The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-15

a Swiss oXperimenter Is reported to
have manufactured artificial mother-of-
pearl which cannot be distinguished
from the genuine. 1t is not stated
what name he viii give to the new ar
tcle- mother-in-aw of pearl, perhaps.
A bride, who was married at her ia
Tiers farmhouse in Hartford county,
Md, last week, wore wild flowers at
the throat and in the hair. The parler
where the ceremony was performed was
decorated with wild flowers only--ar-
butus, violets, dog-tooth yiolets, and
spring beauties.
At a Russian Jewish colony in Louisi-
ana the other day were noticed a yoke
OF oxen hitched to pillow, Russian
leading each OK, one at each plow-han-
die, and one with whip driving, max
ing five men to each team. They don't
seem to understand farming intuitively.
One hundred and forty-eight thous-
and four hundred and eighty-one Ger
mans came over here during the nine
months preceding the LIST Of April
against l02, 093 during the same period
OF the year previous. A large proper
ton of them have gone directly to the
northwest.
Christian F. Schafer, an eccentric
German traveller, has just died in Aus
tralia. The largest portions Of his Jour
neys were performed on foot, and he
boosted that he had walked nearly 1907
600 miles, Travelling without money,
he relied for assistance upon charitable
persons he met on the way. lie fire.
quently maintained a merry tramp on
bread and water, but Free-maSons, Odd
Fellows and members of other friendly
societies lent him aid generally, and
railway and steamboat companies often
gave him free pass to help him along.
grain of coffee like a snow flake
or a grasshopper. counts for little in the
worlds affairs when considered singly.
But many snowilakes blockade the best
organized railways, and many grass
hOppers lay whole country under trib-
ute. So many cotlec-berries have a
power of their own. The Pacific mail
steamship Salvador, loaded with coffee
sprang Il leak in Costa Rica port last
week. The coffee in the hold swelled,
forced up the deck, broke stanchions,
beams, braces and knees, and eilectual-
ly completed the wreck of the ship.
The first use we hear that was made
OF cotton was for candewicks in 1900.
Now it is stated that houses can be built
of cotton and straw, which, under a
chemical treatment, are converted into
paste, compressed into Stats, and be-
come hard and firm rs stone. The ma
tcrial neither warps nor cracks, and is
both fire and damp proof Refuse cot
ton and the Sweepings of factories are
used. The inventor, a Canadian, is in
Producing ii in the dominion, and it may
not be many years ere cotton house,
will be no novelty in New York.
The highest railroad bridge in the
world is now being built across Kinzua
creek, Mexican county, Pa, four miles
from the townof Altoona, on a railroad
which is to connect Buffalo, n. Y, and
Pittsburgh, Pa The bridge is at an al.
ttude of 2,lG0 feet above the sea level,
and spans chasm POSI- feet from the
ahutment, and is 30l feet from the bot
tom Of the creek to the bottom of the
rail. 1t is - feet higher than any 9TH
er bridge in America, and is 60 feet
higher than the suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls. Four million pounds of
iron will be consumed in its construc-
ton, and 1000 yards of masonry will be
required. 1t is to be completed next
August
A young French geographer named
GorIoif recently made an interesting re-
port fhis explorations in the Sahara. His
only companions were two Arabs. He
described the sitting-room of the Town
Council OF Metii as subterranean
gallery, ornamcnted with pillars, run
ming around n deep well. BY that con-
triyance the Council was kept cool even
In hot days. The men of the Touareg
tribe were not allowed TO have more
than one wife each, and she possessed
the greatest influence, not only IN do
nestle but in political affairs. The
Touareg women were far more highly
educated than the mon. They read and
write we'll, they possessed some musical
talent, and their poems were celebrated
In the desert.