The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-04
GLEANINGs.

frlEnlened by LOUD bang.
Victory belongs to the most persever-
ing.
A ballet dancer died recently at Ma
pies. leaving large fortune. This
shows how easy it is to accumulate
wealth when one dresses economically.
Old umbrella and buggy tops are now
being utilized by ladies for theatre hats.
The demand for them almost equals
that for confederate bonds.
"Only ladies allowed to smoke here"
is the significant notice to be seen in
many of the depots of the Piltsburg and
Fort Wayne Railroad.
The London Spectator says, after the
North won the victory over the South,
it shed less blood than any nation so
provoked ever yet had done.
America" says an Englishman, lis
country where mans statement is
not worth cents unless backed up by
an offer TO bet you 80"
Mr.. Longfelow always used an old
fashioned quill pen. The ''old clock
on the stairs he does not own-it be-
longs to a family in Pittsiield, Mass.
The Mayor Of Chicago says that city
is his bride. He should hire several
thousand scavengers and have his bride
scraped.
John Morley says that classical train
ing is more APPLY calculated to destroy
the qualities of good writing and fine
speaking than any other system that
could have been contrived
Mrs. Winnie Ream HoXie, the sculp-
tress, wears a handsome cameo breast
pin in rich setting, which was given to
her by Cardinal Antonelli, the Prime
Minister of Pope Plus TX.
Roswell r. Flower, the New York
Congressman who beat Astor earned
money for his education when boy by
working in brick-yard and teaching
school.
1t is estimated that Messrs. Appleton
& Co, have sold 10000 sets OF their
American Encyclopaedia ut an average
price of sos, which Is IS, 100000, and
that the estimated profit is $1,000, 600.
Leadville now numbers 20, 900 people,
and fifteen ont OF Coorado's twenty
three millions worth of ore mined
last year were from the Leadville dis
trct.
The London PlWch makes Tommy
say TO Eilie al mean to be an astron-
omer when grow up" Ellie naively
replies: What ON earth will you do
with yourself all day longp
A little child WAS addressed by gen
tleman the other day. "How old are
you, my dearP" he asked, "Oldr said
the child. Indignantly; I'm not old AZ
ALL I'm quite newW
Quite Provoking. "A lady being asked
how many calls she had made the other
afternoon, repliod; ooh, | only made
seven; was unfortunate enough to
find everybody at home"
Winnipeg is grand place for girls.
II is said that ii it is found out that
young lady is on coming train there
is sure to be about 200 eligible bache-
lors anxiously waiting at the station,
ready 10 propose matrimony.
The Montreal daily Star concludes
long editorial on Canadian loyalty by
affirming, ms It's conviction, that the
first duty OF Canada is toward herself,
and that ii her interests demand indie.
pondence she should DO independent"
Father did you over have another
wife besides motherpn mo, my boy;
what possessed you to ask such qucs-
ton" Because saw in the old lam.
lily bible where you married Ammo Dom
mi in 1885, and that isn't mother, for
her uame was Sally Smith"
When Boston girl is presented with
n bouquet she says; "Oh, how doic-
iously sweet. It's fragrance impone-
trates the entire atmosphere Of the
room" A "down.eastn girl simply
says; at smells scrumptious thanks,
Reuben"
a Boston man who had been roughly
treated by lawyers while on tho witness
stand, Is agitatlng tho question OF
law TO protect witnesses from insults Of
counsel. He proposes that when any
subject affecting WITNESSES reputation
Shall be opened In cross.exalnina,ion
he shall DO privileged to make n full
explanation Of that matter, regardless
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