The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-04

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.-Tbe main attvasffvs
Tor citizens and guest Of the city to- night
WIN be the fireworks at the corner OF
l"enty'second and Locust street. Owing
20 the rata Monday night the entire
programme could not be carried
out, but weather permitting, there
VIII be the grandsst display OF pyro-
echntcs tonight that the West has ever
seen. Mr.. Pais and his corps OF assistants
nave been over zsaous in their work during
the past two days, and In consideration OF
the disappointment OF Monday night he is
determined that ST. Louis shall realize to-
hight that the reputation he has earned
London and throughout Europe rs
pyrotechnist has not been unmerited.
some few OF the devices that were to be
produced Monday night were ruined by the
RAIN, and consequently cannot be produced
IN to-nights programme, but all the
special features OF the display originally set
Gown Tor Tonight, together with several
devices that were to be given Monday, will
be produced
The bombardment OF Alexandria, which
Mr. Paln's MASTERPIECE, will certainly be
given as the concluding device. To see this
alone would repay one for travelling miles.
When 1t is remembered that this display has
been gotten up at = cost Of 81, 900, and that
the fireworks have been imported from
London especially for this occasion, it will
not be necessary to add that a few people in
st. Louis have ever witnessed anything 70
grand The programme tonight will be
begun by salute OF twenty. ono
aerial guns. Almost simultaneously with
this discharge the entire section OF the city
IN the vicinity OF the grounds will be ilum.
mated by fifty prismatiC lights OF four dis,
tinct colors. In the midst OF this bril-.
liancy four mammoth balloons, carrying
powerful tri colored magnesium lights, will
ascend above the multitude and I'll the air
with asuperb shower OF silver stars. The
intense briIiancy Of the magnesium lghls
attached to these balloons will be sufficient
to illuminate the entire western part OF ST.
Louis, and make the grounds as light as day
Aaddin's Ieweled tree will blossom with
every hue and color OF the rainbow; fiery
contortionisls will have realistic aerial COM
bats, and Jack .the-box and other &c.
centric characters Of the Arabian Night, will
put in an appearance. Immediately follow
Ing this the air will be filed with swarIns
OF writing snakes, and, while a lovely
golden cloud hoyers over the scene the mas
siye Jumbo, twenty feet high, with a swing
Ing trunk OF fire eighteen feet In length, will
march upon the scene and make tour OF
the grounds. One has to see this mastodon
pyrotechnic to realize to what perfection
Mr.. Pain has brought the art. Just as
Jumbo disappears from the scene, a mass
OF shells ranging from 81 to l6 inches ia
diameter will be shot into the air and at
the moment Of their laundering report, the
Falls OF Niagara will burst into view with a
blaze OF brlliancy. The Falls
will be fifty feet in length, and sheet OF
fiery water, with splendid imitation OF the
roar OF the cataract will be discharged from
an altitude Of 90 feet, The grandeur of the
device Is indescriDable. There will be
portrait In fire OF Henry Shaw. St. Louis
famous philanthropist, a design presenting
the arms Of Missouri, the Yelled Prophet,
rize fight between sullivan and Slade,
nshed In the programme have been sent
out.
The bombardment of Alexandria by tn
English iron.clads, followed by discharge
OF 1000 rockets, will conclude the per.
Torrance,