The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-13
j. BURGER e. BRO,
AT Palace Clothing House,
JOB Commercial Avenue.

city much more good if invested in dirt to
be placed in the levecs, or in filling bis
own or somebody else's lots, But this is
free country. We once heard Of man
who sheared his SOW. He hns right TO do
so. The yield of wool was very small, but
the noise was immense.
The Argus with its usual wisdom pro.
fesses TO believe that n tunnel through the
Ohio levce at any point would have been
cheaper and better and answered better
purpose in drawing of the sipe water than
the ditch at the New Leyee. II does not
say where or how the tunnel would have
been constructed under Washington and
Commercial avenues and Poplar streets, or
ii canal had been dug through these
streets 10 reach the lakes, what kind Of
ferryboats OF bridges would have been used
in crossing these canals by teams and
pedestrians. Unfortunately for that paper
the argument of the Argus dixie all its
other arguments) that water Will not run
up hill, and therefore Will not run out at
the Gu, now made, falls before the fact,
| that while the article was being put into
type, the water was rushing through the
gap at a tremendous rate and will con-
tinuc to DO so until the city is entirely dry.
In view Of the recent experience Of
| Cairo in the sipe water excitement .he fol-
lowing account Of how The people Of
Bangkok live under very similar clrcum-
stances: Boats are the universal means
Of conveyance and communication, and a
boat thus becomes Necessary adjunct Of
every persons household; TO its dextrous
us every child is trained; men, women and
children are equally accustomed. Perhaps
tn most common form is stout skif'
OBJ ut twenty five feet long, turning up very
shipely and high behind, like a Venetian
20 dola. 1t is broad in the beam, and two
,nlrds of its length housed ov'r, leaving n
little fiat deck in front, and a still smaller
one behind Behind stands the husband
and SOULS; in front stands the wife, rowing
and using boa,-hook to help their way
through the crowds. The front Of the boat
is used for business, passengers or cargo.
The rear third is given up TO the family
and domestic furniture. For, incredible NJ
it may seem, we soon see that each boat j.
the home of n family, father, mother, gir-
and boys, who are born there, live th8
and die there. In the daytime the ci5
dren and the furniture are crowded ing
space not over four feet square, at n
they can spread out over great surfaced
looked into these home with attention.
never could enough wonder and ad
how closely all was packed, without
ing to jostlc or painfully crowd. Also
the children lived so happily and COM
eddy in space no greater than n laN
sized Saratoga trunk 1t is probablyS
fact that there are many ten year oldcIB
drcn in B'ngkok river who never walk
over twenty feet in a straight line, in sha
who have never been on land. But TIT
when they come in proximity to boats who
little inmates they knew, they would-b
and girls from 20 12-,jun,ped ont
their boat house, and dive and swim ~
TO visit and gambol around together
free in the water, now hanging to the b
side or sitting astride of the scull oar.
a friend tells me he has seen them in Il,
visits take with them baby, to whose shouH
dnrs mother has prudently attached light
gourd or other light float to insure its safe
ty. Ina minor excursion up side canal
found myself at the city resi- lence ut the
Prime Minister name have not
now time to write in full. ran my boat
all round through his pleasure grounds
and wondered whether the worthy old
gentleman considered that no WAS living
on land or 10 the river. In one partot his
aquatic clysium saw magnificent speci.
mems Of the victoria rcgia, whose leaves
round like u platter, were over two yards
in diameter. Their rim WINS sharply turned
up in ledge an inch high, and on tho raft
thus formed were settled, quite at home,
like family Of frogs. They, too, seemed
to fall Ia with the humors Of the country.