The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-20

hicuiDer Oh inc tlueDec Leg stature
receives $500 year for his services.
The reduction Of this salary to $500 is
being agitated by some of tho Canadian
newspapers. A New York legislator
receives $1,000 per annum, and fire.
quently manages to double that amount
before the session is over.
A letter from Montana saws: "Hel-
ena has developed into a lawful and
quiet city. 1t has none of the shoot
ing and hurrahs of olden times, and
winch characterize the younger towns
OF the Territory. The variety theatre,
which is literally supported in newer
towns, will not subsist here"
Tradition says that beer was first
made at Pelusium on the Nile, 400 b.
e.; but nowadays only a crude kind of
barley beer is made by the natives in
Egypt. There is, however, brewery
in Cairo, owned by Geneva company,
and worked on the German system,
which can turn out 400 barrels week.
At the meeting of the Free Thinkers
Association at Watkins, n. Y, Court
land Palmer, of Pennsylvania, delivered
a lecture in which he urged the adop-
ton OF new calendar, to date from
l,6O0 A. d., at which time Bruno was
burned by the inquisition at Rome for
declaring that there were other worlds
than ours.
According to native Japanese pa
per, the picturesque old iunks which
have 50 often figured in stories and
pictures OF maratime life in the far East
are rapidly disappearing, at least as far
as Japan is concerned Shipbuilding in
japanese style is so far giving place to
foreign construction that by and by
there will be no such thing as a Junk
except in paintings.
The sins of chinatown" San Fran
cisco, are summed up in one months
record OF arrests, to-wit; Visitors to
tan games, IS; keeping lottery agencies.
Ia; visitors to lottery places, II; having
lottery tickets in possession, IS; keep
ing opium places, 3; visitors to opium
places, 26; battery, 2; obstructing side
walk, /; total, l6l. OF these, Al were
sent to the County Jail and 2 to the
House Of Correction. Cash received
from fines, 1929.
The farmers Of the Deerfeld valley
region, Massachusetts, TO the number
OF about l,200, climbed to the summit
Of Mt. Pocumtuck recently, to shake
hands with Governor Long, who then
for the first time visited that part Of
the State. That mountain was named
twenty-seyen years ago by party of
students from Amherst and Williams
Colleges, among whom was James A.
Garfield
In Merchantville, n. j.. magistrate
fined boy 81 for swearing. This fur
nishes basis for calculation to a
brother Of Colonel Sellers, who lives in
Camden. He reckons that in Camden
County there are 10000 people, half Of
whom swear. That would be $50, 900
for An oath apiece Each fellow swears
fifty times day. That makes 81, $780,
600 daily, income. Sl2, 100000 per week,
and, counting twenty-siy good working
days to the month S3ls, 100000 each
month.
Perhaps Victor Hugo does no more
kissing than any other old gentleman,
but it seems that way because he is not
able to kiss without the world knowing
it. He has been kissing the female dry
goods clerks from Boston who are max
ing European trip for their summer
vacation The correspondent writes
that while this extensive OSCILLATION was
going on French lady whispered, 1T
is charming and all the company
breathed bravo" in an awed under
tone.
Mrs. Lohmeyer, of Philadelphia, had
no children, although both she and her
husband wanted some. She procured
from the poor-house an infant, which
she persuaded her husband to believe
was their own. He afterward discov-
cred the trick, forgavc his wife, and
was happy to adopt the child. The af-
fair had made him famous, however,
and wherever he went some one was
sure to point him out as the man who
had to buy q baby. Lohmeyer couldn't
stand the ridicule and took the baby
back To the poor-house.