The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-28
GLEANINGS.

lou never near OF strike among the
astronomers. Their business is always
looking up -Phi'adelphia Bulletin.
David Davis is so big, says the New
Orleans Picayuae, that he finds it diff
cult to locate the small of his back.
General Sheridan says the white
flag sent out by the Confederates at
AppomattoX was towel.
BY slip Of the pen an editor the 9TH
er day wrote 1.-THE Satan Of Turkey"
meaning the Sultan. As john China
man would say, its "allee samee"
Ley Poy Foon, the richest heather in
America, died in San Francisco the
other day. He has plantation in Chi.
ma stocked with 1000 slaves.
twas mother who eloped at Ben
nett Springs. New, and her sons and
daughters who pursued her, chaStised
her companion and carried her home
In jay Goulds new conservatory at
lrvington are the rarest and choicest
plants aud flowers in this country, and
many Of the specimens are the only
ones this side Of the ocean.
A Yates county man New York; put
800 in a straw bed safe keeping. When
housekeeping time came, his wife
emptied and burned the mattress, to-
gether with the money.
The English medical writer DR..
Golde, thinks that epidemics are often
spread by milk which before its deliv-
cry to consumers has been kept in vile
places, where il has licked up infec-
ton from the surrounding atmosphere.
Philadelphia has new branch Of in
dustry. Ii is the grinding Of cocoanut
shells into powder and mixing the same
with pepper. The next thing will be TO
find way to adulterate the cocoanut
powder.
Gen. Sherman has placed upon the
wall Of his Office in Washington a new
picture-a fine water-color sketch ofthe
union army crossing, by torch-light, the
Big Black river, near Nicksburg He
considers it "A remarkably faithful rep
resentation of one of the most memcra-
BILE scenes of the war
A ten-foot alligator killed near But
Ter, in Georgia, a few days ago, was
found to have swallowed whole a small
dog that had been missing for several
DAYS, and had besides in his stomach
large rock lightwood knot, and sew
eral sticks.
The new coal mines on Green river,
Washington territory, have been pro-
nounced superior to. and more extern
sive than, any other mines on the coast
There are prospects that they will soon
be developed aud connected with Seat
tie bv railroad.
NJ. Louis Figuier, frenchman, thinks
science may be taught by the stage, and
he has written half-a-dozen scientific
dramas, in which steam engines, pumps
and electric machines play u prominent
part. The first play, recently given,
was dull and tiresome affair.
While G.. II. Elmore, of Albany, and
others were fishing in Clark's pond, at
Buskirks Bridge, ~ Y, few days
since, they were attacked bya large wa
ter-snake, which attempted to enter
their boat. The occupants fought the
reptile with oars and ishing-rods, when
it finally sank.
The deepest mine in the world, ac-
cording to Professor II, llpfer, of the
Academic Imperiale des Mines, is the
Pribrand silver mine in Bohemia. The
lowest depth is nearly $500 feet below
the surface, AT this depth the temper
azure of the rocks is only 1890 degrees
f.; and the temperature of the air, ac-
cordinc to the same authority. is 703
degrees f.; so that up to the prescnt on
" natural ventilation has been requir-
cd.
Fred. Archer the celebrated English
Jockey. is described as atall, emaciated,
cadavcrous man, with projected lips, o
slight stoop, decidedly round shoulders,
and long, misshapen legs To keep his
weight down to III pounds he often
breakfasts on two seitllitz powders, es.
chews meat and vegetables, and SUBJ
sists almost entirely upon bread and up'
sweetened tea. lie is worth $3.50, 0o0
though.