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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19

Few scientific workers have spread
their interests over 50 wide field as
Sir John Lubbock; and yet it is not diff
cult to trace certain thread of continu-
ity running through all the subjects to
which he devoteS his leisure with such
excellent effect. For example, his re-
searches into the origin of civilization
and into the habits of ants and bees, di-
verse as they appear, have still this
point in common, that both deal alike
with the evolution of social commune
ties from lower sporadic types of life. In
deed. he holds that, though the anthro-
poid apes approach nearest in all animals
to man in bodily structure. the ants may
fairly rank next to us in social organiza-
ton and in general intelligence They
even show certain indications of pro-
gressive development within their own
class. For some ruder species live main
ly by the chase, like hunting savages;
other more highly evolved types have
domesticated the aphides, and so re-
semble the pastoral races of mankind;
while still higher kinds, such as the
harvesting ants, have reached the agri-
cultural stage of civilization. Their
marked division of labor, their institu-
ton of slavery, their elaborate archi-
lecture, and their regular roadways, all
bring into strong relief the analogy of
their nests to human societies.
When Sir John Lubbock began his ex-
periments he intended to conduct them
chiefly with bees and wasps He soon
found. however, that those singing and
flying insects were unpleasantly excita-
BILE in temper, and that ants were much
easier creatures to observe from every
point of view. To ants, accordingly, the
larger part of his volume is devoted.
The particulars about the different modes
of fighting adopted by the various spe-
cies, their manner of building, their ath-
letic games, their cleanliness and their
drunken actions, are often ludicrously
quaint in their suggestiveness of human
analoSies. Even more so are the facts
as TO their domestic animals, which Sir
John Lubbock has very specially inves-
tigated. Besides the aphides, which they
milk as COWS (to adopt the usual simile)
and whose eggs they preserve through
the winter, they keep several other do
mesticatcd insects, belonging to over 800
species. Most of them, including the
two commonest, beetle and a wood
louise, have lived so long in their under
ground homes that they have become
quite blind by disuse of their eyes; many
ofthem seem to produce secretions which
the ants eat; while others appear to act
asscavengers, TO emit agreeable odors
In some cases the insects are so helpless
that they have to be fed by their masters.
Equally curious are the relations sub
sisting between the different kinds OF
ants'themselves One small species lives
in the walls which partition the nests o.
a larger neighbor; and these occasionally
carry off the larvae of their involuntary
hosts as food In another case, a smaller
kind seems to be kept like cats by its big
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19
Nip And Tuck.

A book agent called at a house on
Congress Street the other day, and
when the lady of the house came into
the room, handed her Handsomely.
bound book, and said;
Il would like to have you look through
this book, if you please; it is something
that ought to be in every family, and no
well-educated lady like yourself can af-
ford do to without it; it is called How to
Talk, or the English Grammer Conyer.
sationally Condensed, and anyone who
subscribes-"
Eyes, know" said the lady of the
house, with a sad sweet smile: 81 saw
1t noticed in the papers but my hus.
bands mother is coming here next
week and after she leaves we are poino
to the White Mountains and if business
is good my husband says l may 90 to
Europe, and if we do my sister who
lives in California wants me to come
there for it's nearly three years since
I've seen her and her oldest Girl is going
to be married to a real Eyetalian Count
though my husband says like enouCh
he's no account that's his little Joke YOU
know and if we stop at Sacramento
~
But the agent of GLOW to Talk had
fled.--DetrOH Post and Tribune,
I :
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19
Charley and the Briers.

"Charley! Charleyr' called Ella to
her younger brother; "domt go among
those briers; come over here in the
gardenr'
"Ho! stay in the garden! who wants
to stay in the gardenP answered master
Charley, with great contempt. 81
guess you think Pm a girl to want to
play where it's all smooth and every-
thing. Hor'
"That's not it, Charley, but YOU
know we both have on our good clothes
and we must be ready to run quick
when we hear the carriage drive up to
the gate with Aunt May and Cousin
Harry and Alice"
81 know that as we'll as YOU do" said
Charley, pushing his way through the
for any thing but to sit and sew. |
mean to cl-''
Ella felt like giving some angry an
swcr, but she checked herself, andwent
on with her sewing as she sat under the
big tree, wondering what made Charley
break off his sentence so suddenly.
Ella, El-lan' cried pitifuI voice at
last, "come help me! l m getting all
torn. O-ohr'
Sure enough, Charley ros getting all
torn; some big thorns had caught his
new trousers, and the harder he strug-
gled the worse matters became.
Hold still, dear" said Ella, Il can't
help you while you kick so. There!
now you're free. OH Charleym
Charley, clapping his hand to his
trousers, knew we'll enough what Elias
"Oh!' meant. 1t meant a great bio
tear in his new clothes, two cousins
coming to spend the day, and a poor
little boy sobbing in the nursery until
the nurse would stop scolding and make
him fit to- 90 down and see the company.
The very thought of all this misery
made him cry.
"Oh! they II be here in Il minute!
boo-hoon he sobbed; what ShaHI do?n
why, stand stin, that s ALL" said
Ella, hastily threading her needle with
long black thread; stand Just so,
dear, till mend it,
Mend itn' cried master Charles, de-
lighted. 80 Ella! viii you?"
Certainly | will" she answered,
very gently, at the same time beginning
TO draw the edges OF the tear together;
you know girls are not good for any
thing but to sit and sew"
90 Ella! | didn't say that
81 think you did, Charley"
"Not cractiY that, / guess. 1t was
awful mean, if did. Oh, hurry! Ihear
the carriage"
"Do be quiet, you little wrgglerr'
laughed his sister, hastily finishing the
work as well as she could, so that Char
ley in Il moment looked quite fine again.
There! Wen get to the gate before
they turn into the lane, after all"
Charley held Elias hand more tight
ly than usual as they ran toward the
gate together. Ella noticed it, and
stopped to kiss him,
"Fm sorry spoke So" he painted,
kissing her again right heartily. "DoeS
it show?"
mot bit; you wouldn't know any
thing had happened. Hurrah! here
they are!"
"Hurrah! Howdy do, everybody
shouted Charley.-Joel Stacy, IN 81.
Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19
A Lonely Death.

He was dying and alone. Not one Of
his kin was near to render the last serv-
ices of love to the man whose life had
been wreck. He was self-ruined man.
He thought of it bitterly even then, as
he lay under the trees with the blue sky
for roof and the leaves bending over
him with plying shade; thought of his
wasted opportunities, his blighted facul-
ties, and the shame of this death, like an
outcaSt or a wounded animal! Burning
with fever, he could not crawl again to
the cool running stream that seemed now
to be purling through his brain. Listen!
Was that his mothers voice? No! it was
only one wild bird calling to another.
His means disturbed the winged crea-
lures about him. o, God! was this what
his years of manhood had led to-a
lonely death in the woods, with no
kindly hand to close his sightless eyes?
Where were they all He called feebly:
"Mother" for his mind wandered. The
sound broke the stiffness of the woods
and bright-eyed squirrel frolicked down
the tree and looked curiously at the
dying stranger who was powerless to
harm it. He was dreaming now of
home; he thought he was in his own
room under the roof, where the scent of
the laburnum trees reached him, and his
mother held his hot hand in hers and
smoothed the moist curls from his fore
head; and he could hear the woodpecker
on the roof tap-tap-tap, and thus dream
ing he fell asleep, and slept till the
shadows of night slanted through the
trees, and
In the dim and distant ether
The first star came shining through,
And anOther-and another
Trembled softly in the blue.
Then he awoke, clear headed, and
with the calm Of great silence about
him; his dim eyes wandered to the stars
to the cool blue skies-to the far off
Heaven above, where he knew now his
mother had gone; he was not thirsty.
nor hungry nor suffering any more, and
all the letters of ice and sloth seemed to
have fallen away, and soul and body
alike bathed in the waters of ineffable
peace; he did not even feel the chill of
death on hand and heart, and the brea tn
that tiuttered on his lips was as serene
and painless as the sweet, cool evening
| air What he did feel at the last was a
caress-warm and loving and gentle as
a mothers kiss-t the farewell of his last
friend, who had deserted him for few
hours to find mouthful of food. The
faithful dog that through ill report and
abuse had followed the fortunes of his
master; whose half-human heart was
rent now with dumb sorrow, who all
night long watched there by the silent
form and kept every harmful thing
away.
So they found them-the dead man
and the dumb watcher; and few lines
announced to acareless world, "Another
tramp found deadn' But He who careth
for even a sparrow's fall, who sees the
end from the beginning, will make His
own record of that lonely death.
"Leave him to Gods watchful eve.
Trust him to the hand that made him."
Detroit Post and Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19

AN old Kentuckian says: "In all my
life l have never seen two genuine negro
women kiss, and have often heard nv
father remark the same thing. He was
over sixty years old, and frequently told
us twas tradition through all his family
that the negro women never kissed 4
friend of mine, who has been great
traveller, who has visited Africa and
Hayti, has remarked to me the STRANGE
fact that negro women never kiss. Wbv
Is itP'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19

An exchange rather dryly observes
that committing suicide on account OF
the oppressive weather doesn't improve
the weather at all.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-19

Seventy gold mines are being worked
in Georgia.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
CARDS MARIN IH)jPtrAL.
SEBASTIAN BARTH,

500, 900 APPROPRIATION FOR IT'S ERECTION.
In the same bill, the sundry civil service
bill, which contained the fifteen thousand
dollar appropriation for the cemetery road
at Mound City, contained also an appropri-
alton Of sixty thousandl dollars to be ex-
pended in the erection of government
marine hospital at this point. A dispatch
from Washington, under date of August 4,
says of this matter:
Both houses Of congress have concur.
red in the item of the sundry civil service
appropriation bill OF 100000 to be ex.
pended in purchasing site and erecting
thereon at Cairo, Ill.,, marine hospital.
Very soon after the adjournment of con-
gress, it is the purpose of General Ham
ilton, general of the United States
marine hospital service to visit Cairo and
select the site for the hospital building.
Such is the pressing needs for this hospital
that it is General Hamilton's purpose to
have the work of its construction com.
menced at the earliest practical period and
pushed to completion"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
A CARD

had calf to sell and supposing Mr..
KoehIer and Mr.. Hagey were in partner
ship told my wife to sell it to either one
that came out. Koehler became very in
dignant thereat, and says publicly he will
buy no more of my "slops," This is to let
the public know that | keep as good beer
as can be found in the city and am indie
pendant of Jno. Hagey,
SEBASTIAN BARTH.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
A GOOD BARGAIN

viii be given some enterpriseibg man
in The BULLETIN Building which is now
Offered for sale on easy terms, fong time
and low rate of interest. The building
has rented for the past year fol
fifty to sixty.two dollars per month
The property consists Of A lots, and two
brick buildings IA three story 40x6O and a
two story 10 X As, Has frontage of &C
feet on Washington avenue and $50 feet on
18th street Ii desired the machinery, en-
CINE, boiler, DC, in the story building
will be sold with It, For particulars ad
dress this Office, N John II Oberly, Bloom
ington, Ills.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Fresh Oysters
at DeBauns Sc OHIO levee.
SDroat's Retail Ice Box

Consumes of ice are notified that for
their convenience have built, a large Ice
box on Eighth streetin Cundifi's store where
ice in anv quantity can at all times be OBJ
tanned. My customers will remember that
their tickets will bepunchcd at this stand
ust the same as by drivers Of wagons. If.
john SPRoAT.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Could Hardly Stan on Her Feet.

X. V. Pierce, NJ. ID. Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sir-l must tell you what your med.
icine has done for me. Before taking your
"Favorito Prescription" could hardly
stand on my feet, but, by following your
advice, ! am perfectly cured. The "Favor.
lite prescription" is wonderful medicine
for debiitated and nervous females. I
cannot express how thankful I am to you
tor your advice. Yours truly,
Mrs. CoRNELTA ALLEsoN Peosts,
Ia.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
A Heavy Swell.

Jacob II. Boomer Of Virgic, n Y,
writes: "Your Thomas Electric Oil cured
badly sweled neck and sore throat on my
son in forty eight hours; one application
also removed the pain from q very sore toe,
my wife's foot was also much in1amed-
30 much 90 that she could not walk about
che house, she applied the Oil, aud in
twenty.four hours was entirely cured"
Paul g. Schulz, agent.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Best Oysters
in market at De Bauns So Ohio levee
Summer Excursion Tickets.

The Illinois Central railroad has now on
sale excursion tickets tn all the principal
summer resorts in Wisconsin, Iowa, Min.
nesota aud Michigan; also, Denver, Pueblo
Toronto and Niagara Falls. Rates low
Call or address j. II. Jones, Ticket Agent
Cairo, for excursion guides.
A. II. HANSON, General Passenger Agent
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
NOTICE.

N0rI0r
Notice IL hereby given tn at bids will be received
by the County Board of Alexander county, for the
known ~ the Dog Tooth Bend road to the
Cairo and Thebes road or Cairo and Goose Island
road, commencing at what Is known as the Bur
ress farm, NJ the corner OF actions number ~, 30,
30 and 80, township 49, range west and running
due south two miles the section line and inter.
sect,ngthe old Cairo and Dog Tooth Bend road at
the corner OF sections I, s. s and ., township II,
range 2west and known az the rruBsel's corner
All bids to be filed with the county clerk on or be-
fore September ith, 1SS2. The County Board re.
serving to itself the right to reject any and all bids
SAM'L j, HUMM, County Clerk.
Cairo, August Sth, 1882
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Fresh Oysters
at DeBauus So Ohio Levee,
Southern Hotel ana Restaurant

Leo Kleb desires his friends aud the pub
lie to know that this favorite hotel is now
thoroughly repaired and reGtted in better
condition than before the fire. Meals at
reasonable rates are furnished at all hours.
Good rooms and beds for the tired, good
fare for the hungry,--6ne liquors tor the
thirsty, is the rule. Give him call If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

Use The CAIRO BULLETIN perforated
scraich-book, made of calendered jute
MANILA, equally good for ink or pencil. For
sale in three sizes, at the Office. No. and
3. five and ten cents each by the single one,
10y the dozen. Special discount on gross
lots to the trade.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Notice Transfers.

Cairo Street Ry. Co. will receive bids,
during this week, on 500 yards dirt to be
delivered on Poplar, north of 2lst ST. For
particulars call at Office on 2Sth st.
CIV. NEFF, Supt.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Fresh Oysters
at DeBauns SO Ohio Levee,
ICE! ICE!!
PIIENIXl

Out of the fire, cor. of 9Th and Levee, my
ice house and Office is at present a. the
City Brewery, on Washington avenue, We.
tween 9Th and 9th streets, Orders will be
filled same as usual, both wholesale and
retail. Wagons supply regularly every day,
JACOB KLEE.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
For Oysters
nn z a Dl. l.....

j. $. Hawkins is prepared to pump out
cisterns aud repair them or build new ones
promptly and at fair prices. Orders by
postal promptly attended to. No. 2 Win
ters row. If
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Notice Ia hereby given that bids will be received
by the County Board OF Alexander county. for
penses Of paupcrs At the poor farm up to Septem-
her 9TH, 1882, for one yea- said contract to take
effect December Let, 1882 Said bid must state the
amount for each adult per mouth and for all of the
age OF twelve years aud under per month. The
Board rcserv nc TO Itself the RICH. to reject any ard
all bids, said bids TO be fled with the county clerk
NM'LJ. lIUMJ, County Clerk
Cairo, August Sth, 1882
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
For Sale.

Two desirable lots for residence on Cen
tire street, between Washington avenue and
Walnut street. Apply to
s. Il. WILSON,
No. IS Ohio Levee.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

Notices III this column, eight cents per line for
hrst and Ave cents per line each Subsequent inser
ton For one week, 80 cents per line. For one
month, 60 cents per line.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BUILDING SAND.

Ihave good lot OF nne building sand above
high water that will deliver TO any person in the
city limits for one dollar per yard Orders may be
left for me with Sebastian Bsrlh, corner Four
teenthand Washington avenue.
FRITZ SERBIAN.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

Receipt books, Cairo date line, perfora-
ted stub, suited to any business, manutac-
tured and for sale at the Cairo Bulletin
Office.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

We are authorized to announce Justice JOHN
II. R0BINSOS as an independent candidate for
County Judge at tho coming November election.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
Planters House for Sale.

This fine hotel is now offered for sale
Terms cash, Address communications
ct CAIRO BULLETIN, Cairo, Ill.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
COUNTY TaEAsuRER.

We are authorized to announce Mr. MILES w
PARKER us an Independent candidate for treas
urcr of Alexander county at tho coming November
elect on.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

We are authorized 10 announce the name of
WALTER wAROER "a a candidate for the OH &c
Of County Judge OF Alexander County,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
FOR SALE.

AN or 10 horse power upright engine In good
condition. aud ~ foot horizontal nuo boilers,
with Gil the valves, pipes new heater drive well,
water tank etc, new smoke stack all complete,
price $3.50. Apply at The BULL ETIN, IT,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

Notices In these coIumns, ton conts per line
zach insertion. Marked
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11
,PsiulAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY
ANNoUN CEN X NTS,
ArrELLATg CLERK

We ara authorized TO announce that Il. A. D..
WILBANKS, Of jefferson county, IL candidate
for Clerk ofthe App ,llste Court in the Fourth
Division Of Illinois. subject 10 the decision Of a
convention of the Democratic party
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-11

slVioh W liuu out, anu 10 HOt
know much about the art
Of raising children, but we have in
our minds eye several little children of the
masculine style of architecture in different
parts Of the city who, we are reliably in
formed, will leland sob, and kickhc clothes
of and be mean and restless for two hours if
you forget about them, but if you 60 and
turn down the coverlid and fan their per-
sons with ian overshoe, they will quiet
down and be asleep in five minutes.
Barton's Free Press "The appropria-
ton for the Mississippi river has been OBJ
tanned. Which of the Republican papers of
the district will tell US what Mr. Thomas
had to do with the passage of the bill'
We are just champing our bit and paving
the earth to get into the congressional
battle, and are only waiting for the weapons.
We want to annihilate Barr, or Washburn,
or Albright, or Hartzell, or Crawford, or
any other man the Democrats may bring
OUT, and the only artillery we desire ia
Congressman Thomas record on the ap.
preparation bills. That will fix our enemy,
whoever he may be. Give us the record"
Barton displayed remarkable tact
and energy in hunting up and
watching Capt. Thomas record before the
latters' nomination; has he now suddenly
The Russellville Democrat., 1882-10-19
The Cost of a Strike.
New York Herald.

The great strike of the iron mill operatives in and about Pittsburg has ended in Q defeat for the strik- CTS. Its cost to the men who par ticipated in it has been long idle ness, which always is demoralizlng; profanity and rum, which also are detrimental to character and health, and, lastly, they have lost about six millions dollars in wages. Who is to blame for all this? The men struck while prices of iron were fall ing. Who advised them to do it? Great strikes are never spontaneous. Somebody begins them and supplies whatever information, aside from the need of operatives, they are based upon. The Pi tts b urg strikers, therefore, owe 1t to themselves and their families to find out who has tricked them into losing all they have lost and exposed him, or them, to the contempt and ostracism that the results justify.