The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-22

An he eXclalIueus 40 NC P'oasou he,
tenderly TO him at parting. "shall ! hold
YOU in these arms again tomorrow and
paint our future with the bright pig.
ments Of imaginationp" NO." SIC said
calmly, mot tomorrow; to-morrow's
wash-day"
The Britton family has for four gen.
erations lived on charity in Germantown,
Pa. The progenitor, who died q few
years ago, aged SO, had been profess
sional beggar seventy years. The young
est members ore now toddling from door
to door with scrap baskets
Cows on the prairies get accustomed
to the noise of locomotive bells and
whistles, and do not always clear the
track until thrown off by the cow-catch-
er A patented device is described IN
the Scientific Americdn for squirting hot
water twenty rods ahead, II is calculat-
ed that this would stimulate the LATEST
into action.
Mr.. Frederick Treves, +. Il. c. S., says
that on some women the jersey is simply
immodest He commends the sensible
fish-wife tunic, especially for tennis play
ing. He quotes a French bookas giving
the modiste waists at eighteen inches,
while English fashion plates give them
at twenty-one inches whereas nature
intends them to be twenty-eight and
twenty-nine inches.
A new hotel is TO be built on Hunting
ton avenue, Boston. opposite Hotel Hunt
ington, at a cost Of $4,000. There are
TO be no wooden partitions in the build
ing each wall being brick from the
foundation TO the roof The building is
20 be of granite to the second story, and
brown stone and face brick above six
stories on the Huntington avenue side
and eight In the rear, and is to contain
about 400 rooms
New Haven Register: THE air was
permeated with snow chill, the sky
was overhung with leaden clouds, and n
breeze carrying icicles In its onward
sweep played with her long brown locks.
But she hesitatcd not She pressed for
ward, driven by resistless impulse,
and one glance at her determined face
showed that she was resolved, firmly re-
solved--to get five yards Of velvet trim
ming cut bias to match If she overhauled
every dry goods store in town, and we
presume she did"
Two young fellows in Warsaw quar-
relied recently, and to preserve their
"honor' it was arranged that they
should playa set Of three games Of DOM
inoes, upon the solemn understanding
that the loser should swallow dose OF
the deadliest poison procurable. The
compact was carried out The game
was played in cafe, in presence of
seconds. The younger Of the two fell
lows, u lad Of sixteen, named StanilauS
Julian, was the loser. He lifted the glass
containing the poison to his lips and
drank off its contents al a draught Five
minutes later he was corpse.
With the death of Dean Stanley ceased
the production of about the worst hand
writing the world has ever known, but
printers will continue 10 be baflled, at
least Us long Us certain member of the
present House Of Commons lives. That
gentleman recently gave notice Of his
intention to put question to the Pre-
mier with respect TO the duties charge
able upon each county and borough in
England and Wales. After some time
spent in the endeavor the clerks and
the printers were obliged to abandon the
attempt to decipher the name The no.
tice accordingly appeared on the orders
with o blank where the name should
have been.
The members of the crew OF the Nor
wegian bark Sidon at Boston detract
somewhat from the size of the telegraph
ic story about their sailing through fifty
miles of dead Goldfish. but the truth, il
their present story be true, is startling
enough They say that they sailed
through ten or twelve miles of dead fish,
the fish being Of large size and visible
on both sides of the ship US far as the
eye could reach. An attempt was made
to catch one of them with a boat-hook,
but the vessel was sailing so fast that it
proved impossible to do 50. These
mariners have no theory TO account for
this ilsh fatality, but say they never saw
Or heard of the like before.