The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-01-11
GLEANINGs.

uOH acl, lOr cruclJy, uluupHuullJ
closed by positive proof that Hrof. Fer
rier pinehed monkeys tail.
Henry Probasco has sent from Paris
four bronze esplanade seats, TO be
placed about the fountain which he gave
TO the city Of Cincinnati.
1t is estimated that fifty tons of blue
berries were shipped from Bath, Me,
last season, and the pickers made
$4,000.
Maine papers tell it soemnly that
Belfast man fell seventy feet from the
rigging TO the deck of avessel the otter
day, landed on his feet, and wasn't
much hurt.
At Nantieoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke bottle of whisky in his pocket,
saturaiing bis clothes; when he subse-
quently lit a match they took fire and
he was fatally burned.
And experiment has been tried, and
with success, of propagating sponges by
cuttings in the Adriatic sea- The peri
cd of growth generally averages seven
years.
The anticipation Of wealth from the
discoveries of gold in Wesiford, Conn,
are believed TO have very little founda-
ton. The assays, except in one or two
instances, show rather lean returns
too small to afford profit.
Ayoung woman Of Wallinford, Conn,
was married the other evening and,
while the festivities that followed the
ceremony were at their height, she
eloped with one OF her old admirers
who was among the guests.
At marriage in Wyoming county,
N. Y, recently, during the ceremony,
an old lover cried "Firer' The bride
tainted, the groom fell over chair and
broke his leg, and two of the guests fell
down stairs.
Mrs. Serena Smith, of Hawkinsville,
Ca, commenced in 1875 with one
horse, has steadily increased her farm
till now she runs six-horse farm, hav-
ing purchased and paid for 600 acres of
land.
An extensive establishment for the
manufacture of maccaroni, vermicelli,
and all other sorts of Italian pastry in
Philadelphia has seriously damaged the
importation of such articles from Italy,
1t was hatched by the centennial.
A woman teacher in Georgetown,
Mass, was driven out of her school by
the sight of a loaded pistol in the hand
OF pupil she had reprimanded, but
she met one of the committee at the
door, and he went in and disarmed the
boy.
Robinson (after a long whist bout at
the club)-"Its awfully late, Brown.
What will you say TO your wifeP"
Brown Gin whisper) Ooh, shan {
say much, you know. Good morning,
dear, or something OF that sort. She II
say the rest. w. Pmch.
An American physician, who visited
Florence Nightingale in London, ex-
pressed the belief that, with the excep-
ton of the Queen, the famous nurse of
the Crimea is the most universally be-
loved of any woman in England.
Young ladies eat wedding cake to
dream Of their future husbands A
Louisville girl tried this scheme, and
saw a man rs wide as coal-shed, with
only one lee, and head about the size
of full-grown crab apple.
The source Of the extract OF cucumber
which Bostonians have been so reluc-
anty enjoying in their drinking water,
has been found in the decomposing
species Of fresh water sponge which
grows abundantly in one of the city
supply basins.
Allen Lewis, an Olneyvi1e Or. I.)
manufacturer, had great affection for
house he formerly and for twenty-one
years lived in, and he always said he
wanted TO die there. He called there
casually a few days ago, and dropped
dead upon the floor.
The warden of the state prison in Maine
has made himself liable TO a suit for il
legal Imprisonment by simply obeying
a law Of the state which was enacted in
1924. A thief who had been insubordi.
nate was kept l44 days beyond the tern
of his sentence 10 make up for the timC
he had spent in solitary confinement, ~
required by the law, but the court nov
decides the statute TO be unconstitution
al.
The United States is being rapidly
filed with skilled foreign laborers. Two
or three Chinese shoe manufacturing
firms In San Francisco are bidding higli
for,the best white labor now employed
ia the shoe factories run by white man.
ufacturers.
\, Out Of 6l3 awards by the juries at the
N Paris electrical exhibition. France re.
ociyed 3O4, Belgium SO, Great Britain
and Germany 40 each, Italy "a, the
United States 20, Russia q, Austria lS
y Switzerland IA, Sweden 13, Holland 10
Spain 3, Denmark and Hungary each
and Japan /.
The Troy Times has poem OF
" Loves Treasures,n In which the fol
lowing verse occurs that would max,
the "Swcet Singer Of Michigan how
with despair;
fA6F dream Of dayp forever gone,
,W4fNN Oer twenty dear meIncntocs;
Choir number can count upon
NY fingers and my ten toes).
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