The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-11-25

II iuinily mas distinguished ltSeIl AT
Laporte, Ind, by piecing three gorge
Gus bedquilts from samples of silk OBJ
tanned free by mail from merchants in
the large cities.
Heard at the Conundrum Club:
"What is the difference between frig-
i'd undulalion and den in a forest?"
The prize answer was, lone is cold
wave, and the other is u void cave"
Music by the band.
Mr.. Cody has changed the title Of
his piece again. This year il is called
Twenty days; or Buffalo Bilrs Pledge."
1t is not very long time, is twenty
days. William ought to swear of un-
til Christmas.
you are sucha strange girl" said
Charley; "really, l don't know what to
make of YOU" "Well, then, I'll tell
you, Charley replied Araminta;
"make wife OF me-" Charley did so
at the earliest opportunity"
A courter praising an old lady for
her beauty, she said that beauty was in
compatible with her age, to which the
courtier replied: 1--WE say as beautiful
as an angel, and yet the angels are Of
all creatures the most ancient"
I've got some famous literary man
for customer" said the tailor, "bu, I
don't know who he is, for he forgot TO
leave his name" but why do you
think he is a great writerp" "Oh
know he ia; he ordered the seat OF his
pants lined with leather"
Two clearinghouse keepers are COM
pairing notes. ut pears to me, Mrs.
Miggles, that your chicken salad is
never found out-leastways, | never
heard none OF the boarders complain"
You see," explained Mrs. Miggles, II
allns chop up few feathers with the
veal"
"Going away?" they asked the man
who was closing the shutters Of his
house and pulling down the curtains
NO" he replied, "but I'm going to
put up some stoves, and don't propose
to have any inhuman ghouls look in at
the windows and see me and laugh at
my misery.
How profoundly still and beautiful
is the night! " she whispered, leaning
her fnely-veiued temple against his
1oat-collar, and fixing her dreamy eyes
on the far-off Pleiades; "how soothing,
how restfu!" Yes" he replied, toy
ing with her golden aureole of hair.
land what a night to shoot cats"
The papers are Boosting Of the delica.
cy Of pair Of scales at the New York
Assay Office, which are so nicely bal.
snced that the mere writing of name
on the back Of one of two pieces Of pa
per exactly alike will turn the scale in
its favor. This ia equally true, how
ever, of any board of bank directors
An idiot is man who approaches a
mule from the rear without notifying
aud pacifying the front end first. The
wise man is be who never goes near the
mule at all, but is simply looker-on in
Vienna while the brute is making ges-
lures with his hind feet. This state
ment is just rs true in moral as it is in
natural history,
A London paper describes an Ameri-
can girl in that city who wears a
gown with fight OF embroidered
swallows, beginning on her left Shout
der aud ending at her right foot; and
swallows also fly about her parasol."
The American youth in London is also
addicted to swallows" but they don't
begin on his left shoulder. They begin
under his nose and run down his throat.
An egg polka has been composed in
Berlin. the music Of which just lasts
long enough to boil an egg properly.
We may now expect to hear of veal
outlet waltz and a porterhouse-steak
laucers; but TO cook the average board
ing-house spring chicken we fear that
nothing less than performance Of
"Parsifar will indicate the necessary
time to prepare it sufficiently. Puck,
One day toward nightfall. and in I'M
certain light, a man Dough, an overcoat
Of pretended plum color. The next
morning it proved to be of quite too
unmistakahle green. Returning 1t to
the shopkeeper, that worthy regarded
the buyer calmly, and said you
must have a little patience with 1t, my