The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-19

A finely dressed lady slipped ana fell
near the post-oiiicc recently, and the
gentleman who helped her to rise in
CURED, did you break any bones,
madam" mo, ! guess not" she re-.
piled, "but I am just as mad as If l had
broken dozen of EN-"
The remarkable feature OF Nicodemus,
negro colony of 367 families, in Ora
ham County. Kas., is the entire absence
of money. There arc churches, school
houses, and stores, but tho trading has
to be done by bartering the produce Of
the farms.
The English critics are very severe on
Mr. Tennyson's new national song, and
regard it has manifest effort to revive
a dying jingoism. Parodics already APP
pear, and one Radical journal offers q
prize for others. Mr.. TennySon, though
not i'll, seems to be in unusually feeble
health.
From the old bronze and lead found
about the base of the obeisk now stand
ing in New York there have been made
twenty-five models of the monument,
each fifteen inches high, and two of
them were month since presented to
the khedive of Egypt.
A pamphlet has been sent out by the
medical department of the Detroit Uni
vcrsity, setting forth its facilities for
graduating its students to whom it
promises diplomas of great beauty and
utility. The Detroit newspapers say
that the President, named Thomas, is
an old chum of DR.. Buchanan, the Phil
adelphia bogus diploma convict, and
that the concern is fraud.
Professor Bernstein demonstrated the
fact by experiments before the members
of the Massachusetts Insurance Com
pany, at Boston, last week, that when
electric light wires are perfectly insulat.
ed by thick coatings and are carefully
strung there is no danger to life orprop-
erty if they are cut by an ak or if they
fall across telegraph or telephone
wire, or even if man takes hold Of
them to make connection with a lamp.
Bank bills ranging in denomination
from 50 to $40 have beon accepted at
the banks in Troy, N. Y, which it is
discovered arc an inch short of the regu-
lar size. Persons engaged in the fraud
are unknown, and have reaped q rich
harvest. The device consists of cutting
two-thirds from one bill, then one-eighth
is cut from another bill of some dcnomi-
nation, and the eighth and two-thirds
are pasted together, making apparently
q genuine bank note.
A young farmer near Springfield,
Mass, says he was working in q field
when man and woman came along
in carriage. The man asked him if
he would marry the woman for $500.
lie consented, and they went to the
nearest justice, who performed the cere-
mony. lie shows the $500 as proof, and
the Justice bears him out in the strange
story. The mysterious bride and her
companion rode away Immediately after
the marriage, and no more is known of
them.
Ship-buildcrs in Bath, Me-, turned
out last year ffty-seven vessels, having
q tonnage of 36,333. The forests which
invited this industry have retreatcd un-
til they are inaccessible from the coast.
Thirte thousand square miles of tim
Der still remain in the northern part OF
the State, but not within easy reach Of
the shipbuilders on the water side. l,
is an odd fact, that large part of the
timber used on ships in Maine is import
ed into the Statc-thc oak from Virgin
ia. Maryland and Delaware, and the
pitch pine from Georgia and neighbour
ing States. The rigging and metal used
are also purchased out of the State.
North Georgia 7imcs.-One Of the
strongest and most convincing proofs of
the hardness and thickness of q negro's
Uranium exists on the person Of John
Puliam. q well-known darby of fine
muscular proportions, living in the vii
lage. Some years ago gun bursted in
his hands. when some of the bullets with
which it was loaded struck him in the
forehead. Some of them bounced out
as if striking u marble wall, while one
penetrated tho skin, but not entering OF
denting the skull, lodged in his forehead.
1t is there to this day, and the bulk can
plainly be seen and felt. 1t is encystcd,
and docs not give him any inconycni'
cnco.