The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-22
GI.EANINGs.

mainly, the devil employs him.
A fool in high station is like man in
balloon. Everybody appears little 10
him, and he appears little TO everybody,
1t is said that Reuben r. Springer Of
Cincinnati, talks Of endowing the College
of Music with ~ 100000
Maryland proposes to grant marriage
licenses free Of charge, as AN encourage
ment 10 matrimony.
The difficulty with some sermons Is,
they are written in laudanum on
sheets Of lead. Men York Herdh
Coy, William d. Boxham, of Florida
is the first natiye-born citizen Of his
state that has won his way to its highest
office.
Though the guilty man is sure that
no one knows his guilt, he :. is always
afraid that some one has just found him
out.
a German astronomer has found
new planet. Anybody who misses any
Of his planets should make a note Of
this. Ierds Sittings
a cat when pursued by ferocious
dog may not be feeling quite as well as
usual, but, nevertheless, she presents
iur-straight appearance. - Yawcob
Strauss.
The New Orleans Picdyune believes
that psalm tunes should be played on
an upright piano. Which suggests that
Masonic music should be played on the
square Boston Commercial Bulletn
Col. Smith A.Whtfeld, the new post
master Of Cincinnati, is tall and slim.
He stands six feet two in his stocking
feet His face is smooth and he has a
pious look.
Nye county, Nevada, is the largest
county in the United States, covering
2i.000acres. The smallest is the county
Of New York, and it has the largest
population.
Boston's two heaviest taxpayers are
Moses Williams and Joshua Sears, who
ERE assessed for s., 100000 and S3,2H,-
coo respectively. Sears is young man
not long out of college.
Rev Mr.. Spurgeon says the excess of
spirituality is, by strange but certain
law, placed next door TO sensualty.
you get up so high that you fall down
on the other side"
The Princess Louise will contribute
to GOod Words u series Of drawings
illustrating Quebec and its surroundings.
and her husband will publish poem
on Quebec in the same periodical
They have ransacked the tOmbs about
Thebes until they have found the mum
miicd remains of Pharoah's daughter.
Now we shall fine out where Moses was
when the light went out.
Florida papers sag that the brown or
rusty orange is much the sweetest, and
can be kept longer than the bright fruit,
but il will not sell at the North for half
the price of fair fruit
An American locomotive engineer
resentS the statement that English rail-
road trains make faster time than Amer.
lean. He says railroad trains make
more stops in this country and thus
lose time.
According To the census returns the
lowest per centage of illiteracy is in Ne.
braska, l.73 unable to read, and 2,jj
unable TO write. The highest is in
South Carolina, 1922 unable TO read
and 37,l5 unable to write.
1t Is said that the only obstacle in the
way of transporting live hogs from this
country to England is the difficulty OF
feeding them on the passage Why not
feed them FROM the trough Of the sea-
S0nercaic journal.
"The bees are swarming, and there's
30.
coming into the house. His little boy
George came in n second or two after.
ward, and said there was an end TO one
'em, ANYHOW. and it was red hot too
Boston Transcript.
Senator Anthony, Of Rhode Island,
lives when at Providence, in wooden
house, externally of the plaincst and
most ordinary appearance. The inter
ior, however, is filled with rare paintings
and bric-a-brac. Once n year the Sen.
aor makes pilgrimage tohis ancestral
village of Anthony anddelivers a lecture
to the villagers.
A farmer living not many miles from
Toledo has the following warning con.
spicuouoly posted on his premises; III
any man or womans cows or oxen gifts
in this here oats his or her tail will be
cut off as the ease may be.'--9oledo
Bldde.
II is said to be q significant fact that
the Irish newspapers contain an average
OF five advertisements each for energetic
young men to collect rent, where they
have no advertisements at all from en-
ergetic young men anxious to secure
those profitable and pleasant situations.
Mr.. Porter Rhodes is said to have
declared that fl00,0 would not induce
him to part with his magnificent diamond
found ut his claim in Kimberley Mine,
South Africa, although the stone is yet
uncut and described as looking like q
lump of alum, with weight of l50
carats.
Having a beautiful daughter to intro
duce, Gen. and Mrs. Mcclellan took the
fine house, No. Il Gramercy park, New
York, and have followed up their hos
pilality of last winter by giving four
evenings, at which one meets all the
world, the army and navy, and the
literary set, tho clergy and the pretty
girls.
Two mysterious attempts have been
made recently to assassinate Dr. Sim
mons, one of the most prominent