The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-17
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There is talk in Baltimore OF building
a music hall capable Of seating 5000
people.
The Hordic coaches in use at st. Louis
are said TO be running the pleasantest
drives in the city.
A Boston man proposes to start pa
per and call it the Umbrella, because
everybody will take it.
The Prince Of Wales il is said, has re-
Gently taken 10 American whisky, and
is now addressed as Your Ryeness."
Out Of ninety conyicts hanged in the
United States in 1881, Arkansas heads
the list with fifteen.
In Plumas county, California, geese
cover the plains and are nuisance to
farmers. There has not been so many
since 1861, the year Of the drought.
The coal has been so intense on the
Sahara frontier that single French
column is said to have lost 400 camels
and many men in one day.
The Chinese do their counting by
proxy. If the proxies pay the bills,
there are many young men who would
like the system introduced into this
country.
The disciples have laid the founda-
ton for new church at Gibsonburg,
Sandusky county, o., TO be called the
Garfield Memorial chapel, with consent
Of Mrs Garfield.
The Niagara Falls paper-mill, on
Bath island. burned on the night Of May
ll,lSSl, has been rebuilts so as to be nearly
iire-proof The new mill is much SUI
perior 70 the old one.
Several rich men in Albany, y. Y,
have offered 20 assist in buying and fit
ting up building for a public library.
1t is the design % concentrate all the To-
cal libraries in this general public one.
Arizona Is being flooded with defaced
and mutilated coin 70 such an extent
that in the principal towns the business
men are holding meetings 10 agree up
on united action Co abate the nuisance.
Tommy said mother to her 7-year-
old boy, lyon mus. not interrupt me
when am talking with ladies. You
must wait till we stop, and then you
may talk" but you never stop" re-
torted the boy
IL is feared that the enormous manu-
facture OF wooden toothpicks is utterly
destroying the forests Of America; but,
then, the young man who spends all his
salary for good clothes must have some
thing TO eat.
A South American plant has been
found that cures bashfulness. ltshould
be promptly tried on the man who
leaves the hotel by the back window be-
cause he is too diiiident TO say good-by
70 the cashier and clerk.
DR.. Hammond says when you stick
your finger in your ear the roaring
sound you hear sthe circulation in your
finger. Probably when YOU stick in a
lead-pencil the same roaring which you
then hear is the circulation Of sap in the
pencil.
The late storm was simply terrific in
Los Angeles county, California. The
wind drove the sleet and snow with
such violence as to make it impossible
to walk or drive. Large numbers Of
sheep were destroyed, many being
blown from the ground aud rolled along
by The wind till they We're dead.
Leonard Losee. Greenwich Point, l..
l., Tuesday morning, found his horses
legs bleeding near the fetlocks, and up
on closer examination he saw that the
flesh was laccrated lie subsequently
ascertaincd that rats had bitten the legs.
The san says: The lie saving crew on
the beach have to wrap their horses
legs up in cloths to keep the rats from
gnawing them.
When the Dunkers Of Indiana made
up their minds that the study of gram
mar was frivolous, they protested
against their children being taught it in
the public schools. The teachers re-
fused to be bound by the protest, where
upon an appeal was made to the state
Superintendent, who has decided that
teachers may 5mit the offensive study.
He insists, however, that they shall inn
part orally TO all bunker pupils "all
that is practical on the subject"
A Gilroy Gal } man had spread a
pound and q half of damp powder on a
bed to dry, and his two daughters were
examining it, one of them with light
ed cigarette in her mouth, from which
the powder was ignited, and both girls
were severely burned.
A lawyer once asked the late Judge
Pickens, Of Alabama, to charge the jury.
ut is better that ninety and nine guilty
men should escape than that one inno-
cent man should be punished yes"
said the witty Judge, "a will give that
charge, but in the opinion of the Court
the ninety and nine guilty men have al
ready escaped in this county"
California flour is now competing
with the Illinois and Missouri mills in
the Memphis Glenn market. This is
regarded as an indication Of the value
of the Southern Pacific and Texas Pa
ciiic line across the continent to the
Southern States, and inspires the expec-
tation that the whole Southwest is here
after to carry on large trade with Cal
ifornia.
A Maryland sportsman is having
manufactured in Baltimore a complete
suit Of rubber clothing by means of
which he expects to slaughter number
less wild geese Tho bead piece, which
will be the only part kept in view, is to
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