in INDECENT cir
cumstancos, and a penny subscription is
to be started for his relief.
Louisiana negro field hands insist up
on being paid in silver coin, and bright
CONT at that. They positively refuse to
receive paper money.
Once upon a time Ava was naughty,
and mamma had TO frown at her. 80
mamma, mamma" Ava cried; 'don't
| shut your forehead that way, cause
then | know you're going to scodn'
When the ten children from Sitting
Bulls tribe arrive at Carlisle there will
| be 800 pupils at the Indian school al
that pace, representing twenty-nine
different tribes.
"Geographer" New York, as you
suspect, is city in one corner of
State by the same name. The princi.
pal occupation of one-half its popula-
ton is selling beer to the other half.
A woman of Tuscumbia, Ala, was
struck by lightning and found upon re-
covery that her hair, once q beautiful
brown, had been simultaneously turned
to snow white color.
Club snobs will next be caricatured in
comic opera. w. S. Gilbert has been
black balled in n London club. The
wealthy son of a retired butter merchant
had been informed that Gilbert had
worked for living, and is therefore not
respectable.
An English girl who saw the Prince
of Wales at theatre writes: "He, as
usual enjoyed the play rs much as
schoolboy. 1t is delightful to hear him
laugh--a rich 'Ho! hor that rolls right
across the theatre. He is SO nicel"
Mr.. Boucicault says: Egypt was
fatal to Assyria; to the Hebrews; TO St.
George, who was hanged for looting,
and to Napoleon. 1t is the graveyard
of the world, and England has gone
there to steal lot for quiet family
vault
A Baltimore physician is quoted as
saying that il he could maintain through.
out the year an average practice OF
twenty patients he (or any other physi-
cian) would consider that he was doing
well, and his practice would amount to
several thousand dollars per annum.
Near Fort Valley, Ga, lives man
who has named his children after ami.
mails, having belief that they will, in
consequence, live to an old age. There
are four children, and they are named
respectively Rabbit, Coon, Fox, and
| Postum.
The work of removing the guano
from the famous bat cave in Uyalde
county Is progressing. A tramway has
been constructed for some distance in
the cave, over which the deposits are
brought out by means Of steam instead
OF the slow process Of horsepower.
An English lady who sued for dam
ages because of fall when boarding
steamboat, has just lost her case. Ihe
jury decided that her high-heeled boots
had wantonly and wilfully contributed
to cause the injury of which she COM
planned.
a fruit-raiser at Quitman, Ca, has
peach tees whose leaves are perfectly
black. The fruit also, is black at first.
but turns white when rpeniny. The
trees were carried from North Carolina
many years ago, and are distinct
species of which the fruitmen seem to
know nothing.
a gentleman who recently visited the
Skagit country, in Washington territory,
states that the mouth of Deep slough,
near the mouth Of the river, is a spruce
tree forty feet in circumference. which
at some time has been uproo,ed and
washed there, where il will probably re-
main For AT least sixty feet the tree Is
The same size, and IL described "a equal
! W the famous big trees Of California.